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Organising your first show
You want to put on a show. Here is roughly what it takes, and the order it tends to go in.
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Putting on shows and festivals
I have organised shows and festivals for years and still do. It is not hard. It is just a lot of small things that all need taking care of.
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Ten years with We vs Death
The longer story I keep promising. A band from Utrecht that took most of us around the world for about a decade, and taught me how this all really holds together.
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What touring is actually like
Fun, exhausting, full of good people and strange places, and away from home for a very long time. All of it is true at once.
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The first show I ever booked
Tilburg, October, twelve people, three bands, fourteen guilders each. I thought I had figured something out.
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The room below the maths class
Our music teacher let us use the music room after school. The maths class below us hated it. Thirty years later we are still playing together.
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Playing other people's songs in bars
The first real shows I played were covers, in bars, with whoever the music school put me on stage with. None of it was mine, and it got me completely hooked.
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