December 2009
1 post
November 2009
5 posts
Disasteradio comes to stay
Wellington music celebrity and one man electro-pop band Disasteradio came to stay with us in Amsterdam for a few days. His real name is Luke. I would highly recommend having Luke stay as he is an exceptional house guest. He was clean, kind, and very polite.
He took my completly broke self to the Anne Frank house yesterday, something I’d never done before. Super intense place, such a sad...
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Dutch word of the month club
It has recently dawned on me that I’m living in a country that speaks a different language. Amsterdam is a strange city regarding language. Almost every Dutch person I meet is highly fluent in English, in part because TV and movies over here are subtitled and not dubbed and because everyone learns it as children. Also, Amsterdam is so geographically small and such a tourist destination that...
Mad Russian scientist/artist
The last date of our German ukulele tour was in Kassel. Kassel is a small town, but we’ve managed to play there a few times because our booker lives there. We played at the art school this time in this underground bunker, where they’ve put together this really cool bohemian bar. They don’t advertise openly for this bar, but instead only art students know about it. And it was full...
October 2009
7 posts
Coming 'home'
We’ve only been living in Amsterdam for about three months, so it’s a strange feeling to come home from tour to Amsterdam. I really like it here, lots of different people and beautiful buildings. One room apartment living will take a while to get used to though.
We’re going to record a short release of the ukulele songs we played on our last tour. We’ll post up a link...
Berlin show - another weird sound guy
Last Sunday night we played NBI in Berlin. The promoter of the show was Robert, a guy we met last time we played in Berlin. He’s a fantastic guy and took great care of us.
We’ve come across a few weird soundguys, so we can add the soundguy from this night to the collection. Like I said before, we were touring with a Ukulele and a glockspiel. So we did each show without any...
Last minute change of plan - The German Train Tour
Ahh, I’ve written this post twice now, but Tumblr keeps losing it.
So what happened is: the night before we were due to leave on our German tour we realised that our rental car wasn’t boked properly. We freaked out a bit, but our German booker was really helpful. He suggested we tour by train and take less equipment. And so the German train tour was born!
We’re on tour at the...
The French are a friendly race
Playing in France this year has been a real treat for us. The accents, the bread, the round-a-bouts. This blog posted up a small review of Owl + Owl, it’s Frenchness is amazing!
http://ww2w.fr/2009/08/30/puree-de-dieu-mickael2-owl-owl/
German tour starts this week!
We’re really excited to be getting back to Germany! We’ll be bringing along a couple of new instruments and a bunch of new songs. Here are the dates:
24.10. -Hannover / Random Play 25.10. -Berlin / NBI 26.10. -Leipzig / Die Kassette 27.10. -Bremen / Zucker 28.10. -Siegen / Vortex 29.10. -Kassel / Underground
Need to finishing making merch/mastering EP/practicing set!
This has been a very busy week
On Monday we got an email from our New Zealand friend Connan Mockasin. He was playing that night in Amsterdam and wanted us to do a set. We decided that we’d try out an acoustic set, using just a Ukulele and a glockenspiel. And it went really well!
At that show we met a guy called Tonnie who is a journalist here in Amsterdam, and I’m lead to believe he infact had blogger.com’s...
This is our new blog
This blog is all shiny and simple and glorious. Thanks so much to Justin from Muxtape for putting us onto this. Our collective eye can breathe a sigh of relief.
Also, I’m sorry we haven’t been updating the blog as often as we should, we’ve been so busy, we’ll catch you up soon.