Sunday, September 25, 2005

Dutch Treat

We're back from Amsterdam. A bit weary and broken down but overall, a pretty sick experience. I won't make this too lengthy but to sum up: the phrase "This is surreal" came up more than anything else (Except "Josh, get out of the bike path or you'll get hit.") Still kinda shocking.

The event we were a part of was BOSS at Paradiso (http://www.paradiso.nl), an old church with three main rooms that looked like Webster Hall (For you NYC cats). Diamond D + Sadat X had the main stage and we had the basement. Pics'll go up soon and that'll describe it in detail better than anything I can write. But yeah, we had our own dressing room (complete with a case of Heineken and bottle of Jack), got interviewed by The Box (http://www.thebox.nl), a national hip-hop television channel, and a Dutch hip-hop radio show and even had a quasi-surprise appearance by the one and only Gusto, a NYC regular who happened to be in Amsterdam (or so he says.)

The show itself went fine. We went from around 1:30 a.m. to 3:30/4:00ish and at first, the crowd seemed to approach the show as one would a caged, wild animal: curious, bemused, unsure whether to get closer. But eventually, as things loosened up a bit and people saw what the event was about, the crowd got more and more hype. The quickly emptying bottle of Jack clouded a lot of my memories after a certain amount of time so I'll defer the rest of the show's rundown to my colleagues (ZQ, I got your first Jack shot in the states.)

Two countries down, 191 to go. (Maldives, I'm looking in your direction.)

Bye for now,

J. New

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

whut up fellas....
now we have Hiphop Karaoke in Iceland....
I visited a tv show to promote the HHK in Iceland and there we showed a clip from HHK in NY....

go to 33:30 and there you can see our clip....

http://veftivi.visir.is/veftivi/main.do?treeId=2004&progId=3604

p.s the first HHK was awesome (around 300 people came to the show)

3:46 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Shit was bananas last friday at the paradiso...
I never even knew that existed !!

PLease post some vidz, or pics of the event.

Wanna see , if i performed the right way cuz, i had some heinies on the way over...

one

3:30 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

iceland- i cant figure out that site. can you give me a direct link to the vid? also, i'd really appreciate a copy of that whole video you took from that night. i'll pay for shipping.

amsterdam- i'll get some Paradiso pics up on the site tonight. thanks for coming out, we had a great time.

3:03 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

what ever happened to the pics ????

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