Thirty years on the road. Some things never get old.

Thank you to everyone who joined Jaune Toujousr at Brosella Festival for the first of their special 30 Years of Jaune Toujours concerts. Sharing the stage with so many friends and guests, seeing old faces and new ones come together. Celebrating three decades of music in Brussels with everyone who came to listen, dance, cheer and celebrate felt pretty special 

Next stop: Trefpunt Festival at Gentse Feesten on 17 July.

Another 30 Years of Jaune Toujours celebration.
Another stage full of guests.
Some familiar faces, some new ones (!)

See you in Ghent? 

Beautiful pictures by @shamrockraver 
plus one very special final bow captured by Lula Maris

This week. Different years. Same band. 30 years on stage. Brussels based. Jaune Toujours.
Some weeks are about festivals. Others are about the roads between them. And sometimes, they’re about everything that happens around the music.

2001 Brussels. Fête de la Musique. A stage on the Grand Place. A concert on in a harbour. Black-and-white memories of long summer evenings.
2005 Brussels. Café Belga. An audience close enough to sing along.
2009 Fusion Festival. Lärz. A stage called Datscha. A handwritten setlist. A crowd gathering as night falls.
2010 Brussels. The press conference for the Belgian, Spanish and Hungarian EU Trio Presidency. Music. Dance. Journalists. Cameras. An accordion and a megaphone finding their place in the middle of it all.
2013 Recording Routes. Studio jokes. Studio concentration. Friends from Gangbé Brass Band joining the sessions.
2015 Luxembourg. A stage selfie before the show. Brussels. Bal Moderne. A dance floor where everyone was invited.
2023 MillMash Festival. Wezemaal. Another summer stage. Another crowd. Another chapter.

Different years. Different audiences. Different reasons to play. Still making music. Still crossing borders. Still collecting stories.
Different places. Same week, stretched across time. We don’t archive the past. We carry it. Still playing. Still moving. Still open to the next room.

Last week Jaune Toujours kicked off the heat wave!

A huge thank you to everyone who joined them – you brought the freshness, the smiles, and made it a night to remember. 

Special shoutout to GRAAF for sharing the double bill, Brasserie de la Mule for organising Fête de la Musique and 1030cultuur for the support ! 

Already looking forward to seeing you again! Catch them at one of our upcoming concerts. First up: a very special show with some wonderful guests at Brosella Festival on 4 July. Come early: the festival opens at 1 pm, and you won’t want to miss it!

04/07 BRUSSELS opening Brosella Festival + guests
17/07 GHENT Gentse Feesten, Trefpunt Festival
24/07 OSTEND Quartiers d’O
25/07 KASTERLEE Wisselfestival (late night!)
05/09 DIEST Cirque Gitan
13/09 OSTEND ManiFiesta België
10/10 HEIST-OP-DEN-BERG Cultuurcentrum Zwaneberg + Murga Agrum 

See you soon! 

This week. Different years. Same band. 30 years on stage. Brussels based. Jaune Toujours.
Some weeks are festivals. Island festivals. City festivals. Street festivals. Festivals on the other side of an ocean.

2005 Antwerp. A concert in a refugee centre. A reminder that music often travels where headlines stop.
2007 Terschelling. Ferries. Camping fields. Wind off the sea. The kind of festival where the journey is part of the story. Tilburg. Festival Mundial. Another stop on a road that kept widening.
2010 Montréal. Francofolies. Brussels songs crossing the Atlantic.
2015 Szolnok. Several nights at Tiszavirág Festival. Smoke, lights, brass and movement. The stage glowing long after sunset. Brussels. A Bal Moderne for older dancers. Proof that a dance floor has no age limit.
2018 A photoshoot in Park 28. Urban landscapes. Unexpected props. A band portrait becoming something stranger and more playful. Zeeland. Eindeloos Eiland Festival. Another island. Another crowd.

Different countries. Different languages. Different stages. Same energy. Still crossing borders. Still following invitations. Still finding people ready to dance.
Different places. Same week, stretched across time. We don’t archive the past. We carry it. Still playing. Still moving. Still open to the next room.

This week. Different years. Same band. 30 years on stage. Brussels based. Jaune Toujours.
Some weeks are megaphones. Some are radio microphones. Some happen on balconies. Some in the middle of the street.

2003 Halles de Schaerbeek. Supporting Manu Chao at Nunca Máis. A sea of raised hands. A band discovering what happens when urgency meets volume.
2004 A Father’s Day photo shoot. An accordion. A toddler dancing. Music already part of everyday life. Lille. Barricade crosses the border.
2007 Dordrecht. A quiet moment by the water before another show.
2009 Bochum. Backstage beers. Laptop laughter. Then straight back into the lights.
2014 Brussels. PicNic the Streets. The city itself becomes the stage.
2017 Berlin. A radio interview. Songs travelling through conversations as much as concerts.
2020 Lockdown Cheer Up Sessions. The audience looks up from the courtyard. The band plays from the balconies.
2024 Dimanche premieres. Another story leaves the rehearsal room and finds its audience.

Different settings. Same conviction. Still taking songs to festivals, streets, studios and care homes. Still believing music belongs wherever people gather.
Different places. Same week, stretched across time. We don’t archive the past. We carry it. Still playing. Still moving. Still open to the next room.

We had an absolute blast… Thank you Eetcafe Barzoen for having them and you. Turnhout people for coming out, listening, dancing, enjoying ánd for taking our music home with you.

