I went to see Of Montreal a couple of nights ago and made a couple of pictures. These guys play fairly big venues in the US, or so I've been told, but over here, they played Paradiso's small upstairs room, while Marillion played downstairs. I rather enjoyed them, and they're great for shooting pictures at. First time I shot in RAW mode, but I didn't spent enough time at processing the pictures properly... My computer is just too slow. I think I need a Mac ;)
Tired and sick, so keeping this short. Liked Kula Shaker a lot. Windmill were alright, but got on my nerves a little after a while. Phosphorescent were a little boring.
And trains are much slower than cars = suck.
Spotted Bert van der Kamp drifting about too. Crossing Border seems to be one big arts party where everybody goes to "network". I felt a little out of place to be honest.
I just went to my first day of the Crossing Border Festival in The Hague, where Rufus was being interviewed by this Belgian rock journo. I thought the rock journo was a little weak and lost a lot of opportunities to go really in depth but c'est ca.
Rufus played the Heineken Music Hall last night, but I didn't go, because the sheer size of the venue seemed a little off for a Rufus gig. This was a nice little treat instead, but it could have been so much better with a different interviewer. The interview Gavin did a couple of years back with John Kelly comes to mind.
I do like this piccie:
And some more...
Wow. What a great experience. Tonight's gig will go up high in my "Best of 2007" list. I've been wanting to see them forever, and finally had the chance tonight. I was a little worried about security after the hassle I got at the Melkweg at the Hard-Fi gig, but Gogol Bordello was super cool about it. In fact, there was a bit of an "anything goes" vibe going on. Stage diving, crowd surfing, pogoing... it all made it damn hard to keep my camera still.
But hey, I managed:
I did go to a couple of gigs recently that I didn't post pictures of. Partly because, well, I didn't have a camera, but also because I've just been too busy. That Halloween costume took a -lot- of preparation, which made me hate it in the end. After the (awesome) Halloween weekend, I'm finally back home now with some time on my hands. It's a nice feeling, actually.
In August, I went to see Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan in Tivoli in Utrecht. I don't know what it is about Mark Lanegan, but I find him and his demeanor very interesting. It's like he lives in a world of his own, closed off to the people around him. Rather introverted, moody, but attractive in the enigma kind of way. I loved his pairing with Isobel Campbell. Unexpected and on paper, it seems an almost impossible combination. But it works incredibly well. I think I have raved about teir oh so different voices before. Isobel's almost fairylike fragile voice, and Mark's deep and dark voice. Their song Deus Ibi Est is incredible.
I'm not entirely sure why these pictures took so long to put online. It just happened. I took them with the EOS350 I borrowed of Caroline and my 50/1.4 lens. I think a possible explanation about why it took so long is that I wasn't too happy with these pictures in general, but there's a couple of okay ones.
Fiction Plane proved to be quite a fun band to testdrive my brand new Canon 40D. They played the Melkweg a fairly small club in Amsterdam. Joe's daddy was cool enough to wander into the club to watch his son play.