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Stuck on Venus – Wake up

Michael — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:50:36 +0000

Next to writing my bachelor thesis which is almost done(!) while writing this post, there was plenty of time to have fun! Together with Anna, Bart and Tijmen we formed a new band called ‘Stuck on Venus’ (no, definitely not Mars!). We shot our first youtube video:

Lyrics by Anna Fernhout.

Bart Boonstra covers everything, yes everything

Michael — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:39:10 +0000

My roommate covered Everything by Michael Bublé. Pretty cool result! (Google translate) :-) I played the bass on the track.

K3 in concert

Michael — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:12:37 +0000

me, Elise (cousin) and Eline (girlfriend) on our way to K3!

K3, a famous girl band for pre-adolescent children, is touring the Netherlands this month. My cousin recenlty celebrated her birthday so we figured we should take her to a K3 concert on the 12th of October at the Brabanthallen. She was delighted with her present and couldn’t wait to go there!

The show was entertaining for the youngsters. There was a big screen at the back of the podium which displayed animations outlining the story of the show. The storyline was about a magic ball which could grant each girl a wish. Pretty exciting!

K3 and a nice podium, full of big red hearts

Probably the most important shot of all: Elise shaking hands with one of the girls. :-)

Scam
There were parents who were literally looking at their watches every minute, some were even short text messaging through the whole show! I think I do understand those parents, but second guessing I just can’t: I don’t have kids who play K3 day in day out and especially not at those valuable hours in the morning.. I was a bit disappointed in the fact they were not performing live: they probably had a rough weekend somewhere in a Dutch bar or club, but hey, we had a great time clapping, dancing and singing on the soundwaves of K3.

TodaysArt08: the Hague, Netherlands

Michael — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:22:32 +0000

Past friday and saturday TodaysArt08 was held in the Hague. What a ride.. Too bad I only went there on saturday. Passe-par tout tickets where cheap event though there were many exciting exhibitions you could hear, feel, see and taste.

We started of with a couple of drinks on Spuiplein, still enjoying the nice warm glow of the sun. After a few minutes ‘enjoying’ the cold shadow we decided to go and have a walk around the place.

My three favs:

Seabear and Borko, two bands from Iceland took stage in the Dr. A. Philipzaal and delivered a really tight performance!

Singing Tesla coils, just watch the video, 8bit music rocks!
Projections on the city hall

The afterparty of TodaysArt was at het Paard van Troje (translated: the Trojan Horse). We didn’t stay that long, we were tired and we would still have a long and boring trip home (Utrecht). We took the train at the Hague at 02:30 and were home at about 04:00. The Album Leaf and Múm penetrated my ears as I fell asleep..