Bottoms up in Belgium - Seeking the High Points of the Low Lands by Alec Le Sueur

Author:Alec Le Sueur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Published: 2014-01-06T00:00:00+00:00

More recently, bands such as Clouseau and the excellent Noordkap have enjoyed local fame, but nothing much beyond the Belgian or Benelux borders. The same can be said of K3, Belgium's answer to the Spice Girls; a clever, manufactured girl band managed by Studio 100 (the makers of Plop and a host of other children's TV programmes, comic strips and the Plop-related theme parks). The group's name, pronounced in Flemish as a Geordie would say 'car-dree', is derived from the first letters of the band members' names: Karen, Kristel and Kathleen. The tightlyfocused target group for the band is pre-teen Belgian girls and their long-suffering parents. I expect that some musically-inclined Belgians may take exception to the inclusion of K3 in a chapter on the Belgian music scene, but I would hazard a guess that any Belgian with a daughter, niece, sister or granddaughter aged between two and twelve will have listened to considerably more K3 than any other Belgian music. I have certainly spent long hours in the car being subjected to the likes of 'Ya Ya Yippee' and ' Dat Ding Dat Je Dou'. To be honest, moving up to pre-teen music was quite a relief after the endless repetition of 'The Wheels on the Bus' and the Postman Pat theme tune, and I suspect that many a dad secretly enjoyed the transition to K3, trying not to be caught listening to the CD in the car when he was on his own. I never did that.

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