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Had agreed with The Wiz to go to see Japanese Kodo drummers in Antwerp at the end of this month, but after getting hold of the details yesterday, it's a bit depressing. The cheapest ticket is €52 - very expensive for Belgium, the TOP price for a show I am going to in Brussels next week is €44 - plus so far it seems you can only book via their 0900 telephone line at a cost of 45 cents a minute, and I know from experience how they keep you on those lines while you navigate through language selection and so on, and hear all about future events before you can actually book your ticket. So unless we can find some other source of tickets, we may have to be content with the video on here.

While looking for other sources, I stumbled across a publicity video for an India-themed event which sounds like enormous fun for anyone (like me!) who loves Bollywood. It's not until the end of April and is on at a venue I hate, but I think I shall have to plan to be there.

I also found a video about Belgium which is interesting, though not as good (given the somewhat didactic commentary) as the one I saw in the Belgian pavilion at Expo 2005 in Aichi, which used some special camera technique to produce a very wide, panoramic picture composed of several overlapping images, most filmed from a helicopter or some other high vantage point, and shown almost "in the round". It's funny how such images can be better than the real thing! And some say the camera never lies...