Diary
16th Nov, Cafe Lanting, Meedhuizen
| Posted at 01:30 PM on November 20, 2008 |
Linda writes...
After going to bed at 3am, an early morning start was required. Jan had already been in touch with us to ask if we would do something on a live radio show that was being broadcast from the venue before the show.
We couldn't really work out how that was going to work but we did realise that we would have to set off around the 9:30 mark to get there on time - which meant we started to get up at 8:30.
Normally this is something that would only happen if the place was on fire but today it had to be alarm clocks.
I had volunteered to get up first and so prised myself out of my pit and into the shower in the hope of waking up and becoming more human. It didn't work - but I was clean.
I then went and knocked on Matt's door. He emerged looking like a poisoned badger, and was displaying the same temperament. It's not like Matt to be grumpy so I made the mistake of asking what was wrong. It seems that I had snored the place to bits and he didn't get to sleep until 5ish. Matt and I are in adjoining rooms and the walls are not thick but there wasn't much I could say except "please sit in the back and have a sleep along the way."
He did - and felt a little better by the time we arrived.
Sunday morning, no traffic, a dull kind of a day - we arrived on time.
Great to see Jan and Fien again. They are a lovely couple, I managed to have more of a chat than usual with Fien and it was good to share time with her.
'Willie nelson' ( actually his name is Jan but he looks like Willie) was doing the sound for us. We've worked with him a few times and it makes life so much easier when someone already knows how you operate... everything was sorted in no time.
Then it was time to do something for the radio show. It had been going on all the time that we had been setting up and they were playing great music.
It wasn't possible to do a full session and still be ready to play the concert so we decided that they would play some MC tracks, we would do the interview, and then Matt and I would sing 'African Theme' - with the 2nd verse added.
It was a bit strange but it seemed to work OK.
We said thanks to Roel and then went to get changed to do the gig.
This is the venue that replaces Noordpolderzijl which has now stopped due to the sad, untimely death of Joke.
I guess it will take time to build it up and the audience was not a huge one - but they were lovely and we enjoyed playing to them. We had fun on stage. Matt recovered his equilibrium, and we had a good gig.
Afterwards we went through to the bar area for something to eat. We had Snert, traditional Dutch pea soup with Rookworst, a total meal in itself and VERY tasty. Chris spotted that we could also have chips - an interesting combination.
We had to go, everyone was tired and we were ready for an early night .... if there ever is such a thing. We said our goodbyes, hugs and kisses for everyone and off we went down the road again.
Thanks Jan and Fien, I'm sure we'll meet up again soon.
I think we arrived home about 10:30 PM, by which time we were all wide awake again ... so we watched TV, talked, had a bit of supper and before we knew it, it ws 3am again. Oh well, what the hell, we're fine.
After going to bed at 3am, an early morning start was required. Jan had already been in touch with us to ask if we would do something on a live radio show that was being broadcast from the venue before the show.
We couldn't really work out how that was going to work but we did realise that we would have to set off around the 9:30 mark to get there on time - which meant we started to get up at 8:30.
Normally this is something that would only happen if the place was on fire but today it had to be alarm clocks.
I had volunteered to get up first and so prised myself out of my pit and into the shower in the hope of waking up and becoming more human. It didn't work - but I was clean.
I then went and knocked on Matt's door. He emerged looking like a poisoned badger, and was displaying the same temperament. It's not like Matt to be grumpy so I made the mistake of asking what was wrong. It seems that I had snored the place to bits and he didn't get to sleep until 5ish. Matt and I are in adjoining rooms and the walls are not thick but there wasn't much I could say except "please sit in the back and have a sleep along the way."
He did - and felt a little better by the time we arrived.
Sunday morning, no traffic, a dull kind of a day - we arrived on time.
Great to see Jan and Fien again. They are a lovely couple, I managed to have more of a chat than usual with Fien and it was good to share time with her.
'Willie nelson' ( actually his name is Jan but he looks like Willie) was doing the sound for us. We've worked with him a few times and it makes life so much easier when someone already knows how you operate... everything was sorted in no time.
Then it was time to do something for the radio show. It had been going on all the time that we had been setting up and they were playing great music.
It wasn't possible to do a full session and still be ready to play the concert so we decided that they would play some MC tracks, we would do the interview, and then Matt and I would sing 'African Theme' - with the 2nd verse added.
It was a bit strange but it seemed to work OK.
We said thanks to Roel and then went to get changed to do the gig.
This is the venue that replaces Noordpolderzijl which has now stopped due to the sad, untimely death of Joke.
I guess it will take time to build it up and the audience was not a huge one - but they were lovely and we enjoyed playing to them. We had fun on stage. Matt recovered his equilibrium, and we had a good gig.
Afterwards we went through to the bar area for something to eat. We had Snert, traditional Dutch pea soup with Rookworst, a total meal in itself and VERY tasty. Chris spotted that we could also have chips - an interesting combination.
We had to go, everyone was tired and we were ready for an early night .... if there ever is such a thing. We said our goodbyes, hugs and kisses for everyone and off we went down the road again.
Thanks Jan and Fien, I'm sure we'll meet up again soon.
I think we arrived home about 10:30 PM, by which time we were all wide awake again ... so we watched TV, talked, had a bit of supper and before we knew it, it ws 3am again. Oh well, what the hell, we're fine.
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