Autogigography, 3 February 2007: Grote Prijs van Leusden, Leusden (NL)
After performing at the preliminaries, we went through to the finals of “De Grote Prijs van Leusden”.
Of course, we were early. Well, not really. Me and Carmen were early, but the rest of the band actually was nicely on time about half an hour later. We settled, chatted with the people that work at the venue and we were our usual relaxed selves. All, except Kace who admitted that this was the first time he had ever been nervous for a gig.
As usual, we had to rush like crazy to set our gear up. Luckily, the stage hands remembered most of our set-up from the last time and they got us set up faster than usual.
Because we had 30 minutes playtime instead of 20, we decided to do our long intro. Apparently, it had been too long since we did the intro. Rene actually went on stage before Kace - which is not the right order. I’m a bit neurotic at times, and I almost went overboard with fright and panic as Rene went on stage first. Then Kace went on. The moment Kace went on, Joop extended a hand and Kace, being his usual joking self, grabs that hand and starts shaking it. Out goes the dramatic effect :) I of course went on stage about 2 bars too early (those are musical bars, I didn’t mean that I wasn’t drunk enough to get on stage), played the intro rather nicely and then we started For Hope is Still There.
We learned not to change the start of a song about one hour before going on stage. We tried a new beginning for Calling out the Gods and failed miserably. We got back on our feet and continued to play.
The rest of the set was rather uneventful except for me missing the first part of my Little Girl solo, simply because my right hand was picking the wrong string. *cough cough cough*.
In the end, we came in third which isn’t too bad out of 16 bands and us being the only metal band in the competition which was otherwise filled with alternative, britpop and wave/gothic bands and even a country-rock band.
We landed some money to spend at a local guitarshop so I paid the other band members their parts and went ahead and bought myself … A V-Wah (Boss PW10). I’ll have a review up shortly. By shortly, I mean: as soon as I get around to playing it.
Setlist:
Introduction
For Hope is Still There
Calling out the Gods
Paradox
Little Girl
Endgame
