Biography
WHISPERING SONS have been around just long enough so they won't be angry when we allow ourselves a brief retrospective. They won the second most fun contest in the world - only the BK Horse Sausage Throwing thrives more in our hearts - and conquered Europe with some singles, an EP and a blistering debut album (“Image,” 2018), which skillfully stoked the extinguished fire of dark weeping rock. Our kingdom promptly gained a new live sensation. To witness the latter with our own eyes, we from the Lokerse Feesten didn't have to step too far, because on our very own stage we saw them push the limits of intensity a few meters with hands and feet on two occasions. After follow-up “Several others” (2021), the group threw themselves into the fray once again a few months ago, with “The great calm” (2024) serving as their Good Day. The weapon, not the greeting. Fans, reviewers, music composers and concert hall owners wholeheartedly raised the YES sign they borrowed from Gert's Table, because this, this is overwhelmingly a group that has the very greatest form by the neck again. Musically, things are served up with slightly more color, at least compared to the shades of black and even slightly blacker of the early years. However, if you listen and look for references, you still end up with the decade of The Cure, The Chameleons, New Order, as well as Patti Smith and Sonic Youth. And then, of course, there is Fenne Kuppens. She may look like a popular kindergarten teacher but that inner Eyjafjallajökull that resides within her may never get back under control. Fenne is the frontwoman that other bands have a million and some limbs to secure. Added together, those are a lot of arguments to support our contention that Whispering Sons is still one of the best (live) bands in this triangle kingdom. Join us for a full hour on Saturday, August 10.