Diary
27th Nov 2008, Schouwburg Het Park, Hoorn
| Posted at 06:10 PM on December 01, 2008 |
Matt writes
Well, we?re coming to the end of the final Dutch autumn tour. This is my last write up for it. It?s a bit of a strange feeling, but there is nothing we can do about it. And as I do believe: every end is a new beginning!
Yesterday was a real nice day, in which we caught up on some jobs to do. Linda went to some friends in the afternoon, with whom she would stay the night and we were going to see her in the American Hotel, Amsterdam the following day where we were to do an interview. Chris took me out for dinner at ? ?t Luykje? in Soest. We had a great time!
Chris figured he had been coming there almost since the time he?s come to the Netherlands. The personnel is always very friendly and walking around with smiles on their faces (there is absolutely no exception).
The food is gorgeous and so are the drinks. Of course we were the last to leave (we even bought the taxi driver that came to pick us up a drink) and said goodnight to the lovely staff.
Today was a very stressful day. To me it felt like I was constantly running behind with things. As we had an interview to do in Amsterdam, we went to the theatre first to drop of our equipment and then went to Amsterdam by train. A very good plan, but it all went a bit pear shaped. The journey towards the theatre was full of delays, once we got there nobody knew anything about us dropping off the equipment (even though I phoned up the day before to arrange it?). We quickly unloaded and I explained to Niels, the member of tonight?s crew that was already present our plan for the day.
Chris and I rushed to the railway station and just missed our train to Amsterdam. We phoned Linda, who was very well together and already got herself at the American Hotel.
When we finally got there Harry de Jong and his photographer Henk were there and Linda had already done her bit of the interview.
We had a lovely interview which was very much pointing on the things to come. After that we did a photo shoot with Henk. He seemed to know what he was doing and I?m sure the end result will be great.
Then Harry and Henk had to go. We too! Chris needed to get some shopping and Linda and I went to the Carr? to drop of a stack of brochures. We agreed to meet up at Amsterdam Central Station in 45 minutes.
Which we did! 45 minutes exactly, talking about punctuality.
We got ourselves back to the theatre, where Ron our soundman for tonight, welcomed us in. We built up the stage in a new record time and did the sound-check. Ron did a great job.
A little later Marjan, who was doing the lights, came in too. She already set up some nice lights, but wanted to make something more out of it.
Ron went for his dinner, but nothing was arranged for us. This is not the first time it happened to us, but today it seemed particularly untogether. It?s not very nice when you have to ask continually for the things that have been agreed to in the contract.
I went to see Marjan, head of the bar staff to get our dinner and drinks sorted. She was very nice and got us the things we needed. In the mean time the artist foyer was getting filled up with the crew of a big Joop van den Ende production that was doing a show in the hall next to us: Andr? van Duin, one of th? Dutch comedians. There were lots of people: musicians, dancers, roadies, p.a.?s, management, catering and of course Andr? van Duin himself.
Dinner was served: beautifully done steak! It hit every right spot and filled every hole? apart the one that I left for a desert. I own up that I do like my sweets.
Marjan said that if I asked nicely I might get a desert from the catering people of Joop van den Ende?s production. So I did?
Bert, of ?Artist Food & Care? who was organising the whole thing, said I could have the very last one. YAY! It was very nice Bert, thank you!
After dinner we made ourselves ready for the show. The usual: tune up, change into stage clothes and pace up and down the corridors. Then we got our ?five-minutes?-knock and Linda and I got downstairs to open up.
It was great! A sold out house, filled with a wonderful audience who were listening very carefully. We had a great time on stage!
to our left ..
and right ...
The time seemed to fly away and we got to the end of the evening very quickly. After that we went into the foyer to meet up with old and new friends.
Unfortunately we didn?t have much time, as the crew made it clear that they wanted to go home, so we packed everything up (in a record time as well) and loaded up the car.
We got home in good time, had a quick bite and a glass of something before turning in.
What a day?
