Rookie goes Brussels

From Monday till Tuesday Rookie office left to Brussels. We needed some inspiration and good rest.The trip started with....snow! In March.

And minus temperature. Of course, we all didn't want to stay long outside and therefore spent most of the time indoors, visiting AB Concerts and popular local bars.

AB Concerts amazed by its history and informative tour arranged for us by its art-director. We got to know his point of view on the future of music business. He pointed out the trend of live performances and tipping of all the industries which serve concerts (e.g. sound, light engineering). So, this is definitely the area where the most money is nowadays. Therefore, it makes sense to work in tours, concerts, venues or booking.
He also mentioned that with Internet it is way easier nowadays to promote for unknown acts: just place the links to Myspace of the acts and audience can check how they perform live. Another interesting practice is the streaming of the concerts after the tickets are sold out. But here you must be careful with the resolution of the broadcast itself to ensure it doesn't break because of too many viewers.
Not to forget for those seeking nice internship, AB Concerts is opened for your CVs!
After such an interesting tour we had some time for dinner at the same venue. Meanwhile we enjoyed multiple pictures of big acts who performed at AB and good music in the bar. Meal was over the top and afterwards we headed to the local pubs. Because it was Monday night, even the best pubs such as MP3 and DNA looked very deserted. But we tryed our best to have fun even asked for some 90's music in MP3 but got very much of 2000' hits. So we went to conclusion that Brussels was probably ahead of the time in music and while we enjoyed Scooter, they already listened to Lady Gaga =)
Some of us got more than tipsy and started talking about magic boxes.=) Some of us tryed to play football with the cars. =))) Overall, trip was just as good as you can imagine!
One bad note will go to the hostel we stayed at, named Youth Hostel Van Gogh. Highly not recommendable to spend your night there! You will occur in the frozen rooms with collapsing beds, 1 mm thick pillows and ice cold showers.
The way back home was sunny and chilled. Now we are ready to work and conquer music worl!