OCEANS OF SADNESS AND EPICA
HARD CLUB – 2005.11.01
So once again I went to the Hard Club for another fantastic gig!!
As we were waiting outside to get inside we saw the band coming to the Hard Club... :) And so we made them stop to give us some autographs and take some pictures with us! :)
Here's Armando Jorge and me with Coen Janseen, who plays the synths.
Here's me with Yves Huts, who plays the bass. In fact you can also see my sister and Cátia, a friend of ours.
And just look at my damn big smile while I'm hugging Mark Jansen!! :) Oh, by the way, he plays the guitar and he's in charge of the grunts and screams, which is really cool but weird at the same time, cause he has a really sweet voice and then grunts like noone!
And here's another very happy me with the sweet and dedicated Ad Sluijter, who plays the guitar.
After that exciting moment they all went in and we followed them inside... the night was beginning! :)
The first concert of the night was Oceans of Sadness, a belgian band I had never heard before but was really impressed... they were damn cool!
And so, that's the band on stage!
Here's Tijs Vanneste, the lead singer.
And his abs were quite good as well! :)
This was when the microphone got stuck on Cauwie's guitar and he was trying to get that off... and doing that he stuck his dreadlocks on the guitar and the microphone fell off! It was quite a cool moment! LOL
He was so funny... he made such cool faces and stuff!
Their concert ended and so we waited for Epica to come...
And they did... we started listening to "Huban K'u «A new Age Dawns - prologue»", the first track from the Consign to Oblivion album and soon the band was showing up!
The first to come was Jeroen Simons, who (as you can see) plays the drums. And so I snapped a quick photo at him, cause drum players are always hard to get at the concerts!
This one's here is Mark, who was standing right in front of me (well, I have to confess I chose that spot cause I knew Mark would stand there!).
And he rocked! :)
This one here is Simone Simons, the lead singer (and also Mark's girlfriend - damn lucky her...).
From my spot I could also see quiet well the very nice and funny Coen.
Ad was standing on the other side of the stage, but he made some trips to my spot and so I got some pictures of him as well!
The lovely Simone enchants us all with her astonishing voice!
As always she and Mark play a bit on stage with each other and it's always fun to see!
Altough you can't see much from this photo of Mark I really love the light!
Yves was standing right next to Ad but he eventually would come to Mark and tease him!
And Simone shows off her dancing skills, which are great!
I guess this is my favourite Ad photo I have!
Simone wants us to sing... and so we did!! :)
Mark headbangs while playing!
Simone sings a more quiet song and the audience goes along! I absolutely adore this picture due to the black effect it had around Simone's body! I think she looks like a candid Virgin Mary or something!
Her corset is beautiful!
Marks plays along with Coen so that he doesn't feel lonely behind those synths!
And the crowd goes wild! :)
And Simone surprises us all with the previously unreleased track "Linger" from the Quietus single.
They just look so great together! :)
And they cheer up the crowd!
Mark and his fabulous grunts!
He finally took his shirt off! :)
They all headbang! \../
Ad and Mark playing together right in front of me!
Eat pussy! What more can I say?! (well... maybe... eat mine! LOL - kidding!! or... am I?! LOL)
I absolutely adore the way this photo turned out to be! Just look at Mark's hair! Way too crazy!
Simone lets Coen sing The Phantom Agony!
They were both totally enjoying some fans at my left!
Mark at his best!
After this they went away and the concert ended...
Really?!
We didn't want the concert to end so soon... so we started shouting for them....
And so...
Coen came back.
And asks us (and hopes he say it right) if we "querem mais?" (meaning: want more).
And we obviously wanted damn more!!
Simone and the rest of the band came back to sing more for us!!
Altough we can't barely see the face in this picture I really adore it!
I'm so proud of this shot! Altough it's not that a good one, it's almost the only photo I could snap at Jeroen, as the drum players are always hard to get on stage because they are really hidden by the drum set!
The concert ends and so we run to the backstage door to wait for the band to come out and meet us!
Ad came out first! He and his beloved Fanta!
Then comes Yves and I try not to look "sad" as I looked last year!
As I waited for Simone to take a photo with me I saw Cauwie from Oceans of Sadness and so I took a picture with him.
