Bullets and bodybags!

Hello... I am soo sorry, it had been a long time since I wrote. But I have to admit that I have been veryyyy busy! Next week I have a lot of tests, but after that I promise you I will write more! So, three days till Pinkpop! A Dutch festival, with a lot of good bands! Metallica, Foo Fighters, Kaiser Chiefs, Stereophonics, Air Traffic are a few of the bands I will see:) But to be honest...I am even more excited about the concert of the Lostprophets next week! I am going to see Ian Watkins again WHOOOOOHOOO!!! So after my tests...I go directly to the Melkweg, to wait wait there for 9 hours till the doors open...How crazy am I??? I also wanted to tell you that Deep Insight has a new single!! It is called Bullets and bodybags and as usuall it sounds amazing.You can find it on their myspace, my supportsite or their site: www.deepinsight.net And....I have got a job! I am a writer for 3voor12/amsterdam. So that means that I can write reviews and interviews! I found it a little bit disappointing that they prefer local bands and don't do interviews with international bands. But whatever, it is a good start!

Vanilla Sky...

You probably know the song ´Umbrella´.... Vanilla Sky is the super fantastic band that gave a new rocking dimension to this song! It is rocking like never before en the video is sooooo funny! They are making fun of little popprincess Rihanna, but I am sure that even she could laugh about it!I mean, face it, everybody would like to see the guys from Vanilla Sky in miniskirts and high heels?! Dancing trough tins of water, so that you can see their thongs! Okay...I can imagine that you might get strange ideas of this band, if you have never heard of them before... But as you might know, I kinda like crazy bands;) So reasons enouph for me to go to the concert! Finally it was Saturdaynight, the day that I had been waiting for the whole week! I had been confident that it wouldn't be very busy, but that had been a wrong suggestion... There I stood in the huge row in front of the Melkweg, next to the tourbus. Words were written into the dust of the tourbus. Things like:Bella Brian... I coundn't agree more...When I looked next to me I saw...You wouldn't believe this... Vincenzo, or Vinx how he is liked to be called. My friend also arrived that moment and she immidiately went to him with the question: Can she have a picture with you? So I went on a picture with Vinx next to all the fans. I found it very stange that I was the only one paying attention to him. My English also lowered to a level of 0, so I couldn't even chat with him a little! I could only say 'thank you', wait, did I even say that??? Shortly after that, the doors opened. We took a look at the merchandise and there I made a huge blooper! I listened to the supportband on myspace and I did not like that a lot...So at the merchandise I screamed to my friend pointing to a teeshirt of them: That band really really sucks!! The 'Better Offs 'are really awfull!!! That moment the guy in front me said: This band is really good actually...I am the manager! Ooops...I quicky went into the hall. At eight thirty the band the Better Offs started and I have to say that with my eyes closed it wasn't even that bad! It actually sounded kinda good! The songs contained a lot of energy and the singer had a really good punk rock sound. But the moment I opened my eyes I could see again that it was a beginning Dutch band. If I had been their manager I would at least give them some skinny jeans! they would take an example of the good looking Italian guys of Vanilla Sky. Vanilla Sky looked great, amazing! They played all my favourite songs like: On and On, break it out, letargo, get away and the beautiful Devastante. Also a few oldies like Umbrella, beat it, a thousand miles and during the time that the drums failed, Vinx imprivised a part of Oasis' Wonderwall. During 'a housand miles', Brian was convinced that we could sing a lot better than he does, so he invited 2 girls on stage to sing a song of Blink 182. The girls sucked...But I guess I would have done it even worse. Despite that their only Dutch words had been: Neuken in de keuken...(which means fucking in the kitchen) It had been one of the best concerts I have ever been to! The music had been great!They looked awesome and they had been very good connected to the audience, they made eyecontact and communicate a lot! And of course the constant laugh of Brian.... Heavenly;) Proud with a caught pick and a drumstick I waited for the artists to come. After a while I saw Brian! He had been very nice. I got a photo and a autograph from him. And groupie likely as I am, I wanted to get more attention;)So I bought him a beer, he had been very surprised and thought in first instance that he could only have a sip. At that moment my friends started shouting that I should kiss him...Yeah, right, like I dare to do that! So a friend of mine went to him and asked if he wanted to give me a kiss! And he did, for like 20 seconds!But after that I saw Vinx standing, so I quicky gave him a kiss on the cheek and went of to Vinx;)I asked Vinx an autograph and he wrote beneath it: Most beautiful eyes I've met in all Holland!!! Maybe you can imagine that I felt very very very happy that moment! After that he didn't mind going on a picture with me again. Due to his enormous sidebeards I didn't dare to kiss him on the cheek... I could talk about this concert forever on and on.... But I think you get the picture;) Vinx, Brian, Francesco and Luca are real rockstars and I just can't get enouph of them!

Geeky freaky London Calling...

Alright I am not going to say a lot about the London Calling gig I've been last saturday. I used to LOVE London Calling! But this time I was actually very disappointed...I looked like everything had changed, the music the style, the clothes..Is everybody fed up with the nice cheerful britpop nowadays? I undersatnd that there has been an overdosis of new britpop bands, but that is something to be proud of! I love britpop as it uses to be. The britpop from the Wombats, the Pigeon detectives, the Rifles, Look See Proof, The View.....whatever, even the Arctic Monkeys! But I don't like things such as the Klaxons, Cage the elephant, broken records and other stuff that appeared this time on London Calling! Especially the Rascals were horrible...I almost fel asleep while watching them! This new sound is a mix of some kind of rock with electro and dance. It has no remarkable conrous and it contains strange instruments. You won't believe me but I have seen a chello and a violin on stage!!! Not that I didn't have any fun, cause it was fun, but I was also sooo tired cause I just returned from my snowboardholiday that same day...And when the music is terrible I also love to watch the artist..At least when they look good. In seems to be 'hot'to look as a nerd...I am sorry but trust me that is not 'hot'or 'attactive'at all. They all looked like geeks, some made like geeks, some real old fashioned geeks, that should have never been in a band if it wasn't 'hot'nowadays.But well...trends come and go..You will see, just like the skinny jeans that 'should'dissapear according to the fashion desingers...We will strike back...And we will come back harder and faster than ever before!!!