Eternal summer

(Hong Kong, 2007)

Summer '10: Hong Kong & Indonesia :)

Where we belong

Last night, before the show, we went to FAME music store where The Blackout did an acoustic set + a signing session. We were a bit late, but thankfully they hadn't started yet. While we were trying to find way to avoid the 6 feet tall dudes around us, two girls called us emo. We've never been called emo before, but that's because we're gangsters. Fo sho. I thought it was hilarious, though, considering they had snake bites, obviously black dyed hair and black eyeliner. Maybe they considered themselves scene kids?

Anyways, the set was pretty ok. They did 4 songs which I can't exactly remember. I know they performed It's High Tide Baby, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, but that's about it. We didn't stayed for the signings afterwards and went to the venue instead.

Lostprophets were a-ma-zing. I'll post the pictures and upload the videos another time...

We claimed the streets and we moved mountains

(^Mercedes 240d. Mom? Dad? )

I finally got my drivers license. After 2 years, 4 exams and 145388 driving lessons, I got it. It's about damn time... :D

Tell me you remember forever young

(Friday)

Main Stage: Green Day, Editors, 30 Seconds To Mars, Paramore and RISE AGAINST

Pyramid Marquee: LCD Soundsystem, Jack Johnson, The Gaslight Anthem, The Specials, Corinne Bailey Rae

Happy birthday!

:)

A million miles

Lostprophets: The Betrayed, City And Colour: Bring Me Your Love, Kerrang! magazine (finally) and... no more snow! :)

I don't belong here, we gotta move on dear, escape from this afterlife

Not my button! :O

Can't stop, gotta date with hate

Greediness at its finest: me and step ordered tickets this morning to see the Lostprophets... twice. On April 13th in 013 and April 16th in one of my favourite venues, the Melkweg. :) :) :)

For all these times kid, for all these times

Bored, much? Found this on the interweb. An i-Tunes questionnaire:

How many songs total: 826

How many hours or days of music: 2 days

Sort by song title

First song: Abandon ship or abandon all hope - Four Year Strong

Last song: 911 for peace (live) - Anti-Flag

Sort by time

Shortest song: Fix me (Black Flag cover) - Rise Against

Longest song: World by storm - Aiden

Sort by album

First album: Aha shake heartbreak - Kings Of Leon

Last album: The 59 sound - The Gaslight Anthem

Top 5 most played songs:

1. Rise Against - 401 Kill

2. Four Year Strong - Bada bing

3. Rise Against - Everchanging

4. City And Colour - Sleeping sickness

5. Rise Against - Obstructed view

How soon is now

We (Mutti, Floor, me and Step) were supposed to go London this evening, but apparently the weather gods are against us. It's been snowing most of the week now and apparently 4 inches of snow is too much to take for this country. Public transport has been shutdown and the roads are covered with snow/ice. So much for our ultimate Christmas shopping spree :(

p.s. Step, you do know I don't drink any alcoholic beverages right ;) hahahahaha

You look like a monkey and you smell like one too!

Happy Birthday tooooooooo Chris!

21.. So you can go to the casino, or get drunk in America, hurray!

That's not a shoe. I'm not a shoe.

Yesterday chris and me went to the city 'really quick and just for a skirt'. Came home with 2 pair of shoes, 3 magazines, 1 dress and 16 packages smint. :O

Still I keep searching for something to put my faith in, to find my place

My birthday is coming up in two weeks and I'm (still) deciding what to ask the parents. I'm thinking about a Canon EOS 450D or a laptop. I know, I already own a laptop, but it's really slow and crap. I´m still searching for my perfect match and I´m deciding whether I should buy a MacBook or a good old HP. A MacBook might be a better investment, considering school work and stuff, but I'm more familiar with HP.

Decisions, decisions...

Take these storms away start a brand new story

♥♥♥

Destroyer

L O S T PROPHETS

But more than you'll ever know

Spotted: Mario and Luigi at the antidote tour. They were brilliant.

