Preparing for Lowlands trying to listen to every band that's lined up in one night, thank God there's YouTube. I'm not even through a third of the first day (Friday) and I've already discovered two bands: Broken Bells and Band of Skulls.

All Time Low is like a mix between Green Day and Jack's Mannequin only less good. The films are fantastic this ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is my birthday.

I'll put on the first VHS/DVD at fourteen oh hundred sharp (14:00) and everyone's invited.

I don't want to get older, but I am, and I'm okay now about it.

En ik dacht dat ik wist wie ik was. Dat verklaart niet waarom ik vandaag eerst een half uur aan het ratelen was over hoe boos ik was op alles en iedereen, en toen verwoed ( Read more... )

Lowlands 2008 (Llow Sweet Home) check list

Number of:

- nights I was not in my tent till morning: 2
- times I took off my dress and threw it on stage: 1 (<3 Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls))
- times I joined dance & beatclubs, calling out TREES and LOWLANDS and drumming on trashcans: 1 night long
- drugs taken: 3 (one of them unexpectedly)
- concerts seen ( Read more... )

Lowlands compilation on Nederland 3! That means I get to see the bands I didn’t get to see first time around, and the best songs of the bands I did see (Damien Rice’s I Remember and Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), only without the part of I Remember that came after Bang Bang).

I only got to see the last part of Alamo Race Track when I got there ( Read more... )

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Damien Rice - 9 Crimes, which he started the show with.

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Damien Rice - I Remember & Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) [Nancy Sinatra cover].

Lowlands was a huge confidence boost, so I got through that hour at GBG alright, but why must it all suck so much there? It also had a little bit to do that everyone who went to Lowlands with me wasn’t there (apparently they’d overslept, then panicked, then didn’t know how to get the trains, then they panicked about GBG some more, and ended up at ( Read more... )

Tool is about to start in the Alpha tent, Freak, Daniël, Becca and JB are in line, I'm not, because I'm going to buy a few cds and then go home. P.S. Tessa and Jim ar really fucking hiiigh. JB was rocking his body back and forth very obviously and Tessa had completely no idea why the world was suddenly moving and she hid her eyes and giggled and ( Read more... )

Update from Lowlands!

Between Damien Rice and Patrick Wolf they made every cent worth it! Damien, as always, ignored us completely - until one of his guitar's strings broke and he told us and then he forgot the lyrics and went all "oh, fuck" and laughed and was a little bit embarrassed, but we cheered and applauded all the more for it - he ( Read more... )

I’m going to Lowlands! Which is to say, I bought my ticket in May, but over the past week (ever since that row me and Ban had about it) it seemed very unlikely that I'd go, as much as I hated to admit it. It was only today that I realised the obvious. Also, I saw Freak and Jag today, which was really cool. Of course, this is the - third? Yes, third ( Read more... )