'The Ex' So What, Gouda, friday November 12th 2010.

The Ex (Amsterdam/Makkum), 2-track recorded.
Friday November 12th 2010, 'So What' Gouda.
Tracks: Complete list asap, includes 24 Problems/Hidegen Fujnak A Szelek/.

Note: Amsterdam-based improvising former Anarcho-punks, playing an intense set with new singer Arnold de Boer, also known as ‘Zea’. Recorded from the stageblock signals, mixed to two unused subgroups and then fed into a Flash recorder. Wanted to make 14 channel recordings, but lacked the time to set up gear and soundcheck.

'RaaskalBomFukkerz' So What, Gouda, friday november 12th 2010.

RaaskalBomFukkerZ (Amsterdam), 2-track recorded.
Friday November 12th 2010, 'So What' Gouda.
Tracks: Coming soon.

Note: Theatrical, Dutch languaged sample-cabaret from the Amsterdam Squat-scene, sending out their critical messages. Recorded from the stageblock signals, mixed to two unused subgroups and then fed into a Flash recorder. Wanted to make 14 channel recordings, but lacked the time to set up gear and soundcheck.

'Osdorp Posse' De Gonz, Gouda, friday July 3rd 2009.

Osdorp Posse (Amsterdam), 2-track recorded.
Friday July 3rd 2009, 'de Gonz' Gouda.
Tracks: Coming soon.

Note: in the middle of their farewell tour, these Amsterdam Posse, who pioneered Dutch languaged Hiphop, agreed to play a benefit-gig in support of the venue. The place was loaded and the guys were in great shape, making a hell of a party. Due to more channels needed than available, I got them recorded in mono, with scratches and computerized effects in a bit lower levels than wanted.

Kinderboerderij Benefiet, Kinderboerderij 'De Goudse Hofsteden', saturday June 13th 2015.

Kinderboerderij-Benefiet: Jana de Heer, Pip Mariah Alblas & Ron Baggerman (Gouda/The Hague), 2-track recorded.
Saturday June 13th 2015, Kinderboerderij 'De Goudse Hofstede' Gouda.

Jana de Heer: Crush (Jennifer Paige)/I’m No Good (Amy Winehouse)/Heartless (Justin Nozuka)/Stay (Rihanna)/Riptide (Vance Joy)/Weather With You (Crowded House)/Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)/You Really Got A Hold On Me (Shirellles)/Is This Love? (Bob Marley). Encore: We Can’t Stop (Miley Cyrus)/Weather With You (Crowded House)/Sexy Als Ik Dans (Nielson)/La Bamba (Ritchie Valens).

Note: Gouda’s educational kiddy farmhouse was threatened with closure, after the city council decided to cut severely on their subsidising. To raise money, they held some benefits. As they couldn’t arrange a soundman for this night, I was asked to help out. Occupied that night, I passed it on to my radio collegue Ton Dekker, who did the job and also recorded all sets. Jana and friends were the first to play a set of covers.

Jana & Ron BaggermanValerie (Amy Winehouse)/Proud Mary (Creedence Clearwater Revival)/.
Note: At the end of the set Ziggystick-virtuoso and multi-instrumentalkist Ron Baggerman joined Jana for some tracks.

Pip Mariah Alblas & Ron Baggerman:New Soul (Yael Naim)/Walking On Sunshine (Catherina & The Waves)
Note: After Jana and Ron finished their sets, Pip came on stage and played some more tracks with Ron, before she started her own set.

Pip Mariah Alblas: Hey Little Monkey/Kiss Me (Sixpence None The Richer)/Walls Around Her Heart/Proof/Put Your Records On (Corrine Bailey Rae)/Where I Feel “Okay”/Fix You (Coldplay)/Blame It All On You/Something On The Side.

Note: Fuelled up by her performances during ‘The Voice Of Holland’ TV shows, Pip worked hard on her own set of songs, which she played this night. She was in the middle of a crowdfunding to get her debut-EP financed. This EP was released in November 2015 and contained most of the tracks played this night.

Mark Lotterman, 'Studio Gonz' Gouda, Saturday July 12th 2014.

