XINK

The comeback that no one saw coming. In October 2022, out of nowhere, XINK announced a concert in the AB in Brussels. The decisive push came from their good friend Thibault Christaensen (Equal Idiots). The context was the 20th anniversary of ‘De Vriendschapsband’, the crowd pleaser with which the Kempen boys took part in the first    Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2003. The teen band came sixth in Copenhagen and kept going for a few more years. With the exception of bassist Philip Valkiers, they stayed musically active in bands like Crackups, Get Off My Shoes and Warhola. That one reunion concert became four, and the new ‘Misschien’ took first place in Studio Brussel’s De Afrekening. “If we ever manage it, we’ll release an album,” they said. Wait and see… To be continued at Werchter.