Sluuur
*En brusseleir, Sluur (met twee U’s) is une insulte machiste which refers to a bonne à rien, ugly, stupid or slet.
Baby volcano (CH) / Blaank (BE) / Changelin.e (CA) / Coucou c’est moi (BE) / Death sells (NL) / Drahla (UK) / Isabella Strange (UK) / OK Plague (FR) / THE NONE (UK) / Violent Sadie Mode (FR) / WPG (BE)
On April 11, the first edition of Sluuur festival takes place in Brussels!
During one day and night, all the sluurs and their friends will gather at Les Halles de Schaerbeek to shout, dance like crazy, and sweat buckets.
Sluuur is a new festival that draws on punk feminist scenes, artists, and communities, both old and new, established and emerging. It's a gamble to sketch out the outlines and leave the field open to the energies present. Let's do it ourselves!
Come listen to some angry sounds and participate in a bustling and sizzling radio show. Come and discover a photo exhibition, visual creations, fanzines, and lots of other DIY experiments. Come and talk, shout, dance, and meet people. Come and (re)discover the history of punk and write its (NO) future. Come and take part in an energetic festival! Just come!
🦷 Photo Exhibition by the incredible Laetitia Bica, Séverine Bailleux, Cindy Frey, Manon Garcia & Marcela Tapia
🦷 Talk iconiK - Vivien Goldman & Chardine Taylor-Stone
British journalist, writer and musician Vivien Goldman played a major role in documenting and promoting punk and post-punk in the late 1970s. She wrote for NME, Sounds and Melody Maker, giving early visibility to then-marginalised scenes, including women in punk and the connections between punk, reggae and dub.
British writer, journalist, musician, photographer and filmmaker Chardine Taylor-Stone (Big Joanie) is part of the punk legacy with her DIY attitude, rejection of dominant norms and radical commitment to fighting racism, sexism and cultural capitalism. Her writing and artistic projects explore black countercultures, colonial memory and contemporary forms of resistance.
🦷 Live acts: Baby volcano (CH) | Coucou c’est moi (BE) | Death sells (NL) | Drahla (UK) | Isabella Strange (UK) | Ok Plague (FR) | THE NONE (UK) | Violent Sadie Mode (FR) | DJs & more baaands
🦷 Legendary live radio show hosted by Camille Loiseau, the FMinist branch of Radio Panik, Radio Vacarme
The radio show will be a truly interactive platform, an agora where voices as loud as a good kick from a pair of Doc Martens to the balls can be heard. These voices will be those of the public, during regular street interviews, but also those of a plethora of contributors from the Belgian punk scene. Hosted by Camille Loiseau, the FMinist branch of Radio Panik and Radio Vacarme, the discussions will tackle (in no particular order, of course) topics that anger and inspire: how can we continue to raise the profile of minority artists without falling into purple washing? How can we penetrate and diversify music journalism, which is dominated by men? How can we highlight a different history of punk written by women? So if you have something to say about this or are interested, come on down!
🦷 Introductory bass/drum workshops for local kids hosted by ‘Grab The Beat’ Musical workshops for FINTAQ people by Pullet Rocks
🦷 Fanzine creation workshop led by Laur Pontak > reservation required
🦷 Finta'stic circle 🌀 Mixed-gender discussion group by Scivias > reservation required
🦷 Haircuts by goblins_cuts > pay what you want
Baby Volcano (CH)
Baby Volcano is a woman of many influences: with her Swiss and Guatemalan roots, she transcends this diverse identity to create hybrid music, where Latin traditions (reggaeton, cumbia, etc.) explode the club format and spread like a trail of incandescent lava. A total artist, she comes to Sluuur to present her new creation SI ME VES IR CON TODO, ES PORQUE A LA NOCHE LLORO, a cross between a concert-performance and a punk musical. An immersive, visceral show, where the notions of refuge and apocalypse are never far from the wild call of the party.
Coucou c'est moi (BE)
The three girls of Coucou c'est moi are Belgian, wear motor sports suits and represent the best that Brussels has to offer: friendship that transcends linguistic boundaries, inner sunshine (since there is no sunshine outside) and uninhibited fun. Their songs, oscillating between pop-punk and nonchalant indie, are reminiscent of the best years of the Riot Grrrls, as well as typical Brussels evenings where you sing your heart out with a bunch of friends at karaoke before snoring on the pinball machine.
