Pentecost ( Pinksteren – dutch translation ), usually means festival time. Usually it means Pinkpop, a three day festival in my hometown. But this year due to the early date of Pentecost they changed some things around so instead of doing Pinkpop Classics in August they moved that one to Pentecost monday and Pinkpop to May 30th, 31st and June 1st. That means that they will have bigger bands because they can team up with two other festivals and split the money that the bands cost.
Anyway Pinkpop Classics, of course like every time a concert starts Jan Smeets the person who is organising the festivals does his opening speech and this time he said that the stage that we where looking at was bigger then we where used to. To me it looked pretty much the same but okay if he says so he is probably right. Anyway he said that it was the stage that Metallica owns. And since Metallica performs at the regular Pinkpop, the stage will be in Landgraaf for the next three weeks.
Janse Bagge Bend last year they where also the opening act at Pinkpop Classics. It is a dutch band mostly known for their song ‘Solliciterre’. They mostly sing their songs in a half Limburgs ( that is a Dutch County, that I am originally from )/half Dutch way. So everyone in the Netherlands can understand it but it is not regular Dutch.
The second band was Mothers Finest a band that thanks to Pinkpop 30 years ago had their big break in Europe. I didn’t know the band well that is what I thought as they where playing I recognized some songs. since then I have listened to some of the songs and I really do like the music. It was a good performance, very entertaining.
Y&T, a band that has existed alongside bands like Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, Aerosmith, and Motley Crüe. They make the same kind of music that those bands make, and even still have the same hair styles that Aerosmith had in the ’80s but somehow they never got as popular as those bands.
Last year we had Marillion, this year we had Fish. He is the man who wrote a lot of the Marillion songs including my favorite ‘Kayleigh’. Fish is a man who, unfortunatly for him, writes his best songs whenever he has relationship problems. The man knows his way with words.
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, I really don’t know what to say about this band. I’ve seen them live but it really honestly did nothing for me. I can’t remember any of the songs. I don’t know it just didn’t intrest me at all.
Golden Earring, it was the second time I saw the band perform live. First time was at Pinkpop in 2005. They have been at Pinkpop a lot of times, they are after all a Dutch band.
UB40 was already signed for Pinkpop Classics when in January singer Ali Campbell says that he is leaving the British Reggaeband UB40. In March Michael Virtue ( who plays the keys in the band ) also announces that he is leaving. So with a new singer, Duncan Campbell ( Brother or Ali and Robin Campbell ) they arrived at Pinkpop. There performance was really swinging, a lot of people of course knew their songs and could sing along with them which made them a perfect closure.
The festival was awesome and it was a total succes, next year the festival will be in August 2009. I am already looking forward to it, I am pretty sure that my mom wants to go again also. She had so much fun, it was awesome to see her that way.
On a completely different note!
Guess who is going to be working on the new Beth Hart shirts this week! That’s right! ME!!!!! The order came in this pat week at my email at work, my new job. Awesome ain’t it!!! Every Beth Hart’s fan dream I guess! Well apart from meeting her of course, been there done that 
although I would like to meet her again of course. I am still squeeing over the fact that we’ll be making Beth Hart shirts! And we are also going to be making some shirts that will be sold at Pinkpop. I am going to try and make pictures when I can.
My Two Cents
Since a couple of weeks I started writing NCIS reviews/recaps. I really like NCIS since I started watching it last year. It has replaced the love that I once had for CSI I guess. To me CSI has lost a lot of it’s appeal. I still watch it but if I have to choose, NCIS goes first. So when I found this webiste TheTwoCents.com, I noticed that there was no one reviewing NCIS and I signed up.
Three weeks ago I wrote my first review ‘Internal Affairs‘, followed by of course ‘In the Zone‘ and ‘Recoil‘. Over the summer I and the other reviewers will be working on different shows, television shows that are no longer on tv. I choose Stargate SG1, I really would have liked to take Stargate Atlantis but since that one is still on I didn’t have that choice.
