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Hey hey, back again. Erik its fine by me although for the drinks part a few beers or wine wouldn't hurt Big%20smile (maybe I'm pushing it too much)

Prog-chick, your Symforce sig looks well, and great! And of course something can happen Friday night, after all thats what I'm hoping for, some wild party all through and through (even if the majority of people which I will meet in person there are WAY older than me and already have more responsability in their lifes) hope all of them can work something out in that friday night, (and not only stay at home drinking a beer and watching a football match)

Ideas anyone?Big%20smile

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Welcome John! Good to hear from the source of all evil good himself!

I understand what you are saying with respect to the line up, the approach is fine with me. As for the future - if this is a success, it may get easier every year. Look at where Dutch and Belgian festivals like Pinkpop, Lowlands and Werchter started. Not that we should expect any prog festival to become that big, but on a smaller scale it is possible.

Quote I wish all of you a great Symforce festival and please give me feedback as much as possible so we can keep it in mind for next year's edition. As for the person whose son's 4th birthday it is on september 15th : why not arrange a birthday party at the 013 ? Bring the family and we'll supply the music ! You can't start young enough !


I think that was me, but you got the date wrong by a month. I mentioned I was not able to visit a festival in Brussels on October 15th because of my sons birthday. He already likes Blackmore's Night though, and his personal favourite track is É Festa by PFM - probably because of the beating riff.

Anyway - we'll all be there on the 15th, if you keep an eye on our clothing plans for the day, you might be able to find us there. Wink

Thanks for making this happen, and for dropping in!


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hi everyone, nice to see there's so much activity going on regarding the Symforce festival and where to meet. It has taken me a while before I enlisted myself as it is impossible to be a member of a zillion forums all at once. However I feel PA being pretty active which is exactly what I like Symforce to become : a buzzing activity !
 
someone wrote it is too 'neo-prog' for him. Not really sure if this person knows all of the bands on offer as I feel there's only one neo-prog band on the bill and that's Pendragon. It is mainly Symfo hence the Symforce name.
 
I'm not sure whether the 'all on one day' formula is a good one. We simply need big names to attract a wide and varied audience although I knew from the beginning that real progheads would mainly concentrate on the small venue and the batcave as that's where the interesting concerts are. I went to see Isopoda rehearse last thursday and it's great to hear those "Acrostichon" and "Taking root" tracks come to life again
 
apart from the concerts themselves I know there will be some surprises which will only take place at Symforce. Also there will be several specialist CD-dealers and every single artist will have his own merchandise area
 
it is my sincere hope that Symforce can grow into a yearly event allowing us to invite many prog giants from past, present and even future. Erik mentioned bands like Le Orme, well let me tell you that I have been negotiating with both PFM and Delirium for this year's edition. The first was way too expensive and although there are five people in the band they wanted to come with ten ! Also they only wanted to come by plane which in the end comes to a gigantic sum of money. Delirium was possible from a financial point of view yet not known enough for a first edition. I'm sure you'll all agree that you can put together a fantastic line-up with very small, virtually unknown bands, who will give the best they can. However these bands do not attract a huge crowd. That's why a festival should be a mixture of bigger names and upcoming talent. If we want Symforce to be there for many more years then that's the only way to do it. I'm sure we have a great line-up together this year and at a little over three euro's per band it's pretty economical as well.
 
I wish all of you a great Symforce festival and please give me feedback as much as possible so we can keep it in mind for next year's edition. As for the person whose son's 4th birthday it is on september 15th : why not arrange a birthday party at the 013 ? Bring the family and we'll supply the music ! You can't start young enough !
 
and please spread the word about Symforce to family and friends so that it's a huge success
 
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Points: 2696 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2007 at 17:46
Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

 

               That sig looks great Prog-chick, are you that flashy too [IMG]



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I wont be able to make the party....... I'll pitch in a euro for some grey roomer to take the weight off their arthritic legs though!!!!

Anything happening on the Friday night???
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Sig looks fine P-C. Geck0's hair was probably in his eyes again....

@Erik: Fine with me. No ideas yet, but that'll come.
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               That sig looks great Prog-chick, are you that flashy too Shocked ?
 
My proposal on the Symforce Festival After Party on September 16th is that I buy food and drinks (ideas are welcome) and that we share the supermarket bill, OK? Seats can be hired for the fair amount of 1 euro pro hour (Chesterfield armchairs 2 euro pro half an hour), that's a deal fellow Symforcers?
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ok fellow Symforcers.....
Geck0 reckons he can't see my lovely flashing symforce banner in my sig..... I can see it fine (I think he has anti-gig software or something) ..so hands up, who CAN see it? Or did i go to that enormous effort for nothing?

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LOL This is going nowhere....

@Sean: you'll survive the 15th (did you get a ticket through someone?) - most of the gargling noises come from 'above the rivers'; I'll be able to translate that into Flemish for you (or French, if these guys get drunk enough to keep it really simple ). After all, I was born and raised in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen (they call us 'spare Belgians')




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Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

 

                     Men are more practically than women, they make a decision

                          what to wear and "that's it" but women ..... just listen to:

 


<H3 ="title">Wonderful Tonight</H3>
<H4 ="author">by Eric Clapton</H4>
<P ="verse">It's late in the evening; she's wondering what clothes to wear.She puts on her make-up and brushes her long blonde hair.And then she asks me, "Do I look all right?"And I say, "Yes, you look wonderful tonight."