We watched this city burn

(The only decent picture of Dallas)

(...and the only decent picture of Chris. Dude was moving too fast)

Bring out your dead

Last night was awesome. After work I rushed to the train station and met up with Step so we could go to Amsterdam for the second time in 2 days. I thought the venue would be pretty packed when we arrived, but there was hardly anyone there. First to play: The Ghost Of A Thousand. They were... alright? I thought the singer had an awesome voice. Couldn't really tell what he was screaming/singing, though.
After playing for about half an hour Four Year Strong came up. It was awesome. They didn't perform any of their 90's cover, which I thought was a shame. Cause that would have been great! However, they did performed The Takeover, Bada Bing!, Catastrophe, Abandon Ship, Men Are From Mars, Semi-Charmed Life, Prepare To Be Digitally Manipulated, Beatdown, She Really Loved You, Maniac, Heroes Get Remembered (which is my favourite :)). #2 from Anti-Flag was watching as you can (or can not) see on the first picture. I was kind of distracted and didn't really listened to the rest of FYS when he came up ;)

After FYS Anti-Flag played. All I could think of was: "Alexisonfire headlines the UK dates, Anti-Flag headlines the mainland Euro dates." Last time I checked, Amsterdam is a city in mainland Euro. So why the hell was Alexisonfire headlining? I was and still am kind of pissed about it.
Anyways Anti-Flag performed The Press Corpse, Sodom Gomorrah Washington D.C., Turncoat, I'd Tell You But..., War Sucks Let's Party!, The Economy Is Suffering, The Smartest Bomb, 1 Trillion Dollars, Fuck Police Brutality, This Is The End, Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Die For The Government, Cities Burn and Power To The Peaceful. During one song #2 told a guy to crowdsurf from front to back, and he made it! That was funny. Also, Pat was drumming in the crowd during one of their songs, I just can't remember which song it was. Kids were trying to steal picks from #2 and Justin (which is a typical Amsterdam thing, I think.) Even though they weren't headlining they were really awesome and got the crowd going unlike Alexisonfire. Alexisonfire was good, but not as great as Anti-Flag. But I am prejudiced, Anti-Flag can't go wrong with me. There was some crowdsurfing and stagediving going on during the Alexisonfire set. George threw some kids of the stage, Dallas was amazing and Chris... Chris was awesome. He was going crazy on stage. The combination Chris + bass = always brilliant. #2 came on stage during This Could Be Anywhere In The World :)

To end this blog, the entire Alexisonfire set list: Drunks Lovers Sinners And Saints, No Transitory, Boiled Frogs, Born And Raised, We Are The Sound, Old Crows, Waterwings, Rough Hands, Young Cardinals, This Could Be Anywhere In The World, Accept Crime, Accidents and Happiness By The Kilowatt.

I'll do another post with pictures of Anti-Flag... and ok Alexisonfire too. More than 90% of the pictures were blurry, due to bad photographer (me) and the amount of smoke in the room. Someone was a bit enthousiastic about the fogmachine, me thinks.

This is The Blackout coming to your town

Friday the 13th: The Blackout + Young Guns in Amsterdam. We managed to stand near the stage, but after some moshing we ended up somewhere in the middle of the crowd :S

Young Guns tried to get some movement in the crowd, but they failed. The Blackout was good.

The Blackout performed Save Our Selves (The Warning), Top Of The World, The Fire, Children Of The Night, Said & Done, I Love Myself And I Wanna Live, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, We're Going To Hell... So Bring The Sunblock, I'm A Riot, Your A Fucking Riot, Fashion Concious Suicide, Spread Legs Not Lies, The Beijing Cocktail, It's High Tide Baby ♥, She Is Macho. Not quite sure if there were more songs, but they practically performed their entire album "The Best In Town".

Afterwards Young Guns were at their merch table. Step and I took a picture with them, even though they weren't any good. I look like I'm about to kill someone so I won't post them ;) Btw. the drummer looks like Caleb (Kings Of Leon) but shorter.