Mark Lotterman (Rotterdam), 2-track recorded.
Saturday July 11th 2014, 'Studio Gonz' Gouda.
Tracks: November/Glad To Say I Love You/It Ain’t Only Sorrow/Hotel Room In Rome/The Shed/Hit Me When I’m Weak/The Hell That We Create/Wonder Where Time Goes (Solo)/Lou Reed (Solo)/Leaving For School (Solo)/Year Without Summer (Solo)/Something To Drink/Untill The End Of Days/Funny/I Miss You (Solo).

Note: closing a row of gigs in Gouda, Mark played a full band set in a optimistic and relaxed mood. Due to some minor technical difficulties, some of the songs have too soft vocals. Nevertheless a great show and recording.

Leonheart, 'Studio Gonz' Gouda, Saturday July 12th 2014.

Leonheart (Rotterdam), 2-track recorded.
Saturday July 11th 2014, 'Studio Gonz' Gouda.
Tracks: Everybody Come On/Moving On/Fairytales/Fakes/Lost/Lion’s Heart.

Note: great srt by Leonheart-duo, in support of Mark Lotterman’s set later that night. Slightly noisy audience, which nevertheless got gripped several times during the set.

Mitchell Rivers, 'Studio Gonz' Gouda, Saturday July 12th 2014.

Mitchell Rivers (Alphen ad Rijn), 2-track recorded.
Saturday July 11th 2014, 'Studio Gonz' Gouda.
Tracks: Out Of Sight/The Valley Down Below/Dying With Me//The Boarman’s Call (Nick Cave-cover)/.

Note: solo performance of ‘Joe Madman & The Sidewalkers’ frontman, showcasing his songwriting and musical skills even better in this both fragile and strong performance. Support to Mark Lotterman, who played later that night.

Little Trouble Kids, 'Brakke Grond' Amsterdam (Soundcheck only), Thursday June 5th 2014.

Little Trouble Kids (Ghent, Belgium), 2-track recorded.
Thursday June 5th 2014, 'Brakke Grond' Amsterdam.
Tracks: Tightrope (Soundcheck.

Note: getting in the venue a bit early, I walked into the stage-area to catch the tail of the soundcheck running late and tracked ten minutes of the soundcheck, comprising of two go’s on ‘Tightrope’. After which we had a truly great interview.

Mark Lotterman, 'Paradijskerk' Rotterdam, Friday February 7th 2014.

Mark Lotterman (Rotterdam), 2-track recorded.
Friday February 7th 2014, 'Paradijskerk' Rotterdam.
Tracks: I Need Something To Drink/The Hell That We Create/Scenes From Childhood/Year Without Summer/Love Is A Mountain Too High/Indie/Brighton/Hit Me When I’m Weak/It Ain’t Only Sorrow/Leaving For School/Rolling Stones/I Woke Up (Thinking That They Hate Me)/Almost 25/Too Stoned To Do It/I Miss You/Hotelroom In Rome/Funny (Encore).

Note: the day before Mark presented his 4th CD ‘Year Without Summer’, he asked me to make a frontal stage audience recording of the set, like I did December 20th 2013 in Gouda. Which I felt honoured to do. The presentation was held in a beautifuilly lit 19th century neo-classical Old-Catholic Church, with chandeleers, stainglass windows, arches and a beautifull echo all over the place. The church was packed and the atmosphere relaxed and joyfull. The perfect vsetting for Mark’s slightly stripped and personal songs. Which sounded so much better than the CD itself. Thrilling!

'Kogel Door De Kapel'-Festival,Jeruzalemkapel Gouda, Friday December 20th 2013.

Kogel Door De Kapel-festival, 2-track recorded.
Friday December 20th 2013, ‘Jeruzalemkapel’ Gouda.

Note: three acoustic performances set in a candle-lit medieval chapel with phenomenal acoustics. Sold out completely, the sets were captured with a simple stereo recorder put in front of the performers. Capturing not only the music, but also the sounds, laughter and noises from the audience.
Organising duo Nancy Brick opened with their stripped songs, closing a huge string of livingroom concerts, that started October 2012. It was their last liveset right before the start of writing and recording material for their second album, due somewhere laste 2014.
Second to play was local singer Alex van Holstein, bringing his irony-loaden songs with much more passion than you might even think. Alas he withdrew recording permission at the last minute, so nothing of him was recorded.
Rotterdam singer Mark Lotterman played a truly breathtaking sets with new material, to be released on his 4th CD Year ‘Without Summer’ in February 2014. Nancy Brick (Gouda/Delft), 2-track recorded.
Tracks: Violins/In Your Mind/Sail/Pirate’s Ocean/Mountain/The Road/Nancy Brick/Silence.

