Wed 11 Mar – Spinvis op z'n eentje

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Thu 3 Apr – We Are Scientists, the 925s

American indie rock band We Are Scientists graced the Netherlands with gigs in no less than three small venues. As far as I know, at least two of them sold out, and I was lucky enough to attend the last one in Tivoli de Helling.

The evening started with the 925s, a quartet of Brits that have relocated to the Netherlands and are apparently well-known as openers for acts like WAS and Babyshambles. They were trying alright, and I have to admit they were decent, but certainly nothing more than…

Tue 13 Feb – My Brightest Diamond

Shara Worden, also known as My Brightest Diamond, may be best known as one of Sufjan Stevens' Illinoisemakers, but she can make some noise on her own too. Just a day before Valentine's Day, she performed in Amsterdam's poptemple Paradiso. Playing in a tiny hall and without any opening act, the crowd was surprisingly large and eager to see her. Worden looked positively pixielike in her green dress, turquoise tights and dragonfly-necklace, and only the worn-out hiker shoes she wore confirmed that this tiny creature with the big guitar was,…

After years of highly inconvenient planned concerts, the gig gods finally seem to have taken a liking to me. All my concerts used to be scheduled in the middle of exam weeks, preferably the day before a particularly tough exam. It was like this in high school, and it started out like this in college. Last year, I attended a concert on the nights before both of the exams for my course in European Literature. The first was Broken Social Scene in Amsterdam, the second Deep Purple in Brussels. Both times I saw Our Lady Peace live, I had to…

My tenth journal post is a song-guessing meme, because I am bored. Woe.

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.

1. ever close your eyes, ever sat and listen Enya - Wild Child
2. the night it was lazy, the streets were all crowded Matthew Good - As Long As You're Mine
3. I have my favourite shadows, ghosts and other courts bizarre
4. caught your…

So, this new last.fm look… I'm not sure about it yet. It seems so crowded to me. It's shiny alright, but there are a tad too many pictures for my taste. I suppose I'll get used to it eventually, only for the look to change again. :P

As for music, I've been having a Disney mood again last week. More precisely, a Pocahontas mood. I've been listening to the OST a lot on my mp3 player on the way to work. It's really a small masterpiece, and it saddens me to know that the movie got such a lukewarm reaction.…

The good thing about birthdays is getting new music. Or well, music that is new to me. Or that I just needed to get as an actual cd, instead of a bunch of mp3s. Loot for now (actual birthday still coming up):

Strange Little Girls - What can I say? It's Tori. I've listened to it once, so far, and I think I like it. '97 Bonnie & Clyde is supercreepy.

Urban Hymns - I asked for this based solely on Bitter Sweet Symphony. Of course, given the genius of this song, I can only be disappointed. But I'm not…

This week is a soundtrack week. Some of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats yesterday and this morning, lots of Disney now. Man, words cannot describe how much I love Disney. The first Disney film I can remember seeing was The Little Mermaid. My uncle and aunt took me to see it when I was three years old. It gripped me and never let go. I actually watched it again this afternoon and it never loses it's magic for me. My mum's also a big Disney nut, she's been collecting the movies on VHS since I was a kid, and…

seen live:
because everyone is doing it.

Dido
Uriah Heep
Our Lady Peace
Avril Lavigne
Racoon
Di-Rect .
Kaizers Orchestra
Dandy Warhols
Metric
Broken Social Scene
k-os
Sarah Slean
Barbie Bangkok
DeLaVega
Sigur Rós
Amina
Most Serene Republic

I think that's it. If I forgot any, they'll be added later.

I haven't updated in over a month! I'm sure you all missed me terribly, right? ;)

I haven't bought any new music since I last updated, because I am poor like that, but I have been downloading a lot and I plan to buy most of it eventually.

Last week my boyfriend played some tracks off Berlin for me. Depressing stuff, but beautiful. I've been listening to it a lot in the past week. I like Lou Reed's lyrics. Straight-forward, but still poetic.

The new Broken Social Scene! It's messy, but so much fun. I can not stop…