KRAAK Festival 2008: Avantgarde and Boogie meet at church

After nine editions away from the big city lights, Belgium's internationally loved event for unconventional music, KRAAK, is moving to the country's capital in its celebratory season. The KRAAK Festival 2008 will feature styles like classical avant-garde, improv, skiffle, weird punk, (weird) boogie rock, boogie punk and a hearty dose of guitar-driven music. The purposely leftfield character of the artists implies almost by default that the surprise element will be huge – from the sizeable line-up, only Sean Meehan has popped up on our radar before, the Silver Apples had their moment of fame in the 90s with their electrified pop harmonies and then of course, it hadn't slipped out attention that Marshall Allen was a long-time companion to Sun Ra. Other than that, the KRAAK Festival site does a great job at briefly introducing the artists and building up anticipation in advance of the event, which is due to take place on 1st of March at the Recyclart and only a stone’s throw away in arts centre Les Brigittines. As the organisors put it: „A desecrated music club and a renovated church, that’s just what we need!“