Mark Lotterman (Rotterdam), 2-track recorded.
Tracks: Intro/It Ain’t Only Sorrow/Scenes From Childhood/The Hell That We Create/I Miss You/Year Without Summer/Rolling Stones/I Woke Up (Thinking That They Hate Me)/Hit Me When I’m Weak /Funny (Encore).

Vromannacht, Friday September 16th 2011.

Vromannacht, 2-track recorded.
Friday September 16th 2011, ’Openbare Bibliotheek’ Spieringstraat, Gouda.
Note: 7th edition of local annual festival to honour Gouda born poet Leo Vroman, now living in New York. Local schooltalents and bands that are more up to the ladder perform a mixture of sets, comprised of covers and self-written material. Collegues from the station were asked to get this edition aired live on the station, so they came to me with the request to incorporate my airtime with this broadcast. I agreeed and helped out presenting, interviewing and, as it turned out, troubleshooting. This merely concerned soundmen, unwilling to coöperate. Firstly they refused to give us the negotiated submix and tried to make us agree on the lesser air-quality PA-mix, which I refused to accept. We got our submix, but of somewhat strange balance and configuration. Which turned out okay on the radio, as the intended stereo internet connection blew and we had to switch back to the backup mono transmitter. After that things run smooth, untill the ‘Handsome Poets’ soundman decided to cut us off. Despite protests from us and even the organising team, he persisted. So I called the management, explained the situation and got the signal promised. After being texted by the manager, the soundman opened up the channel again and we could air the second part of the set anyway. Two dark spots on a more than pleasant radionight.

Tracks:Central Blue Band-Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder)-Live This Life (Part)/Goudse Waarden Band-Killing In The Name Of (RATM)(Part)/Lenette, Jorik, Jake, Daniël & Jip-Nobody’s Wife (Anouk)/Micha-I Wished/Jaimy van Vliet-I’ll Be Fine (Snippet)/School’s Out-Dancing Shoes (Arctic Monkeys)-Feeling Good (Muse)- (Snippet)-Beggin’ (Madcon)- Are You Gonna Be My Boy (Jet)/Marith van Dijk-Hold Your Hand Forever (Snippet)/Emily, Louise & Band-Son Of A Preacher Man (Dusty Springfield)(Part)- Because Of The Beat (Part)/Sophie van Diest-Someone Like You (Adèle)/Antonius Huisband-Wicked Way-Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Im Yours (Stevie Wonder)-I Can Count On You-Time Won’t Wait.
Note: a selection of schoolbands and solo-artists from secondairy Schools from Gouda, playing a mix of covers and some self-penned songs. Notable names are Micha, Jaimy van Vliet and Marith van Dijk.

Skin Filtr8r (Gouda).
Tracks:
Note:Spoken Word/Performance-artist Rik van Zutphen, who used to be vocalist of Hiphop-Jazz-Soul outfit ‘Vorm’, finalist of the 2000 edition of ‘Grote Prijs van Nederland’. Using laptops, beamers and samples, he created an electro-like set of unknown titled tracks.

Nancy Brick (Delft/Gouda)
Tracks:The Mountain/Pirate’s Ocean/The Road/Turner/Green
Note: former ‘Corbelijn’ members Ron Valeri and Rieneke Batelaan requested to perform inside the café next to the library, instead of getting on stage. This, to keep the serenity and fragile character of their music more intact and to create a more cosy livingroom feel. They settled in front of the radio-unit and played a short, fully acoustic set in front of an audience, partly seated on the floor. Two mikes were used to pick up their set and to air it. The recordings come from the original broadcast, instead of the direct PA-signal used to record the night.