And as an act of mercy I asked them out for a photo... as they are from Oceans of Sadness as well and were really hoping that someone would recognize them!
Simone finally takes a picture with me!
And then I went to find out Tijs of Oceans of Sadness... and boy.... is he hot?! Hell yeah! :)
And then... another hot guy! :) Mark again! After he gave me 2 kisses on the cheek! :) Aweee! LOL
And I go to bug Yves again! And after a request from my sister he does that eyebrow thing he always does... and gosh... isn't that the sexiest thing you've ever seen?!
And again!! And I was laughing my ass out! LOL
I was really thirsthy and I was talking to Ad... and he was drinking a Fanta, so I asked him if he could give me his Fanta... and he did...
:) :)
Minutes later he asked us four if we didn't wasnt anything to drink! We sure wanted!
And he got us Fanta and Coke! :) Damn cool! :)
But still I hadn't seen Jeroen... I asked Ad where he was and he told me he was having a shower! I asked Yves and he told me the same... and I asked Yves if he could go in there and drag Jeroen out... he told me he couldn't or else Jeroen would be very mad at him... I even suggested Yves to tell Jeroen that 3 gorgeous girls were waiting for him outside and then he wouldn't get mad... but he didn't drag him out of the shower... So I went to talk to Mark and ask him again where Jeroen was (as I asked it that before and he told me if he wasn't outside in 20 minutes he would go inside and drag him out)... I told Mark the 20 minutes had already gone by and he should go and drag him... he didn't drag him out... instead he dragged us in...
That's right, we went backstage! :) Aweee!!
And here I am in the backstage with Jeroen (at last!) and Mark (our saviour)! :)
Here's we all with Jeroen! (Mark took the photo!)
Once again here's us with Mark! :) (Jeroen took the photo!)
And at last we met Coen. After talking to him for a while, and even asking what was he smoking, cause it seemed like a joint, but it was just vanilla tobacco, I took this cool picture with him!
After this we were almost kicked out of Hard Club by the Hard Club security guys, who are really not very friendly... But it was ok, we were happy! REALLY HAPPY! :)
EPICA RULES!!
HARD CLUB – 2005.11.01
So once again I went to the Hard Club for another fantastic gig!!
As we were waiting outside to get inside we saw the band coming to the Hard Club... :) And so we made them stop to give us some autographs and take some pictures with us! :)
Here's Armando Jorge and me with Coen Janseen, who plays the synths.
Here's me with Yves Huts, who plays the bass. In fact you can also see my sister and Cátia, a friend of ours.
And just look at my damn big smile while I'm hugging Mark Jansen!! :) Oh, by the way, he plays the guitar and he's in charge of the grunts and screams, which is really cool but weird at the same time, cause he has a really sweet voice and then grunts like noone!
And here's another very happy me with the sweet and dedicated Ad Sluijter, who plays the guitar.
After that exciting moment they all went in and we followed them inside... the night was beginning! :)
The first concert of the night was Oceans of Sadness, a belgian band I had never heard before but was really impressed... they were damn cool!
And so, that's the band on stage!
Here's Tijs Vanneste, the lead singer.
And his abs were quite good as well! :)
This was when the microphone got stuck on Cauwie's guitar and he was trying to get that off... and doing that he stuck his dreadlocks on the guitar and the microphone fell off! It was quite a cool moment! LOL
He was so funny... he made such cool faces and stuff!
Their concert ended and so we waited for Epica to come...
And they did... we started listening to "Huban K'u «A new Age Dawns - prologue»", the first track from the Consign to Oblivion album and soon the band was showing up!
The first to come was Jeroen Simons, who (as you can see) plays the drums. And so I snapped a quick photo at him, cause drum players are always hard to get at the concerts!
This one's here is Mark, who was standing right in front of me (well, I have to confess I chose that spot cause I knew Mark would stand there!).
And he rocked! :)
This one here is Simone Simons, the lead singer (and also Mark's girlfriend - damn lucky her...).
From my spot I could also see quiet well the very nice and funny Coen.
Ad was standing on the other side of the stage, but he made some trips to my spot and so I got some pictures of him as well!
The lovely Simone enchants us all with her astonishing voice!
