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...