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NEWS Live music club Kinky Star Ghent celebrates 20th anniversary

Live music club Kinky Star Ghent celebrates 20th anniversary

11th of April 2017, 17:17

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As Youth- and Music Centre Kinky Star is turning 20 in April, we will be celebrating and cherishing all the different facets of the organisation, ranging from the most central point of Kinky Stars’ existence, the music, to the current volunteer's work, to the art program which runs within Kinky Star. The 20th anniversary will take place from Thursday the 13th until Saturday the 22nd of April 2017, resulting in a 10 day event, the same length as the infamous Gentse Feesten, ending with a terrific party on the last day at two locations simultaneously. The program of the ten days is an homage to everything and everyone who stood on our stage in the past two decades.

In the past two decades Kinky Star grew from a simple music centre into an organisation that is not only known within Gent, but far beyond its borders. It has been the stepping stone for many young, local and/or non-commercial musicians, enabling them to set foot in the music scene. Not only does Kinky Star provide the stage to the artists, we also consciously chose to offer all of the performances to the public for free, allowing people from Gent and elsewhere to enjoy and experience the shows, as well as broadening their musical horizon, and uniting all of them in their love for music. In the past year alone Kinky Star opened its doors for more than 300 bands and their audiences, making it into a unique place that cannot be compared to anything else in Belgium.

Even though our stage at the notorious Vlasmarkt is not bigger than an average shack, playing on it is considered to be a rite of passage for uprising bands. It should therefore also come as no surprise that 75% of Belgian bands on radio stations right now played at our venue at least once in their career. Examples are Evil Superstars, ‘t Hof Van Commerce, Gorki, Das Pop (back then as “Cabbage”), Kapitan Korsakov, Black Box Revelation, Soldier’s Heart, SX and many more.

Kinky Star continues to innovate and reinvent itself. In addition to the regular music shows we also support young artists and musicians, with projects such as K met de Kunst and JonGeduld. Sanne Werkers, the responsible for the JonGeduld project, claims that "as the beating heart of the Ghent Underground we want to program the big names of tomorrow, today.” The proof of success are artists such as Uberdope, Milo Meskens, Coely and Compact Disk Dummies, who all participated in the JonGeduld project.

Thanks to our more than one hundred volunteers, and following the D.I.Y. philosophy, the club has been able to keep its head above water in this all too stormy music scene.

With over three hundred free concerts a year it is only normal that hundreds of memories are being created. What do you still remember from your visit to the Kinky Star? Did you have an unforgettable mosh-pit or perhaps met the love of your life right at our bar? We would love to hear your story, so share it with us via 20jaar@kinkystar.com.

Pass by from Thursday, April 13th until Saturday, April 22, 2017, in order to refresh all those memories and enjoy the time with your favourite bands of yesterday and your new musical heroes of tomorrow!

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Muziekcentrum Kinky Star bestaat in 2017 twintig jaar. Om onze verjaardag te vieren, halen we van donderdag 13 april 2017 tot en met zaterdag 22 april 2017 de alom bekende succesformule van de Gentse Feesten vroegtijdig uit haar winterslaap: tien dagen lang drie concerten per avond.

Het programma is een bloemlezing van wat de afgelopen twintig jaar op ons podium stond.

Kinky Star groeide in deze periode uit tot een jeugd- en muziekcentrum dat bekend is tot ver buiten de landsgrenzen. Ons podium op de beruchte Vlasmarkt mag dan wel kleiner zijn dan de gemiddelde Vlaamse koterij, spelen in Kinky Star wordt beschouwd als een rite de passage voor elke beginnende band. Het mag dan ook niet verbazen dat zowat 75% van uw dagelijkse portie muziek op de radio afkomstig is van een band die één keer of meer in Kinky Star op de planken stond, zoals bijvoorbeeld Evil Superstars, ‘t Hof Van Commerce, Gorki, Das Pop (toen nog als “Cabbage”), Kapitan Korsakov, Black Box Revelation, Soldier’s Heart, SX en vele anderen. Zo staan er jaarlijks meer dan driehonderd bekende en minder bekende namen uit uiteenlopende alternatieve en underground genres op de affiche.

Kinky Star blijft zichzelf heruitvinden en vernieuwen. Naast de reguliere concertwerking wordt er ook ingezet op het ondersteunen van kunstenaars en jonge muzikanten met projecten zoals K met de Kunst van Kinky en JonGeduld. Dat deze ondersteuning vruchten afwerpt, bewezen Uberdope, Milo Meskens, Coely en Compact Disk Dummies, die deelnamen aan het JonGeduld traject. “Als kloppend hart van de Gentse Underground willen we de grote namen van morgen vandaag al programmeren.” - (Sanne Werkers, medewerker JonGeduld)

Kinky Star kiest er bewust voor om alle optredens gratis aan te bieden zodat muziekmakers en -smakers elkaar op een laagdrempelige manier kunnen ontmoeten. Dankzij de meer dan honderd vrijwilligers die,,volgens de D.I.Y. filosofie, volledig kosteloos hun schouders zetten onder elk concert, kan de club al twintig jaar het hoofd boven water houden in het stormachtige muzieklandschap.

Met meer dan driehonderd gratis concerten per jaar houdt Kinky Star er een uniek concept op na en dat levert heel wat memorabele momenten op. Wat herinnert u zich nog van uw passage in Kinky Star? De beste moshpit van uw leven gehad of uw eerste lief binnengedraaid aan onze toog? Deel het met ons via 20jaar@kinkystar.com. Kom zeker langs om uw geheugen op te frissen tijdens de tiendaagse verjaardagsviering van 20 jaar Kinky Star van donderdag 13 april 2017 tot en met zaterdag 22 april 2017, met uw favoriete band van gisteren en uw nieuwe muzikale helden van morgen!

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