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Dark Beach is my bedroom project.

If you're a cool kid in Brussels, you make post-punk. Or punk. Or something equally cool.

But I'm not really from Brussels. Nor am I particularly cool. I'm from Sint-Agatha-Berchem, and I work in education. So I don't feel obliged to make post-punk. Or punk. Although sometimes I do.

Sometimes I collaborate with other musicians. Sometimes I don't. It really depends on who's around and how sociable I'm feeling.

Judging by the enthusiastic knocking on the walls from my neighbours, the music must be pretty good. Although they never express that when I meet them in the hallway.

Ambition? I'd genuinely love to do a parochiezaal tour someday. There's something oddly nostalgic about them. I can't quite place why. Maybe it's the atmosphere. Maybe it's the questionable interior design. I did have the best dame blanche in one as a kid. Yeah.

Either way, that's the dream.

For fans of: Arcade Fire, Sidewalks and Skeletons, Trentemøller.