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Happy New Year

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:11:00 +0000

A happy, healthy and prosperous 2012 to all my visitors!

One of my New Year's resolutions:

Post more often in ~~2010~~, ~~2011~~, 2012.

A day at the zoo

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:34:00 +0000

Three weeks ago I went to the zoo with my sis and youngest niece. We picked out the right day, because the weather during the rest of the week wasn't very good. But that Saturday it was perfect. Originally we planned to go a week earlier, but because of the bad weather forecast we cancelled.

I manage to take some okay shots. Not as much as I wanted, but with an eight year old you can't hang around at some place for a long time to wait for that perfect shot. They will get bored and they're right. Nothing more boring than observing an uncle walking from side to side to find the right spot and angle. We had a nice day and my niece really enjoyed it.

I planning to visit a zoo soon by myself, so I can take as much time as I please. But so far the weather has been pretty shitty. Hopefully we'll have a few nice days. I would like to do some more photography before autumn kicks in.

Anyway here are a few shots from our day at the zoo.

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Dir En Grey (ディル・アン・グレイ)

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:54:00 +0000

I didn't do much photography lately, unfortunately. From today I have a 12 day holiday, so hopefully I can finds some time to make a daytrip or something and take the camera with me.

Two weeks ago on Saturday August 7th we went to a concert of the Japanese band Dir En Grey (ディル・アン・グレイ). Started as a visual kei band, they are now considered as a metal band (more or less).

I manage to take some pictures with the compact camera. The quality is not that good, because of difficult light circumstances, but they will give you a bit of an impression.

For the videos I shot you can check my YouTube-channel.

Enjoy the pics.

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Black & White

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:40:00 +0000

I've been playing a bit with Silver Efex Pro (version 1) from Nik Software and made a Black and White version from a pic I took from my good photography friend A. The pic was taken during a photoshoot we did together in September 2009.

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Under construction

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Mon, 30 May 2011 22:22:00 +0000

I'm playing around with my lay-out and template. The next few days and maybe weeks visitors might see differrent background images at the header and some other different page elements, colours etc...

Just a random picture

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:30:00 +0000

When I was sorting out some pictures I found this one, taken last year's summer somewhere in July at the garden of friends of us.

Technically it's not the best picture in the world, but just a simple sparrow can even look beautiful, don't you think?

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Soon the lay out of this weblog is about to change. It's going to be, more or less, like my other weblog BrownNoiseMusic, but of course with a different background.

Donation links for relief aid to victims of earthquake/tsunami Japan

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:55:00 +0000

This is a repost of the donation URL's from Tokyo Doll Weblog

If you wish to make a donation you can follow one of the URL's below. Thanks!

Red cross England

Red cross America

Red cross Japan

Red cross the Netherlands

International Red cross

Donate for Japan: Important links and information

Lady Gaga : Japan Earthquake Relief Wristband

New Japan pics (preview)

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:18:00 +0000

I'm thinking of posting some of my unreleased Japan pics from last year around a theme like people (portraits), landscape, architecture or something. don't know yet how I'm exactly going to do it, but I will give it a thought.

I noticed that my last posting already goes back to 11 November this year, so to keep visitors curious about new pics, I'll post a preview from some uncut and non-edited pics from our last year's trip to Japan that might show up at some of the theme based posting in the New Year.

Hope you like them and hope to see you visitors come back next year.

In the mean time wishing everybody all the best for the New Year and hopefully it's going to be a healthy and smashing 2011.

New Japan pics (Hiroshima)

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:46:00 +0000

With new pics I mean pics that haven't been published before on this weblog. The pics below were taken a year ago during our visit to Japan. They were taken at the city of Hiroshima. I've posted about Hiroshima before (check: here and here). As most people probably know Hiroshima was the first city in history on which the first atomic bomb was dropped. Besides the Peace Memorial Museum and the monuments in the Peace Memorial Park there is not much that reminds directly to that horrible event on August 6th 1945. Nowadays Hiroshima is a vibrant city with good food places and a nice nightlife.

