This year I didn't go to as much shows as previous years. In 2009 I saw 28 concerts (in the last few years I went to between 40 and 55 concerts). The ironic part is, that the number is quite a bit ...

Last thursday was the first show of Violent Demise, a new metal band with members from Purmerend and the Zaanstad area. While I'm not a big metal fan, we had to go as their bassplayer Daan is also ...

Last wednesday I went to see Velvet Revolver. As it turns out now it was the last show of Velvet Revolver with Scott Weiland.

Sons of Albion was okay, but not quite ready yet for the big league. ...

Local band The Untuned (sadly only very blurry photos) opened up this evening. Mostly veterans of hard and harder bands. Good songs, but a bit too static stage act.

Next band, The Goods are one of ...

A short post for a long evening. For the 12.5 year anniversary of music magazine LiveXS about 15 bands played in the Waerdse Tempel in Heerhugowaard.

I saw about 7 of those. A few were very good ...

Opening band The Sugarettes had a bit of an Belgian indie thing going on. They reminded me of Sonic Youth or the Pixies if those bands had come from Antwerp.

The Sugarettes

I had ...

It was a busy night for rock'n'roll: first to the Melkweg for The Quotes and Beatsteaks, then to Club Hell in the Paradiso for Lo-Lite and Sack-o'-Woes.

Standing ...

Here are some pictures from the show in the Impuls last night. Three local hardcore/punk bands played there yesterday.

21 Gun Salute

The first band was 21 Gun Salute, a new band in the ...

San Andreas played a nice set. A bit too much by the numbers emocore for my tastes, but definitely one of the better Dutch bands in the genre.

San Andreas

I've seen Coheed and Cambria ...

Last friday local rehearsal studio Jottum had their yearly party in De Kade. About 12 local bands played.

When I arrived Fearless Skies was already playing. A new local punk band. They play modern ...

Gelukkig heb ik vrienden die wel opletten wanneer er leuke bands komen, anders was ik het jaar niet zo goed begonnen. Twee van mijn favoriete Nederlandse bands op één avond: Rene SG en ...

Een aardig endje rijden over een van de saaiste snelwegen leidde ons vorige week zaterdag naar Wieringerwerf.

Zaterdagavond in Wieringwerf. Weinig plaatsen zijn zo weinig enerverend. Op zoek naar ...

Afgelopen maandag speelde een band die ik al tijden lang live wilde zien eindelijk in Amsterdam.

The Hydromatics, ooit begonnen als side-project van Tony Slug (Nitwitz, ex-Spades), Scott Morgan ...

Het was een heftig avondje speedrock afgelopen donderdag. Eerst naar de showcase van Peter Pan Speedrock in de Desmet Studios.


In de top 10 van de bands die ik het meest live gezien heb, staan ...

Wat foto's gemaakt afgelopen vrijdag bij het concert van Atreides, Playground Fire en 161.

De band C/4 speelde ook, maar om de laatste trein te halen, moesten wij al weg. Ik vraag me sowieso af ...

De Canadese malloten van Maximum RNR:





Denvis en zijn kornuiten van The Spades:

De Rawberries uit Rotterdam:


De Italiaans Duitse Utrechtenaren van Subwoofer Testing Days:


Een van mijn nieuwe favoriete bands, The Chelsea Smiles:

De 1e paar bands van Powerfest lieten we aan ons voorbij gaan. Skapunk-bandjes trek ik echt niet op de vroege zondagmiddag.

De 1e band die we zagen was The Sleeping. Leuke band. Deed me een beetje ...

Voor het eerst na de verbouwing van de Melkweg ben ik in de Max. Het ziet er allemaal goed uit, maar mijn favoriete plek is niet zo prettig meer.
Voor de verbouwing stond ik meestal links of rechts ...

Dankzij Knoedel van Festivalinfo.nl kon ik mee naar The Sunshine Underground in de Melkweg.

Het zoals in de eeuwenoude Britse traditie tot de volgende grote belofte gebombardeerd in Engeland is ...

Beter laat dan nooit...

De Stucadelics:
sfeervolle new-wave


Daarna the Sack-o'-Woes, lekkere garage punk / hardcore.




Als 3e de Kift, tja, fanfare punk is ...

Toen ik binnenkwam was het nog vrij rustig in Bitterzoet. De vage lounge-muziek leek niet veel goeds te voorspellen. Ach ja, voor de DJ was het ook maandagavond.

Tegen de tijd dat eerste band ...

Soms vraag je je echt af of mensen wel geluisterd hebben naar de bands in kwestie als ze ze op één avond programmeren. Zo vroegen wij ons af wie bedacht had dat Green Lizard & Buckcherry een goede ...

Het voorprogramma, Jeremy's, kon me niet echt boeien. Standaard jaren '90 skatepunk, die zelfs niet spannender werd door de schaars geklede zangeres.

Billy Talent maakte het gelukkig helemaal goed ...

Helaas hebben we van the Black Angels alleen de laatste paar minuten meegepikt.

The Black Keys waren wel erg goed, dus het was zeker de moeite waard.





Vergelijkingen met The ...

Twee van de betere Belgische rockbands in de Paradiso.

Eerst Les Anges uit Brussel. Eerder bekend onder de naam Hulk, maar waarschijnlijk om rechtzaken uit de VS te voorkomen, en na het toevoegen ...

