'State-X'-Festival - 'Korzo Theatre' Den Haag, May 5th 2001.

'State-X'-festival.
Saturday May 5th 2001, 'Korzo' Theatre The Hague.
Note: this was the first edition of this Festival, few years before it merged with the ‘New Forms’ Festival. Organised by a.o. a former classmate, I joined in withy the fun to make recordings of ‘The Ex’ and ‘Feverdream’. Learnt a lot about hardware to be taken with me next time.

The Ex (Amsterdam/Wormer).
Tracks: Burnsome/Fistfull Of Feed/The Chair Needs Paint/Town Of Stone/Haydays/Oskar Beck/Submarines/Karaoke Blackout/Time Flies/River/Spruitjes/Stupid Competitions/Lump Sum Insomnia.
Note: due to a faulty cable from the PA, the recording is made in anti-phasis, which means that one signal is minus to the other. When played MONO, the soundboard-signal will vanish, leaving just the venue-sound, which is hollow. This was only discovered AFTER broadcasting.

Incense (Delft/Den Haag/Rotterdam).
Tracks: The whole set consisted of 38 minutes of improvisation in 3 parts.
Notes: as the organisation wasn't fully prepared for me making recordings, the necessary Soundboard-output wasn't available, leaving just two mikes in the back of the small hall available for recording. As the improvised pieces proved interesting, though not quite suitable for broadcasting-purposes, nothing will be done with them anyway, so no harm done. One small bit of the performance is missing though, due to the inevitable tape-change.

Incense - 'So What' Gouda, November 17th 2000.

Incense (Delft/Den Haag/Rotterdam), 4-track recorded.
Friday November 17th 2000, 'So What' Gouda during the 'Popjachttoer 2000'.
Tracks: Point Of No Return/Too Far Gone/'Stemmen'/Static/Memo Stitch/Embrace/Starlet/Leaving The Misery/More Days To Come/ Go On (Incomplete).

Notes: two weeks before they won ‘The Grand Prize Of Holland’, the band performed in a package with ‘Venus Flytrap’ and ‘Hond’. the other two bands were recorded as well, but due to bad archiving at the time, the tapes got accidentally erased before being mixed down... .

Incense - 'ACU' Utrecht, October 5th 2000.

Incense (Delft/Den Haag/Rotterdam), 4-track recorded.
Thursday October 5th 2000, 'ACU' Utrecht.
Tracks: Lucky/Last Day On Earth/Go On.

Note: the PA created a severe noise throughout the whole performance, making it impossible to broadcast most of the tracks recorded this evening. Only three survived, among which the first ever public performance of 'Lucky'. Got a ride back from the guys, getting an interesting inside look towards the roles inside the band. Interesting.