From my 11 visits to Japan 5 or 6 times I've also visited Hiroshima. For several reasons it's one of my favorite cities in Japan. First there is this fascinating and horrifying history. And I have some friends living there, the good food (Hiroshima is famous for it's okonomiyaki) and my favorite pub in Japan can be found here. If I have the time and chance I always try to make a few day visit to the city. In and around Hiroshima are enough and good sightseeing places. And on the night time I always go to my favorite pub after dinner. The owners Mac and Yuri are very friendly and laid back. The bar has a good mix of locals and foreigners, so there is always someone to talk to. The bar is open all night and another, for me important, plus is Mac's impressive music collection and they're always glad to grant your musical requests and they seldom disappont you.

In my former postings about Hiroshima all the pics were taken during the daytime. For quite some time I wanted to take pictures of the A-bomb Dome or Genbaku Dōmu in Japanese at night. This building is the only left and tangible memory of the nuclear blast that hit Hiroshima in the morning of August 6th 1945. If you see pictures of the A-bomb Dome and it's surroundings short after the blast it's surprising how much of the building survived the blast, also if you know that the detonation was almost direct above the building.

I can't explain the strange and ambivalent attraction I experience at places like this. A very bloody and atrocious part of modern history was written here and no matter how often I visit here (and I visited here every time I went to Hiroshima) it never leaves me untouched and standing at this place always send some shivers up my spine. If you want to read about Hiroshima short before the dropping of the bomb and the effects on the city and it's survivors I can recommend the manga (comic) books about Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa based on his own experiences as a Hiroshima survivor.

Normally I would say enjoy the pics but at a place like this I guess that wouldn't be appropriate.

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Same as previous but now with special B/W settings

Working on my template

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:30:00 +0000

For the regular visitor things might look a bit different. That's correct! I'm transferring my old Blogger template to a new one. The lay-out is not suppose to change that much. It's basically to be able to use all kinds of new functions within the new template, which wasn't possible with the old one.

Between now and the next few days returning visitors might notice some differences. But now you know why.

It's been awhile (Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra)

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:48:00 +0000

Dear visitors,

A little bit longer than planned, but I'm back again. Not that I've been away. I didn't left the country. Just took some leave from blogging for an unspecified amount of time. I had enough things/subjects to blog about, it was just a matter of other things on my mind, lack of energy, focus etc...

But little by little I was getting back in the mood again to start blogging. Last weekend my wife N. and I went to two concerts by Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (TSPO), last Friday and Korn, last Sunday. At TSPO I made some pictures and shot one video with my newest aquisition, a Panasonic TZ10.

For a more extended report and for the videos I would like to refer to my music weblog BrownNoiseMusic.

The pics from TSPO you can find below. Enjoy!

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A little more patience

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:06:00 +0000

As visitors might have noticed, things have been very quiet the past three months around here. Due to family circumstances (after a short sickbed my mother passed away last december, one month after we came back from Japan) I took some compassionate leave from blogging.

Things are slowly getting back to our normal daily routines. I probably will start posting again within one or two weeks. So please a little more patience. I'll be back soon.

Bye for now.

Japan (3) More pics (local festival) - Update

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:26:00 +0000

UPDATE:

Just uploaded the two videos (which I mentioned at the end of this posting) to YouTube with a short impression of the festival. I've embedded them after the pictures, but you also can check them here and here.

This time some pics which I took during a local festival exactly one month ago at the nearby shrine at Nerima area, Tokyo.

Japan knows many festivals, both local and nationwide. It's often said that you always will find a festival somewhere in Japan. Most festivals are based around a main event and often sponsored by a local temple or shrine. At most festivals you'll find lots of food stalls and some entertainment.

I also shot two short videos which I will uploaded to YouTube and will link or embed here. As soon as I upload to YouTube I will update this post with the URL to the videos or embed the videos in this post.

The last six pictures were taken at a nearby temple on the way back home. The pics are a bit darker, because it was already late afternoon and on the way back when we passed the temple it was already started to shimmer.

For now enjoy the pics!

