The fantastic people of ethiopia.... devotion in lalibela

In the 12th and 13th century, Lalibela was the capital of Ethiopia. It is named after emperor Lalibela, who came back after exile from Jerusalem, overthrew the ruling emperor and started carving 11 churches out of the bedrock

The layout of the churches is designed as a model of Jerusalem proper, there is a river Jordan, a Golgatha mountain etc.

At christmas time, which is in ethiopia on 6th of january, 20.000 pelgrims come to lalibela to celebrate

Some of the pelgrims come on foot, sometimes they walk for weeks to spend a couple of days in the town and in the church complex

Although the ethiopian tradition says that 50.000 angels helped emperor lalibela to built the churches, the writer Graham Hancock in his book "the sign and the seal" claims that the knights of the temple whom lalibela met in Jerusalem actually came with him to ethiopia, helped him overthrow the ruling emperor and build the churches

donation collector with collection box. Only foreign tourists have to pay a hefty entrance fee to visit the churches

A lot of the history of the churches is mysterious. However, there is a column in one of the churches, which is engraved with the story of how the churches were built. Unfortunately, this column is wrapped in clothes, and nobody has ever seen the engravings

the typical attributes of the pelgrim: lunch box, necklace with cross, box for holy books, and walking stick

The hobbit band...

In the cramped Paard, last wednesday: Marillion

They were once ranked the 38 best live act. And they are still good... much better than the whining of kayleigh would let you expect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dphpDdfZUGw&feature=BFa&list=AVGxdCwVVULXeFw44QWsRgzpP3n8GeOBBK&lf=artist

Look how these guys have changed

Singer Fish of course it not there any more. Since a long time it is Steve Hogarth

The other band members are Steve Rothery (electric and acoustic guitars (1979–present), Pete Trewavas (bass guitars, backing vocals, additional guitars, samples and effects (1982–present), Mark Kelly (keyboards, samples and effects, backing vocals, programming (1981–present) and (Ian Mosley – drums, percussion (1984–present)

My favorite of course is Steve Rothery

and his amazing collection of guitars

 

Crossing border 2011

Heather Nova

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec_x6W0grDo

Gavin Friday

Islet (should rather be called "the Jumpers")

Cake

"...hunt her down, because that is what communities are for"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=596qaxm-u4o&feature=related

Krystl

The charming dutch singer Krystl in the Paard van Troje, 11.11.11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0oagMGsqRw&feature=related

That is what the Paard itself writes about Krystl....

In de lente van dit jaar werden we via de radio regelmatig bestookt met een vrolijk liedje, Bottles genaamd. Een vlot nummer, gezongen door een stoere damesstem. Deze dame was Krystl, een 27-jarige Amsterdamse, die precies weet wat ze wil. Haar single ‘Golden Days’ werd het thema van de Martini-commercial, ze won in april een 3FM Award voor Beste Nieuwkomer en de popzangeres mocht in het Gelredome en Sportpaleis Antwerpen optreden met Marco Borsato.

Krystl’s talent werd per ongeluk ontdekt op het conservatorium toen ze eigenlijk meeging om te helpen bij een auditie van iemand anders. Ze werd direct toegelaten en studeerde later af op het conservatorium in Enschede. Nu is de zangeres klaar voor het grote publiek: 'Ik heb ontzettend veel zin in deze clubtour! Ik heb er altijd al van gedroomd om ooit zelf een tourtje te mogen doen en nu is het dan zover! Het gaat heel gaaf worden!''

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv6_eMDs798&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AVAYMcY2vx8GTn-6aLTyB0HMtwhHvl--zr

 

and here is what she writes about herself
http://krystl.sitestudio.nl/About/

 

for comparing her with Melissa Etheridge she really is not wild enough

 

......and bathing in the crowd

the te3th

Amsterdam, Paradiso 13.10.2011

at a certain point, the concert was interupted because the computer was broken.... with all the songs on it

so they threw the computer into the crowd

I am still convinced that it was all fake, because the concert continued afterwards without a change

and some of the guests...

De Kift, 31.3.2011

De Kift is a dutch band found in 1988.

The music is influenced by punk, fanfare, rock and popmuziek.

The lyrics use poems from for example Lucebert, Wolfgang Borchert, E.M. Remarque en Jan Arends.

The members are Ferry Heijne: vocals, trombone, trumpet, gitar, Jan Heijne: trumpet, Han Hulscher: trumpet, lira, Patrick Votrian: trombone, tuba, eufonium,

Mathijs Houwink: (contra)bas, guitarron,Wim ter W eele: drums, gitar, vocals,Pim Heijne: gitar, banjo,Marco Heijne: vocals, samples, lira, steeldrum.

Their albums are collectors items... CD's for example come in wooden cigar boxes, books with a lot of plates to glue in. They are full of fotos and drawings and real works of art.

But they also have an inventive collection of instruments, a lot of them self made.Here an organ playing a paper strip

Tuning the big sound machine in the background

Playing on glasses

and on a suitcase

http://www.dekift.nl/