Whatever happens in the world, music will always be the thing that brings people back together. We have music with us for centuries, even for millennia and yes, it has undergone a huge transformation and will continue doing so. That must not be the reason to hate each other.
Rather you’re listening to metal or jazz or techno, we all have one thing in common: we love to hear sounds and voices and meanings about what is going on in the world. We love to dance to the dance in our very own way. You must do that. Nobody is perfect, you can only be perfect to yourself if are 100 percent you.
Through the ages, we’ve seen a huge revolution going on throughout the entire world. A revolution in many forms and seen from many perspectives. We all made it through those revolutions, and better yet, some of them might even have made you a better person. It made us wonder: are we really that strong? Are we truly an extraordinary species? The truth is: yes we are. Everyone is unique. Everyone has their own strengths and capabilities, and also their weaknesses. What matters the most, is that you stay true to yourself.
We’ve seen many bad things happening in the last decades, and the thing that always was there for us when we needed it, the thing that kept us going, the thing that connected us, even tho we were far away from each other, was music. It has always been, and will always be. The power of music, its lyrics, its sounds, its very own vibes that they are driving towards us, is more powerful than any other thing in the world.
Artists from around the entire planet haven’t been able to play on stage in front of a live audience for a very long time now, but finally, they are doing it again. When you see them perform live on stage right now, they do it with so much more energy and happy feelings than they did ever before. That’s why music will always be a game-changer. Something so extremely powerful, that without music, the world would be a much darker place.
We’ve seen some amazing things going on through the last decades. Horrible things happened and created another path towards something beautiful, unique, and heartwarming. Eleven years ago, back here in Belgium, during a festival called Pukkelpop, disaster struck. A disaster, that took the lives of innocent people and injured many others with them.
Going back to that dark in the Belgian Festival History always will bring shivers running down my spine. That day, however, started sunny and warm. Everyone at the festival had a great time. In the beginning of the evening, however, A storm hovered over our small country and reached the festival site around 6 pm.
I remember how it suddenly seemed like it became nighttime. The clouds were that thick and dark and it started to pour rain, and hail, and all this was accompanied by vicious lightning and heavy thunder. I thought back then that this was not good. There was something going on. And because of this heavy storm, August 18, 2011, will forever be etched in our memory as literally a dark day in the history of the Belgian festival world.
Yes, that was a heavy day, and yet again there was music that united us more than ever to remember this day, because one year later, a band, called Foo Fighters, who are not an unknown band, came back to Pukkelpop for one reason only. To be there and dedicate their condolences to the family of the people who left their lives a year earlier, and they did all that with a very emotional song that they had written a long time before that, yet it completely fitted in the picture of what had happened during that horrible disaster.
