Monday, January 31, 2011

Swollen Knuckles And Bruising

still London Day 1 - Music and so

After some time, but then I discovered another living being, quickly stormed it, it looked competent.
Finest Oxford English out dug and then ask whether we might somewhere to make our stuff, maybe ne wardrobe is already up, because we now want to attend evening concert and through the journey from Germany so much baggage with us rumschleppen, bla bla bla. .. He looks to bring short time and then says the "Stage Manager". Huh? This is really nice. And then he apologizes too, that it would probably take a few moments n ... polite and helpful people. Do I have to say yes ever!

after a while he came back, with the Stage Manager, who then also spent time at first Rumsucherei. Eventually came the question would arise because when we (or something like that) ... Eh? I have several concert visit had spoken. Soo bad my English may not be ;-)
Well, we clarify that we are not a band (that also are those who think that the plan is to have prepared the next time simply n small program, - )). The efforts, however, it is not really small. But in the end we pull back with all our stuff from * a huge amount, because we have this stuff can probably make backstage, but he would not guarantee us can see that there's nothing breaks (always the unwary artist then hitchhike!) and that would then everything with the insurance ... or so. So we decide
times not so much to jet through the area (so ne rice bag is very uncomfortable in the long run), but what you find to eat cheap and time to explore the detailed environment.

So get into the "beautiful" weather. And maybe sometimes even collect evidence that Silke really in London and is thus cut off some of the "to dos". And Tadaaa, a letter box. Well, the mail from the work they had, I think so in Germany sent, but a proof is a proof. Then we need
yes only a cell phone and NEN bus. This would indeed be the red fraction processed.
seen cell phone. On the other side. As the two women go on my instructions as to times now over (across a dangerous road! Look right!) And to position themselves attractively somehow could not perform quite so quickly, we stood around for a while long undecided. Must have seemed suspicious, because at one time n policeman came rum.Panik! Because even were still behind the two BWA. We must have really worked very very dangerous, with all our stuff and all. Then the relief he wants to help us. However, only? "You look lost "I refer now not even that we are supposed to be getting to hear a few times ... Tz, we were not lost. We were on schedule, I explained to him that is relatively complicated that we never" are lost " but only think to take pictures of the telephone booths, and but the road layout bothers us and everything. somehow makes the whole thing any better. Now he wants us in taking pictures is helfen.Das kind of embarrassing, and we declare that the be all right then, we cheer come back again .... by
Nix as yet gone ;-) n bissel rumgelatscht meaningless in the area and considered funny then thrown together architecture and encouraging Ne way back into pizzeria. As to where it seemed to have good offers. So at least if one sets the correct scale: - /
also matter, the main thing we have, then you have to find the spinach in the pasta and the meat (for "meat friends") on the pizza did not really. Then reaches a straw, ne ne colorful surroundings and palm, and it is already on vacation .... And then there can also hang out quite a while and fritter away time, so as not through the drizzly London .. with too many kilos . I think I mentioned this before.

some point but then we went to our musical home base back because it was already almost happened to the concert.
Initially came The Oxford Gargoyles, the winners of the Voice Festival UK 2010 . A bunch of nice young people who have really sung pretty well together. Absolutely nothing earth shattering, but was fun. Even if the girls were usually more concerned with their somewhat short length dresses and they have all somehow seemed very tired, but such a jet lag, they can not even really have had ;-)



And then, The Real Group . I've probably already mentioned it, that is absolutely awesome, fun is to look, listen and somehow. Oh well, play the very top. So I have certain expectations as well. Since my last concert there was a change in the baritone, new youngster in the team. So I was also curious. And anyway, it was my birthday concert ... And well, then came the first half.
(Mats Bäcker)
And I was still disappointed. The very first song was extremely fast and then be counted runtergespult so quickly. They have then held until the interval and, unfortunately, so then came along some problems.
Not only that, for my Taste, then everything is right, stressed and not relaxed worked, it also suggested the rhythmic precision and intonation. What else the Real Group of distinction, just their precision and still seeming casual, all this was somehow gone. Stop completely ignoring the fact that it was sometimes really dirty. One must of course in the context of the Real Group can see it now was not a bad thing, but simply a corollary
ne ..
And the clothes some women have to say nothing more really. From some point, the NEM is nothing more to do with great taste, but with a relative undress awareness ...
any event, even if around me at the break but first relatively large amount of euphoria, I've seen that the five (or at least the four of them I knew already, and Marten seemed really still the safest of all) the much better and so can a show really is not "necessary "have.
I then also in the interval n bissel rumgelauscht but also includes the odd critical voice, was not just me and whatever ..
After a few minutes we went on, and lo and behold, a lot more relaxed. And promptly has my face again evaporated something critical and I have no worries about making wrinkles on my forehead. Now again, the Real Group was there as I knew it, clean, precise and present.
fine :-) As I was able to enjoy again medley of Swedish celebrities, senseless and stupid machine party posturing.



