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<blockquote data-quote="Fladian" data-source="post: 124927" data-attributes="member: 5833"><p>Yesterday there was a free concert close to where I live. If I'm not mistaking, I mentioned that in my first post. Their official site mentioned several Dutch (and one from Belgium) artists and I was pretty excited to see them. I <em>really</em> wanted to see Wolter Kroes (a popular Dutch artist, but didn't score a hit for quite some time now), Do (international artist), Belle Perez (Spanish singing Belgian artist), Jannes (upcoming Dutch artist; my mother is a fan of him) and Guus Meeuwis (by far my favorite Dutch singing artist and argumentable my favorite Dutch artist; also one of the most successful Dutch-singing artists ever). You would be free to say that I would be extremely happy if just Guus Meeuwis would come.</p><p> </p><p>Unfortunately, only three of those five were actually there and besides that, they were disappointing live.</p><p>I've seen <strong>Wolter Kroes</strong> before at Museumplein in Amsterdam which I mentioned in the first post and he was one of the best artists out there. He really got the party going which truly impressed me. I hoped ("There are about... 70,000, 80,000 people here. I'm wondering, if I say one line, if you can repeat it." - Wolter Kroes in Amsterdam) that he would do something similar out there too. Unfortunately, my hopes were wrong. The first song he did was an unknown song (hardly anyone knew it) and besides, he play-backed it. Luckily, Wolter is quite the sport, and by the time he noticed that people saw he was play-backing, he just made fun of it by doing impossible moves while normally singing. Great guy. His second song was a classic and that really was live. Good song and his two <em>guests</em> (Guillermo & Tropical Danny, owner of the 'summer-hit' of the Netherlands) were nice enough to sing along well. Remarkable enough they didn't do anything them selves.</p><p><strong>Belle Perez</strong> was most likely the most disappointing of the entire cast who had a 'name.' Despite that everyone knew her songs, less than 1% of the crowd could sing along. After all, Spanish isn't a common language here. I'm not a fan of her, but I've always wanted to see her live before. I don't really regret that I did, but I expected her to be more... active. More excited.</p><p>The artist my mother liked, <strong>Jannes</strong> certainly wasn't disappointing. But on the other hand, I didn't really know what to expect of him. I only know one song of him and found it mostly decent than anything else. He isn't my type of artist regarding music, but he is a man I could admire because he isn't as arrogant as most of the artists who get a bit of reputation. (Frans Bauer, a currently very successful Dutch artist is most likely the least arrogant artist out here; despite that he is insanely popular, he does nothing outside of the ordinary and often let his fans just come in in his house just to get a cup of coffee, with his common words: "I feel sorry for them when they are waiting outside for me." A friend of mine met him once during work. Frans just stopped by with his car and started to talk with them, for no particular reason. "He just suddenly stopped with the car in front of us and started to say some stuff. I don't like his music, but he's a great guy.") In opposite of the other 'big' artists, Jannes was excited to do this and kept looking with a broad smile on his face. The smile he became popular with. As I said, great guy. I'll post a picture of him (photo) later on.</p><p><strong>Guus Meeuwis.[b/] the artist I came for, was sick... he had a cold and couldn't sing. He cancelled all his other concerts this month too. Unfortunate indeed.</strong></p><p> <strong></strong></p><p><strong>However, there were some other artists which were nice as well. <strong>Gebroeders Ko</strong> (Brothers Ko) were doing a great job with a big hit of them currently. Because the Swedish song, <em>Boten Anna</em> was released quite late out here, Gebroeders Ko made a variation of it. They sang about a boat named Anna instead. Horrible song, but because it has the same beat and melody, it remains a great song. Everyone sung along, so it was a nice experience. They are probably my highlight of the night.</strong></p><p><strong><strong>BZN</strong> was my first time I heard time. The friend I came with asked if I knew them and I answered with: "I only know them by name," which was symbollically meant (I know them by their reputation); I forgot that 'BZN' is a shortage of 'Band zonder naam' (Band without a name). Regardless, they ended the night by performing. Them being the last band. I find that personally very disappointing. They had to let them perform at least two hours earlier. They really got the crowd going... just like Wolter Kroes and Gebroeders Ko.</strong></p><p><strong><strong>Nick & Simon</strong> were artists I didn't know, but I must admit that they were pretty good. I heard that they were the friends of <em>Jan Smit</em> (one of the most popular Dutch artists of the moment), and was later confirmed. They were pretty good.</strong></p><p><strong><strong>Helmut Lotti[/i] was pretty good too, but unfortunately, I didn't recognize him until it was too late. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></strong></strong></p><p> <strong><strong></strong></strong></p><p><strong><strong>All in all, it was a nice night, except that it was pouring (rain). And I guess that I didn't know about 70% of the artists that came by and that Guus Meeuwis wasn't around... that was disappointing. It was also very disappointing that no girl-friend of mine wanted to come with me, despite that all of them had a fair excuse for not coming; one of them having a very simple but unfortunate one ("I have to work").