As it is my last write up for this tour, I would like to thank all of the people that came to see us and that put something of their good selves into this tour
We got so much back from all of you, stories of the past and questions about the future, please keep an eye on our website to be kept up to date about what is going to happen.
With love,
Matt
Well, we?re coming to the end of the final Dutch autumn tour. This is my last write up for it. It?s a bit of a strange feeling, but there is nothing we can do about it. And as I do believe: every end is a new beginning!
Yesterday was a real nice day, in which we caught up on some jobs to do. Linda went to some friends in the afternoon, with whom she would stay the night and we were going to see her in the American Hotel, Amsterdam the following day where we were to do an interview. Chris took me out for dinner at ? ?t Luykje? in Soest. We had a great time!
Chris figured he had been coming there almost since the time he?s come to the Netherlands. The personnel is always very friendly and walking around with smiles on their faces (there is absolutely no exception).
The food is gorgeous and so are the drinks. Of course we were the last to leave (we even bought the taxi driver that came to pick us up a drink) and said goodnight to the lovely staff.
Today was a very stressful day. To me it felt like I was constantly running behind with things. As we had an interview to do in Amsterdam, we went to the theatre first to drop of our equipment and then went to Amsterdam by train. A very good plan, but it all went a bit pear shaped. The journey towards the theatre was full of delays, once we got there nobody knew anything about us dropping off the equipment (even though I phoned up the day before to arrange it?). We quickly unloaded and I explained to Niels, the member of tonight?s crew that was already present our plan for the day.
Chris and I rushed to the railway station and just missed our train to Amsterdam. We phoned Linda, who was very well together and already got herself at the American Hotel.
When we finally got there Harry de Jong and his photographer Henk were there and Linda had already done her bit of the interview.
We had a lovely interview which was very much pointing on the things to come. After that we did a photo shoot with Henk. He seemed to know what he was doing and I?m sure the end result will be great.
Then Harry and Henk had to go. We too! Chris needed to get some shopping and Linda and I went to the Carr? to drop of a stack of brochures. We agreed to meet up at Amsterdam Central Station in 45 minutes.
Which we did! 45 minutes exactly, talking about punctuality.
We got ourselves back to the theatre, where Ron our soundman for tonight, welcomed us in. We built up the stage in a new record time and did the sound-check. Ron did a great job.
A little later Marjan, who was doing the lights, came in too. She already set up some nice lights, but wanted to make something more out of it.
Ron went for his dinner, but nothing was arranged for us. This is not the first time it happened to us, but today it seemed particularly untogether. It?s not very nice when you have to ask continually for the things that have been agreed to in the contract.
I went to see Marjan, head of the bar staff to get our dinner and drinks sorted. She was very nice and got us the things we needed. In the mean time the artist foyer was getting filled up with the crew of a big Joop van den Ende production that was doing a show in the hall next to us: Andr? van Duin, one of th? Dutch comedians. There were lots of people: musicians, dancers, roadies, p.a.?s, management, catering and of course Andr? van Duin himself.
Dinner was served: beautifully done steak! It hit every right spot and filled every hole? apart the one that I left for a desert. I own up that I do like my sweets.
Marjan said that if I asked nicely I might get a desert from the catering people of Joop van den Ende?s production. So I did?
Bert, of ?Artist Food & Care? who was organising the whole thing, said I could have the very last one. YAY! It was very nice Bert, thank you!
After dinner we made ourselves ready for the show. The usual: tune up, change into stage clothes and pace up and down the corridors. Then we got our ?five-minutes?-knock and Linda and I got downstairs to open up.
It was great! A sold out house, filled with a wonderful audience who were listening very carefully. We had a great time on stage!
to our left ..
and right ...
Unfortunately we didn?t have much time, as the crew made it clear that they wanted to go home, so we packed everything up (in a record time as well) and loaded up the car.
We got home in good time, had a quick bite and a glass of something before turning in.
What a day?
As it is my last write up for this tour, I would like to thank all of the people that came to see us and that put something of their good selves into this tour
We got so much back from all of you, stories of the past and questions about the future, please keep an eye on our website to be kept up to date about what is going to happen.
With love,
Matt
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