Even though I have very distinctive voice Peders but especially in "his" pieces (Mister Father, for example) greatly missed, so I like the new guy, I think quite well. Marten said was like in the first half almost at the safest and can sing it in any case. When can Peder is then retained with arrangements and compositions, then I think you somehow absorb the long run.
In the end, then at least out of the whole audience with the typical Gøta-catchy tune, that has a then accompanied almost to the station.

We are then left to a party that is yet, but we prefer to have a longer, but made at the time, fortunately not as tortuous path to zone 5. Far far away from the center. From our bed, a sweet "humble" scruffy building site behind a hedge. A street full of small semi-detached houses, in the middle of nowhere, just across the bus station and a highway connected to the outside world ... Danny put under the microscope, but quite nice for a swat votes (half the day fireman, then ne own company and the rest of the time he builds on his own around his house when asleep opened the?), beds and eingepennt.
I then also learned that if you only have so little space that you will be squeezed from both sides, then you can sleep well after a while without having to turn hundreds of times before ;-)

continued again.
Will I ever be free from my "bed"? If we ever restore a sense of London in? What do we do to day without NEM concerts? And who are really David and Goliath?

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

What Color Tie Goes With A Light Color Suit

Birthday and A cappella Festival London

That was actually a real-time long-planned trip. Last year saw the first festival in London and just before I had to Tobias Hug The Swingle Singers hit, had noted quite right that it would not go so well that I did not get there.
Well, as I celebrated the festival time of my birthday I could not of course simply zoom off a quick trip to London, never mind the fact that the intended spontaneously and had not become incredibly cheap. But then began roughly once a plan in my head to form. With the now ominous sounds as simply: I've decided my next birthday celebration in London, surrounded by a cappella

:-) Well, time was marked from then who else would come up with, and who else wanted and then could not live. On End was then, the tour group (by Sandra, the whole was then virtually a revival of their Birthday London trip 5 years ago, even though we are there "only" went to the Musical) is fixed and the roles were distributed. One makes the flights of the beds and then I'll take care of the cards. Also went really well, it could start almost. In the last post
was already a pack of photo, such things can come if you want to take only hand luggage. So I've packed all the time on a ruler so I do not even get over the magic values and a lot of extra money has to pay forever. That was in the end probably totally in vain, because what everybody has since rumgeschleppt on the plane with him ... man man. Definitely not only one bag, and if you turn since then nearly dragged to death ... I do not know ;-)

After Silke and Sandra had arrived with me we quickly picked up the stairs still in my bed (and once again realized that you can not be relied on GPS) and portrayed. She looks fine! Then I'm
GEDU the dress rehearsal (where the concert but I do could not do that with, well, well, what does not do anything for his choir ...) the net bissel celebrated and then quickly but still n (the really "big" I'm so then it can be, for trial, absences and getting up early the next Day). My hard drive here now has a very nice home! :-) And then ne Glee episode and to sleep sometime.


Anyway, eventually we get up too early to arrive at Schönefeld, have there expressed our dangerous roll through security, one for us found more appropriate place and had breakfast.
purely When nasty weather in the plane that almost was our own, all the little fellow passengers stowed good performance lollipops made to us, begewohnt the ryanair of promotional event and then ended up at some point safely at Stansted and again at even disgusting weather out.

After some argument, then we have also managed to move us in the bus from Victoria station. There, after great consideration and on-offs (which resulted in the end thanks to the "great" London Underground still not particularly low and smooth expenditure) then we all come into possession of an oyster for the public "Near" traffic. Thus armed, we first made it to the theater on . Because our luggage was not really easy. This should not have been more than 10 pounds?
From to King's Cross, should we look purely at the next time but often. There we learned that the London love once paid 12 pounds for his luggage on a guarded landfill to unload. Ok, we therefore are not London.
So on with the "baggage" from the theater. King's Place! ma behold, if we meet n King ...

Once there, we then looked around for now. Does kinda like the Canteen, a little snobbish Art University ...
Below was certainly the concert level. If one is more colorful through the gallery but all quite similar appearance but by painting, or has taken the quick way the escalator (obviously wrong rum) you end up at the "stables", there should take place where the concerts. The particularly ridiculous in these houses was that at that time was the sole occupant of a dead, rather large isopod ...
Since no one else on this deep level around blowing then we first planted on the "sofa", but as our expanded quite a lot of stuff and what is eaten. more precisely, lemon wafers. Highly nutritious ;-)






Have to go look Devlog times, continued ... ;-)
If we find life there? Will we ever be rid of our luggage? And, really find in the stables for concerts?

