Heerlen, January 12, 2007
The long awaited day of pure pleasure and joy arrived in the day of yesterday. Yesterday, Sarah Bettens performed in Heerlen, NL.
After having missed my bus, almost having missed my train and other public transport stress, I met up with two other fans on the train. Really nice people!
We arrived in Heerlen nicely on time: 5:45 pm. The others still had to pick up there tickets so we had about one and a half hour left before we had to go to the venue. First, we decided to try to find the venue. Of course that's never as easy as the description likes you to believe (walk towards the centre of the town and go to the right) but after 10 minutes we had found the Parkstad Theater. Off we were to find a restaurant. According to the internet, there were plenty nice little restaurants in the neighborhood, but we ended up at Tony's Wok to Go.
At 7:15 pm we back to the venue to pick up the tickets and we entered the hall at 7:40 pm. The room was really nice and small; very intimate. We found a nice spot for the three of us directly in front of the stage.
After what felt like ages ("hey, that's Gert...right? Is it? Is it him? Noo..it's not.....or is it?" Nobody dared to shout in case in case they were wrong, so Gert could just walk around the stage as he wished) the support act (Woodface!!!!!) entered the stage and played an incredible set for about 40 minutes. Seeing Sarah enjoying her brother's performance while she was standing next to the stage was just priceless.
After another 30 minutes, what seemed like ages again, Sarah finally entered the stage. She looked incredibly hot in her jeans, white shirt and Nike's. She opened the show with 'Put it out for Good', an Amy Ray cover. Sarah slightly messed up during the intro of that song for which she apologized and promised to make up. Until then, she'd already said more that she did during the whole Tivoli show a couple of weeks earlier. I can't recall the exact set list, but apart from 'Put it out for good' she also played 'Can't get out', 'Shine', 'Daddy's Gun', 'Just another day' ("dat was een droevig liefdesliedje, nu komt een vrolijk liefdesliedje") 'Rescue Me', 'Coasting Speed', 'Scream, 'Go', 'Not Insane', 'Stay', 'Fine', (hot hot hot sexy dance song) 'Come Over Here', 'Better than you' and 'Too many happy faces'. She did play two other K's Choice songs during the main set, but I can't recall which ones.
THEN, the one thing that could make this magical night even more magic happened. A K's Choice reunion! According to Sarah they were going to do something very special, the first K's Choice concert in Holland in four years!! The crowd was very excited and it was awesome to see everyone shaking their hands during 'Believe' and jumping up and down during 'Everything for Free' and 'Not an Addict'. I just knew I was being part of something magical at that time and I can't wait to see it back.
Sarah made up for her little mistake during 'Put it out for good', that's for sure!!
After the show I bought another one of her t-shirts and i bought Woodface's latest cd, Comet. As soon as Sarah arrived at the stand I asked her to sign Comet. I told her that I thought it was a bit awkward to ask her to sign a Woodface cd, but she was happy to do it and I think she was happy that I bought her brother's album. After having made a picture of Sarah and Marianne (one of the girls I was with) we left. It was 11:30 pm and I still had to travel a couple of hours. Fortunately, Marianne took the same train as I did so we could chat a bit more about the show and other interests (read: Melissa Etheridge) and after waiting for my other train for an hour in Eindhoven and another half an hour for my bus in Utrecht, I arrived home at 4 in the morning.
People have called me crazy for that, but it was so worth it.
After having missed my bus, almost having missed my train and other public transport stress, I met up with two other fans on the train. Really nice people!
We arrived in Heerlen nicely on time: 5:45 pm. The others still had to pick up there tickets so we had about one and a half hour left before we had to go to the venue. First, we decided to try to find the venue. Of course that's never as easy as the description likes you to believe (walk towards the centre of the town and go to the right) but after 10 minutes we had found the Parkstad Theater. Off we were to find a restaurant. According to the internet, there were plenty nice little restaurants in the neighborhood, but we ended up at Tony's Wok to Go.
At 7:15 pm we back to the venue to pick up the tickets and we entered the hall at 7:40 pm. The room was really nice and small; very intimate. We found a nice spot for the three of us directly in front of the stage.
After what felt like ages ("hey, that's Gert...right? Is it? Is it him? Noo..it's not.....or is it?" Nobody dared to shout in case in case they were wrong, so Gert could just walk around the stage as he wished) the support act (Woodface!!!!!) entered the stage and played an incredible set for about 40 minutes. Seeing Sarah enjoying her brother's performance while she was standing next to the stage was just priceless.
After another 30 minutes, what seemed like ages again, Sarah finally entered the stage. She looked incredibly hot in her jeans, white shirt and Nike's. She opened the show with 'Put it out for Good', an Amy Ray cover. Sarah slightly messed up during the intro of that song for which she apologized and promised to make up. Until then, she'd already said more that she did during the whole Tivoli show a couple of weeks earlier. I can't recall the exact set list, but apart from 'Put it out for good' she also played 'Can't get out', 'Shine', 'Daddy's Gun', 'Just another day' ("dat was een droevig liefdesliedje, nu komt een vrolijk liefdesliedje") 'Rescue Me', 'Coasting Speed', 'Scream, 'Go', 'Not Insane', 'Stay', 'Fine', (hot hot hot sexy dance song) 'Come Over Here', 'Better than you' and 'Too many happy faces'. She did play two other K's Choice songs during the main set, but I can't recall which ones.
THEN, the one thing that could make this magical night even more magic happened. A K's Choice reunion! According to Sarah they were going to do something very special, the first K's Choice concert in Holland in four years!! The crowd was very excited and it was awesome to see everyone shaking their hands during 'Believe' and jumping up and down during 'Everything for Free' and 'Not an Addict'. I just knew I was being part of something magical at that time and I can't wait to see it back.
Sarah made up for her little mistake during 'Put it out for good', that's for sure!!
After the show I bought another one of her t-shirts and i bought Woodface's latest cd, Comet. As soon as Sarah arrived at the stand I asked her to sign Comet. I told her that I thought it was a bit awkward to ask her to sign a Woodface cd, but she was happy to do it and I think she was happy that I bought her brother's album. After having made a picture of Sarah and Marianne (one of the girls I was with) we left. It was 11:30 pm and I still had to travel a couple of hours. Fortunately, Marianne took the same train as I did so we could chat a bit more about the show and other interests (read: Melissa Etheridge) and after waiting for my other train for an hour in Eindhoven and another half an hour for my bus in Utrecht, I arrived home at 4 in the morning.
People have called me crazy for that, but it was so worth it.
posted by peaceofmind | 6:35 AM
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