Aangezien we in Groningen waren, konden we ook wel een avondje Vera doen. Daar was de Dutch Indie Singles Club, met deze keer The Bullfight en LPG.

The Bullfight was de opener van de avond. ...

Een leuk gratis concert in de Melkweg: A Wilhelm Scream. Ik had ze eerder gezien als voorprogramma van Rise Against. Toen waren ze minder goed dan ik naar aanleiding van hun album gedacht ...

When Kanipchen-fit entered the stage I was afraid we would get some arty farty crap. Luckily the duo with their combination of drum computer, vocals and guitar was pretty good. The rhythms where ...

Probably chosen because of the car-themed name instead of any musical similarity, the Sedan Vault proved to be a mismatch as opening act for the Datsuns.

I must admit the Belgian band could have ...

A quick post with some pictures of the Atreides, Curtains & Paralyzed gig of last saterday. A small venue + lots of enthusiastic people = Cool show.



The Curtains and their Terrifying ...

Just a quick post with some pictures of the Atreides and Paralyzed gig. Despite the efforts of de Koe, the venue where the gig was, most of the audience existed of just the two bands. Luckily ...

Last Tuesday there was a free concert for year members at the Melkweg. Usually this means lots of old rockers, but the mentioning of emo in the description of the bands on the Melkweg site must have ...

Yesterday my girlfriend and I went to my original hometown Edam to got to the Singelfestival. When heard they would play, we thought it would be a good opportunity to combine a good meal at my ...

Last friday I went to a gig of my girlfriend's band Paralyzed together with Atreides, Dismissed and the Curtains and Their Terrifying Story. We just got a new camera, so we took it with us to try it ...

The first band, Berri Txarrak was a Basque alternative rock band. Some of their songs sounded like a System of a Down rip-off, while other songs were more melodic punk. The sound during their gig was ...

My girlfriend and I had bought tickets for the Thursday gig tonight. They would play together with the Bouncing Souls and Pennywise, 2 bands I don't exactly care for anymore.

We should have ...

Backyard Babies, one of my favorites in the garage punk genre played the Patronaat, so a couple of friends and I decided to go there.

The first opening band, Trashlight Vision, was expecially good ...

It's been a bit too long since I updated this journal, so I have plenty of shows to review. I'll keep 'm short so I can catch up quickly.

More than a month ago we went to see Thrice in the ...

Last week I went to the ultimate Beatles tribute with a couple of friends. Both the Punkles and Beatallica played.

The Punkles are the love child of the Ramones and the Beatles. Nice idea, you'd ...

One of the most underappreciated bands ever played in the Melkweg last week.

Mother's Finest has rocked stages since the 70s, but somehow never made it real big. One of the few ...

Just a short review.

Okatta:
Still don't understand why they won the Winston Popprijs preliminary. A mediocre mix of grungre, punk and ska. Especially the vocals need work. My main advice to ...

Friday April 21st Paralyzed participated in the 4th and last preliminary of the Regionaal Kabaal contest at Donkey in Heemskerk. Together with 4 other bands they competed for a place in the ...

Last wednesday three punk rock / garage punk bands played at the Winston in Amsterdam. There wasn't exactly a big turnout: the audience consisted mainly of the bands, the Amsterdam chapter of the ...

Last friday my girlfriend and I went to see Atreides and the Curtains And Their Terrifying Story play at SCWO in Wormer.

Unfortunatly we arrived during the last few chords of the last Atreides ...

At the same night as the Wally Tax memorial in the Melkweg the American band Federation X would also play. Described by the Melkweg as a bizarre trio of extreme trailer park rejects, my interest was ...

Skip the Rush, one of the best Dutch bands of the moment, played an all acoustic set in café de Koe in Amsterdam this Sunday afternoon. Together with one of her band members, my girlfriend and I went ...

Together with my friends Raoul and Rob and their girlfriends I went to see Thin Lizzy at Paradiso, Amsterdam. Of ...

Together with my girlfriend and her father I went to see Danko Jones playing at the Melkweg last Thursday. It was the 8th time I saw Danko Jones live, and he still manages to impress me.

As always ...

Hell is for Heroes canceled citing 'logistical problems', whatever that means. Luckily both Boy Sets Fire and Tribute To Nothing gave very good performances.

Tribute To Nothing is a rather young ...

Last Wednesday my girlfriend and I went to the Melkweg for the Bullet For My Valentine show. The opening band was The Maple Room, a Belgian emocore band. I had listened to the songs on their Myspace ...

Yesterday I went to the Zaandam preliminary of the Noordhollands Glorie; eight local and mostly young bands competing for a place in the finals. Three out of eight bands played recently at the Local ...

It sucked to hear that the show of Thrice and Coheed And Cambria together was canceled, but luckily both bands still were planning to come to Amsterdam. I just hoped the support acts of the bands ...

Last Friday I went to Local Big Shots 3 at de Kade in Zaandam to see some of the local bands. I must admit that due to meeting my friend Derek aka Derman Luger of the ...

Friday 27th january my girlfriend dragged me to Wormerveer as she had a gig there. Together with Der Einzelgängers and the Curtains And Their Terrifying Story her band Paralyzed ...