Sluuur
*En brusseleir, Sluur (met twee U’s) is une insulte machiste which refers to a bonne à rien, ugly, stupid or slet.
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!
🦷 Introductory bass (08.04 - 17:30 > 19:30) /drum (09.04 - 17:30 > 19:30) workshops for local kids and sluurs hosted by ‘Grab The Beat’ Musical workshops for FINTAQ people by Pullet Rocks > reservation required
🦷 13:00 > 15:00 Finta'stic circle 🌀 Mixed-gender discussion group by Scivias > reservation required
🦷 Photo Exhibition by the incredible Laetitia Bica, Séverine Bailleux, Cindy Frey, Manon Garcia & Marcela Tapia
🦷 15:00 > 16:00 Talk iconiK (EN) - Vivien Goldman & Chardine Taylor-Stone - Modération : Dominique Van Capellen (see below)
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.
16:30 > 03:00 Concerts : Blaank (FR) | Changeline (CA) | Coucou c’est moi (BE) | Death sells (NL) | Drahla (UK) | Isabella Strange (UK) | Ok Plague (FR) | THE NONE (UK) | Uzi Freya (FR)| Violent Sadie Mode (FR) | WPG (BE) | Meryoula x Nāga Dvipah Djset
🦷 16:30 > 18:00 / 18:55 > 20:25 / 21:50 > 23:00 Legendary live radio show hosted by Camille Loiseau, the FMinist branch of Radio Panik, Radio Vacarme
From 4.30pm to 11pm, the Sluuur radio show takes up residence in the cellar.
Digging up archive programmes, sharing live testimonials from the depths of the party scene, electrifying banter and wacky sound bites. You get the picture: there's a framework – exploring punk past and present – and, in the middle of it all, a fair amount of controlled freestyle and melodic interference. Or not.
Featuring familiar and unfamiliar voices from the Belgian punk scene, plenty of loudmouths and a few tough girls with soft hearts. We'll be passing the microphones around the table and into the audience, so don't hesitate to grab one or shout something from the back of the room. There'll be serious stuff and less serious stuff. Old anecdotes and dreams for the future. Lyrical solo flights of fancy but, above all, a good collective rant!
🦷 17:30 > 20:30 Fanzine creation workshop led by Laur Pontak > reservation required
🦷 13:00 > 15:00 Finta'stic circle 🌀 Mixed-gender discussion group by Scivias > reservation required
🦷 18:00 > 00:00 Haircuts by goblins_cuts > pay what you want
> PLAYLIST : Playlist Qobuz / Playlist Tidal
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.
Uzi Freyja (FR)
“Uzi Freyja” sounds like a declaration of intent, a fusion of the lightning-fast firepower of a weapon (Uzi) and the Norse goddess of love, war, fertility and sex (Freyja).
Unbound by convention and determined, talented and fearless, Uzi Freyja lives fast and loud, thrilling audiences with her mix of hip-hop vocals, punk fury and experimental electronic textures.
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(FR)
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!
Changeline
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
Talk: ‘Punk, Resistance, Inclusivity and its Challenges’
On 11 April, we are very much looking forward to kicking off the day with a talk on Punk, Resistance, Inclusivity and its Challenges, featuring Chardine Taylor-Stone and Vivien Goldman, with Dominique Van Cappelen as moderator.
@Chardine Taylor-Stone is an award-winning cultural producer, writer and feminist educator whose work lies at the intersection of music, Black feminist politics and social justice. As a leading voice on race, gender and alternative subcultures, she is known for challenging the boundaries of genre and identity, whilst advocating for structural change in the creative industries.
Her practice encompasses community organising, political education and creative leadership, with a focus on centring the history, labour and cultural contributions of Black women. In her writing and lectures, Chardine explores how music scenes—from punk to electronic music and Caribbean diaspora forms—become spaces of resistance, solidarity and feminist possibility.
She has collaborated with arts institutions, grassroots movements and international organisations to create more just cultural spaces, and her work continues to influence discussions on representation, liberation and the future of feminist cultural production.
“Niemand is punkier dan Vivien Goldman”, zo verklaarde Pitchfork Magazine. In die ongedwongen geest is de grenzen verleggende Vivien Goldman schrijfster, docent, presentatrice – en ook nog eens muzikante. Ze is geboren in Londen, heeft in Parijs en Jamaica gewoond en woont nu in New York. Sinds ze haar carrière begon in de levendige Britse rockpers van de jaren 70, waarbij ze vaak samenwerkte met Bob Marley (het onderwerp van twee van haar boeken), zijn haar ‘can-do’-houding en internationale inzichten breed uitgemeten: journalistiek, boeken, radio, televisie, universitair onderwijs, multimedia-lezingen, museumdialogen, de opnamestudio, het podium – en haar beat gaat nog steeds door.
“Revenge of the She-Punks”, Goldmans bekroonde zesde boek (University of Texas Press, 2019), won de Rough Trade Book of the Year-prijs in de VS en het VK en leverde haar de Best Music Journalist Award op van het Duitse Reeperbahn Festival.
@Dominique Van Cappellen is een zangeres en gitariste uit Brussel die al 30 jaar actief is in de undergroundscene. Ze richtte onder andere de bands Baby Fire en Fleur de Feu op. Dominique is curator van een festival tegen leeftijdsdiscriminatie dat in oktober 2026 in Brussel zal plaatsvinden.
Scénographie - Weareartits x Haolin Huang
In a couple weeks, you'll discover the sluuur's scenography by Weareartits and Haoling Huang
🦷 Weareartits deconstructs and constructs intentionally playful and not-so-accidentally in your face scenography, large-scale installations, calm zones and decompression spaces. more? yes... workshops, exhibitions and public-space interventions. multidisciplinary? more like a knife with too much- yet exactly enough- glitter. https://weareartits.com/
🦷 Haolin Huang (°1997, they/them) is a multidisciplinary Chinese artist based in Brussels, working in between visual arts and performing arts.
Their practice is grounded in exploration and research, shaped by a psychological inquiry into human duality within social and cultural structures. Haolin opens up conversations around memory, identity, and hope, while guiding the audience through a landscape of perpetual loss and continuous search.At the threshold between private narratives and collective emotions, they navigate an in-between space where myth meets reality, where angels fall and demons rise. Through metaphorical objects, fictional environments, and performative staging, Haolin constructs hybrid temporalities in which one drifts between yesterday and today. By bringing transformative beings to life as they oscillate between vulnerability and reclaimed strength, these figures emerge as protagonists of their own evolution.
Sluuur, a festival powered by Les Halles de Schaerbeek in collaboration with Le Botanique.