Eefje de Visser (Utrecht)
Tracks:Schip/De Stad/Trein/Ik Dacht Na/De Koek/Hartslag/Genoeg/Afdwaalt
Note: Eefje, a veteran when it comes to playing this festival, returned for this seventh edition with her full band for an intriguing set. Despite some missed notes and becoming overwhelmed by coughing during ‘Genoeg’, she mesmerized many.

Gras (Utrecht)
Tracks:Vriendin/Misschien/Vliegtuig Van Papier/Dat Zal ‘Leren/Hij Gaat/Het Einde
Note: Gouda originating Desiree Coumans formed a Dutch languaged Singer Songwriter-duo with Erwin Tuijl by the end of her Conservatory study and came to perform here, augmented by two members of her other band ‘Nona’. By the time they started the volumes had been turned up so high, the signals came in crackling, destroying most of the recordings by overload-fuzz. All that is left useable, is the mono recording of the broadcast itself.

Rick (Gouda).
Track:Freestyle.
Note: impromptu performance right after the ‘Gras’ performance to kill some time and to fill the gap between their performance and that of headliner ‘Handsome Poets’. Exploding effects, due to incoming overloaded signals, so unsuitable for broadcast. Also not included in the broadcast.

Handsome Poets (Utrecht)
Tracks:(We Can’t Be) Saints (Part)/Call Back Tomorrow)/Blinded/Dance (The War Is Over)

Note: started in Gouda as a Gospel/Praise unit, but decided to turn more worldly in the summer of 2008. With great effort, as they not only won ‘3FM Serious Talent’ Award in april 2011, but also scoring a string of hits. Performed the more important fesivals during summer and came here for a headlining gig cut short for time reasons. The start of the gig wasn’t broadcasted, as the technician decided the show wasn’t to be broadcasted, despite agreements with the management. A short phonecall to the manager resulted in the second part of the set to be aired, missing the first three tracks. As we were not allowed to record the gig, no recordings do exist. A fan however, provided us with the setlist, so we can tell you, which songs were broadcast.

Goudsche Courant Music Live Awards 2004, Thursday October 28th 2004.

AD Music Awards 2005 (Gouda, Waddinxveen/Schoonhoven), 2-track Recorded.
Thursday October 28th 2004, 'Schouwburg' Gouda.
Tracks: Jan, Tim & Mixed Up-Mixed Up/Iesja Westerbeek-Everything Hurts/Teun van Schijndel-I Wish/Golden Values (Tabitha Kraaijeveld, Tim van Esch, Gerard Trouborst, Peter van Dijk, Robbert Deurlo & Joost Overwater)-Into The Light/Kirsten-Kippen/Prakatavran-Prakatavran/Temporary (Sanne, Hiske, Eefje de Visserm Stijn Donders, Marco Wiersema,Jasper ??)-Good Girl (a.k.a. Things I Do)/Joshua & Nils- My All In All+The Gladiator/Vocal Group & Big Band Willem de Zwijger-Ease On Down The Road+A Brand New Day/Huisband-Laat Het Vanavond Gebeuren/Rianne, Janice Warmerdam & Maarten-The Reason Why/Farnham Choir-You’re The Voice/Steven feat Vocal Group & Big Band Willem de Zwijger-Music/Simply Complicated (Lisanne, Charlotte, Dolf Bekker & Jasper Zuidervaart)-I Alone/Desiree Coumans, Tyshanti de Jonge & John de Heij-I Gave My World/All-We Are Family.
Notes: Second regional musical contest for students from secondary schools in the area, organized as part of promotional activities to boost up the amount of (young) readers for regional daily newspaper ‘Goudsche Courant’. Acts from 6 schools sang, danced or played classical music to win a prize. Desiree Coumans won. This line-up featured two future members of later hitmakers ‘Handsome Poets’, as well as other young talents, later to emerge as Singer-Songwriters.
These recordings were first aired Friday November 5th by 'Going Underground' and 'Why You', skipping the dance-acts, as these simply don't have any succes on radio, unfortunately.

AD Music Awards 2005, October 27th 2005.

