malaka / tapas / let's take a taxi to the beach / warm & cold water / sunbrun / no heineken, malaka !! / mas tapas / stereo (deus no, arcade fire si) / don't call me malaka !!! / aun mas tapas / what a good couch / clan cabaret (me gusta como bailas) / i insist, i never have seen this document before / ...
one night on earth ... late in the bis-round ... beautiful song ... and so true: 'your face, it will not be back again' and 'now the wolves all howled' ... i howled along, and m, i drank some duvels for you ... and i will drink some more, i promise ...
my first guestlist-gig, it should be something to make me happy ... but that's not what i'm thinking of these moments ... still the story is worth telling ... they played in the velvet music store in the afternoon, an in-store free short gig, only the singer and drummer ... nice voice and songs ... afterwards i talk with someone of the band (turned out to be the guitarplayer ... and a lookalike from far ??) and tell him i want to go to the sold-out gig later that evening ... give me your name, i see what i can do he tells me ... so i do ... then in the evening i decide to go and give it a try, i didn't feel like staying home anyway ... i take one entrance, ask is there a guestlist, yeah, it's at the other one, ok, i go there, pass the bear in costume and go to a girl in a chair with a list ... if everything went well i should be on that i say, what's your name she asks and at that moment i see my name there... here, i point ... what a feeling ... and what a gig ... a small hall and a big band, a great combination ... great to enjoy, listen and think of nothing ... except maybe your face ...
the gods must be crazy ... and with mauro and alain even more weirdo ... great ceremony in the amsterdam rock temple ... the first time i saw them, the best up till now (later followed rock werchter and the 0110 concert) ... because of the determination, the energy and the venue ... serpentine as closing-prayer, and suds&soda to leave us fully exhausted and gaga ... although i have to admit i like rose at the end more, like at the other 2 events ... we got the regular pocket-revolution tour setlist, see http://pocketrevolution.blogspot.com/ or below
pocket revolution / magdalena / cold sun of circumstance / instant street / fell off the floor, man / stop-start nature / the real sugar / w.c.s. / if you don't get what you want / theme from turnpike (the shouts!!) / roses / assault on magnus / nothing really ends / sun ra / serpentine // bad timing / little arithmetics / what we talk about /suds ‘n soda
put your hands up for (detroit), our lovely city ... dance tracks are good for more than sweating around ... wide, majestic streets with six-floor buildings / gardens to relax / nice beerglasses / the melange, a cappucinno for the whole day / sausage-stands / chelsea and other bars around / the MQ / more museums ...
which brings me seamlessly to these artist: klimt (museums shouldn't use big works as their ads, once you've experienced them live, and see them then back on posters all around the city, the effect is a bit screwed) / kokoschka (tiger lion) / pierre bonnard / makart (fuenf sinne) / max oppenheimer (the philharmonic orchestra) / willem de kooning / yves klein ... on whom there was also a temporarily exhibition in the mq ... if blue is one of your favorite colours: go, see and admire / tamara de lempicka / and ekaterina more, a nowadays artist, which hung in a gallery on a corner ...
strange gig ... two parts, first solo on guitar, but his guitarplay is not really fantastic (in tuning his guitar, after entering the stage, the guitarist of the opening band came to help) ... he has a high pitch voice, a kind of neil young voice, which makes his songs sound ok ... for the second part the opening band (muttfish if i remember correctly) joined him, and that added value ... the drive of the band and support for his songs was missing in the first part ... i like the idea of having the opening band supporting the main singer ... the next day he played at the AB with das pop as support ... and for once i agree with the standaard-review ...
before going we enjoyed a delicious - i can recomend the duvel and garlic combination - mussels diner which got a tail, w, next time, you're also invited :)
the gig was good, but i saw them already better in action at boomtown during the gentse feesten - still enjoying their cover of i'm waiting for the man of the velvet back then -, also the crowd was a bit dutch, so chatting and talking the whole time ... even during the beautiful, stfu!, my heroics ... nevertheless, great live band ... and good new songs ... like ask me anything: i gotta go i got a better view on the other side of town
ps the day after gabriel rios was in de laatste show, and when asked what the biggest difference was between playing in .be of .nl, he replied the silence of the crowd, in .nl sometimes i can't even hear my own instrument ...
they were not part of the official schedule, but suddenly around 4:40, during the dj-set of Starski&Tonic, you could hear the bells coming in the background ... and then ... sleeping is giving in, no matter what the time is ... sleeping is giving in, so lift those heavy eyelids ... three minutes of singing dancing smiling dancing and everything but giving in ... a beauty of a song, and i saw her there ...
before that: the fixkes in the theaterzaal, in chairs on the balcony almost above the stage ... their songs reflect some recognizable things and sound perfect in that stabroeks dialect ... what to think of a song like "ik hoop da ze mij wa mist, da z'een heel klein bitje ongelukkig is" ... zuper ... check'em out on http://myspace.com/stabroek
and the admiraal ... rocking in the dark world ... great & long version of the ever present, his best song to date ... this is my moment ... this is my joy
and daan ... the new songs feel good live ... as does the swaying of isolde's ponytail :) ... nice to hear jamais neutral (cinema-disc) in the regular setlist ...
