#103: Don't Look Now
+ VENUE CHANGE FOR PINTJES VOL.2 LAUNCH
You can never rely on Brussels’ weather to do what it’s supposed to. Or should that be, you can always rely on Brussels’ notorious weather to ruin best laid plans. Tomorrow’s launch of PINTJES VOL.2 - celebrating Brussels’ outdoor bars - is being moved indoors and will now take place at GIST (Pl. de la Vieille Halle aux Blés 30, 1000 Bruxelles).
Same time - 19h - and same great zine and limited edition prints, just with a roof to protect us from the forecasted rain…
And to get you warmed up for tomorrow’s launch, here’s an extract from PINTJES VOL.1, about a visit to one of the city centres odd and unsettling alleyway bars.
Don’t Look Now
W.H. Auden called the dead end alleyways splayed out from the Grand Place “cold streets tangled like old string”. Sometimes they lead nowhere special, others would put the fear in you, dark and damp and distinctly foreboding. Impasse Schuddeveld does, on the face of it, neither of these things. Any menacing aura the lane might have is undermined by the bright fairy lights the colour of the Italian flag and gaudily painted murals on one wall advertising the Théâtre Royal de Toone a few steps further along the passageway. A cat stands sentry in an alcove near the entrance…