5 more weeks for EKKO?

The venue I work for, EKKO has troubles with emergency exits and can now only accomodate 135 people. It means that the successful concerts have to take place elsewhere and EKKO misses the revenue from drinks. This could mean EKKO is heading for bankruptcy within a short period of time. Any guesses? Mine is 5 weeks.

Update (April 29): EKKO has solved its problems with the Fire Department! We can now have full capacity again :)

Patrick Wolf in EKKO

Patrick Wolf is going to be as big as Bright Eyes, mark my words. Pairing acoustic singer-songwriter stuff with dance arrangements, revering nature like William Blake but in the same time looking like he's from the city with his self-made clothes and his dandy moves.
The cheers of the girls were uncontrolled, the boys looked in awe. Is this a new myth in the making?

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Egoist me

I've been a bit egoistic lately. So much interesting stuff to do, but not finding the time to post about it. O well, I'm sorry. So what's been going on? I did a tour with King Me and Timesbold, as the sound engineer for King Me. That was fun. I got to see Timesbold and the solo project of Jason, Whip. I prefer Whip, although I think the dB's concert was the best Timesbold gig I saw. That was because they decided to play different songs, and they were aggressive. As Timesbold's genius Max said: "The dB's gig was more of an adventure". And I like adventures.

Another adventure I'm hurling myself into: engineering the sound for live hiphop band Illicit. I done two shows by now, seemingly to the satisfaction of both me and the band. We'll see where that ends. I'm opting for the Heineken Music Hall. They got it in them to become big.

Been writing songs like hell as well. Well, I am in hell right now since my heart is very much broken. But it gives me good songs... The Amsterdam Songwriters Guild is growing stronger. We now have our own monthly show in our own theater in the center of Amsterdam. We are asked to organize 4 ASG shows in Café Soundgarden, and we took the bold move to organize a weekly evening in bi/gay/multisex café Sappho, also Amsterdam Center. That means we have 9 shows in May alone! Next thing we have to do is fill it up with artists who want to play their own shit for free. And they have to be good. I consider myself lucky we already have some great contributors to the ASG...