Midnight Love (Finale): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
The whole ‘Midnight Love’ album sounds like a haunted landscape when you walk around the place it was written, listening to it. You hear…
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Midnight Love (Part 7): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
Further along the colonnade was Cafe De Floride, an old haunt of Marvin’s where, according to one of the barmen he would always bring…
Midnight Love (Part 6): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
Marvin also loved to jog by the beach, and the tour moved me to his favourite spot, and thoroughly into Leopold stomping ground. I…
Midnight Love (Part 5): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
For true art to appear, the artist has to disappear, detaching himself from ego and status, but also from the pressure to achieve anything…
Midnight Love (Part 4): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
Having heard horror stories from England about Gaye’s cocaine use and erratic behaviour on tour (he’d frequently miss gigs and was even late for…
Midnight Love (Part 3): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
I made my way to the tourist information centre, where I was given headphones and an iPhone with a built-in app called ‘The Marvin…
Midnight Love (Part 2): The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium.
The train pulled into Ostend station, a building that in many ways represents what lies beyond it: pale and ornate, but not pretty, clean…
Midnight Love: The Marvin Gaye Tour of Ostend, Belgium
Words & Photographs by Johny Pitts Even the Belgians I spoke to gave me strange looks. Why would anyone go out of their way…
Strolling: Feminism, Filmaking & Flaneuring with Cecille Emeke
Cecille Emeke personifies the next generation of creatives. At only 22, after quitting a degree in mathematics (despite being on target for first class…
Black and Belgian: Navigating Multiracial Identities in Ghent, Belgium
By Walter Thompson-Hernandez Introduction What does it mean to be Black and multiracial in Belgium? How does sub-Saharan African culture and experiences impact the…