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Japan (2) Some more pics (Kawagoe)

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:43:00 +0000

I already made many pics, but still couldn't find the time and energy to post some. Also sorting out and categorizing all the pics cost quite some time, especially when you take many pics.

Since our last trip from October 22nd until October 29th (see for a little more details my former post) we didn't exactly sat still. We made trips to Niigata-prefecture, where we stayed in the city of Murakami (yes the same name as the author, also using the same Kanji characters).

From last Sunday until last Wednesday I went to Hiroshima, where I visited Miyajima and Iwakuni. On the nighttime after dinner I spent my time at my favorite pub, not only in Hiroshima but in whole Japan, the Mac Bar until the late hours, drinking beers, talking with some locals and other foreigners and listening to good music.

Before I went to Hiroshima, my wife N. and I went to Harajuku and the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo.

Last Friday we went to the Tokyo Bay area where we visited Miraikan, the national museum of emerging science and innovation (official name). A very interesting museum and fun for kids, we also saw Asimo, the humanoid robot. After that we went to ramen-street at the Odaiba Aqua shoppingcentre, a shopping and eating mall. Ramenstreet is a part in the building where 5 or 6 ramenshops are located together and every ramenshop is presenting a certain ramenstyle from somewhere in Japan. Ramen is probably my most favorite Japanese food, although not the most healthiest Japanese food, but way better than a menu at a fastfood restaurant. After eating ramen, we went to Akihabara, also known as electric town.

Yesterday I slept in and relaxed most of the day. Late in the afternoon we both took a Chinese massage and after that we went to a music bar to see one of my wife N's friends who sings for a hobby and was performing there with a jazz combo.

Today we went to the nearby shrine to see the Shichi-Go-San festival (7-5-3- festival), a festival day for girls of three and seven year old and three and five year old boys. It's an interesting and very photogenic festival with all those cute and adorable little kids dressed up in their kimonos. I made some nice pictures there. Last week at the Meiji shrine I also took some pics from the same festival. In later post I will show some examples.

But because this is a photo weblog I'm also suppose to post some pics. I have decided to start posting the pics a bit in a more chronological order. Collecting all the background information cost sometimes a lot of time and when I stick to one trip or subject I don't need to search for so much different background information.

But be prepared, because I took lots of pics and it's sometimes hard to reduce the selection. In this post I will post pics from our trip to the Kawagoe festival. Kawagoe is a city near Tokyo. These festivals in Japan are often very colourful and very photogenic. There are all kinds of food stands, parades, gorgeous floats etc...

I have enough material to fill many Japan related posts, so there surely will be some more Japan posts. So I would say take a coffee, tea or whatever you like, lean backwards and enjoy the pics.

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unfotunately this pic was a bit moved

Japan - The first pics

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:43:00 +0000

It's not my first posting from Japan (the three former postings about North Sea Jazz Festival were also posted from Japan), but it is my first posting about Japan since we've been here, or better posting with some first pics which were made during our stay here. It's just to give you a first impression, because there are many pics that I took and it's also a lot of work to sort them out and in the mean time I have to do some traveling and take pictures too.

I won't bother you right now with too much background information. The first five pics were taken at the Kawagoe festival where we went on a daytrip the first weekend of our stay in Japan. It's a well known festival in Japan which attracts many visitors.

The 6th pic was taken at a temple at sunset near where my mother in law lives.

The 7th pic was taken during a trip we made from November 22nd until 29th where we visited Aomori-prefecture and Sendai in Miyagi prefecture. This pic was taken at a trip to Shirakami, an Unesco World Heritage. The pictures 8 up to 15 were taken at a trip from Oirase river to Towada lake. This was absolutely gorgeous, despite some rain in the afternoon. It was a walk of about 11 kilometres, but it took us 8 hours (including rests and short breaks) to finish it. Not because the walk was so heavy, but because there were so many photogenic points. I shot two 4 GB memorycards during that day.

