Day Trip in Amsterdam

How nice is it to say I had a ‘day trip to Amsterdam’.  But that is exactly what happened.

We checked in with the cops who sent us on a wild goose chase to town hall to get permits.  Unfortunately the permit office closes by noon and so we just missed it.  As we had already scoped out our spot for the day, we decided to chance it and pulled up in the park in front of the I Amsterdam sign.  We had a nice little place beside the skate park and over looking the cute basketball players.  Kit & Con played well and we had a nice little crowed (although slightly younger then ideal).

JJ Symon had been playing for maybe 30 min before the cops came to visit.  In true Holland fashion they were very polite when we explained our dilemma with the permit and managed to call in a special day permit for us to play- helped in part by the very large collection of kids that came to our defence and told the cop that we were good.  Not to push our luck, we finished up about half an hour later and leged it to our show at Skek in the red light district.

The venue was supper cool with this upstairs section with old shutter-style glass. I got some good video footage of JJ Symon in true art-school fashion.  The Holfner was just to much for the PA, so I had to bust out some guitar and we played all these songs we hadn’t played together yet.  Con was whistling and playing the piano and I think I even heard him sing along to Miranda.

All in all a very good night- and a late one as we were back in the car and back to Utrecht.

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