CocoRosie
Last Thursday we went to see CocoRosie live. They played two shows in the Netherlands, and one of them was in Groningen, the other one in Rotterdam. Rotterdam is about 200 kilometers closer to home, but since I had already made other plans for yesterday evening, I had to go to Groningen to see them.
We made a day of it, and went to Gronigen early, to walk around in the city and do some shopping. Groningen is a pretty okay city, with lots of students to lower the average age a bit. They have nice shops on lots of locations, but nothing really extraordinary.
Two of our friends came to Groningen later and we met for dinner. After that we went to see the concert. The opening act was, as usual, quite crappy. Couldn't really enjoy it, since he tried too much to be the new Devendra Banhart, which is quite hard, and not necessary (one is enough).
CocoRosie's show started at about 10.30 PM and took only an hour. They did play all their cool songs, but still I think it was a bit short. It was not too expensive, but an hour could have easily been stretched into 90 minutes with a couple of extra songs.
I really enjoyed seeing them live, and will definetely go again if they turn up in the Netherlands on their next tour. We bought a vinyl LP of them. Not that we have a pick-up, but they were signing records, and we already own their three cds. This will be on display in our living room for a while. I always like this kind of gimmicks.
The bed and breakfast we booked was pretty okay. Nice breakfast, clean rooms, but a bit expensive... The strangest thing was that the price was calculated per person and not per room. So, if I went alone I would have spent half as much money on the room, since they cannot let someone rent half a bed. So, for a second breakfast you pay the same amount of money as for the room and the first breakfast. Weird.
Now I am preparing for my second trip to Minsk. We are leaving on Monday morning and have planned a week full of meetings, cultural trips and lots of fun. The temperature is about 15 degress (celcius) lower than it is here, so that will be a shocker.
We are going to see the European Championship qualification match between the Netherlands and Belarus on Wednesday. I usually don't like soccer at all, but these kinds of event tend to be fun anyway.
It has already been snowing, so the beautiful Belarusian women will probably be wearing a lot more clothes than they were last summer... Too bad.
We made a day of it, and went to Gronigen early, to walk around in the city and do some shopping. Groningen is a pretty okay city, with lots of students to lower the average age a bit. They have nice shops on lots of locations, but nothing really extraordinary.
Two of our friends came to Groningen later and we met for dinner. After that we went to see the concert. The opening act was, as usual, quite crappy. Couldn't really enjoy it, since he tried too much to be the new Devendra Banhart, which is quite hard, and not necessary (one is enough).
CocoRosie's show started at about 10.30 PM and took only an hour. They did play all their cool songs, but still I think it was a bit short. It was not too expensive, but an hour could have easily been stretched into 90 minutes with a couple of extra songs.
I really enjoyed seeing them live, and will definetely go again if they turn up in the Netherlands on their next tour. We bought a vinyl LP of them. Not that we have a pick-up, but they were signing records, and we already own their three cds. This will be on display in our living room for a while. I always like this kind of gimmicks.
The bed and breakfast we booked was pretty okay. Nice breakfast, clean rooms, but a bit expensive... The strangest thing was that the price was calculated per person and not per room. So, if I went alone I would have spent half as much money on the room, since they cannot let someone rent half a bed. So, for a second breakfast you pay the same amount of money as for the room and the first breakfast. Weird.
Now I am preparing for my second trip to Minsk. We are leaving on Monday morning and have planned a week full of meetings, cultural trips and lots of fun. The temperature is about 15 degress (celcius) lower than it is here, so that will be a shocker.
We are going to see the European Championship qualification match between the Netherlands and Belarus on Wednesday. I usually don't like soccer at all, but these kinds of event tend to be fun anyway.
It has already been snowing, so the beautiful Belarusian women will probably be wearing a lot more clothes than they were last summer... Too bad.
posted by Sjoerd at
2:38 PM
