Twunch and Miike Snow Pre-listening @ Bar Buro

At last my friends at last, a non thesis-drama related blogpost!Let me explain.
Last night I joined Deborah and her twitter gang on a twunch.

Excuse my french, twunch, c'est quoi ça? Twuch is lunch (or in this case dinner) twitter-style where twitter peeps gather around to talk about the stuff that make them tick or just about random shizzle. You can check all the twunch meetings here and subscribe to them with your twitter account if you would like to join.

At first, I thought it would be awkward for me (=social media rookie) to join a twunch, but as I find myself more and more interested in the power of sites like twitter, facebook or pinterest, I decided to give it a shot.

Sony Music Belgium organised this twunch as a pre-listening session to  Miike Snow his newest album "Happy To You". For sure you heard "Paddling Out" the last couple of weeks popping through your radio and after hearing the rest of the album I am strongly convinced there will be more Miike Snow tunes that will make your mood springproof in the future. But don't be mistaken, the lyrics are rather dark and some songs are even a bit dramatic like "Devil's Work" (up to the point where I could hear a horn go off in a song) and they even hired Lykke Li's sweet voice to do a verse on the track "Black Tin Box". It will be released March 16 but you can check it here.

The event took place in Bar Buro, a new pop up bar in Ghent, powered by chocolate bar Quetzal and Avenue L. So we were spoiled with quite original smoked salmon-rucola-chocolate drop panini's and moelleux (I die!) for dessert.  I'm still enjoying the afterglow of that chocolate inspired meal while listening to Miike Snow his happy electropop album (we got a copy to take home, yay!). I really hope to see them on the festivals this summer.

And the twunch thing? I'm looking forward to my next one. The only thing I have to overcome is my fear of getting my prehistorical mobile phone out of my pocket. Quite intimidating if you're surrounded by a dozen of foursquaring and twittering Iphone ninja's :-). Still, I'm proud to posses a historical artifact mobile device.