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The first full October weekend, Thursday 1 through Sunday 4 October, is unusually dense across Belgium. One particularly clean route sits in Borgerhout: three consecutive 20:00 concerts at De Roma, each approaching pop through a different working language. ISE opens Thursday with a current Belgian singer-songwriter record; The Magic Numbers bring their long-running four-piece harmony arrangement on Friday; Telenova shifts the scale and setting on Saturday, playing the venue’s foyer. Taken together, the run is a concise way to hear how song craft changes with generation, geography and room size.[1][2][3][4]
Thursday: ISE brings Suitcase Child into the room
ISE’s Thursday, 1 October date has the clearest sense of arrival. De Roma presents the 20-year-old Belgian artist in a standing concert, with support from only tears and sounds by Lidl dj’s. The venue frames the evening around Suitcase Child, ISE’s debut album, whose title refers to moving between two homes after her parents’ separation. That biographical premise gives the concert a defined centre without requiring grand framing: the source material starts from a young songwriter’s own account of family movement, then reaches the stage with a full band. De Roma also identifies her work through guitar, pop and singer-songwriter tags, useful coordinates for listeners coming from either intimate song or larger club production.[2]
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Friday: four voices and a durable pop architecture
Friday, 2 October belongs to The Magic Numbers, a band whose internal design is almost as telling as its catalogue. Romeo and Michele Stodart perform alongside Sean and Angela Gannon, making two sibling pairs in one UK four-piece. Their self-titled 2005 debut carried Forever Lost, Love Me Like You and Love Is a Game, while the group’s own account emphasizes melodic hooks, crafted songs and close three-part harmonies. At De Roma, the concert is followed by an aftershow DJ set from Brett Summers. This is the central stop in the run for listeners drawn to vocal blend and ensemble interplay: a pop group built around four people whose histories and voices are intertwined.[3][5]
Saturday: Telenova in the foyer
Telenova closes the sequence on Saturday, 3 October, with a 20:00 foyer concert at De Roma. The placement matters. After two standing main-room evenings, the Australian trio arrives in a smaller-scale setting suited to a production language that the venue tags as indie, pop and synthpop. Telenova’s label describes the Melbourne group’s sound as shadowy, sample-driven alt-pop with trip-hop and electronica elements, made by vocalist and filmmaker Angeline Armstrong with multi-instrumentalists Edward Quinn and Joshua Moriarty. De Roma traces the group’s path from the 2021 EP Tranquilize through Bones and Stained Glass Love, giving Saturday a very different texture from the guitar-led opening night and Friday’s harmony-pop continuity.[4][6]
A compact route through three pop scales
The value of this De Roma stretch lies in its proportions. ISE’s Thursday set puts a new full-band chapter around a debut album. The Magic Numbers occupy Friday with a catalogue shaped by a persistent quartet identity. Telenova uses Saturday’s foyer setting for a trio whose songs draw directly on electronic production and visual-world building. The sequence makes room for three ways of carrying songs live: voice and instrumental backbone, collective harmony, and atmosphere assembled from samples, synth-pop contours and a filmmaker’s sense of image. It also keeps the decision-making simple for anyone seeking a short, consecutive run of concerts in one neighbourhood.[2][3][4][5][6]
Practical route for 1–3 October
ISE plays De Roma on Thursday 1 October at 20:00, with doors at 19:15. The Magic Numbers follow on Friday 2 October at 20:00, also with 19:15 doors. Telenova plays the De Roma foyer on Saturday 3 October at 20:00, with doors at 19:15. De Roma is at Turnhoutsebaan 286 in 2140 Borgerhout. Recheck the official event pages before leaving for tickets, access arrangements, support details and any timetable changes.[1][2][3][4]