AD Music Awards 2005 (Gouda, Waddinxveen/Schoonhoven), 2-track Recorded.
Thursday October 27th 2005, 'Schouwburg' Gouda.
Tracks: de Band van Goed Geklede Amusementsartiesten-Jolanda Osinga & jill Zwanenburg-The Explosion Of A Dance/Me & My Sister-Mamma/Sebastiaan Molenaar, JuliettePoulisse, Laurens Olijve, Ruben Trouborst & Jurre Lammertse-Feelin’ Good/Suzanne Prince vander Aa-Underneath Your Clothes/Schoonhovens College-Streetdance Mix/Xandra Roukes, Nils de Hoog & Jeroen Vlieger-Vrede/Anne Marleen de Jong & Mima Makatita-Dance Explosion/Fleur van Wollingen, Liset van der Glas, Eeke van der Vet, Rosan van der Glas & Ixia Verdooren-Just Struttin’ Along/Sandrine Gütz-Taken By The Sea/The Delicate Sound Of Thunder (Anne-Wil Donders, Stefan Mandersloot, Dolf Bekker, Nils Davidse & Jasper Zuidervaart)-How Come You Don’t Love Me Anymore/Krista Visser & Jeroen Spetter- Faith/Kim Danens & Anne-Fay Kops-Let Me Clear My Throath/Desiree Coumans-Died Chase/Me & My Sister-Mamma.
Notes: Third and final regional musical contest for students from secondary schools in the area, organized as part of promotional activities to boost up the amount of (young) readers for regional daily newspaper AD-Groene Hart. Acts from 6 schools sang, danced or played classical music to win a prize. 'Me & My Sister' won. This line-up featured two more future members of later hitmakers ‘Handsome Poets’, as well as other young talents, later to emerge as Singer-Songwriters. This edition nearly didn’t happen as the newspaper that initiated the previous two editions and also okay-ed this third edition, was taken over by another newspaper, which didn’t like the idea. Since production had already started, cancelling the event would have costed the same amount of money as executing the plan, so the choice was quite obviously simply. Alas this did mean the event to stop after this edition.
These recordings were first aired Friday October 28th by 'Going Underground' and 'Why You', skipping the dance-acts, as these simply don't have any succes on radio, unfortunately.

Drugsmokkel, Saturday September 3rd 2011.

Drugsmokkel (Rotterdam/Gouda), 2-track recorded.
Saturday September 3rd 2011, 'de Gonz' Gouda.
Tracks: Intro/Dope Sucks/Let’s Go/Disco Rock ‘n’ Roll/Drive In Liquor Store/9 To 5/Rock ‘n’ Roll Baby/Swingin’ In The Discolights/Paranoia Of Life/Rock ‘n’Roll Junkie/Live For Rock ‘n’ Roll/Drugsmokkel/Joules De La Tourette/Rocking Class Heroes/I Was Made For Rock ‘n’ Roll.

Note: Somewhat chaotic Punk ‘n’ Roll-trio, playing on a 4 band night. As usual, there were problems with the bassguitar, but all in all the set was recorded neatly. The band themselves had grown, as they seem to do with every gig.

'Ouwe Gouwe' Festival, April 17th 2010.

’Ouwe Gouwe’ Festival 2-track recorded.
Saturday April 17th 2010, ‘So What’ Gouda.
Note: A new, indoor festival, mixing young new bands with more experienced ones and some briefly reüniting for the occasion. I made kind of experimental live-recordings, using a new mixing desk to make my own mix of the unprocessed 14 lines with sounds from the stageblock and recording it on a Flashrecorder directly. Although not perfect, it gave quite usable results. Despite strange things happening, like two signals coming from 4 different lines. Or not at all!! Which meant ‘Plugging by chance’ with every new set! Challenging and frustrating at the same time.


Slice (Of Merlin) (Gouda/Bodegraven/Rotterdam/Oudewater), 2-track recorded.
Tracks: Flying Pig/Beware/Boring Day/Roots Under My Feet/Heart Of Darkness/Extatum (Part)/Soft As Water.
Note: One of the local legends, mixing influences like ‘The Doors’ and old ‘Pink Floyd’ to a melodic, multi-layered and inventive sound. Considered by many as their ‘Comeback’-gig, it turned out to be their one-but-last! To the amazement of many, including myself, they announced their swansong for June 4th during this performance. Which got postponed, as their guitarist broke his wrist three days prior to that. Their final, sold out gig was on Saturday November 6th 2010 in local club ‘De Gonz’. ‘Extatum’ was only partially recorded, as their set lasted longer than the space on my flashcard, used for this gig.

