woensdag 17 april 2013

Café Langereis Part Two

( Part one:      http://annettevogel.blogspot.nl/2012/12/cafe-langereis-in-amsterdam.html        )

 I know  I got some really good people around me. They sure take care of me when I need it. Last weekend I've had a real bad backache so first I didn't know what to do. I went to the doctor and told him I had this gig at café Langereis this night but that I couldn't play because I couldn't move at all. He gave me some strong pills and told me he would probably pass by so that he could listen to my music :)
I called my best friend Gianni to carry my bag and my guitar and I phoned with Marjorie and Cindy to talk about what I should do: play or cancel the whole thing....
Finally I decided to play just one  set and Cindy told me she would play instead a few more sets to help me out.
My friend Okke drove Gianni and me  to this little nice café Langereid which you can find at the corner of the Rembrandtplein and the Amstel. We arrived  at 6pm,  and  Arjen and his friend and JanPaul, the violinplayer, were already waiting for us. Mick, the bassplayer,  arrived a few minutes later and he brought some friends with him.
The sun was shining and Ajax just won the competition, so nothing could go wrong that night.


Cindy arrived and she got everything fixed so that we could do the soundcheck and play our music for an nice little audience. It was really nice to play together with Arjen on cajon, Mick on the bass and JanPaul Grotenhuis on his violin and mandoline. We'd had just one rehearsel with JanPaul the day before and he did a good thing. I think we had a very nice time together ! We played some new songs like 'Thunder and Lightning' and 'Raga' and that was real fun to play.I didn't dare to move a lot, but everything was allright. I was drugged so I didn't have too much pain.  After we finished the show Cindy started to play Eleonor Rigby and JanPaul played with her. Because of my physical condition I couldn't stay too long to listen. Me and my friend Gianni left the house around 9 pm and afterwards we had  dinner together at an empty restaurant somewhere close to the café. When I came home at 10 pm I was happy because I was glad everything worked out fine. The next day my colleagues of the school where I work helped me with the job of supporting the 25 kids I work with. In the meantime my backache dissappeared :)
JanPaul Grotenhuis, Annette Vogel, Arjen Slot, Mick Bekker

Gianni

Audience from Denmark: 'you're fucking good, your lyrics are fucking good'

JanPaul Grotenhuis and Cindy Peress

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