daan - AB
coldplay - sportpaleis
lalalover -rotown
gorki - paradiso
admiral freebee - melkweg
juanes - heineken music hall
be your own pet/mogwai - motel mozaique
secret machines / editors - music in my head
0110 - antwerp
archive - AB
frames - melkweg
twilight singers - melkweg
isobel campbell & mark lanegan - paradiso
one word ... amazing ... 28 songs in about 1.5 hours ... some songs less than 2 minutes long ... the gig flies by ... kim deal constantly with a sigaret hanging from her lips ... black francis not saying a word to the audience, suddenly he goes yeaaah, we all are aha he's talking to us ... nope ... the shout was part of the next song ... great ... more ... please ...
other good gigs these days: annie / audio bullys / franz ferdinand / grimbergenstand / viva voce / arsenal
and de mens in a small tent ... another amazing gig and end of the festival ... the audience keeps on shouting "irene, niemand heeft ooit zo mooi, neen tegen mij gezegd", even when the roadies start their job ... in full light they come a last time to greet us ... later that night, at the campingsite you could here everywhere the same line ... superb ... en 't is waar, niemand heeft ooit zo mooi neen tegen mij gezegd ...
bad points: i missed the arcade fire ... by then i didn't know them yet, so i was warming up for the pixies ... afterwards i heard and read that their show was highly entertaining ... unforgivable ...
my first arsenal gig, not the last, super, great music, party atmosphere ... later when one of the guys at pukkelpop is asked what the best gig of the summer was for them, he hesitates for a moment (stupid question) and then answers, yeah maybe gent ... i shout boomtown ... he goes yeaaaah gent rules ... it does !
later i see them at the lokerse feesten, martkrock, pukkelpop, bal fatal and eventually in the AB
personne ne bouge car déjà tous blessé ... i jumped a lot
my first entry ... my first memory ...
american idiot tour, show was not idiotic at all, they punk, at certain moment drummer, base and guitar player picked out of audience ... the drum-girl knew how to hit them ... ends with i hope you had the time of your life ... in any case a good time!
before them garbage played on the main stage, i stood well in front, shirley was crawling on stage, they sounded like never been gone and i felt like standing in my backyard, only with a huge stage in it :)
a shortlist of books i wanna read ... i always forget about those (my memory is leaking somewhere), so i decide to keep a list here ... the list is quite fresh for now ...
arnon grunberg - tirza
tom lanoye - het derde huwelijk
homerus - ilias
blom & lamberts - geschiedenis van de nederlanden
horsten - eindig, oneindig en meer dan oneindig
george tenet - at the center of the storm: my years at the cia
roberto saviano - gomorra
ira levin - a kiss before dying
fm stigler - statistics on the table
raymond chandler - the big sleep
abraham pais - subtle is the lord, the science and life of albert einstein
