donderdag 4 juni 2009

The Ex - 'Worm' Rotterdam, November 28th 1999.

The Ex (Amsterdam/Wormer), 2-track recorded.
Sunday, November 28th 1999, 'Dodorama' store, Rotterdam.
Tracks: Burnsome/Fistfull Of Feed/The Chair Needs Paint/Art Of Losing/River/Frenzy/Two Struck By The Moon/Tin Lid/Oskar Beck/Time Flies/Lump Sum Insomnia/Little Atlas Heavyweight/It's A Sin.

Note: recorded by Marius van Kuijck of 'Dodorama' and licenced for broadcast quite exclusively to 'Going Underground', with permission from the band. The setlist contained interesting working-titles like: Tortex, Nigeria, In 10, McSister, Kweetniet, Konya Kip.

Solex - 'So What' Gouda, November 26th 1999.

Solex (Amsterdam), 4-track recorded.
Friday November 26th 1999.
Tracks: Some Solex/When Solex Just Stood There/The Burglars Are Coming/Waking Up With Solex/That's What You Get With People Like That On Cruises Like These/Randy Constanza/Snappy & Cocky/One Louder Solex/Escargot/Solex In A Slipshod Style/Rolex By Solex/Oh Blimey!/Athens Ohio/Pick Up/Solex All Lickety Split/That'll Be $22.95/'We Want More'/Not Fade Away.

Notes: Final of 3-track recordings. Not the busiest gig, which was somkewhat withdrawn. Live-drumming provided by a former drummer of ‘Fatal Flowers’. While busy with the inevitable 'changing of the tapes', I missed the first notes of 'Pick Up'. Should try and arrange the damn artists to wait, untill this ego is ready to continue recording again, don't you think ???? Right!!

I Against I - 'So What' Gouda, November 19th 1999.

I Against I (Dordrecht), 4-track recorded.
Friday November 19th 1999, 'So What' Gouda.
Tracks: Read & Weep/rest unknown.

Note: another 3-track-session, simultaneously copied onto Minidisc by another local radiostation ('Radio M' from Haastrecht), which was hosted by a future neighbour of mine, Mirjam. Again, the first 25 minutes recorded only. With no setlist available, hard to identify all tracks.

Nosferatu - 'So What' Gouda, November 19th 1999.

Nosferato (Bodegraven/Alphen ad Rijn), 4-Track Recorded.
Friday November 19th 1999, 'So What' Gouda.
Tracks: Change/What's Wrong With America/Heroine/African Song/Captain Me/Cure/Despair.

Note: another 3-track-session. The band played support to ‘I Against I’. They still exist, playing as ‘Spooner’.

Sway - 'So What' Gouda, October 8th 1999.

Sway (Gouda, Utrecht, Vianen, 4-track recorded.
Friday October 8th 1999, 'So What' Gouda.
Tracks: Good Times/Common/Been A Long Day/Vicious/Get Down/Who Are They?/Turn Around/Rental Wings/Come In Drunk*/Things You Said Today/Friends/Falling Down/Hear You Say/Jesus/About You.

Notes: *Incomplete, because I ran out of tape in the middle of the song (Ofcourse!). Because there was only one microphone-cable available, the venue-sound was recorded on one mono-track only. This turned out their final gig before they split up. In 2002 thet reünited, after causing local band ‘Mint’ to split over borrowing and rejecting members for additional guitar. After rejecting future ‘Gem’-singer Maurits Westerik, they hired drummer Edwin Bol, played one gig and split up forever!

The Cords - 'Plaatboef' Gouda (Instore), June 11th 1999.

The Cords (Deventer/Enschede), 4-track recording.
Friday June 11th 1999, 'Plaatboef' Instore-gig Gouda.
Tracks: Hibernate/Snowball/Metropolis/24 Hours/Hey Susan.

Note: right before the start of the recording, keyboard-player Yuko Murata accidentally knocked over a bottle of beer, which poured into my recorder. After some 'Emergency-dwelling', the gig and recording went ahead. I managed to get everything recorded well, apart from some overloaded vocals at peaks. The machine still runs, but it took 3 months of extensive cleaning to have it online again. But another good thing is, that Yuko, Maz and I are still in touch on a musical base ever since.

Right Direction - 'So What' Gouda, May 14th 1999.

Right Direction (Maastricht), 4-track recording.
Friday May 17th 1999, 'So What' Gouda.
Tracks: Spoke In A Wheel/Where Were You/Same Old-Johnny/My Last Bullit/I Got Your Number/Kids/Enemy/Army/Nur Die Besten Sterben Jung.

Note: for some particular reason (now unknown to me), I recorded the first 25 minutes only of several gigs. There wasn't any more room on the tapes I used, but initially didn't even bother to bring more ... .