Femke Stallaert/​Amanda Bavo wri­tes and per­forms songs based on news­pa­per arti­cles, a prac­ti­ce she began about ten years ago and which has never let her go. She pre­sents the news in song as a soci­al glue and as an anti­do­te to the fear that dri­ves us apart. Accompanying herself on the syn­the­si­zer and per­for­ming the vocals herself, she stands com­ple­te­ly alo­ne on sta­ge. Lonely. This lone­li­ness sym­bo­li­zes the soli­tu­de she feels as a human being when she reads about the world. As if she doe­sn’t belong to it. As if it isn’t real. Dissociation is what they call it, I belie­ve. As if she is wat­ching a film in a lan­gu­a­ge she doe­sn’t speak. She thinks that this fee­ling is rela­ta­ble to many, and that many feel it right along with her. Which, in turn, makes it feel less lonely.