Music The gates of their ‘Garden of Madness’ (only Friday open at the Sportpaleis in antwerp, but Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, there are already more than ready for it. We were Saturday at their dress rehearsal for 15,000 feestneuzen in Liverpool and can assure you: it is festivals as Tomorrowland, but within.
“We drop the Tomorrowland in ’t Sportpaleis”, sounds promising for the brothers. Imagine that graceful colored reuzenbloemen all but for, because they will be there the next two weekends. Just like a large luminous butterfly above the dj booth, you are already flying back to the sprookjestuin, and a fairy ledwall to the imagination at all to life. “The boys of Tomorrowland have really done their best, huh” and smiles, Dimitri Vegas pride. “And then what you are now, here in Liverpool, still sees but a glimpse of what the Arena will look like. Matter of the surprise, there are still some in to keep, of course. Here we can just a lot of things to test.” The stage in the Antwerp lives, once you will even be able to compare with the mainstage of Tomorrowland. “It should be every year, bigger and better .” Fans of the summer parties in Ibiza, Dimitri & Mike’s usual spot Ushuaïa, know so about all that they may expect. “It is a continuation of our theme in Ibiza. But with our latest tracks and new mixes. We are diving also the Belgian music history,” says Dimitri. We heard during the preview on Saturday even strofes of Queen, Vengaboys, Eurythmics and Eminem. The pounds of streamers and fireworks flew when all around. “It is really fantastic!”, say Galabet one of the best dj’s in the world.
Even after six years of excelling with their eyes still of enthusiasm, exactly like their first time in the Sportpaleis. “Something like that, you never just, you know,” said Dimitri. “Four Sportpaleizen, that may just not normal to feel, because that is crazy . I’m not a nervous person, but I admit that I have twice a year what stress have: for our first show at the Sportpaleis in antwerp and at Tomorrowland,” he laughs. “But healthy stress.”
Still places available
In contrast to their dress rehearsal in Liverpool, of which 15,000 tickets in a matter of seconds were sold out, there is one at the Sportpaleis in antwerp on only one of the four shows ‘sold out’. “Or is that a bad thing? Go not, because sold out is to say that the last seat is gone. As the ticket looks right now, will be at the end of the week at least two or three shows are sold out,” says Dimitri. “A few years ago was that there is direct two shows were sold out. But that in itself makes us no more, we are not awake of. We play for 19.000 man or 20,000: we will always be the best of ourselves. If there is now no one want to come: now that would be bad. (laughs)”