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!