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Nostalgia rock

Posted by Rob (#1) on May 26, 2006 09:54 CEST

Bon Jovi was fun last night, but I had completely forgotten that the band primarily plays what I like to define as nostalgia rock: songs which sounded like rock at some point in life, but would be considered pop tunes these days. It is not like I expected hardcore guitars on stage and Nickelback certainly proved me right there, but for some reason Bon Jovi was just a little bit too.. mainstream.

I suppose I blame the audience for that as well: the Dutch get a day off for Ascension and apparently every single suburban thirty-something who ever owned one album of the band was present. I missed the subcultural people. I hate plain-skins.

I also hate the NS (Dutch railways), for not having a decent night service. I easily caught the last train from Nijmegen towards Utrecht, but to get to Rotterdam from there at 1am I had to take the night train via Amsterdam, which means I didn't get home until 4am (would've been 2am if a direct Utrecht-Rotterdam connection had still been running). Those are two hours of my life I'll never get back!

Give me a gig!

Gigs

Posted by Rob (#1) on May 3, 2006 17:03 CEST

Quick update on Give It A Name: it was sweet! And how could it not be, with bands such as The Ataris, Silverstein, Panic! At The Disco, Angels & Airwaves, Taking Back Sunday, My Chemical Romance, Lostprophets. And many, many more. Said hi to Rachel, met wicked, sexy people like Caris, shopped at Camden Town.. yup, London still works for me.

Some recent gigs I might not have written about yet:

5/4: Versus The World (Melkweg, Amsterdam)

This was a tad quiet and boring to be honest. Lousy crowd and the show, well, I've seen and heard better.
7/4: Zombina & The Skeletones (Morlock, The Hague)

Zombina being an example of better. The sound was way, way, way too loud, but that didn't stop us from shaking our booties.
8/4: Cheap Thrills (Dynamo, Eindhoven)

(Enters groupie mode.) Signed drumstick. Wiee! (Leaves groupie mode.)
14/4: Less Than Jake (Melkweg, Amsterdam)

Always nice to have a band where you can skank, but it was a shame Din was ill.
21/4: Cheap Thrills/Dicemen (Latenstaan, Zoetermeer)

Ah, Sweet Lake City. Sweet is was.. probably because I spent €25 on beer that was €1.25 a bottle. Hiccup!