<P ="verse">We go to a party and everyone turns to seeThis beautiful lady that's walking around with me.And then she asks me, "Do you feel all right?"And I say, "Yes, I feel wonderful tonight."


<P ="bridge">I feel wonderful because I seeThe love light in your eyes.And the wonder of it allIs that you just don't realize how much I love you.


<P ="verse">It's time to go home now and I've got an aching head,So I give her the car keys and she helps me to bed.And then I tell her, as I turn out the light,I say, "My darling, you were wonderful tonight.Oh my darling, you were wonderful tonight."


 

                 So this goes on and on from now until September 15th LOL

 

 

 




tsk tsk tsk ........ misinterpretation....... the reason she is "wondering what clothes to wear" at the last minute is because she has been far too busy until then to give it a thought....... whilst Eric has got his jeans and his "I love Ringo" t-shirt on and knew without a doubt that is what he would wear a month previous, she has been feeding the kids, looking after the house, finding & washing the t-shirt HE wants to wear, clearing up the cat sick, getting that weird stain out of the carpet near the lamp, changing the bulb in the security light, filling out the school bus paperwork...... etc etc etc etc............so there they are at the 11th hour and she gets a moment to her self, and barely the energy to find something to wear.......THEN she has to ASK him to even be told that she looks good...... take a tip boys...... tell her she looks wonderful BEFORE she asks, and if you do wait to be asked don't feel so darned smug that you didn't make a joke that you feel compelled to write a song about how clever you are!


men.......... so clever......so stoooopid...........



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Originally posted by emdiar emdiar wrote:

Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

ah!

Thanks for clearing that up......... dutch......complicated language.....I bought a linguaphone course once..... all my dutch friends laughed and tolk me that their english would ALWAYS be better than my dutch...... so...... .....I don't speak dutch!
The cloggies are famous for their mastery of foreign languages. They have to, 'cus their own lingo is so full of unpronounceable gargling noises that most non-cloggies are scared off even trying to master it. 
 
You can ay that again!!! I often hide the fact I speak Dutch/Flemish  and speak English instead, just to make sure I understand the answer coming back tome!! Thisis especially so in Holland where thye second haff of the worddisappears in a gargling noises that you expect to seetheem spittle a piece of their lung as they speak!!!TongueBig%20smile
 
I think I'm a dead man on Sept,15EmbarrassedWinkTongue
 
PC, if you can believe that some Dutch and Flemish TV reportages in Dutch , some locals are being systematically subtitled in Dutch! In some cases, even internally between themselves, some Flemish people are not sure to undertsand each other.
let's just stay above the moral melee
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                     Men are more practically than women, they make a decision
                          what to wear and "that's it" but women ..... just listen to:
 

Wonderful Tonight

by Eric Clapton

It's late in the evening; she's wondering what clothes to wear.
She puts on her make-up and brushes her long blonde hair.
And then she asks me, "Do I look all right?"
And I say, "Yes, you look wonderful tonight."

We go to a party and everyone turns to see
This beautiful lady that's walking around with me.
And then she asks me, "Do you feel all right?"
And I say, "Yes, I feel wonderful tonight."

I feel wonderful because I see
The love light in your eyes.
And the wonder of it all
Is that you just don't realize how much I love you.

It's time to go home now and I've got an aching head,
So I give her the car keys and she helps me to bed.
And then I tell her, as I turn out the light,
I say, "My darling, you were wonderful tonight.
Oh my darling, you were wonderful tonight."

 
                 So this goes on and on from now until September 15th LOL
 
 
 


Edited by erik neuteboom - August 18 2007 at 08:53
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Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

ah!

Thanks for clearing that up......... dutch......complicated language.....I bought a linguaphone course once..... all my dutch friends laughed and tolk me that their english would ALWAYS be better than my dutch...... so...... .....I don't speak dutch!
The cloggies are famous for their mastery of foreign languages. They have to, 'cus their own lingo is so full of unpronounceable gargling noises that most non-cloggies are scared off even trying to master it. 


Edited by emdiar - August 18 2007 at 08:41
Perception is truth, ergo opinion is fact.
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ah!

Thanks for clearing that up......... dutch......complicated language.....I bought a linguaphone course once..... all my dutch friends laughed and tolk me that their english would ALWAYS be better than my dutch...... so...... .....I don't speak dutch!
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guys, guys guys......... I don't know how a bunch of guys can be plannign what they are going to wear a MONTH in advance...... what's that all about eh? How do you know?

weird.
 
Hi PC. The joke was "No Smoking". In Dutch, a "Smoking" is a tuxido, hence the sudden references to what we're going to wearSmile. We're not really the fashion victims we appear to be! LOL
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Originally posted by prog-chick prog-chick wrote:

guys, guys guys......... I don't know how a bunch of guys can be plannign what they are going to wear a MONTH in advance...... what's that all about eh? How do you know?

weird.


Prog guys are very ladylike, P-C. LOL

As for how do you know? - That's easy: I always wear either Nijntje or that Rush long sleeves to concerts and festivals.Wink
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guys, guys guys......... I don't know how a bunch of guys can be plannign what they are going to wear a MONTH in advance...... what's that all about eh? How do you know?

weird.
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If i come (I really hope to) I'll be wearing my Camembert Electrique T shirt. Here I am, wearing it:
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