Music Belgium Photos

01/06/2026

01/06/2026

After playing bass for the Jeff Beck Group and then guitar for the Faces, Ron(nie) Wood joined the Rolling Stones in 1975 for the recording of "Black & Blue." Now celebrating his 79th birthday, he replaced Mick Taylor. Having battled lung cancer and skin cancer (during the lockdown), he has recorded a handful of studio albums as well as tribute concerts to his idols like Chuck Berry and Jimmy Reed (the latter was excellent). I photographed him here alongside Keith Richards at Feyenoord Stadium in Rotterdam on June 4, 1982.

30/05/2026

Once again Friday 29th at Les Nuits Botanique was mostly femine. The two first artists were alone behind their organ. Hohnen Ford from London played the Orangerie while vert talented local artist Gala Dragot was on the main stage with her amazing voice. Don't miss her this summer at Braine-le-Comte (20 June), Gent Jazz (12 July) and a.o. the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels (8 October). Her first album "twerking music" is planned for the 5th of June.

28/05/2026

Wendy O'Williams, singer of The Plasmatics, was for sure one of a kind. She started her life playing amongst other things in adul movies and was later still half naked on stage with her band The Plasmatics. At one point, she retire in a farm in Connecticut to save wounded squarrels. And we she thought she had reached the end of the road, she took her own life at the age of 48 back in 1998.