PA members to meet on Symforce Festival?

The t-shirts worked, we all met up. Was good to see Alucard again. and it is special to see prog a prog fan from Portugal. LeInsomniac , I will see ya later this afternoon as well as Angelo. Great to see the men behind the posts. Dirk and Antennas were there. At the Riverside concert she was glueed against the stage.  

Edited by glass house - September 16 2007 at 14:44

Yeah, that was fun. We had to stand in line to change money when the alarm went of and a voice summoned us out. Short after we went back and the line was gone.

Edited by glass house - September 16 2007 at 04:10

Edited by erik neuteboom - September 16 2007 at 15:10

Here's the big mystery of the festival - why does Clive Nolan look up to Arjen Lucassen?



More pictures to come, but I have to finish some work first.

As for the festival: I watched Focus together with the rest of the PA members, and was impressed by Niels van der Steenhoven, who replaces Jan Akkerman. He combines Jan's technique with feeling and a blast of real rock guitar. Yesterday's version of Hocus Pocus made me want to propose Focus for Prog Metal....
Next, Riverside was a positive surprise for me - having only heard about 10 seconds of them before going to Symforce. I'm really going to check out their albums and maybe get the new one as well. A pity about all the reviews for that album on this side, as the singer mentioned that he was not too happy about people downloading it 'from the in-tar-net'. A shame that people do this, and post their reviews here prematurely.
But this is about the festival, not PA, so let's move on to Pendragon. A party band if ever there was one, when playing live. The red jackets and matching shoes from the 9:15 Live booklet have long been replaced by proper 'rocker' outfits, and a matching performance. These guys have fun on stage, especially Nick Barrett and the bass player - I keep forgetting his name, but a nickname of 'Skippy' suites his stage act. Going to see them again later, when they're near again.
After Pendragon, I arrived late for Beardfish, playing the far too small 'Batcave'. I couldn't get in, so I joined Arjen Lucassen and a bunch of others, listening in at the backdoor. After 10 minutes, I decided to leave and buy their album later on. An hour later, it was time for that, when I managed to get to the front row of a far less crowded Batcave, for Bootcut. Beardfish's organ player, with a drummer friend gave us a great Drums 'n Hammond show - another album subtracted from my merchandise budget.  A must hear for hammond fans and party animals.
And yes, I skipped the Flower Kings. They simply don't manage to make 'the click' in my head, but I thank them for allowing me to discover Bootcut because of this.

All in all a great festival, with a great "Genesis 70's bootleg DVD after party" at Erik Neuteboom's house.

So thanks to Bobo and crew for the festival, and to Erik for hospitality at the after party.
Let's all meet at Symforce 2008 (where rumour has it that Beardfish will be asked to play on the main stage)!!


Edited by Angelo - September 16 2007 at 15:03

ps.....

Can I just say before we start a debate about 'sound quality' that FK's were the ONLY band to get a sound check, and I tihnk they were the only band with their own sound engineer........ maybe that will shed some light!

What about pics from the afterparty, fellows - I'm very curious 

Working on it, Uwe - hold on!

If time allows, I'll be at the Boerderij as well Erik....


Edited by Angelo - September 16 2007 at 16:28

Hi people, just a short 'Hello!'  from me, here!

Wow Angelo that're some great pics you took there.

Great pics, Angelo!!!