Kelvin (Gouda), 2-track recorded.
Tracks: Running Away.
Note: New band from ‘Sportclub De Volharding’ guitarist. Recorded one track only, because I had shortage of memory to get every note by every band. Regrettably.

Quip! (Gouda/Haastrecht/Waddinxveen), 2-track recorded.
Tracks: Try My Friends/Too Much Of A Bad Thing/Last Time Bright/Lost In Life.
Note: Shortlived reunion of this Blues-infused slightly psychedelic Rockband, done for the occasion of this festival. Great to see them back on stage for one more time.

Horizon (Gouda/Reeuwijk/Boskoop), 2-track recorded.
Tracks: Screaming Out Loud/Can’t You See/Lifestyle.
Note: Information provided to me announced them as a youg coverband, who turned out to play female fronted Rocky pop with some self-penned songs. I captured 2,5 track, after fighting ‘disappeared’ lines, resulting in one of the voices not being fully audible.

Usual Suspects (Gouda), 2-track recorded.
Tracks: Return A Favour/You Can’t Hold Me/I Don’t Know/Runaway/Victim.
Note: Young Rocking Punkband, making their first proper stage-performance.

Slang Dang (Gouda/Reeuwijk/Bodegraven), 2-track recorded.
Tracks: Alone/Love/Slang Dang Fever/Café/Hell Of A Party.
Note: Another band that reunited for the festival. Mainly rehearsed drinking beer (as rumour goes), the set was somewhat loose, but nevertheless one of the highlights of this day in my opinion. Truly great to see them back playing their Metalized Funky Bluesrock on stage, since they decided to give it another go after this gig.

Summer Breeze Project (Gouda/Rotterdam/Utrecht/Amsterdam), 2-track recorded.
Tracks: Power/In The Meantime/Omerta/Goin’ Down/Master & Servant/PTSD.
Note: Ambitious and quite successful Prog-rockband from the area, played a short, but intense and very concentrated set.

Eve Of Dawn (Gouda/Haastrecht), 2-track recorded.
Tracks: /Welfare State/Unapproachable/Frightened.
Note: Another band that reformed for the festival and decided to give it another go. They played some New Wave infused Alternative Rock.After splitting up in 1995, members emerged in bands like ‘Velvet Lane’, ‘Quip!’ and ‘Mother Of Pearl’. Guitarist Wilbert van Straten used to be a classmate in Secondairy School and had to give up guitarplaying early 1997 due to RSI. But this day he was there again!

Flowdown (Gouda/Bodegraven/Rotterdam/Oudewater), 2-track recorded.
Tracks: Another Day/Flying.
Note: Nu-Metallish Grungeband that came to the scene in the early 90’s under the name ‘Conquistador!’. Nearly everything changed from line-up to genre, except for the guitarist. I was only able to record the firstst two tracks of their set, as one of the memorycards used to store the recordings, ran out of space. Alas.

Ammocave (Gouda), 2-track recorded.
Tracks: Magic Anger Blender/Stronger Stuff/Answers/Face The New Moon.
Note: Sort of ‘Comeback’-gig, after being inactive for quite some time, due to several changes of frontmen in the years past. Slightly loose, though reasonable convincing set by the band of one of the Festivals’ instigators!

Poultry (Bodegraven/Reeuwijk/Gouda), 2-track recorded.
Tracks: Hypocrite/My Friends/Speak Up/Responsability/High Standards/College Years/Kiss Of Betrayal..
Note: Steaming hometown gig by this Punkrock outfit, that’s got their EP out in Japan on a local label. Aired few new tracks that night and served as a perfect warmup for headliner ‘Blind Justice’.