Besides resizing the pics haven't been photoshopped. It's just to give you a bit of a first impression. There will be plenty more pics to follow. I only don't know exactly when. We are almost halfway our stay and we have a pretty busy schedule. Hopefully the pictures will make you hungry for more later. For now enjoy the pics.

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North Sea Jazz (3)

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:10:00 +0000

This will be my last post with pics from North Sea Jazz Festival 2009. This entire post will contain pics from the performance that N. and I saw from Akiko Yano and Hiromi Uehara, two leading ladies in Japanese pop- and jazzmusic. It was the closing performance for us on Sunday July 12th after an interesting day. Although the performance of Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock was also an interesting event, the performance of Akiko Yano and Hiromi Uehara was for us the highlight of the day. Later this week I will also upload/embed some videos from YouTube to my musicweblog BrownNoiseMusic.

Update: I have posted some embedded videos from North Sea Jazz to my musicweblog BrownNoiseMusic. You can check them: here.

For now I will leave you with quite a big selection of pics from Akiko Yano & Hiromi Uehara.(click on the pics to enlarge)

North Sea Jazz 2009 (2)

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:59:00 +0000

In part two of my posts about North Sea Jazz Festival 2009 some pics from John Scofield, Michiel Borstlap, Han Bennink & Ernst Glerum and Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra. No reviews just pics. About the not so great quality of the pics just read my former post. In my next post I will post pics from the IMHO highlight of the festival Akiko Yano & Hiromi Uehara.

For now enjoy the pics!

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North Sea Jazz 2009

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:09:00 +0000

Had some busy weeks behind me. Last week Tuesday we left for Japan for a five and a half week holiday. We're staying at my mother in law's place in Tokyo area. The first few days we relaxed mostly and went out a few times for a walk, lunch or dinner.

Today we went on a trip for a week to northern Honshu. We are staying now at a nice hotel in Hirosaki, Aomori, from where I'm writing this post now.

But enough about Japan for now, this post is suppose to give a bit of an impression from North Sea Jazz Festival 2009 where N. and I went last July. We went on Sunday July 12th. Some of the artists we saw were: Lang Lang & Herbie Hancock, John Scofield, Han Bennink, Michiel Borstlap & Ernst Glerum and Hiromi Uehara together with Akiko Yano.

I don't have enough time for now to write extended reviews from some of the performances we saw, but you take my word for it we had a nice day with some great performances.

I leave you with some pictures that I took. The quality of the pics is not that great. The overall ligth circumstances were not that excellent which forced me to use high iso values. Some of the pics were also taken from far distance and because only compact camera's were allowed the high iso values caused a lot of noise on the pictures, but still the pics give some impression of the festival. Here are some pics from the performance of Lang Lang and Herbie Hancock.

Enjoy and I will post some more pics from other performances later.

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Sonisphere 2009, Nijmegen (2)

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:03:00 +0000

I'm a bit behind with posting. Main reason is that my work is quite demanding at the moment. I often get home late and once at home I didn't always had heo energy or the mood to post.

To avoid that I'm getting too much behind I will post most of the pics with a minimum of backgroudinformation. Basically it will be some information about the happening/event and sometime what you'll see on the pic.This will be the last selection of pics from Sonisphere 2009, Nijmegen, Holland.

Korn was the fifth act and personally I found their performance the best of the evening. The sound was good, the reponse of the crowd was good and they played a swell set. The first 4 pics are from their set. The next 4 are from Slipknot. And the last two are from the set of Metallica.

In my next posting(s) I will post pics and some short comments from our visit to North Sea Jazz Festival.

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Sonisphere 2009, Nijmegen

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:46:00 +0000

This time an impression from Sonisphere 2009 which was held last June 20th and where N. and yours truly went to. Way different in terms of atmoshere, music and audience then Pinkpop where we went three weeks earlier before Sonisphere.

Anyway, we had great fun and it was an enjoyable day. When we arrived at the festival the weather didn't look very promising. The sky was grey and while we were waiting to get in some raindrops were falling, but lucky enough it got dry when we entered and the rest of the day it stayed dry and I even got a bit sunburned.

The bands that were performing were: Pendulum, Kamelot, Lamb of God, Down, Korn, Slipknot and headliner Metallica.

The festival had a bit of a false start. One band, The Sword already cancelled one or two weeks before the festival, and after the doors opened short before the festival was supposed to start the organization announced that Mastodon also couldn't make it on time from a show 12 hours earlier in Austria. So that left 7 bands out of the original 9.

So now the festival opened with Pendulum, a band originally from Australia but now relocated in the UK. I didn't know the band and when they start playing it made me wonder what this band had to do on a heavy metal festival. Their music sounded more like a dance act with their Prodigy type of music (they also did a version of Prodigy's Voodoo People see here). So this band seemed a bit weird choice to me in the line-up, but the singer compensated it with lots of enthusiasm and they got parts of the crowd moving and that was not a bad result, because it's always an ungrateful job to open a festival around noon when most people aren't ready yet to party.

The second band was Kamelot, a kind of sympho power metal group. This band had some sound problems which made that the singer sometimes wasn't hearable. Picture 6 and 7 were shot during Kamelot's performance of the song "The haunting" with a guest appearance of Simone Simons of the Dutch symphonic metal band Epica, which can be seen here. The band Epica is named after Kamelot's 2003 album Epica and Simone Simons made some guest appearances on two Kamelot albums.

The third band that entered the stage was Lamb of God, a heavy metal band from the USA formed in 1990. It was obvious that a huge part of the younger crowd came for Lamb of God, judging by the many teenagers wearing Lamb of God t-shirts. They gave a loud, heavy and energetic performance and parts of the crowd got quite exited judging by the several mosh pits. The singer Randy Blythe was shouting/growling at the tops of his lungs proving that it requires training to sing like that. If I would sing like he did, my voice would be deceased within two minutes.

To give you an idea about the mosh pits, I've embedded a video after the pics that I shot of a Mosh Pit during the Lamb of God performance.

After Lamb of God the band Down came on stage. They are also from the USA, from Louisiana to be exact. I didn't know the band but they played a good and heavy set.

The report and pics from Korn, Slipknot and Metalllica I will post in the upcoming second post which I planned to post soon.

For now enjoy the pics and video

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The funny streetband "Blaas of Glory"

For videomaterial from "Blaas of Glory" check here

Wonder from which band the woman in the middle is a huge fan?

The picture above and below to proof that the Kamelot's keyboardplayer didn't used hairspray

Just a little more patience

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:31:00 +0000

I'm suffering from a cold, so a little more patience, but there are soon some updates coming up with pics and impressions from Sonisphere, North Sea Jazz Festival and the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra which we visited last Sunday.

Now I'm off to bed. See you soon!

Pinkpop 2009 (4)

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:20:00 +0000

This will be the last post with pics from the bands we saw at the 40th edition of the Pinkpop music festival. This time I've uploaded some pics from the performances of Keane and Placebo.

Although I haven't seen one bad or mediocre performance and I liked all the bands that we saw I personally thought that the performance of Keane was the best. Of course you always can argue and of course it's also a matter of personal taste and preference, but for me it was the overall combination of a good sound, an exited crowd and the enthusiastic respond from the band and it's frontman Tom Chaplin which made it a very enjoyable performance.

Keane also did a very memorable cover of the Queen/David Bowie- song "Under Pressure" which gave me shivers through my spine, which doesn't happen that often. The video of "Under Pressure" can be seen here.

With Keane we were standing not so far from the stage, so I could take a few reasonable good shots which you can see below. At the festival it was not allowed to take a SLR-camera, only compact camera's were allowed. I'm sure that I would have been able to take some better shots with my SLR. With the compact camera often at maximum zoom (it's a Panasonic TZ5) it wasn't easy among a dancing and jumping crowd to make good steady shots.

With Placebo we were standing far away from the stage, so unfortunately I wasn't able to take some close up shots. Only from far away and because it was already getting dark it was very difficult to make pics that were not moved. Checking the pictures back home there wasn't a single shot from the stage that wasn't moved. So finally only a few shots from the big videoscreens next to the stage came out more or less okay.

