It's been awhile (TSPO and Korn)

Dear visitors,

A little bit longer than planned, but I'm back again. Not that I've been away. I didn't left the country. Just took some leave from blogging for an unspecified amount of time. I had enough things/subjects to blog about, it was just a matter of other things on my mind, lack of energy, focus etc...

When it comes to music I didn't kept completely quiet the past 7, 8 months. I just didn't blog about it that's all.

In my next post I will give you an update on the concerts that I, often accompanied by wy wife N., visited the past 9 or 10 months with some videos.

In this post I'll give a short report on two concerts that we visited last Friday and Sunday.

Friday N. and I went to Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (TSPO) from Japan together with an ex-colleague and her friend at "De Melkweg", Amsterdam. For N. and I it was the fourth time to see TSPO. If you're in for a fun night with a good band

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (Live at Utrecht)

Last Night N., two friends and also former roommates and yours truly went to a concert of the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, a ten men formation from Tokyo (what a surprise), Japan. For those who are not familiair with their music you can describe their music as Madness meets The Pogues with a bit of punk-, jazz-, soul-, funk-, bigband- and even sometimes klezmerinfluences added to the overall mixture, creating a live performance that turns every musicevent into a partying, jumping and dancing whole.

N. and I saw the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra for the first time two years ago in 2005 at the Parkpop Festival, a free music festival at The Hague, which is always held at the last Sunday of June every year. Although they were playing early in the afternoon at the Parkpop Festival, they got the whole crowd jumping and dancing, including me and that's quite an achievement if you know that I'm not a big dancinglover. They have a great and very energetic live performance and they also proved that last night.

We had a wonderful and fun time last night N. and I manage to made a few pictures and I shot two videos that I uploaded at YouTube. I have embedded the videos in this posting. You'll find them together with some pictures below. The videos were shot with a compact digital photocamera, so the video- and sound quality is not extremely high, but good enough to get an impression of the live performance and the atmosphere. Because there was not enough light and because of the jumping and dancing crowd it was difficult to get sharp pictures, so some of the pics are a bit moved sometimes.

TSPO is touring through Europe now. You can check their schedule on their website (see below). If they are coming near you and you are in the mood for a great night with fun- and partymusic then don't hesitate and go. You won't regret it.

I also made a posting about the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra at my photoblog at BrownNoisePhotos.

Enjoy the videos!

They also do a great version of the thememusic from "The Godfather". They also played it last night, but this video was shot (not by me) in August 2006 at another concert of the TSPO in Barcelona.

Official website of Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

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Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra