The Simple Session in Tallinn, Estonia is one of the biggest BMX contests in the world and Belgium hasn’t ever been represented there. The Grounded crew decided they had to do something about that. They got in touch with the organisation, pointed out the fact and asked them politely to consider one of their team riders. The Simple Session people checked out the Grounded team and their eye fell on the young gun Willem Van Gansen. When Grounded pushed out the news and I saw Willem was riding the contest, I just had to come along! With about a week and a half to go until the contest it was quite a struggle to get everything sorted, but we managed to get there and I can tell you it was definitely worth it. What an adventure!
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“Romanov Goes Heavy!” was the title on the flyer that popped into my Facebook inbox only about a week in advance. Parakachurdelek Bookings was inviting a couple of bands over to play a free last minute concert in their local bar Romanov. I’m still not sure why they did it on a Monday, but I was visiting my parents over the weekend anyway and the line-up was actually really good as well so I couldn’t miss out on this one. I packed my camera gear along with some extra stuff so I could stay and extra day at my parents and hit up the concert on my way back to Ghent. I couldn’t see everything because I had to catch the last train home, but I ended up seeing Hopes Die Last, who came all the way from Italy, and Now Voyager. Both were new to me, but really impressed me and I think we’ll see more of them very soon!
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I got into this kind of music through my brother. He introduced me to Bring Me The Horizon years ago and at first I didn’t really like it, and I still don’t like the heaviest stuff from the early days, but once Suicide Season came out with it’s more melodic parts I started to listen to them as well. By now I saw them play a couple of times and I must say this was by far the best show of ‘em all. I really like their new album and they are also playing much better live than before. All the other bands that played that night at AB I had heard from, but hadn’t really listened to before, really surprised me and all got loaded to my iPod the very next day.
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Literally a few hours after I send the email to pitch the idea for a shoot to the guys over at SOMIC, my computer died. They really liked the idea though, so I decided to go through with it anyway. The turnout wasn’t great, but Willem, Hannes and Michael, who I used to ride and shoot with back home, came out. As did some pretty talented locals. It was a fun session to shoot and I’m pretty happy with the results.
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