Category: Line-up

Band on fire, speed metal band before the speed metal wave (the one with Metallica), Killer gets it about the Motorhead state of mind and the cool sketches of the NWOBHM before the 80’s Belgian wave.

 

Killer has also decided his manager Alfie Falkenbach to start the mytical Mausoleum label. “Wall of Sound” in 1982 ((not the one from Spector !) and “Shockwaves” in 1983 were his greatest trophies, next is a live album produced by Dieter Dierks (Scorpions), result of a soldout concert in Antwerpen with an heated space audience.

 

Unfading, pure, straight-forward and with no frills, Killer will blow out forty candles at our festival, with the bit between the teeth and the satisfaction of a job well done.

Robby Valentine was one of the sensations of the Golden Age Rock Festival first edition. A Queen repertoire with the (hollandaise !) sauce. The friendly androgynous batavian will appear in the 2020 edition to convince us of the truth of a top class solo career, very coloured with AOR. For the Queen and great musicality fans.

Endorsed by the whole rock community, Phil Lynott, allmighty Thin Lizzy leader, was dreaming of adventures and the result was a brand new Grand Slam circa 1984 with young coyotes with sharped teeth.

 

Victim of his “bad reputation”, Lynott couldn’t get a record deal for his new band in spite of impressive stage performances. Phil left the band in 1986, so Thin Lizzy’s future was in trouble, and much more was Grand Slam. If some “tribute bands” sparked the Lizzy flame, we had no news from Grand Slam.

 

So, Laurence Archer (ex-Stampede, UFO and…Grand Slam guitarist) revived the 1984-1985 shooting star, but became established, with an impressive band, as the only beneficiary in Thin Lizzy spirit with a fantastic album called “Hit the Ground” in November 2019 ! What a major accomplishment !

Jean-Pierre Froidebise, born and raised from Liege, is nursed with classical music through atavism, but this is the bluesy rock from the 70’s which determined his brilliant musical career.

 

Musician with a exceptional originality, our friend Jean-Pierre promised us an energetic set, full of passion and musical excellence.

A german band with an english leader (Cliff Jackson), stepped across the seventies with accents of kraut/psychedelic/progressive and hard rock to finally stay in the collective unconscious like a german Wishbone Ash.

 

Epitaph still has the good idea for making well crafted records.

 

Epitaph über alles ? Wait and see…

Bad boys from the south of London and the East End, little rascals and Speakeasy’s residents (one of the most mythical London clubs) Heavy Metal Kids hit the headlines in the 70’s with their ballsy rock, in a bad mood and with a big mouth. His immense frontman, Gary Holton, created the hooligan rock just before the punk wave.

 

Patchwork of influences (pub rock, Faces, bluesy hard rock…glam). Heavy Metal Kids could never go over Holton’s passing (caught upon excesses in 1985) but our overindulgent rockers have risen from their ashes : built around Cosmo and Keith Boyce (guitarist and drummer from the good old days) and Justin McConville, a very interesting substitute for Gary Holton, the old kids from the London slums have made the promise to kick our asses.

 

For our great pleasure…

Established in the dreamlike hints of the “Swinging London” just in time for that crucial year 1970, Stray is a seventies model, near impassable as regards bluesy/hard rock/psychedelic genre. Del Bromham, established leader, still young after 70 years, is delighted to invade our lands, at last. Stray ? So british…

Late in the 70’s because of a political regime that is out of line with rock n roll, Spain is proud to have Baron Rojo in the very beginning of the 80’s.

 

The Red Baron (Manfred Von Richthofen german aviator’s nickname) from the Castro brothers, Armando and Carlos, always has the devil in the flesh and murderous impulse since “Larga Vida Al Rock & Roll” (first raid in 1981) and “Metalmorfosis” (international recognition in 1983).

 

Away from the Belgian stages far too long (two concerts in Heavy Sound Festival in Brugge then Poperinge respectively in 1983 and 1984), the spanish bomber will celebrate, in our festival, forty years in intensive shelling just before a long tour across the South American stadium. The number one Hispanic/Latino hard band definitely deserve to be the Friday’s headliner

C’était il y déjà trente ans. Des potes liégeois musiciens de hard rock puisèrent dans leurs délires éthyliques l’idée de former un band qui mêlerait hard rock et disco. Dégrisé, il se mirent à l’ouvrage et la symbiose entre deux genres de musique réputés antagonistes colla mieux que l’on aurait pu l’imaginer. Grâce à cette défiance musicale et ces banderilles potaches, les Hernie Disco bâtirent une réputation scénique. Mais le petit délire ne perdura pas. C’est dire si on se réjouit de cette reformation inespérée bien dans la philosophie du GARF.