TV Brussel · 2001

TV Brussel: News — StudioLive Who's Who's Land, 3 a.m. closure

In 2001, a TV Brussel news report by journalist Robert Esselinckx looks back at Alderman Henri Simons' decision to impose a 3 a.m. closing time on StudioLive (formerly Who's Who's Land), at 17 rue du Poinçon. This hourly restriction threatens the club's financial balance and its ability to fund 5 million Belgian francs of planned soundproofing work. Carl De Moncharline challenges the measure and questions the hostility: the venue has no directly adjacent neighbour, the only uninsulated wall facing a former mutual insurance building that has been abandoned for years but is slated to become luxury lofts. Citing police reports, he denounces an attempt to lay all the city's noise nuisance on his club alone to favour new real estate projects.