The most talked-about festival in Belgium is not a festival like the others. It’s been more than twelve years now that the famous venue of Brussels, the Botanique, has been opening its doors each year to an impressive list of bands and artists to celebrate music. The keywords of the festival are: creation, exploration and eclecticism.
More than forty concerts are spread out in eight days and last year, the 120 bands that played gathered a crowd of more than 30 000 people. The goal of the festival is for tomorrow’s influential artists to make a name and get in touch with their public. In that concern, the bands play in relatively small theaters in order to create an intimate contact between the actors and the people.
For the very last night of the festival, a theme is picked up so that, by buying only one ticket, the music fans can go from concerts to concerts to see all the bands that are relevant to that theme. Besides music, the festival also celebrates disciplines such as dance, photography or tagging and the best DJ´s are there to set the mood.
Amongst the highlights of the previous edition, we can name the worldly famous Björk, Cake and Archive, but also various French-speaking artists such as Venus, De Palmas, Vive La Fête, Brigitte Fontaine, Jane Birkin, Yann Tiersen etc.
Les Nuits Botaniques is not your typical festival, and while it will once again enlighten the nights drawing people from all over Europe towards the capital of Belgium, it will surely immerse its public in the middle of today’s music scene.