</strong></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fladian, post: 124927, member: 5833"] Yesterday there was a free concert close to where I live. If I'm not mistaking, I mentioned that in my first post. Their official site mentioned several Dutch (and one from Belgium) artists and I was pretty excited to see them. I [i]really[/i] wanted to see Wolter Kroes (a popular Dutch artist, but didn't score a hit for quite some time now), Do (international artist), Belle Perez (Spanish singing Belgian artist), Jannes (upcoming Dutch artist; my mother is a fan of him) and Guus Meeuwis (by far my favorite Dutch singing artist and argumentable my favorite Dutch artist; also one of the most successful Dutch-singing artists ever). You would be free to say that I would be extremely happy if just Guus Meeuwis would come. Unfortunately, only three of those five were actually there and besides that, they were disappointing live. I've seen [b]Wolter Kroes[/b] before at Museumplein in Amsterdam which I mentioned in the first post and he was one of the best artists out there. He really got the party going which truly impressed me. I hoped ("There are about... 70,000, 80,000 people here. I'm wondering, if I say one line, if you can repeat it." - Wolter Kroes in Amsterdam) that he would do something similar out there too. Unfortunately, my hopes were wrong. The first song he did was an unknown song (hardly anyone knew it) and besides, he play-backed it. Luckily, Wolter is quite the sport, and by the time he noticed that people saw he was play-backing, he just made fun of it by doing impossible moves while normally singing. Great guy. His second song was a classic and that really was live. Good song and his two [i]guests[/i] (Guillermo & Tropical Danny, owner of the 'summer-hit' of the Netherlands) were nice enough to sing along well. Remarkable enough they didn't do anything them selves. [b]Belle Perez[/b] was most likely the most disappointing of the entire cast who had a 'name.' Despite that everyone knew her songs, less than 1% of the crowd could sing along. After all, Spanish isn't a common language here. I'm not a fan of her, but I've always wanted to see her live before. I don't really regret that I did, but I expected her to be more... active. More excited. The artist my mother liked, [b]Jannes[/b] certainly wasn't disappointing. But on the other hand, I didn't really know what to expect of him. I only know one song of him and found it mostly decent than anything else. He isn't my type of artist regarding music, but he is a man I could admire because he isn't as arrogant as most of the artists who get a bit of reputation. (Frans Bauer, a currently very successful Dutch artist is most likely the least arrogant artist out here; despite that he is insanely popular, he does nothing outside of the ordinary and often let his fans just come in in his house just to get a cup of coffee, with his common words: "I feel sorry for them when they are waiting outside for me." A friend of mine met him once during work. Frans just stopped by with his car and started to talk with them, for no particular reason. "He just suddenly stopped with the car in front of us and started to say some stuff. I don't like his music, but he's a great guy.") In opposite of the other 'big' artists, Jannes was excited to do this and kept looking with a broad smile on his face. The smile he became popular with. As I said, great guy. I'll post a picture of him (photo) later on. [b]Guus Meeuwis.[b/] the artist I came for, was sick... he had a cold and couldn't sing. He cancelled all his other concerts this month too. Unfortunate indeed. However, there were some other artists which were nice as well. [b]Gebroeders Ko[/b] (Brothers Ko) were doing a great job with a big hit of them currently. Because the Swedish song, [i]Boten Anna[/i] was released quite late out here, Gebroeders Ko made a variation of it. They sang about a boat named Anna instead. Horrible song, but because it has the same beat and melody, it remains a great song. Everyone sung along, so it was a nice experience. They are probably my highlight of the night. [b]BZN[/b] was my first time I heard time. The friend I came with asked if I knew them and I answered with: "I only know them by name," which was symbollically meant (I know them by their reputation); I forgot that 'BZN' is a shortage of 'Band zonder naam' (Band without a name). Regardless, they ended the night by performing. Them being the last band. I find that personally very disappointing. They had to let them perform at least two hours earlier. They really got the crowd going... just like Wolter Kroes and Gebroeders Ko. [b]Nick & Simon[/b] were artists I didn't know, but I must admit that they were pretty good. I heard that they were the friends of [i]Jan Smit[/i] (one of the most popular Dutch artists of the moment), and was later confirmed. They were pretty good. [b]Helmut Lotti[/i] was pretty good too, but unfortunately, I didn't recognize him until it was too late. :P All in all, it was a nice night, except that it was pouring (rain). And I guess that I didn't know about 70% of the artists that came by and that Guus Meeuwis wasn't around... that was disappointing. It was also very disappointing that no girl-friend of mine wanted to come with me, despite that all of them had a fair excuse for not coming; one of them having a very simple but unfortunate one ("I have to work").[/b][/b] [/QUOTE]
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