Earlier this year, I saw Charlie Dée opening for a balladeer twice. In between the first and second show I had picked up her second album Love Your Life, and while I really liked her voice, I thought that songs were a bit boring. Which is what I told her that after the second show. [...]
Category Archives: Seen live
Concertgebouw: check
August 8, 2009 – 16:49
For the eight time I saw Wende put on a great show yesterday. It was the opening night of her three-night stand at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the program promised a search for the most beautiful love story, packaged in a theatrical mosaic of music, images, text and song. As I saw her previous [...]
Seen live: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
July 13, 2009 – 23:22
The only Dutch gig on Springsteen’s Working on a Dream World Tour 2009 was at Pinkpop. Since the rest of the bill didn’t quite strike my fancy and I’m not much of a festival guy anyway, I started to explore other options. Two concerts in a weekend, ticket availability, general appeal and rave reviews on [...]
Dublin (2)
July 12, 2009 – 01:09
If I were to call my second day in Dublin exciting, I’d be a big fat liar. I walked around a lot, found myself two books (one I’ve read already but still needed for the collection, and one because I needed a new book to read), visited two libraries (I thought that the Chester Beatty [...]
Live gezien: Krezip
June 28, 2009 – 13:39
Krezip ging stoppen. Na twaalf jaar had men het gevoel dat het tijd was om allemaal iets anders te gaan doen, en zo geschiedde. Gisteren was hun laatste optreden in HMH. En het was een prima optreden, wat mij betreft beter dan de laatste keer dat ik ze zag, eind ‘07, op hetzelfde podium.
Krezip Heineken [...]
