This week. Different years. Same band. 30 years on stage. Brussels based. Jaune Toujours.​
Some weeks carry history in broad daylight. 5 May. 8 May. Liberation. Memory. Resistance.
Music played in public spaces, for people standing together.

1999–2005 Gent. Brussels. Deurne. Ath. Sint-Gillis. Small stages, city squares, cultural centres. Brass, accordions, movement.
2002 Foire! Halles de Schaerbeek. Waiting on stage before the noise begins.
2007–2015 Liberation festivals in the Netherlands. The road north. Songs crossing borders easily.
2012 Afrobelbeat. Gangbé Brass Band from Benin. Brussels rhythms meeting West African brass. Another language added to the conversation.
2017 Steenrock. Music against detention centres. Crowds listening under open skies.
2020 Lockdown Cheer Up Sessions. Playing outside elderly homes. Distance measured in meters, connection measured differently.
2022–2023 Labadoux. Dworp. Festivals, clubs, village rooms. Still gathering people into one moving body.
2024 Breendonk. 8 May movement. Playing music on ground marked by history. And back in Laken: Vertigo taking shape in the studio, with family, friends, cats, dictionaries and backing vocals all drifting into the songs.

And today, another kind of celebration. Union wins the cup. The supporters sing along to the Jaune Toujours anthem again. Brussels echoing in full voice. Different places. Same week, stretched across time. We don’t archive the past. We carry it. Still playing. Still moving. Still open to the next room.