The Paradise Lost gig was good, they even played some oldies like "Gothic", "As I die" and "Pity the sadness". No grunt though.
This was only my 2nd time at the Biebob so I forgot how much it resembles a sauna. Even when standing at the bar we were sweating like crazy.
After the gig we checked the Shiver Records store and I bought the new Mekong Delta and one of Manilla Road's albums for Ed.
Most of the days I've been watching either Twin Peaks season 2 and the movies in the Wong Kar Wai boxset. Good times!
Early Friday afternoon I jumped on a train to Joost who was so not looking forward to the Gorefest gig haha. Once we got to the Melkweg we got a ticket for Joost and headed to a Thai restaurant which is always a great choice imo.
The support act Cultura Tras, or something like that, sounded like some mid period Sepultura but despite their musical skills I didn't care about their gig. Chatted with Ed and Boudewijn for a bit and asked the Gorefest merch ladies to put 4 shirts aside for my American redneck friend Tom.
Also met some folks (deathmetalraver, his gf, decay, lukep) from the Global Domination forum before the gig started. Gorefest kicked off their set around 9:30 pm and ended around 11 pm. Strangely enough the crowd didn't explode until the 5th song which was the opening track of the new album.
I shot some nice pics of the GD forum members having fun during the show. Click HERE to check them out. It's the last 23 pics of that album.
After the gig I picked up the shirts and got a great deal concerning the price I had to pay. Then I grabbed the Gorefest band members to shoot some pics of them with the shirts for Tom's pleasure.
Shortly after the GF stage hands were done packing up their equipment a DJ set up and started playing electronic music. Quite an abrupt change in music style!
Joost was bored and wanted to go home but the GD folks wanted to hit the A-dam nightlife. So after some discussion I decided to join them and take a night bus back to Joost's place.
First we went to the small metal/rock bar The Cave but it was rather crowded so shortly after we headed to the Korsakoff. Interestingly they were playing some similar electronic music to what the Melkweg DJ was playing.
After a few hours they started to play some more rock/alternative/metal songs so I guess patience paid off in the end. The last 8 pics of the aforementioned link were taken at the Korsakoff.
I'm not sure at what time deathmetalraver, his gf and lukep went back to their hotels but the Korsakoff was still going strong. So I stayed there until closing time with decay and after the Korsakoff closed (around 4 am) I walked her back to her hotel. After I found the bus stop of the night bus I eventually arrived at Joost's place and hit the sack at 5:30 am.
I'm old and boring so I'm not using to going out that late. Saturday was mostly spend chilling out and in the afternoon I took the train back to Limburg.
Spent the remaining time of the weekend on the wonderful Twin Peaks and the incredible Wong Kar Wai boxset. Only 3 Twin Peaks episodes left plus some bonus material and only 1 bonus DVD of the WKW boxset left.
Right now I'm just abiding my time until the shops in our local mall open so I can buy some envelopes to send the Gorefest shirts to Tom.
Six minutes left.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
weekend fun
Got back earlier tonight from a weekend of fun deluxe and some visa stuff earlier today.
On Friday I took the train to Arnhem where I hooked up with Toby who even made some dinner hell yeah. After a while we headed for downtown to the Willemeen venue where Gorefest was to play their first try out gig. The temperature inside rose pretty quickly and it was pretty obvious the gig was sold out.
Around 9:30 pm Gorefest entered the stage to blow us completely away. Amazing performance, great sound and killer setlist. No "Second face" though but I always have something to bitch about.
Shortly after the gig drummer Ed came out and we went backstage to chill out and chat a bit. Obviously heard some nice inside info and gossip but that's confidential haha.
At some point Toby and Iwan came backstage to tell me we needed to go to do some pub crawling. I think I ended up in bed around 4 am, much later than what I'm used to but always cool to break the boring pattern I've developed :-)
Pics of the gig and the backstage antics can be found HERE
The next day we got up way too early since I had a lot of time to kill to get to Hengelo. After some brunch in Arnhem Iwan and I left Toby to his own antics and took a train to Zutphen. Got out for some chilling and lunch at Bakkerij Bart downtown Zutphen haha.
After that Iwan took a train back to Leeuwarden and I continued my way to Hengelo where I arrived around 6 pm. Vegetated for an hour on some bench before going to a Dutch 'friture' (snackbar) to get me an old fashioned Dutch fries with mayonnaise and a bamischijf snack. Yum yum.
The Metropool venue opened around 8:30 pm and had a nice extra bar room where you could chill out and still hear the band play on the speakers. I grabbed me a new Gorefest shirt since the False shirt is about 14 years old by now haha.
The band braved impressive temperatures which exceeded the ones a day earlier. The setlist was the same with perhaps 1 or 2 songs changing in track order. Again the sound was great, perfect balance yet still crystal clear. The guitar sound was thicker than in Arnhem it seemed.
