Friday was in many ways a very stressful day, we had to leave Duisburg a bit early to drive to Amsterdam and record a live session at Amsterdam FM radio and then after that drive to Eindhoven to play at TAC.
We always calculate for some amount of queues, but not quite this much, so after an immensely and unfair long drive from Amsterdam to Eindhoven we arrived unacceptably late at the venue, like at 7.30PM .
This always leaves us in a stressful situation because we then have in sight that the soundcheck will be non-existent and time to just get ready for the show would be too short for us to relax.
But nothing like that happened and this is very much thanks to the crew at TAC, a bunch of well organized and very kind people, that in every way were extremely helpful making sure we had what we needed, could answer questions, had planned the evening good.
Really a place of generosity and good moods.
This meant we could do a very good soundcheck in just a very short time, with everything sounding great. I really liked this stage and this place in general.
The show itself went very well, there was really good feedback and we got to sell cd's and just talk with people before the place closed and the nice people at TAC took us out in the city to a rock club in the "party" district.. Nice and late evening before heading back to the place to sleep. Pretty tired..
The setlist of the night :
- Silent Carriers
- Carousel
- Skylights
- Trapped In Glass
- Ready For The Knife
- Sidekick Trip To Mars
- Acorns Fall ( listen to the live recording below )
- Love/Respect Call
Tourbus Playlist :
Well its still post-hardcore, metal and post-rock mostly but then also some nice quiet electronica vibes going through the stereo. But still 2 songs seem to come back all the time. Which is Sepultura - Roots and Cult Of Luna - Finland.
Late Night Venture -Acorns Fall ( Live From TAC in Eindhoven )
Late Night Venture - Acorns Fall - Live From TAC, Eindhoven
Saturday - 31.05.2008 - Amsterdam
Amsterdam.. such a nice city .. uptil now we've only had 2 parking tickets . Both in amsterdam . Had a long chat with the parking officers though about music and football (not that I even remotely care about football, but the others do :-) ).
Amsterdam is a very nice city with lots things going on and on this night we played Club Meander just in the heart of Amsterdam.
To be honest I didn't this club very much, it was kind of careless, I mean it seamed like noone really cared about playing a show at this place, the staff was pretty indifferent and hospitality was a city far away in the outskirts of nowhere.
These things affect everything and the fact that we had to play really early wasnt helping, so all in all i would consider this job the worst on the tour so far.
Fairly speaking I will say that the sound people there were very kind and helpful, but this place doesnt get a karma star in my book.
Did have the pleasure to make an interview with a magazine though. That was very nice and the girl interviewing were quite professional, had good questions and had made some good research up front. I like that ..
Setlist of the night :
- Silent Carriers
- Carousel
- Skylights
- Trapped in Glass
- Ready For The Knife
- Sidekick Trip To Mars
- Acorns Fall
- Love/Respect Call
Tourbus Playlist :
Sepultura - Roots .-) , Cult Of Luna - Finland .. getting a bit tired of it now.. will soon have to change to Slayer and some Neurosis .. again garnished this with Cypress Hill and some Mercury Rev.
Today its offtime .-) we have a day off music here in Amsterdam, looking forward to that.. relax eat some good food, before the long drive tomorrow.
Remember to visit our flickr space.. link below .. its getting updated all the time with loads of pictures.
Today its offtime .-) we have a day off music here in Amsterdam, looking forward to that.. relax eat some good food, before the long drive tomorrow.
Remember to visit our flickr space.. link below .. its getting updated all the time with loads of pictures.
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