March 18th Prog Archives The Hague

meurglysIII wrote: stonebeard wrote: meurglysIII wrote: stonebeard wrote: meurglysIII wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: Us American boys should do this. YES!!! Unfortunatly, the country is quite big. Europe is more close-knit I believe. Yeah, but we can always work things out. Aye, might have to wait 4 years til I can drink, tho. Edit: Because as we all know, the whole prog population in the United States revolves around me. I've yet to reach the legal age myself....

Oi !!! I didn't notice until just not that you're a specialist! Congrats!

glass house wrote: Photo   !!!!!!!  Above left to right : SeanTrane, Joren Bottom left to right :Syzygy, Erik, Alucard, Oliverstoned and Christophe. Glass House not on , I took the picture ! This was taken before the Mauritshuis, near the Binnenhof.

Everyone is better looking in this picture compared to the London meet (maybe it's the coats that do it? ).

Chris, what have you got between your legs?

So I drove Chris Syzygy back to to the train station this morning and he is taking the ferry back home this afternoon!!

Spent the day listening to music, driving to North Holland while listening to Clearlight and National Haelth!!  Smoke a few doobies in the dunes and on the windy beaches. Went up to land's end (Den Helder and saw the first Frisian island Texel) and climbed on the ship of the Marine Museum, had a Tex-mex progressive combo dinner, burned a few cds, traded a lot of infos and had each other discovering many new bands.

If I had known the Jean and Friede were not coming, there would've space enough for the french delegation too.

What a bloody good WE

Hanging about in Den Haag waiting for my train to the Hook of Holland. What a fantastic weekend!

Big thanks to Sean Trane for putting me up in Alkmaar and showing me some bits of Holland I've never seen before, plus digging out some amazing prog folk - Spyro Gyra is yet another great band like Jan Dukes De Gray.

Also Tony and Erik for giving an excellent guided tour, taking in a good CD shop and an excellent pub/restaurant called Rootz. If you're ever in the Hague, eat there, and if you like beer make sure you've got a spare 2 or 3 days to sample everything.

And to Joren, Oliverstoned, Christophe (Oliver's friend) and Alucard - incidentally, I hope you're able to interview John Greaves and I look forward to reading it. 

Everybody spoke excellent English, so there was no need for me to use my schoolboy French (much to the relief of all present).

It was a pity that Jean and Friede didn't make it, but all in all another successful progarchives convention - roll on the next one!

And as for what's dangling between my legs in the photo - modesty forbids....

This was FUN!!!

How about the next one now?

In early June and for a week in Paris, every year is Les Tritonales (a two week festival organized around a concert hall called le Triton)

Most of the bands playing are euither Zeuhl, RIO or jazz-rock/canterbury/ I will try to look for the link of their site to see what kind of programme these guys are cooking for us this year

I already spopke to those involved in this meeting ans had suggested this earlier in this thread, that the possible next meeting should include a concert or two (this is why Sigod evokes Paris In June >> sorry Simon, I know you like more accessble music, but this could be the start of a new genre you might get into, also)