Fifteen songs later the band members lost some weight and left the audience majorly satisfied.
Since I didn't manage to arrange a place to spend the night in Hengelo Ed was so kind to offer me his place. After chilling out backstage we drove to Rotterdam in about 2 hours and I soon dozed off in the car. Got up around noon on Sunday and amongst others heard some Demiurg material which sounded promising to say the least.
Again major thanks to Ed for letting me crash at his place and for providing me with a great breakfast, you rule bro!
After hopping in the train from Rotterdam I headed off to A-dam where I hooked up with Joost. We spent some time in the city center where I also picked up the Twin Peaks season II DVD boxset. Afterwards we went to a Greek restaurant and had some great food. The night was concluded watching Argento's "Susperia".
And this morning I had my US embassy appointment which 'only' took me 1 hour and 15 minutes in total. So it really seems time decreases with each visa I apply for.
We spent the early afternoon in rainy A-dam and got some more goodies to satisfy our CD and DVD addictions. I couldn't help but buy the Wong Kar Wai DVD boxset. I friggin' love that director!
Tonight and tomorrow it's relaxing time and watching Twin Peaks :-)
Wednesday night I'm going to see Paradise Lost in the Biebob venue in Belgium and Friday is the official Gorefest CD release party. Good times!
On Friday I took the train to Arnhem where I hooked up with Toby who even made some dinner hell yeah. After a while we headed for downtown to the Willemeen venue where Gorefest was to play their first try out gig. The temperature inside rose pretty quickly and it was pretty obvious the gig was sold out.
Around 9:30 pm Gorefest entered the stage to blow us completely away. Amazing performance, great sound and killer setlist. No "Second face" though but I always have something to bitch about.
Shortly after the gig drummer Ed came out and we went backstage to chill out and chat a bit. Obviously heard some nice inside info and gossip but that's confidential haha.
At some point Toby and Iwan came backstage to tell me we needed to go to do some pub crawling. I think I ended up in bed around 4 am, much later than what I'm used to but always cool to break the boring pattern I've developed :-)
Pics of the gig and the backstage antics can be found HERE
The next day we got up way too early since I had a lot of time to kill to get to Hengelo. After some brunch in Arnhem Iwan and I left Toby to his own antics and took a train to Zutphen. Got out for some chilling and lunch at Bakkerij Bart downtown Zutphen haha.
After that Iwan took a train back to Leeuwarden and I continued my way to Hengelo where I arrived around 6 pm. Vegetated for an hour on some bench before going to a Dutch 'friture' (snackbar) to get me an old fashioned Dutch fries with mayonnaise and a bamischijf snack. Yum yum.
The Metropool venue opened around 8:30 pm and had a nice extra bar room where you could chill out and still hear the band play on the speakers. I grabbed me a new Gorefest shirt since the False shirt is about 14 years old by now haha.
The band braved impressive temperatures which exceeded the ones a day earlier. The setlist was the same with perhaps 1 or 2 songs changing in track order. Again the sound was great, perfect balance yet still crystal clear. The guitar sound was thicker than in Arnhem it seemed.
Fifteen songs later the band members lost some weight and left the audience majorly satisfied.
Since I didn't manage to arrange a place to spend the night in Hengelo Ed was so kind to offer me his place. After chilling out backstage we drove to Rotterdam in about 2 hours and I soon dozed off in the car. Got up around noon on Sunday and amongst others heard some Demiurg material which sounded promising to say the least.
Again major thanks to Ed for letting me crash at his place and for providing me with a great breakfast, you rule bro!
After hopping in the train from Rotterdam I headed off to A-dam where I hooked up with Joost. We spent some time in the city center where I also picked up the Twin Peaks season II DVD boxset. Afterwards we went to a Greek restaurant and had some great food. The night was concluded watching Argento's "Susperia".
And this morning I had my US embassy appointment which 'only' took me 1 hour and 15 minutes in total. So it really seems time decreases with each visa I apply for.
We spent the early afternoon in rainy A-dam and got some more goodies to satisfy our CD and DVD addictions. I couldn't help but buy the Wong Kar Wai DVD boxset. I friggin' love that director!
Tonight and tomorrow it's relaxing time and watching Twin Peaks :-)
Wednesday night I'm going to see Paradise Lost in the Biebob venue in Belgium and Friday is the official Gorefest CD release party. Good times!
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
charming drunk
So I just arrived at my parents' place earlier tonight and had some good old fashioned mom's dinner. My Dutch bank card did arrive last week thanks to my land lady and I could activate it but now my pin code doesn't work anymore. So I'm off to the bank tomorrow morning.
I also need some other stuff like 6.75 euro pre-stamped A5 envelope, new mugshot for Dutch driver's license and some other things I'm too tired to remember right now.
