interrupt service routine

I realize that this is not my day, but that's not going to stop me! HAH!

Anyways, the purpose of this post is just to apologize and explain. Let's start with the first one:

SORRY GEIS.

Now as for the explaining:
I've been uncharacteristically busy this week by doing a very characteristic thing; making music. This Wednesday and Thursday there were open mic nights at our school, and I participated. This meant that I spent the days before that practicing, and the rest of the week exhausted. So... not much blogging for me. No hard feelings, amirite?

As for the result of wednesday...

Niqee Vossen & Kylian van Beem - Sideways


Six Minute Drive (supposedly) (Niqee Vossen on vocals, Daniel Tiggelovend on guitar, Sam Vossen on drums, Hoai-Linh Nguyen on bass, Kylian van Beem on guitar) - Kryptonite


I was pretty confident about that day, and I'm glad to see that that shows. I seem more confident on stage than before, and that really improves my stage presence. I still have a long way to go, but I actually like what I'm doing on stage now. The confidence originated from the things I was doing: A song I have played many times before (and could probably play blindfolded), and some pentatonic scale guitarwanking. Pretty sure I can do that.

As for the Thursday though, I wasn't that confident. It was my first time singing 'in public', and that was a bit of a thrill. About 4 months ago I would never have considered singing in public, but now there I was, on stage, with a microphone in front of my face... I decided to just make the best of it, and try to do my best.

Weirdly enough, the guy I really want to thank for this performance was the soundguy. Before the whole night, he quickly rushed into the dressing-room, stopping me and asking "Hey, you have an iPod on you, right?"
"Uh, yeah."
"Do you have good music on it?"
"I'd like to think so."
"Can I borrow it?"
"Uh, sure."

So that was that. I walked into the hall a few minutes later, and heard some Steve Miller Band coming through the speakers. I was really digging the guy's picks from my iPod, and he seemed to be quite fond of the music as well. That was good enough, but the special thing happened during the 20-minute intermezzo. I really liked that our act was after this break, as we could take our time to set things up and mess around. So that's what we did, and that's when it happened. The guy was looking for songs we could play along to, and during that time of randomly jamming/singing/etc. to songs on stage, in front of quite a few people that were probably just confused, I got more and more comfortable with being on that stage. It was a tad awkward when he played Tenacious D's Kielbasa, but I guess that's the risk of someone browsing through my iPod. After this weird semi-jam my nerves were calmed, and I just had adrenaline running through my veins. Which resulted in this performance...

Eldridg Soetanto (Bass), Valdano Hoogwout (Drums), Kylian van Beem (Guitar & Vocals) - Castles Made of Sand



So... yay.

Also, random song!