Music Festival

Thursday night was the first night of a music festival in Brussels. There was a big stage set up in the Grand Place. After returning from Brugge I headed down to check it out. The first performance I saw was an American rap group. The next was a group of about 12 DJs all spinning at the same time. They were a bunch of guys from Belgium and the Netherlands. One guy was introduced as the "illest DJ in all of the Netherlands." I'm not sure if that makes him really hardcore, but I had to chuckle a bit when I heard that. 12 DJs spinning at once sure sounds a lot like one DJ spinning. I was not too impressed. The most interesting part of the night was the MC who introduced the acts. He was constantly switching between Dutch, French and English while speaking, often changing from one sentence to the next. I got the impression in Brussels that pretty much everyone who lives there is at least trilingual. It was very interesting.