In the late 1990s, bass-player and tenor David Bartholomé was a leading light in Belgium’s rock scene, which took up where dEUS left off in impacting European rock. Alongside Venus, Zita Swoon, Ghinzu, Dead Man Ray, Girls in Hawaii and Hollywood Porn Stars, his Sharko was making riveting music, with seven inventive and eccentric pop albums. Last year, he was back with Hometour Acoustic Woaw, an acoustic rearrangement of fourteen of his greatest hits, with a tour of private shows in people’s living rooms. We are delighted to announce that Sharko is now back in Rennes with a solo guitar and vocal performance.

We will probably never know why Sharko never achieved the success his voice, profound songs and on-stage charisma deserved. But with seven solo and group albums (Cosmic Woo Woo in 2011), he holds a special place in Belgium and France, with a faithful audience of almost twenty years. David Bartholomé is an exuberant and endearing performer with a good sense of humour and uncanny ability to laugh at himself. In 2009, he published an extract from his diary on the band’s official website, seizing the opportunity to take a seven-year musical hiatus.

After releasing You Don’t Have To Worry (2016), he distanced himself from traditional promotional channels and all musical business intermediaries, deciding to champion his own songs with acoustic performances at concerts in people’s living rooms. Delighted with this late success, he soon recorded Hometour Acoustic Woaw (2017), a collection of fourteen Sharko songs rearranged and remastered into acoustic versions. Since then, he has continued this home tour, giving solo guitar and vocal performances. This is a new way of listening again to the greatest hits and other lesser-known songs by this long-running big name on the Belgian French-speaking rock scene and getting to know a charming, profoundly honest artist.