CALLING ALL ITALIAN FANS…KS SEEKS PLACE TO WATCH THE SUPER BOWL IN ROME ON FEB. 5 AFTER THE WHITE FLAG SHOW…
EINDHOVEN 1/30
Slept in with no need for an alarm, as I mentioned before…bliss. The Effenaar has been a rock institution for some years, and the town loved it so much they tore that old linen factory down and built a big scary concrete thingy with multiple venues, and big windows that look out from the 4th and 5th floor rooms over the town. The old Effenaar was a site of many Posies shows in the 1990s, and our 2000 acoustic tour in Europe kicked off there (where Jon, in his drunken state, fell backwards while peeing in the backstage toilet after the show, grabbed a pipe on the way down and caused the whole backstage to flood-they were remarkably cool about that). Our first visit to the new place was a merry one (read: a wifi-equipped band is a happy band). Great throngy crowd, lots of sweating and spitting from me. Being as I want to be alert and well rested when I get home, I decided that having the end of the tour party on that night would be better than doing it in Rotterdam (I have to catch a train at 7.30 in the morning after the last show). So, we gathered friends up to the dressing room, including Menko Leeuw, who was our tour manager and sound engineer from 1996 to 1998…we all got down and had tequila, champagne and what not. Festivities continued after the club closed at 4.30, and after the four of us walked back to the hotel (about 750 yards, with all our luggage, passing the very scary train station area, always the worst in any town—I think I was unsuccessfully pickpocketed, actually) in the freezing night air, and fired up the Itunes once we were safely in Matt and Darius’ room. I ended up sleeping on their floor! Hot.
ROTTERDAM 1/29
So I slept in the van for the short ride to Delft, and woke up as we pulled up to Velvet Records, for an instore appearance. I was a bit cranky when I woke up in the van but everybody was so friendly at the store that I woke up and felt good (OK, a Red Bull helped too). The boys from the very fine band Cooper were on hand to lend guitars…we did some funny stuff, including “Saying Sorry to Myself’, which I can’t imagine the last time we played that…then back in the van and rolled up to the last date, Rotterdam, at the relatively new joint called Waterfront, which is canalside, on the docks. Beautiful light as we drove up the place, right at sunset.
Tonight’s show we did exclusively the songs of Every Kind of Light, in an order appropriate for the flow of a live show. Then off, and back for 7 more Posie classics. I loved it—we did lots of insane jumping around, I gashed my hand in the first number, and gave Taylor lots of abuse. Poor dear, she was pretty hammered by the end of the night AND she twisted her ankle…we did the best we could to care for her, and released her to Evellyn and Carsten to get her to the airport safe…
We really played those EKOL numbers with true authority. I think in ‘Jungle’ there was also an Eagles medley…oh well. After the show, no tears…but…I packed up the stuff I will need for the next month’s worth of shows, and also made my stuff as compact as possible for humping on to the train…in 5 hours…yow…
There’s lots more stuff to come…I’ll update the tour page soon…but I will be with and without Posies in many, many different corners of the globe over the next months…so, next Sunday I’ll be blogging down another batch of shows…and hopefully watching the Super Bowl!!
Love
KS
Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS
