Amsterdam. A beautiful day off. A mass of orange happy people celebrating Queen’s Day, but with a bitter taste: everybody’s shock about the attack of the Queen’s cortege, 4 casualties plus the porcine fever terror, sometimes it’s good to be in the bus bubble away from the world’s trouble. A lot of tonight’s events are cancelled.
Sitting at the canal watching the boats’ parade, assholes on the other side were selling eggs to throw at people and boats, sometimes with children on board, hurting a few persons. Besides that the whole atmosphere was very friendly. We imagined if French people would celebrate 14th of July dressed in blue white and red in the streets, it would be chaos, they would break everything. We were so lucky it didn’t rain. The bus is parked behind the venue and we will drive straight away to Glasgow. Long drive with a ferry to take, waking up cos for security reasons we can’t stay inside the bus…
Before that, we have a big show to go. We played last year at Paradiso and we are looking forward to present our new lights and stage set up, plus new songs like Ray Ban or the improvised Dimanche. We started looking at videos on internet, it’s incredible how the lights look good, Sylvain did an amazing job, we don’t have this vision on stage.
A lot of bands are playing since 6pm, Erol Alkan cancelled, let’s hope our show can keep the happiness of this sunny day alive.