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Roccaforte Pelicula Online

a cappella noodles

So, we come to the last part of the journey through Saxony and his Vorbundesländer ;-)

order to exhaust the nickname that is still enough of us there we have aufbegeben where they come from small pasta.
There, where one has a giant laid to sleep.
to where a young Kuchenmagd the king what to cook and nothing except flour and eggs at his disposal. Or something like that ...
To where our basic food comes from. This one has only sprinkle with spinach, cheese and garlic, and almost all care is going on ... after Riesa!
To learn all I ever wanted to know about pasta and would rather never know.
Indeed, there are long-and short goods, the poor pasta die until the heat death and then they are almost frozen, most of the time they hang upside down (that are not bad will) and be dragged through the area or recklessly on tapes back and forth pushed. What a noodle life ...
And then carelessly thrown into plastic bags. And sent into the distance. After all, not alone but with many noodle friends. So there is still hope that they go and then later in the supermarket always a few people to talk. Nonsense-containing pasta.

Since you are not in the top-secret factory was allowed to photograph, we had so we make do in our wonderful (determined antiseptic) robes to take pictures. Most of all we would do so from the parts never get out! And even when Umschaun in the deep secret Nudelwerberei we were able to hold on to happiness our incredible beauty. If we already have all the times are like-minded noodles ... Even in survival were the size there. Simply unbelievable! So much fun for little money ... schalalala!

But, there is even a three-class system. Not all pasta is good enough, but as I learned to have is my wallet (yes, that is) not even for the low cost segment of Riesa good enough. Let because of the colorful children's pasta and all the other stuff you can buy there.
Good thing there are also giveaways. That was our dinner that night but then backed up and through creativity and love of adventure and our great cooking team (one schnibbelt, one comes around and I seasoning) then we could eat 5ielitys song also matches the traffic light. Wonderfully ...

Am, next day we went on a leisurely walk through Dresden. The sun was extra nice, contains no comparison with that in Chemnitz. And Dresden has again proven to be totally cute patch (even if the Spätis have since not really late at night, and it is difficult can be a bread raise ...). As I go but always like to visit my other band :-) And as we also had someone there is not permanent and glide back to Dresden gabs again full blast culture and everything Dresden has to offer in attractions. I think, anyway.


evening we went to Cadence. I have it before even managed to pick their own concert and I almost get lost when I'm not ;-) From official secondary citizens?
Last year, almost the same spot same wave, we had also been a concert and I have indeed been what has been written to. The would be .
Although it is not was exactly the same, but was much like that. And my opinion of there is still the same. Although there certainly may be that the whole is more jazzy become. In any case, this is the case with the new album.


was then still a ostiges birthday brunch, that was exciting for me Wessi child. What we did not have everything! Exciting, exciting ... and you could even eat almost anything ;-)


sodium carbonate, then came the journey went further to the east, which I've already talked by now ;-) and the following is more to the north. London. A cappella Festival! Tomorrow we go! I am prepared and the hand luggage is now packed, I'm just too to my two girls, it is that the day after tomorrow we woke early and determined total traipse aufn airport ...

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Does Kaiser Cover Abortion

November trip in Saxony & Co

As we went even further.

the moment I'm still in Ilmenau and we have arrived at High Five .
Which I had already seen a few times and I do believe also described. United changed drann is nothing. Was quite nice, once again, the audience was enthusiastic.
five guys that definitely have fun at what they do. And it is also entertaining, fun zuzugucken makes them, but for me it is nothing more when I "have ever seen. There is then little spontaneous in and for me to discover anything new. And it is based on the text containing a lot of wit, which is really good now and then, but I then often something you jüngelchenmäßig. And especially when the punch lines are known, it has even less appeal for me because I "music still not very interesting find. Wise Guys as a model, it sounds like at least (which is not necessarily a bad thing has to be ;-), but just not suits my taste in music). And now, yes, for the Boygroupzielgruppe of these guys I'm maybe just too old when I jump on no probe. Oh man ... I'm old! Did I say grad?
has fallen pretty good to me but as the song about the Lord of the dance is not easy. Although nothing new (my favorite is still pitch pipes "Dancing Bear"), but somehow in a new guise. And especially since it is after all to give all the time with Rumgespringe and choreography much trouble ... ;-)
was the end, it still something I did not know. A song about the "Acappelllypse" (whatever you would write). Its idea actually quite nice (if you want to write a funny song), but somehow I felt as much show moderate to much fanfare and too little musical joke at. But n bissel Feast for the eyes in the direction may indeed be sometimes very nice system, even if limit my eyes at concerts and prefer something only perceive the subtle nuances and lovely ;-) feast for my ears ...

