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This has been one hell of a week.. Three rock concerts, a job application, and a thunder storm that even Thor would be proud of. Talk about an experience. 
The ride began last Sunday night with a very tedious trips to Amsterdam. I was traveling with a friend, Marloes, on our way to the first of my trilogy of concerts: Tori Amos. Unfortunately it wasn't the only show on that night. In the venue next door (the Amsterdam Arena) another, much bigger concert was being held. The god awful "Toppers". Seriously, this is just about the most pathetic excuse for music on the face of the Earth and yet it packs STADIUMS full of people... It's things like this that cause me to loose faith in humanity.
Anyway... as a result of this other concert 5 out of the 6 access roads to the area were cut off. This fun little bit of traffic control lead to a huge tailback and nearly caused Marloes and myself to miss our concert. My hatred of the Toppers now knows no bounds. If i had voodoo dolls of them I'd be stabbing them with swords not pins!
*Frustration vented. Cooling down now.*
Once we escaped the traffic (by ditching my car on a grass verge) we legged it to the Heiniken Music Hall where we met up with another friend of hers, Inge. Two thing I have to say about Inge: 1) WOW!
2) she is the biggest Tori Amos fan I've ever met. Now don't get me wrong #1 didn't lead to anything (unfortunately) but #2 was great. It's always fun to go to concerts with someone who's a bit fanatic about the artist you're seeing, so Inge really made for great company.
The show was opened by English folk-rock musician Seth Lakeman. This guy was awesome! Really fast paced beautiful music with him playing the violin and singing at the same time (That can't be easy...). Tthe crowd weren't terribly responsive I thought. They were probably expecting quieter, more sober music. Something that just wasn't going to happen.
After the upbeat folk-rock of Lakeman, everyone, including Inge who had already seen Tori Amos twice before, was expecting things to slow down a bit... or at least quiet down. Tori Amos thought otherwise. It got loud! I mean even Nine Inch Nails would have been proud of the level of noise this show got too at some points. Not too bad for a little girl and her piano. Now I will confess I haven't heard Amos' new album yet, but from the impression the concert left me with I am very much looking forward too it. Her music has always had soem swing to it but this was full on hard rock at times. I loved it! 
I had been looking forward to seeing Tori Amos live for years. this show was not at all how I expected it to be, but it still blew me away! Given the chance I will definitely go again.
*End of part one*
Coming soon: Blog Episode II: Who Are you?
The ride began last Sunday night with a very tedious trips to Amsterdam. I was traveling with a friend, Marloes, on our way to the first of my trilogy of concerts: Tori Amos. Unfortunately it wasn't the only show on that night. In the venue next door (the Amsterdam Arena) another, much bigger concert was being held. The god awful "Toppers". Seriously, this is just about the most pathetic excuse for music on the face of the Earth and yet it packs STADIUMS full of people... It's things like this that cause me to loose faith in humanity.
Anyway... as a result of this other concert 5 out of the 6 access roads to the area were cut off. This fun little bit of traffic control lead to a huge tailback and nearly caused Marloes and myself to miss our concert. My hatred of the Toppers now knows no bounds. If i had voodoo dolls of them I'd be stabbing them with swords not pins!
*Frustration vented. Cooling down now.*
Once we escaped the traffic (by ditching my car on a grass verge) we legged it to the Heiniken Music Hall where we met up with another friend of hers, Inge. Two thing I have to say about Inge: 1) WOW!
2) she is the biggest Tori Amos fan I've ever met. Now don't get me wrong #1 didn't lead to anything (unfortunately) but #2 was great. It's always fun to go to concerts with someone who's a bit fanatic about the artist you're seeing, so Inge really made for great company.The show was opened by English folk-rock musician Seth Lakeman. This guy was awesome! Really fast paced beautiful music with him playing the violin and singing at the same time (That can't be easy...). Tthe crowd weren't terribly responsive I thought. They were probably expecting quieter, more sober music. Something that just wasn't going to happen.
After the upbeat folk-rock of Lakeman, everyone, including Inge who had already seen Tori Amos twice before, was expecting things to slow down a bit... or at least quiet down. Tori Amos thought otherwise. It got loud! I mean even Nine Inch Nails would have been proud of the level of noise this show got too at some points. Not too bad for a little girl and her piano.
Now I will confess I haven't heard Amos' new album yet, but from the impression the concert left me with I am very much looking forward too it. Her music has always had soem swing to it but this was full on hard rock at times. I loved it! I had been looking forward to seeing Tori Amos live for years. this show was not at all how I expected it to be, but it still blew me away! Given the chance I will definitely go again.
*End of part one*
Coming soon: Blog Episode II: Who Are you?
JUN 09, 2007 07:47 PM
Awesome. I love concerts 
Yes, I'm very excited to see the new TF movie.... can't wait. I feel a little guilty going to see it alone though. See, some of my friends at the movie theatre would really like to have gone too, but it's exam time (most of them are in high school still). They say I'm not allowed to say if it was good or bad or whatever.... that's gonna be tough!
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