Our second fucking euro tour. I'm super fucking happy... fuck.
Haarlem. Last time we played here was at a place called Cafe Stiels. It was a fun show; about 15 to 20 crazy, dancing dutchies...
This time... wow.
We walked into the venue. Firstoff, our poster was up on the walls. Full colour. It was the pic of one of our fan's boobs with TRIKE written on them in black marker... ha. They must've ganked that from our myspace site.
The stage was sweet. Black curtain, coloured lights... simple and pro. The sound guy barely said a word. We plugged in and the sound was DIVINE!!! The sound the other night was challenging but last night it was gorgeous, sharp and clean... no distortion, no nothin...
There are three types of audiences: "uninterested" (usually at least a small handful are into us), "moderately interested" (around half or so seem keen, others are unreadable or uninterested) or totally into us. The "totally into us" audience is usually a result of a lot of hard work on our part: tagging the city, playing loads of shows, making die-hard fans (love you guys) and having shows where plenty of our fans come...
The show last night was "moderately interested" in that, about half of the audience seemed really into us, and half either unreadable, chatty, or uninterested. This is because nobody knew who we were and many come just to drink and chat and dance... we were told it would be like that by the soundman beforehand. One guy kinda pissed me off, so I lipped him off and he left. I called him a "mutherfucker", but I was really just joking. I said "Denk je dat onze muziek leuk is?" (because he asked if it was "leuk" beforehand) and he responded "Soms wel, soms niet" ... what the EFF?
We played "Inner Tubing", which we hadn't played in awhile. Didn't do the Trikey, but we slapped 'em around with "Let's Jog", "Omigod" and others... We sold four or five CDs, a t shirt, got emails... Met a cool guy from Brazil who was scads of fun. THEN, a SUPER TALL guy walked in. He was OVER half a foot taller than me. I was a shrimp compared to him.
A successful second show. Not as wild as the first night, but still, a respectful, appreciative audience. I felt fatigued at times during the eve, due to my jet lag, but it was a fun eve, all in all... perhaps they will have us back in May.
Here are pics:
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