Apparently one of my parents' neighbors hasn't secured his/her wireless network so I'm gratefully piggybacking :-)
The 1.5 week in Budapest were great, the conference was good, spent quite a bit of social time with some Germans (Joerg, Rolf, Sandra, Tatjana) which was a lot of fun. On Friday night the omens indicated that I would get wasted on palinka. Dinner took about 1 hour and 45 minutes to be served and to make up for the delay they served us palinka. Since I hadn't had lunch I took my shot on empty stomach. Since one of the others didn't want to drink hers I took her shot too.
Bad idea.
I got drunk really quickly and managed to get through dinner fine. Once we got outside we hooked up with some more Germans (friends of Joerg, Ingo and Mark if I remember correctly) who heard news of an after gala dinner party in an obscure bar in the city center. The directions they had were rather horrible so it took us some time to find the place.
After getting their I didn't feel quite as drunk anymore and decided to change that. In total I must have had like 7 or 8 shots of peach and honey-peach palinka containing 40% alcohol. I won a game of table soccer and had a blast being drunk and talking my head off. Met some conference people whom I hadn't seen at the actual conference which is always nice.
Also met a PhD student (Sarah) at the University of Twente who will finish her PhD very soon. She turned out to be from Seattle and has been living in the Netherlands for about 5 years so since we were both foreigners living in abroad that got the conversation really going.
No need to dish out the details but time flew and I drank more and more palinka. Good thing we had agreed on taking a cab back to our hotels in the Buda part of town fairly early during the evening. To see some pics of this after party and me drunk click HERE
Of course when a woman calls you a charming drunk you are bound to remember that no matter how wasted you are :-D
I slept 2 hours and 40 minutes, got up and went to the early session on Saturday morning which started at 8:30am.
I didn't have a hangover and zero physical discomforts. The only drawback was that I was still drunk but one can't expect that amount of alcohol to leave your body in just a few hours of sleep.
From Sunday on I focussed on sight seeing Budapest. Since I'd been to this fantastic city twice before I went to some more off the beaten track sights like the Margaret Island, the Kerepes Cemetery and the Statue Park. For pics of al the sight seeing click HERE
Right, too tired to type more so good night and remember: you gotta have Hungarian blood to be able to take that Hungarian liquor called palinka! hahaha
I also need some other stuff like 6.75 euro pre-stamped A5 envelope, new mugshot for Dutch driver's license and some other things I'm too tired to remember right now.
Apparently one of my parents' neighbors hasn't secured his/her wireless network so I'm gratefully piggybacking :-)
The 1.5 week in Budapest were great, the conference was good, spent quite a bit of social time with some Germans (Joerg, Rolf, Sandra, Tatjana) which was a lot of fun. On Friday night the omens indicated that I would get wasted on palinka. Dinner took about 1 hour and 45 minutes to be served and to make up for the delay they served us palinka. Since I hadn't had lunch I took my shot on empty stomach. Since one of the others didn't want to drink hers I took her shot too.
Bad idea.
I got drunk really quickly and managed to get through dinner fine. Once we got outside we hooked up with some more Germans (friends of Joerg, Ingo and Mark if I remember correctly) who heard news of an after gala dinner party in an obscure bar in the city center. The directions they had were rather horrible so it took us some time to find the place.
After getting their I didn't feel quite as drunk anymore and decided to change that. In total I must have had like 7 or 8 shots of peach and honey-peach palinka containing 40% alcohol. I won a game of table soccer and had a blast being drunk and talking my head off. Met some conference people whom I hadn't seen at the actual conference which is always nice.
Also met a PhD student (Sarah) at the University of Twente who will finish her PhD very soon. She turned out to be from Seattle and has been living in the Netherlands for about 5 years so since we were both foreigners living in abroad that got the conversation really going.
No need to dish out the details but time flew and I drank more and more palinka. Good thing we had agreed on taking a cab back to our hotels in the Buda part of town fairly early during the evening. To see some pics of this after party and me drunk click HERE
Of course when a woman calls you a charming drunk you are bound to remember that no matter how wasted you are :-D
I slept 2 hours and 40 minutes, got up and went to the early session on Saturday morning which started at 8:30am.
I didn't have a hangover and zero physical discomforts. The only drawback was that I was still drunk but one can't expect that amount of alcohol to leave your body in just a few hours of sleep.
From Sunday on I focussed on sight seeing Budapest. Since I'd been to this fantastic city twice before I went to some more off the beaten track sights like the Margaret Island, the Kerepes Cemetery and the Statue Park. For pics of al the sight seeing click HERE
Right, too tired to type more so good night and remember: you gotta have Hungarian blood to be able to take that Hungarian liquor called palinka! hahaha
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