After the second break (Traubenzuckerlollis! now also known as "performance-lollipop "...) we went on with dialect. To which I am so very happy. Did they even allowed to see the open air festival in Dortmund and then somehow never made it because its not here just wanted to come around ;-)
As I said, I like very much. In addition to the whole stuff one can explain in some way (can sing well, sing good songs, doing great things on the stage ;-)) There is always still a little thing that can not be explained really. A few groups differs from the other. For there are many good groups, but still containing some n, which I find not only good, but have done it, I usually grin sheepishly at the concert to sit around and most especially at the end of notice because it was too fast and not over Second, I have a somewhat painful face
;-) Well, this "certain something" that have dialect (along with, for example muSix and maybebop , if not who should be noticed; -) Huch, it has something to do with the "M"?).
And then a little bit to get to the unexplained parts. Once again we are five men sympathetic to the stage. They all sing pretty well. And a bass with a hat, what more could I want? ;-) Anyway, the voices are all very pleasant, warm sound and what beautiful together, none kiekste out funny or do any other drown.
And they sing good music. No own stuff (at least as far as I can tell), but in good arrangements. For example, the song about the monkey breaks out of the laboratory and by car driving through the city (of Feist , guck ) where I then hammer out gloriously again have to film quite wonderful, but of course had one too many times you push "record", and now have a beautiful memory of the applause ;-). As I said, originally by Feist is, therefore, the fact that I do not attribute the text and the melody and then let dialect. But like the song then still so wonderful "chill", -) comes over, that for you. And I find very very good. Only times as an example. Or the song of the lonely hero "bed Man" (which I would like to exchange views ...), half man and half bed. As I nachgeguckt of " Olli Schulz [Marie and the dog?] " guck . A fine song, even finer by dialect.
Yes, and otherwise they can make fine jazzy stuff, moderation which I also find it more awesome if I know them already, because they just do not but are the same and at the end they sing about Berlin and have me anyway back in the pocket.

Yes, and it was then for Ilmenau almost the peak and even the end. Finally, all again beautifully sang together and in between was the horrible Fii on the stage. I've really never seen so many people leave the room. And those who remained, who were mostly schmerzverzehrt the ears held shut. No, that must not be real. If yes for whatever reason, the moderator of the whole thing. And then he gets baked not know. Announcements that everyone had from the program can read, without without any timing and otherwise ... everything.
And then stop nor his program ... I do not know. We settle down for about three octaves and can then roar into the microphone, which we all can. And yes, so we can probably do all in your stomach hurt. I do not know what it will be great ...
So he prefers home quickly in our house.
A cappella party ;-) drink tea and cake feed ... Note also the forbidden game of chance! Poker chips are here, because luckily, there Munchkin one can, after a strong but very impressive evening quickly throw curses and mental illness, kill some monsters and get away with treasure, after having betrayed his friends. Juhu ;-)


So, the next day we drove as slowly as possible to Chemnitz, because we wanted the evening to Bodo Wartke. Stupid way the whole day was so full of rain that we in anyway I do not believe such an exciting place to do less would have known. But after we arrived but then at some point and despite the best efforts, combined with diversions and general heavy construction activity in Chemnitz, then also stopped at some point had to drive there in a circle ... well, at least we have found that as many as was Sunday opening. fine! So, shopping center looking for, from the dry and warm and then spent the time wisely. What have I ever used ...? New Christmas ball earrings, thousands of hats and whatnot. But at least Silke had then I think at the end of n new rock, Sandra and Susie ne new jacket and I ne new fleece jacket. Lovely! Good thing there are Chemnitz!
After these important purchases were done, we have looked at us really fast still a tremendously impressive confetti fireworks display with Laser show. Uh, yes, or something in Art of the total explosive power of this event is somehow gone past us, but the Chemnitz were thrilled ...
And then finally threw sometime "late" are stored, the purchases and we met two stragglers at Bodo . "I think therefore I sing" (For example here with) Have I had not heard for a long time. Was nice to see this again. Even though I soo tired was that I would be in the "monument" eingepennt really fast.
was between, there are also a few good impressions of the new program, for example, here:
has certainly paid off really look at us again Bodo :-) He is, as always, groovy, fun, spontaneous and always comes across again and unexpected around the corner. Although I am now disturbed but now and then something more to his vocal limits, it is definitely not a singer nunmal, but watch I hold in my writing but more than cabaret at the good music and then stop .. well, himself maintains. With heart and passion ;-) but sometimes in certain nerve border to my ears.

Next they were fixed and tired after Dresden. Ready for the next day or so then prepared for the noodles in Riesa
:-) Then I'll come when I will soon have all the beautiful noodle quality pictures ...