Baloji (thanx to Agenda)

Thank god we can learn what is going on in Belgium/Brussels for free through Metro (newspaper) and Agenda (weekly magazine about the cultural stuff in Brussels). However, I like Agenda also for the free tickets it gives to the people that e-mail them. For a year now, every week, I send them e-mails to try my luck for a concert or show. I got lucky twice!!!
About a year ago, I won two tickets to a concert of Asian Dub Foundation. I haven't even heard of them until then. After I won the tickets, I looked for people who could go to the concert with me. All my friends rejected me (yeah they're really busy). I was about to stay home that night. But my roommate Aleksandra found out about it and forced me to go, and she joined me. Of course I was somewhat prepared for the concert; I listened to the last album of the band and even picked a favorite song -which is still my favorite, Speed of Light. It was a great night, I danced and jumped for hours!

Three days ago I received another e-mail from Agenda informing me about me geting lucky again, for the concert of Baloji. (I even forgot when/how I sent the e-mail for those tickets.) Apparently Baloji was a Belgian-Congolese rapper using Congolese sounds. I asked almost everyone around to join me for the concert and rejected by all of them. Finally Ezgi couldn't resist my insistence and decided to come. Yesterday we went to this well-hidden place in Schaarbeek and listened/watched the concert with a bunch of people. The music was really good and the concert was so fun! (OK, I have to admit, we each had to drink one beer in order to start moving a little.) In time I started to feel the music although I did not really like rap and did not understand most of the songs and talk (my French is not that good) - and by the end of the concert I was all of a sweat! (In Turkish, kurtlarımı bi döktüm bi döktüm ki sormayın gitsin! :p)
If you have the opportunity, go to this guy's concert. He and his band are so sincere and cool, such beautiful people..

One last remark: Baloji is much more handsome than he seems in the photos and I loved the comb in his hair :p