Is a KIA a car?

A new car... it now is formally baptized after the visit to the 'Lucht'.

La Pegatina

One of the band members got thirsty and opted for the shortest rout to the bar... and preferred not to walk by himself...

The obligatory in-the-mosh-pit jam session at the end.

iCat

Probably gonna be sued by Apple for this... or the cat... its ears are rounded... Apple claims they have patented rounded corners... poor cat...

De Dijk

When it waves...

You do not need to be a Houdini...

... to relieve this bike from his chains!

Just got very thirsty friends

The Kills

A guys worst nightmare

"Does it make me look fat? Be honest!"

Who is still able to raise a hand?

Samurai swords seem like there were a really bad idea!

Trigger Finger

Sharp dressed men.

Does that ever happen to you? The one big lump on the pit floor... has a waterhead and dumbo ears... and parks is ass just in front of you!

Damn... lost it again!

It's just... here ears are more geared towards these sounds.

Sold

Yes! I want that bag! Very useful at home... certainly after this blog entry.

Away for a sec....

Trying to survive down under... will I survive? Read the down under blog!

Tax money well spent

Good to observe the city-council is offering options on where to park your father in law... we have to wheel him out again in three hours though!

Oh Yeah!

Opener was Grupo Fantasmo, which turned out to be a band I would gladly visit as a headliner.

After that... entree Gogol Bordello. From the first song to the last, the whole floor was one big bouncing mass! The bars were handing out free water for cooling, I emptied a couple of cups over my head during this night, the beer just did not do it on its own! Just got no words to describe it... no pictures either... impossible... to busy bouncing around... still not recovered yet... but some say that might be age...

... and more where this came from .... from now on... for each concert.... I wanna be gogolled!

That's my store!

What do you do in the wildersness on a day out... of course... visit an outlet... we visited the Mediamarket and really wondered if we were crazy, or their prizes were just insanely high... we concluded they were just trying to rip us off... so instead of buying pricy gadgets, we set out to find the 5 most useless things we could laugh at... it wasn't hard...

A crappy kitschy fake stone table mini pizza oven! You'll never loose your meat again during a fondue.

The one and only Multiquick 5! From what I have heard a real step up from the Multiquick 4.

What the.... ?

Surrounded by sex farms, I should not have been surprised! My wife did not consider this useless by definition though. Only a pinky tall, it made me feel enormous and masculin! 

My god... the 70's just called, they asked me to please keep this fantastic TV material in the 21st century and don't send it back to them.

A huge double american fridge... the red banner says : 'take away - no problem'... I beg to differ.

Well

Visited some friends in the wildersness... I like to live on the edge, and with so many lunatics lurking behind every illegal asparagus farm still feeling bad because... 'we' closed down the their coal mines... we don't mind the Maas overflowing... we don't really consider Belgium/Limburg to be that different... it was a trip begging to become an episode of "I shouldn't be alive"...

We surely tried... the manual ferry was not without a risk, at least the board said so... and we were with three... and only one pre-prodimed person per ride was considered save ... 

Having an axe around makes me feel a bit saver... though it was not without a risk to take this shot... and it certainly was not the right time too make a bad joke, or comment her on a bad hair day...

Swinging like a pro... but it looked like we were just petting the log... it took a long time to give in... our friends already wised up and convinced themselves to buy a chainsaw... cool... very helpful in the wildersness ....

Victory was sweet though... and were like one step up above the beaver on the evolutionary ladder.

Another double bill

I have no clue who Calle13 are... all I know is that I am last in a picket line as long as it were a surprise TAFKAP concert... most visitors were south-american (like) so I was perfectly able to see the stage this night without some big haired Gorilla blocking my view... and most visitors were south-american (like) girls... wearing south-american like hotpants and tops... so still got not much too see on stage...

... except when those hot pants climbed the stage of course... and no... it's not pubic hair (you really would need a Black & Decker to penetrate that)... girls don't storm stages without their hand/shoulder bags...

Found myself in front of another stage... was kind of weird... I thought I was on my way out... some really crappy reggea band was entertaining a massive crowd of fourty (not the age... the amount)... it turned fun when they went open-mic... 

Problem was though that Amsterdam is like the Dutch Bible Belt at night, all is closed, you cannot even snack anymore... real crappy... the other problem was I had just three hours left to get up and go to work again...

No teeth... a lot of whiskey

 

Shane was in commercial TV mode... every couple of songs he took a break from the program... I doubt it was for a quick piss... more likely for a refill...

A die hard fan...

Fiesta!

Los de Abajo... oh yeah... and I almost forgot... De Dijk

A double concert this saturday... you gotta do something with your midlife crisis. First of the dutch band De Dijk. Damn... I felt young looking around... there even was a 1.60m / 70yr old grandpa swinging away just in front of me.

A bit predictable, but my neighbor gave a solid performance. Part of my view was taken away by dombo though...

... he must have caught every tonal nuance. Luckily at the Heineken Muziek Hal, they have the next best thing to a walkin' fridge, so tonal nuances were lost on me anyway pretty soon...

Next stop was the Melkweg, with one of their mixed swimming sessions featuring a Mexican party band, Los de Abajo, I never heard of, but it just sounded like a lot of fun. They lifted of at 01:00 and never stopped...

... damn they were good... the stage was almost too small... twelve musicians... small room... hot music...  the lead guy dressed as a seventies porn star, including the moustache... they tore the roof of (we didn't even miss the walkin' beer tender) !

And they finished of in the pit... all twelve climbed of stage and continued playing  in the midst of the audience, unplugged but that doesn't matter much with the horns.

De Dijk, well they performed indeed like a dike, solid, you can always count on them, but the Mexicans they burned the night!

And of course... you need to find some proper closure after a night out like that....

Total damage was at least four hamburger like things, and some more health-challenging snacks (split over two persons... I am not a total pig)... but I lost count... no speedo's for me just yet this summer...

Tricky

Went to a Tricky concert, but by accident got there a wee bit to early... luckily... the bar was already open. And... no chance of hurting anyone with my dance moves.

... way to early... as it turned out... there even was an opener... we did not know about...

And we even got flash mobbed! On stage!

Queensday 2011

Queensday... you gotta go some time...

"Koninginnenacht"

Just in a bar for five minutes... and already bleeding!

 Blackberries were popular this evening.

Trying to assess if the berry can be used in some kind of alternative holistic healing method. After a few Zatte, everything is possible.

"Psssss.... dude.... need some orange stuff?"

Sun and beer... what more does a guy need.... a bbq?

We definitely were drinking under a good Karma.

Not sure if he was fantasizing about his girl, or if he just wanted to swap some orange clothing himself.

You had to be there... it was just a funny parked tuctuc.

And of course a healthy ending to the evening.