Death Sells (NL)
Ever since one of their songs appeared on the Dutch compilation Girls To The Front, Death Sells has been going full throttle. Hailing from Eindhoven, the band led by singer Mitch Nitsotoli plays powerful, dissonant grungepunk with a few touches of gothic rock. So if you've always been into Hole, At The Drive-In and The Cramps, Death Sells will be right up your street.
Drahla (UK)
Hailing from Leeds, the band led by singer-songwriter Luciel Brown has been dazzling the post-punk scene since 2017. But be warned, this isn't really music for sunbathing: like Brown's voice, their music is more like cold light than tropical sunshine. You can hear the experimental influences of Swell Maps and This Heat as well as the poetic monotony of The Fall. That's what Drahla is all about: a frosty sun, full of sonic and rhythmic discoveries ready to blow your mind.
Isabella Strange (UK)
Isabella Strange has a name that sounds like a badass cartoon character, and with good reason: the title of their first EP, Slick Git, evokes the fight against another well-known character in our societies, more vicious than Magneto, more fragile than the Joker: the good old Egotistical Male. Laden with lyrics by singer Kira Wolfe-Murray, the English band's music navigates between vindictive post-punk and insolent indie rock — and their choruses often flirt with stormy weather.
OK Plague (FR)
End-of-the-world electroclash? Nightmare pop? If punk holds up a mirror to the decline of Western civilisation, OK Plague's music is its soundtrack. Imagine you're stuck in a Super Mario game whose designers have a passion for death metal, musicals and K-pop. Welcome to OK Plague: a veritable enchanted nightmare, an electronic and experimental delirium where all of pop culture collides in the most brutal and colourful violence.
THE NONE (UK)
Freshly established in their native England, THE NONE arrive in Europe on their own terms: with a particularly clever, dissonant and melodic brand of noise rock that is as simple and complex as a Rubik's Cube thrown into a fire. It's the perfect backdrop for singer Kai's lyrics, which tackle powerful themes such as poverty, identity and substance abuse on their debut EP Care.
Violent Sadie Mode (FR)
The name of their first EP (2025) sums it up ironically: on Incelcore, singer Sadie Golding, influenced by Amyl & the Sniffers and Minor Threat, castigates patriarchy with breathtaking verve. Her instrumentalist mates, whom she met in Bordeaux, provide her with the ideal backdrop of first wave hardcore and heavy, dripping hard rock guitar riffs. Contradictory? Only for old rockers whose minds are narrower than their urethras.
Blaank
On her first EP released by Luik Music, Blaank opens the Norman wardrobe and lets out all kinds of unhappy ghosts. Originally from Caen and enriched by a stay in England, she has patiently forged a cynical but inventive, arty and falsely minimalist style of music, somewhere between noise, spoken word, cold wave and trip hop. Unease and anger are her rocking horse, and she swings on it with the pride of an Amazon who keeps her middle finger and her guitar raised high!
Changelin.e
Changelin.e is just as safe for those who love to jump into mosh pits as it is for introverts who need a comforting cocoon.
Creating sounds that fit into the alternative hip-hop scene, she comes straight out of the underground as a self-taught artist and proves that punk phrasing can blend into the swaying rhythms of pop-rap. Her inspiration draws as much from legendary storytellers as it does from avant-garde electronic music innovations. A universe as introspective as it is revolutionary, transforming vulnerability into strength.
WPG
WPG (for White Privileged Girls) doesn't hold back. Crazy costumes, masks, pythian singing, accordion, ambient-folk and (of course) punk joyfully tumble together in their colourful performances, a fine example of a form of Brussels Dadaist noise. A word of advice: follow all the incomprehensible advice they'll throw at you during their visit here.
A big thank you to Botanique, Camille Loiseau, the FMiniste branch of Radio Panik, and especially to Susie, Jo, and Marie, Radio Vacarme, and in particular Delphine, Mathilde, Sarah, Fédérica, and Winona, Anso from Pullet Rocks, Charlotte and Barbara from Superconcerts, Lyne BNC, Clarisse, and Sarah from Scivias. Thank you for your time, your support, your valuable advice, your opinions and shared desires <3
Sluuur, a festival powered by Les Halles de Schaerbeek in collaboration with Le Botanique.
