Oerol

Wednesday June 27th, 2007

Early one morning...

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Hi there!

It sure as hell been a while since I last posted here, for which I humbly offer you my apologies. Sorry folks, it’s just been a tad busy for us Volunteers lately (not that we’re complaining, mind you)! So, what have we been up to, you ask? Well, Oerol, amongst others! Should you’ve been living under a rock for the past 25 years, Oerol is a huge contemporary festival held on a picturesque island up north called Terschelling, with an estimated 50.000 visitors over the course of 9 water-soaked days. If you ever get a chance to go, grab it, ‘cause you’ll love it. In fact, we’ve got the pics to prove it. We’ve put up a new photo album, aptly called Summer 2007

We weren’t allowed to bring our beloved van to the island, instead we had to drag along our entire backline with us. But, hey, it’s all part of the fun :)

We got to play no less than 6 shows in 3 days – including performances at Held op Wielen (a truck that could be transformed into a full-featured stage in less than 9 seconds), the main stage at Westerkeyn, a talk show hosted by Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and a camping bar that managed to come up with the most creative spelling of our band name to date. During that last show we were accompanied by drummer Jeroen Kleijn – a.o. Johan, Spinvis – for the occasion. Not to suck up, but he really did an incredible job that night, memorizing more than an entire set by heart the very same day. Sjeesh, way to go, thanks Jeroen!
To cut a long story short, we had a great time and sure hope to be back next year!

Coming up this Friday: Zoks Festival, Venlo. Hope to see you around! Especially since this is one of the few remaining shows we’re doing this summer (check out the shows page for details), because we’re taking some time off to work on… our new album! That’s right folks, our sophomore effort is on its way! If all goes well our new record will see the light of day early 2008. Jay!