A note of explanation: These photos and captions were sent to me by Patrick of [uzine] in a sequence of emails on April 6, 2006. I had been working with Patrick, Gerben Houwer and Geert Mets to book a May/June tour of Belgium and the Netherlands, and if I remember correctly, these emails came just after we'd booked enough shows to make the tour a viable endeavor. However, in Patrick's envisioning, our troubles were just beginning... [contact uzine]
Belgium, Kent, Belgium. What else do you want to see ?
it's all a joke, isn't it ?
someone lost the key
terrible, just terrible - awful acoustics
misery, sheer misery - no entrance, no queues, no money
who'd have thought - a festival ground ???
let's just call the whole thing off
but nooo
"I thought this was an important Dutch city"
"Er, it's all been a terrible misunderstanding,
Kent, I'm really sorry I haven't told you this"
the Liège thing got through in the end, but no thanks to that awful driver of ours, I didn't quite find the venue
"yes but Patrick, can you please call Geert or Gerben ...now ?"
"Utrecht, the nicest place of the low countries" he said - but, sadly, I didn't sleep a wink, because of the stench
