[FESC] Waar het festivalseizoen pas echt begint... over een week?

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Op dinsdag 16 juni 2015 16:00 schreef indiaantje89 het volgende:

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Al lang in de gaten aan het houden..

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Op dinsdag 16 juni 2015 15:46 schreef Loveless85 het volgende:
Vraag gewoon namens FOK! accreditatie aan

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Lowlands viel vaak terug op dezelfde namen: Foo Fighters en Kaiser Chiefs traden bijna jaarlijks aan op het hoofdpodium.

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Op dinsdag 16 juni 2015 16:17 schreef indiaantje89 het volgende:

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Linkje ?

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Op dinsdag 16 juni 2015 16:22 schreef Dark_Angelus het volgende:
En inmiddels heeft Dotan ook stemproblemen.

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michielveenstra twitterde op dinsdag 16-06-2015 om 16:13:31 Eloi van Kensington, Sam Smith, Jess Glynn, Rikki van Rondé en nu ook @DotanMusic stemproblemen. Wat doen ze fout? https://t.co/Qq1KYokiWq reageer retweet

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Hey everyone….

Your old pal, Dave here. Been a while, eh? It’s been one hell of a year, that’s for sure. Looks like we’ve got some serious catching up to do! Hmmm, let’s see…..where do I begin?

Drumroll, please….

The funniest thing happened to me the other day in Sweden!

Two songs into our set at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, I made a mad dash to the right of the stage during MONKEY WRENCH to shred some tasty licks for the kids up front. It was a beautiful night, beautiful stadium, 52,000 screaming people….dream gig! Well….wait for it….I definitely shredded something (ZING!) Wound up feet first over the Edge (pun intended), dropping about 12 feet, dislocating my ankle and snapping my fibula like an old pair of take out chopsticks. Whoopsie daisy. Not good. Without realizing the extent of my injuries, I stood up to get back onstage and crumbled like a sack of Joe Theismanns (look it up, kiddies). That shit was B-R-O-K-E.

As I lay there on my back, I just thought, “Are you kidding me? We haven’t even gotten to the screamy bit of the song and the gig is fucking OVER?” So, I asked for a microphone and told the audience I’d get fixed up and come right back to finish the show ASAP. Shock? Probably. But, I couldn’t stand the thought of such a perfect night going to waste! I looked at our drummer Taylor and said, “Bust out some Chevy Metal covers while they fix me up!” So, as the band kicked in to “Stay With Me” by The Faces, the medics poured me onto a stretcher, took me off to the side, cut my favorite pants off (so bummed) and popped my ankle back into place. I asked if I could get back onstage to finish the show, but they said I needed a cast (which was 20 minutes away at the hospital) to hold my ankle in place. So I looked my EMT, Johan in the eyes and said “Well, then you’re coming up there with me right now and holding it in place until they can bring the cast here. Ready?” He stared at me wide-eyed for a second and said, “OK, lets’ go…”



I don’t know who was more scared, me or Johan. 5 minutes later, I don’t know who was having more fun, me or Johan. (I actually looked at him in between songs and said “This is pretty fun, isn’t it?” He smiled and nodded yes.)

Like clockwork, the cast arrived, I walked offstage for a song or two as they put it on me, and then came back to finish the gig. Let’s just say that singing our song “Walk” with a straight face was pretty goddamned hard. “These Days” was a good one, too. (Easy for you to say! Your leg has never been broken!) All in all, it was without a doubt the single most bizarre Foo Fighters show in the entire 20 years of being a band. Hands down. What seemed like a tragedy at first turned into a triumph, and we all walked away with a new sense of appreciation for what we’ve got…





Straight to the hospital for x-rays, where we finally saw the extent of the damage. That’s when things got really real. I was told I needed surgery to fix the break. I decided to fly back to London and find a doctor that could see me ASAP. (Thanks for the recommendation, Paul!) An MRI and a few x-rays later, we set a date and prepared for the operation.

Operation went well. Had a great team and nice stay in hospital. Good curry, too! Thank you to everyone involved.



So….here I am, recovering with 6 metal screws in my leg, thinking about a lifetime of holding up TSA lines from here to Kalamazoo….damn.

Here’s the not so witty bit…….My doctors have advised me to lay low for a while. The most important thing now is for me to recover from the surgery, to keep my leg elevated so as to keep swelling down and prevent any infection/complication that could do long term damage. I’m not out of the woods yet, folks…

Which means, and it kills me to say it…..the doctors have told us to cancel shows. I’m really so sorry, guys. You know I hate to do it, but I’m afraid it’s just not physically possible for me at the moment. We’re doing our best right now to work out a plan, so bear with us. You know we’re good for our word. But for now, I need to make sure we have YEARS of gigs ahead of us….

You have always stood by our band, and we will always stand by you. Like I say at every show, we wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you guys. And I mean that. I thank you form the bottom of my heart. And I will do everything I can to come back and give you a night to remember for the rest of your lives AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Until then…my sincerest apologies.

Your friend, Dave

PS…….Kanye…..Imma let you have this one…..

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BELLE AND SEBASTIAN IN NOVEMBER NAAR 013
De Schotse indiepophelden van Belle And Sebastian komen op zondag 29 november naar 013 voor een zeldzame clubshow. Het wordt het eerste Nederlandse cluboptreden in bijna tien jaar. De bejubelde indieband rond Stuart Murdoch heeft net een spiksplinternieuw album uit getiteld ‘Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance’. Tickets gaan op vrijdag 19 juni om 10:00 uur in de voorverkoop.

Midden jaren negentig ontstaat er een buzz in Glasgow als ‘Tigermilk’ (2006), het debuut van Belle And Sebastian verschijnt. De lieflijk klinkende mix van indiepop en folk is ontwapenend en ongekend pakkend. Alles lijkt te kloppen; niet alleen de muziek, maar ook het artwork en de wat mediaschuwe houding van de band. Al snel ontpopt Belle And Sebastian zich niet alleen tot lieverdje van de internationale pers, maar ook van een snel groeiende groep fijnproevers.

Inmiddels heeft Belle And Sebastian negen studioalbums gemaakt, maar de muziek van de groep rond songschrijver Stuart Murdoch heeft zich in die tijd altijd ontwikkeld. Ook ‘Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance’ (2015) horen we weer een prachtige verzameling liedjes waarin dit keer de disco-invloeden niet van de lucht zijn. Nog steeds klinkt Belle And Sebastian fris en eclectisch en ondanks dat het inmiddels een gevestigde naam is, lijkt het alsof de Schotten een eigen unieke wereld hebben ontwikkeld waarin alles mogelijk is.

Liveoptredens van Belle And Sebastian zijn altijd bijzonder, maar helaas voor de Nederlandse fans ook vrij zeldzaam. Afgezien van enkele festivaloptredens is de band weinig in ons land te zien geweest. Het lange wachten wordt beloond met het eerste cluboptreden op Nederlandse bodem in bijna tien jaar. Deze show, die gepresenteerd wordt door 3voor12, is ook meteen exclusief voor Nederland.

Het concert van Belle & Sebastian wordt georganiseerd door 013 en Mojo Concerts.

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Op woensdag 17 juni 2015 10:59 schreef Dark_Angelus het volgende:

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JamesBlunt twitterde op woensdag 17-06-2015 om 10:48:50 Amazed and thrilled to get the call from @GlastoFest to headline in place of @foofighters. Of course I said yes! #rockon reageer retweet