The performance of Placebo was good, but it was probably because we were standing not so close to the stage that I didn't felt so much involved in the concert. Probably also because we were a bit distracted by lots of people behind us already walking to the exit. It was a pitty, because the performance itself was good. Anyway it was a nice day with good performances, although a little disappointing, because the main act for which N. wanted to visit Pinkpop, Depeche Mode had to cancel, due to illness of their lead singer Dave Cahan. But we're glad he recovered and Depeche Mode is touring again and we have tickets now for their concert on November 30th in Rotterdam.

I will embed some video's from Keane and Placebo to my music weblog BrownNosieMusic soon. Actually you can already see one video of Placebo at my other weblog.

I also will upload pictures soon from Sonisphere where N. and I went three weeks ago. And this Sunday we will visit North Sea Jazz Festival, so I guess I also will have pictures from this festival soon. Until the next upload enjoy the pictures here below. click on the pics to enlarge

Pinkpop 2009 (3)

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:00:00 +0000

In my third post about the Pinkpop 2009 music festival this time some pics from the Dutch band Rowwen Hèze and Madness.

The band Rowwen Hèze was the second band we saw that Sunday. It's a Dutch band that sings in the local dialect of the province Limburg and where Pinkpop was held, so they were playing a home game. But the band is popular all around Holland and they have a good live reputation. Their music can be described as a mix of Tex-mex, Irish folk and brass band music. It's a real party band but they also do an occasional ballad.

After Rowwen Hèze we saw Madness. They played Pinkpop before in 1981, the year that U2 also played at the festival together with Fischer-Z, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and other bands. Ian Dury who also played at Pinkpop in 1981 did one of his last recordings before he died in March 2007 with Madness in 1999 as a guest vocalist on the track "Drip fed Fred" on the album "Wonderful".

As I already wrote on my music weblog BrownNoisemusic, Madness was great fun and there was a great party going on among the crowd while they were playing.

You can check some of the pics that I took below. With Madness we were standing a little further from the stage. That's why I don't have many close-ups. With the compact camera on maximum zoom it was often hard to make steady shots in a dancing crowd, despite the image stabilizer of the camera. Anyway enjoy the pics.

There will be one or two more post with pics from Pinkpop coming up. And there is also some other festival stuff on it's way. A week ago N. and I went also to the first Sonisphere wiht headliner Metallica and also Korn and Slipknot with some other heavy metal bands.
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Pinkpop 2009 (2)

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:52:00 +0000

This is going to be my second post about the Pinkpop 2009 music festival which my wife N. and I visited almost three weeks ago. In this post some pics that I shot during the opening act on the Pinkpop Sunday, may 31st. The Dutch band "De Staat" kicked off. Despite the fact that it's always hard to kick off on a festival early afternoon they did an excellent job. They gave an energetic performance and the band received loud and positve feedback from the audience.

For me it was my first acquaintance with the band, and it was a surprising one. The band had their debut album released beginning this year. It's hard to describe their music, but somewhere I read that it's a kind of Queens of the Stone Age meets Tom Waits, Fu Manchu and Elvis.

Some of the tracks of their debut album you can check at the band's Myspace.com. I'll upload some videos later on my music weblog BrownNoiseMusic. In the mean time you can check the whole performance of "De Staat" at this link.

Below you see a selection of the pics that I took during their show.

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Pinkpop 2009

noreply@blogger.com (B_ForeverYoung) — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:27:00 +0000

Last Sunday N. and I went to Pinkpop, a three day music festival at Landgraaf, Limburg (the most southern province of the Netherlands). We combined it with a stay in Maastricht from Saturday until last Tuesday.

We had a nice, lovely relaxed stay, excellent weather and we had a great Sunday at Pinkpop.

I leave you with one picture from Pinkpop for now, but there will be more pictures soon and a more extended report with some videos from some performances on my musicweblog BrownNoiseMusic.

Tom Chaplin of Keane
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