Blind Justice (Rotterdam), 2-track recorded.
Tracks: Intro/Stuck In My Mind/Weazel/Brainless/Life Is Bitter/Boulder/Cage Of Fear/Social Failure/Breathe/In Exuilibrium/Are You Different?.
Note: Farewell-gig by this ‘legendary’ Gouda originating Metalband, that started off as a schoolband and made it it to major stages, festivals and TV-shows, both under their own moniker, as in a package with Dutch languaged Hiphop-pioneers ‘Osdorp Posse’. They once appeared on an international Metal-sampler with ‘little known’ bands as ‘Sepultura’! Leaving the ‘bass-in-a-box’ at home, singer/guitarist Attila Szabo switched to bassguitar for the occasion. Playing songs from throughout their career, they said closed the BJ-book, to start writing a new one under the name ‘3AM’ (‘Three Angry Men’). As I ran out of memorycards, the last 40 seconds of ‘Are You Different?’are missing. Alas!

Osdorp Justice, July 3rd 2009.

Osdorp Justice (Amsterdam/Rotterdam), 2-track recorded.
Friday July 3rd 2009, 'de Gonz' Gouda.
Tracks: Chemoderniseerd/Weer Geen Club Hit/Platwalsen/Freestyle/Geen Slaap Tot Osdorp.

Note: closing a benefit-gig for the venue got Amsterdam Hiphop-unit ‘Osdorp Posse’ and Rotterdam based ‘Blind Justice’ reunite their late 90’s package of Ósdorp Justice’ for one more time. They played a 5-piece set, which fuelled the audience to the top. Making them dive into my equipment, which detached the recorder from the mixer for a while. This happened during ‘Platwalsen’, which means ‘Flatten Ém’. Some took this a bit literally, but no damage done in the end, apart from a short intermission in the recording.

Blind Justice, July 3rd 2009.

Blind Justice (Rotterdam), 2-track recorded.
Friday July 3rd 2009, 'de Gonz' Gouda.
Tracks: Firestarter (‘prodigy’-cover)/Bloed Uit Je Oren (Instr).

Note: this Metalband started in Gouda 20 years before and reinvented themselves to support former tourmates ‘Osdorp Posse’ on this benefit-gig in support of the venue. Using an inaudible bass-generator, the band was fun to see, but didn’t impress majorly. Unable to build up on forehand, I struggled to get all signals in my desk. Which resulted in only the last two songs of the set properly recorded.

Nona, April 23rd 2009.

Nona (Gouda/Utrecht), 2-track recorded.
Thursday April 23rd 2009, 'de Gonz' Gouda.
Tracks: Tomorrow Is Coming/(Unknown)/On My Own/(Unknown)/I Gave My World/Innocent Smile/All For You /(Cover)/Open Your Mind/Set You Free/The Sun Goes Down.

Note: the very first gig Desiree Coumans gave as ‘Nona’, introducing her new band. Trying my new mixing desk, I accidentally attached the Flashrecorder I used for recording to the wrong output-channels, making the harder parts overload. So these recordings stay vaulted forever.

Paulusma, March 3rd 2009.

Paulusma (Amsterdam), 2-track recorded.
Friday March 3rd 2009, 'So What' Gouda.
Tracks: California Spirit/Everything Must Go/Ready To Go/Trust U Love Me/Ridin’ The T Companion/On Rubber Tiles/TJ On A Spree/Serpentine Tomorrow/Satisfactory/Serenades For The Lonely/Penny Arcade/Silence=Golden.

Note: using a mono feed from two subgroups (Supposed to be stereo), recorded on a Flashrecorder. Singer Jelle Paulusma (Former ‘Daryll-Ann’) and his band played an intimate, improvised gig for a way too small audience. After the gig, he took the recording home for some Pro-Tool reworking. Some tracks were aired inbetween te interview I had with Jelle after the gig.

Gem, November 28th 2008.

Gem (Utrecht), 2-track recorded.
Friday November 28th 2008, 'So What' Gouda.
Tracks: Waking Eyes.

Note: Maurits Westerik and his band returned to the stage he got his first live-experiences, to play an intense gig for a packed venue. As the PA-crew couldn’t get the ‘Line-Out’ functionning right, they gave me two subgroup-feeds, to use for my recorder. The sound got overloaded and mono, resulting in unusable recordings. Apart from ‘Waking Eyes’, which were picked up hazily by two mikes I used to pick up the overall sound from the venue. Written few days before, Maurits climbed a chair in the middle of the audience and sang over his acoustic guitar. Which was chilling. Later versions of this song made their way to Youtube, while this very first version was aired only once, on request by Maurits himself.