As always she and Mark play a bit on stage with each other and it's always fun to see!
Altough you can't see much from this photo of Mark I really love the light!
Yves was standing right next to Ad but he eventually would come to Mark and tease him!
And Simone shows off her dancing skills, which are great!
I guess this is my favourite Ad photo I have!
Simone wants us to sing... and so we did!! :)
Mark headbangs while playing!
Simone sings a more quiet song and the audience goes along! I absolutely adore this picture due to the black effect it had around Simone's body! I think she looks like a candid Virgin Mary or something!
Her corset is beautiful!
Marks plays along with Coen so that he doesn't feel lonely behind those synths!
And the crowd goes wild! :)
And Simone surprises us all with the previously unreleased track "Linger" from the Quietus single.
They just look so great together! :)
And they cheer up the crowd!
Mark and his fabulous grunts!
He finally took his shirt off! :)
They all headbang! \../
Ad and Mark playing together right in front of me!
Eat pussy! What more can I say?! (well... maybe... eat mine! LOL - kidding!! or... am I?! LOL)
I absolutely adore the way this photo turned out to be! Just look at Mark's hair! Way too crazy!
Simone lets Coen sing The Phantom Agony!
They were both totally enjoying some fans at my left!
Mark at his best!
After this they went away and the concert ended...
Really?!
We didn't want the concert to end so soon... so we started shouting for them....
And so...
Coen came back.
And asks us (and hopes he say it right) if we "querem mais?" (meaning: want more).
And we obviously wanted damn more!!
Simone and the rest of the band came back to sing more for us!!
Altough we can't barely see the face in this picture I really adore it!
I'm so proud of this shot! Altough it's not that a good one, it's almost the only photo I could snap at Jeroen, as the drum players are always hard to get on stage because they are really hidden by the drum set!
The concert ends and so we run to the backstage door to wait for the band to come out and meet us!
Ad came out first! He and his beloved Fanta!
Then comes Yves and I try not to look "sad" as I looked last year!
As I waited for Simone to take a photo with me I saw Cauwie from Oceans of Sadness and so I took a picture with him.
And as an act of mercy I asked them out for a photo... as they are from Oceans of Sadness as well and were really hoping that someone would recognize them!
Simone finally takes a picture with me!
And then I went to find out Tijs of Oceans of Sadness... and boy.... is he hot?! Hell yeah! :)
And then... another hot guy! :) Mark again! After he gave me 2 kisses on the cheek! :) Aweee! LOL
And I go to bug Yves again! And after a request from my sister he does that eyebrow thing he always does... and gosh... isn't that the sexiest thing you've ever seen?!
And again!! And I was laughing my ass out! LOL
I was really thirsthy and I was talking to Ad... and he was drinking a Fanta, so I asked him if he could give me his Fanta... and he did...
:) :)
Minutes later he asked us four if we didn't wasnt anything to drink! We sure wanted!
And he got us Fanta and Coke! :) Damn cool! :)
But still I hadn't seen Jeroen... I asked Ad where he was and he told me he was having a shower! I asked Yves and he told me the same... and I asked Yves if he could go in there and drag Jeroen out... he told me he couldn't or else Jeroen would be very mad at him... I even suggested Yves to tell Jeroen that 3 gorgeous girls were waiting for him outside and then he wouldn't get mad... but he didn't drag him out of the shower... So I went to talk to Mark and ask him again where Jeroen was (as I asked it that before and he told me if he wasn't outside in 20 minutes he would go inside and drag him out)... I told Mark the 20 minutes had already gone by and he should go and drag him... he didn't drag him out... instead he dragged us in...
That's right, we went backstage! :) Aweee!!
And here I am in the backstage with Jeroen (at last!) and Mark (our saviour)! :)
Here's we all with Jeroen! (Mark took the photo!)
Once again here's us with Mark! :) (Jeroen took the photo!)
And at last we met Coen. After talking to him for a while, and even asking what was he smoking, cause it seemed like a joint, but it was just vanilla tobacco, I took this cool picture with him!
After this we were almost kicked out of Hard Club by the Hard Club security guys, who are really not very friendly... But it was ok, we were happy! REALLY HAPPY! :)
EPICA RULES!!
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