Next up on Jaune Toujours 30y TOUR: Germany  & Belgium 

13/06 BREMERHAVEN – Lange Nacht der Kultur Pferdestall Bremerhaven – late night!
18/06 SCHAERBEEK Brasserie de la Mule + GRAAF !
04/07 BRUSSELS opening Brosella Festival +guests – come early!
17/07 GHENT Gentse Feesten / Trefpunt Festival 
24/07/26 (BE) OSTEND Quartiers d’O
25/07/26 (BE) KASTERLEE Wisselfestival – late night!
05/09/26 (BE) DIEST Cirque Gitan
13/09/26 (BE) OSTEND ManiFiesta België
10/10/26 (BE) HEIST-OP-DEN-BERG Cultuurcentrum Zwaneberg + Murga Agrum! !

See you soon !? 

About last night: Jaune Toujours @pferdestallbremerhaven Lange Nacht der Kultur! 

Vielen dank Bremerhaven for having us again ánd for your energie, what a night!

Next up on our Jaune Toujours 30y TOUR: 

18/06 SCHAERBEEK @brasseriedelamule + @graafband !
04/07 BRUSSELS opening @brosellafestival +guests – come early!
17/07 GHENT Gentse Feesten / @trefpunt_festival 
24/07/26 (BE) OSTEND @quartiersdo 
25/07/26 (BE) KASTERLEE @wisselfestival – late night!
05/09/26 (BE) DIEST @cirquegitan 
13/09/26 (BE) OSTEND @manifiesta.belgie @manifiesta.belgique 
10/10/26 (BE) HEIST-OP-DEN-BERG @cczwaneberg + @murgaagrum !

See you soon !? 

This week. Different years. Same band. 30 years on stage. Brussels based. Jaune Toujours.
Some weeks are roads. Airports. Festival fields. Radio studios. Backstage absurdity.

2000 A digital leap. Among the first Belgian bands to make their music available for download online.
2002 Newcastle. A camera in the metro. A music video taking shape between stations. North Shields. Pool tables. Grass. Festival days.
2004 A human project. Two pages in fROOTS. Songs travelling beyond borders.
2006 Vodelée. The first steps of what would become AfroBelbeat. Jaune Toujours meets the Gangbé Brass Band from Benin.
2010 Copenhagen. Viking helmets in the front seat. Tour logic at its finest.
2012 Diksmuide. Belgium meets Benin. Brass, reeds and rhythms finding a shared language.
2017 Open Air am Berg. Music under open skies. Crowds gathering before the first note.
2023 Bremen. Summer Sounds. A referee’s chair turned into a band portrait. Because musicians rarely use things as intended.

Different roads. Same curiosity. Still travelling. Still collaborating. Still finding new ways to make noise together.
Different places. Same week, stretched across time. We don’t archive the past. We carry it. Still playing. Still moving. Still open to the next room.

This week. Different years. Same band. 30 years on stage. Brussels based. Jaune Toujours.
Some weeks happen in places that weren’t really meant to be stages.
A record shop pavement. A café terrace. A town square. A festival field. A refugee solidarity event. And somehow, music finds a way.

2000 Gemert. Brussels. The road keeps opening.
2003–2004 Antwerp. Bremen. Small festivals. Big horizons.
2006 Radio Transit days. Kapellen. Rotterdam. Microphones, conversations and songs travelling from one place to another.
2009 Busking in Ghent. No backstage. No barriers. Just music and whoever happens to stop and listen.
2012 Mainz. & AfroBelbeat. Gangbé Brass Band meets Jaune Toujours at Brussels Jazz Marathon. Brass from Brussels and Benin crossing paths and creating something neither could have made alone.
2013 Brasserie Verschueren. An improvised stage. The kind of concert where the city itself becomes part of the band.
2014 Solidar XL. BBC Radio 3. Rough Trade West. A week that stretches from Brussels to London. Live radio. Street performances. Record shops.
2024 Dimanche. A new single released into the world. One more chapter added to the story.
2025 Human City. Supporting Manu Chao in Brussels. Some heroes eventually become colleagues for an evening.

Different stages. Different audiences. Same belief: music belongs in public spaces, where people meet, argue, celebrate, dance, and imagine something better together.
Different places. Same week, stretched across time. We don’t archive the past. We carry it. Still playing. Still travelling. Still showing up. Still open to the next room.

This week. Different years. Same band. 30 years on stage. Brussels based. Jaune Toujours.
Some weeks smell like train stations, wet cables, backstage coffee and spring rain.

1998 Botanique. Press conference season. Before the gig comes the talking.
1999 Gérardmer. French newspaper clippings. Road signs pointing south.
2000–2001 Ancienne Belgique. Mano Mundo. Radio waves and festival mud.
2005 London. Oxford. BBC studios humming quietly before the red light turns on. Sound engineers leaning over consoles like aircraft pilots. Oxford Folk Festival. Packed cellar bar. Crowd dancing underground like a boiler about to burst.>
2009 Fnac gigs. Songs squeezed between bookshelves and passing shoppers.
2011–2012 Rochefort. Brugge. Afrobelbeat days with Gangbé Brass Band. Brussels brass meeting Beninese rhythms halfway in the air.
2014 Airbag Festival again. Sharing the spotlight with Ik en den Theo. Same airbag, different squeeze.
2020 Lockdown streams. Concerts through lenses and fibre cables. Tiny rooms becoming temporary stages again.
2019 ViaVelo Palestina. Music standing where solidarity stands.
2024 Another kind of set entirely: the filming of Dimanche. Flags. Urban wasteland. Carnaval energy spilling across concrete.

Different cities. Different rooms. Same pulse. Still travelling. Still recording. Still building little worlds wherever we land.