Matt Berninger (The National) Live at Église Notre-Dame de Laeken, Bruxelles, Belgium on 2025-12-12

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Unfortunately, I didn't make it to the shows in the UK – so I was all the more delighted that the three shows in Brussels and Rotterdam went ahead for me. The Église Notre-Dame de Laeken is a very special venue and even more impressive than Union Chapel was in April. The natural reverberation in the room was indescribable and is only partially reproduced in the recording. Despite the bitter cold, the band was in extremely good spirits and eager to play. A particular highlight: Matt runs into the audience during Times Of Difficulty and doesn't notice that he doesn't have a cable roadie with him and that the cable for his microphone is shorter than usual (even though he tested the range in the afternoon before the VIP soundcheck). The result: the cable broke out of the distribution box on stage, so Alison (tour manager) and Ben (local FOH for the night) needed a few minutes to fix it. And Matt? He just carried on and sang at the top of his voice as loud as he could until the microphone was working again. The recording was made under very difficult conditions. I couldn't use the good positions for the microphone stand because I would have blocked the walkways. So the only option was t…

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Matt Berninger

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Live concert

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