Last night the Black Seeds played the Melkweg. I didn’t go, because today they were on the verandah of Timboektoe, a beach bar. So today I cycled to Wijk aan Zee… and got so lost along the way that I missed the gig.
I can’t post photos yet, for ridiculous technological reasons. I made a map, [...]
At last! The Mardi Gras.bb have appeared on eMusic.
That is, they’ve shown up on the European site (they’re German, although you wouldn’t guess it from listening), with slightly different punctuation and case (I’m taking the regrettable .bb from their site — apparently it stands for “big band”) but the same glorious sound. The new album, [...]
The CD release by Caspian Hat Dance last night was awesome, and so are they.
How else could you describe a seven-piece gypsy dance band in demented clown makeup and vaguely Victorian costume howling out dazzlingly fast Hungarian folk tunes while dangling in climbing harnesses from the ceiling?
As promised, the weekend update. There’s a lot to catch up on. (Pics below the fold.)
There’s a lot of fun stuff in the next couple of months. Check out my event queue on Last.fm for what I know about, and let me know if you want to join in or there’s something I haven’t heard of yet.
I had a close encounter with rockstardom last night. A bloke from De Dijk (keyboardist, according to Nikos) was at Dionysos where I went for an after-dinner dinner, and it turns out he plays baglama and bouzouki also. Hellenophiles get everywhere, it seems…
In the middle of an ESSLLI lecture I got an sms from my girlfriend: “We are having a baby! Wheeeee!”
At such moments it’s helpful to be a pragmatician.11. Okay, the accepted term is ‘pragmaticist’. Just don’t confuse it with ‘pragmatist’. [↪] My reasoning pattern went something like this, where steps 5 and 6 exemplify the [...]
It’s not a typo, although it might not actually be a word… Via Last.fm user WerkshuwTuig I came across a script asking “How eclectic is your musical taste?” Apparently I’m hitting 96/100, which tickles me pink and breathless.11. I’ll admit that I’m gaming the stats to try for an increase: having Béla Fleck and [...]
Heads up: The Black Seeds are hitting Amsterdam again!
They’re promoting the European release of the album Into the Dojo, out in this country today. (No, I wasn’t queueing for it. I bought it on their tour here last summer. So there.) In my opinion the album isn’t up to the standard of On the Sun, [...]
Last night’s gig, Katchafire at the Sugar Factory, went off. Those guys were magnificent — deeply traditional reggae by a bunch of Māori fellas, with dense Pacific vocal harmonies and lots of Kiwi warmth and enthusiasm.
They started early, and the crowd was pretty thin even by the end of the show (they played from about [...]