Middelburg and the beach

1 okt 17.50 Gebouw T, Bergen op Zoom.
Tonight we stayed the night in a jewelry shop. I know it sounds weird and it’s not all entirely true. Arjen, who was the promoter for yesterday’s gig in Middelburg, is married to Anke who is a silversmith. Together they have the shop Ippy Edelsmid in central Middelburg. We slept in the storage room of their shop. Cool!

Yesterday we played a living room gig at Loes & Hugo’s place together with Simon Karelis a.k.a Arend-Jan van der Scheer from LPG. I really love the concept of being invited into someone’s home to have a concert. You get better contact with the audience and besides, they probably feel more at ease than in a club. Furthermore, it does our music more justice than the average club sound drenched in far too much sub bas to make sense. 

2 Oct 17:56 somewhere in Denmark.
20 degrees outside right now. Yesterday we heard from someone that it was the warmest day in October since 1901. Don’t know if it’s true, but we sure had a marvelous july-like summer’s day at the beach outside Middelburg. Me, Joel and Joel went to buy ourselves a pair of 5 Euro trunks and together with Erik and Jeroen we took the car out to the golden dunes. We spend a couple of hours swimming and throwing Frisbee before we hit the road to Bergen op Zoom for our last gig together with Marike Jager. It was also our last gig with Jeroen as bassplayer. 

1st of Oct or 1st of July?

The gig in Gebouw T went pretty good, we struggled a bit with the sound for bass and drums during soundcheck, which suddenly left us with only 20 minutes of dinner, clothing and "set listing". 

Marike Jager did a great performance, but as usual we missed the first half because of that we had to load in our instrument and backline in the trailer. Her latest album was recorded using a lot of analog equipment and an echo chamber which I absolutely love. I’m not going to get into anymore of the geek stuff here, but the album sounds great!   

 

 

soundcheck @ Gebouw T

Marike Jager on stage

Under the stars in Hendrik Ido Ambacht

30 Sept 12.37 A basement in Ridderkerk

Yesterday evening we had a gig under the stars in front of 50 people in a garden in Hendrik Ido Ambacht. I would actually prefer to say secret garden since it was pretty hard to get in there, or even to find it. A group of people from the festival we played at in Hendrik I. A. the other day, break free festival, arranged this garden party and gig. Thank you Laurens, Benjamin and Bernd for arranging this night in a very short notice! 

It's hard to describe the evening, but I think the closest you can get is magical. Even though it's practically October, I don't think the temperature dropped under 18 degrees even at midnight. It really felt like the summer's last sigh or something (even though it's the same weather today!). So, lit up by open fires, torches and a few spotlights we had one of our most intimate and memorable concerts ever.

photo: Marije Valster

photo: Rosa Vrijhof

Besides us, Laurens Collee (one of the organisers) and Franc Timmerman from Blaudzun also did an acoustic set each. 

Our 2nd livingroom gig is tonight in Middelburg together with Simon Karolis (also known as Arend Jan from LPG). Check the event link if you would like to come, I think there are still a few tickets left! 

Our last gig on our tour in the Netherlands is tomorrow in Bergen Op Zoom at Gebouw T as opening act for Marike Jager.


//Markus