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Merry Christmas

Anger & Thirst

Okay, so what should be the topic of my first 'real' post? There's not really much going on today. I'm bored senseless at work. Well, I'm not, but I like to pretend I am.
Hence we step back in time to December 5 for the reunion gig of the famous 'Dørn Shamrock'. Read on below.
P.S. The picture was not taken with my new PowerShot A80 ;)

Dørn Shamrock at the 'Riff' in Bochum

15 years together as a band call for something special, that much is true.
So somebody produced a brilliant flyer postcard which soon enough found its way into my snail-mailbox. Ace! Definitely something to look forward to.
The guys booked the small Bar room at the Riff in our hometown which should suffice for the expected crowd and so it proved to be. Normally not my type of venue, the Riff Bar turned out to be pleasantly enough, not only for the fact that they were selling Fiege Pils.
Naturally, such an event produces a lot of "Wow, you're still alive?" type of encounters when people meet again after several years. So the time until the band started at 9 was spent talking to voices from the past and watching people. It was also spend buying an incredible bargained combination of the Shamrock's first and only album to date 'Assolti' (Vinyl, of course) in combination with the official reunion t-shirt. So now I own the album 4 times. Cool, eh?
Naturally, such an event also produces a lot of "Wow, haven't heard that tune for a long time" type of encounters. Among my definite favourites were the Shamrock's own 'Anger & Thirst' and 'The Specials' classic 'Doesn't Make It Alright'. The latter also turning into the final encore of the night on my request when the guys ran out of tunes.

A thoroughly enjoyable evening was rounded off by a delicious pizza around the corner with the Shamrock's guitar player and my old mate Thomas 'Atta' Matern.
Thanks guys, for dusting off the equipment. I sincerely hope your plans to produce a new album next year will be successful.

P.S. I will post the flyer, a picture gallery of the event and some mp3 files later, when I find the time.

1st Post

I opened a blog.
Now how sad is that? ;) Well, actually it's pretty cool.
The idea came when I installed this weblog software from movabletype.org once I noticed that my favourite site of the moment ..: . rion.nu | new york city. :.. also makes use of it.
Rion is also the reason behind me getting a new Canon PowerShot A80. Somebody at Canon should really sponsor Rion's site ;)