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An album that is, possibly, greater than the sum of its parts.
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The Skatalites – Paard van Troje, Den Haag – 17/11/2004
"This is not just another Ska band, this is The Skatalites."
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Franz Ferdinand – Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam – 15/11/2004
“The sort of stuff that a young XTC alluded to but never got thanked for and a potential that could only have been reached if Pulp and The Stranglers had hit it off and had children. ”
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Prodigy live at “I Love Techno” – Flanders Expo, Ghent, Belgium – 13/11/2004
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I spent most of my time in the Green Room.
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Crossing Border Festival – Sophia – Royal Room, Koninklijke Schouwburg, Den Haag
I think that everyone has a particular musical note or maybe it’s a combination of notes or a certain chord, which can bring them close to tears. I don’t know what mine is, but Sophia evidently do and keep on hammering away at it.
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Crossing Border Festival, Den Haag 12/11/04
"Like getting locked in at the museum or palace and your little sister finds a guitar and starts largin’ it up and you realize she’s a genius."
Scout Niblett, Caroline’s Room, Royal Theatre
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London Calling Day Two, Paradiso, 13/11/2004
The rest of the band had clearly raided mum’s drawers and dressed up as (you guessed it), a band.
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London Calling Day One, Paradiso, 12/11/2004
Finally, I was carried downstairs to see, YES! A London band. Honest, a real one.
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Soulwax, Paradiso, 10/11/2004
“It was all over in little more than an hour and I was rendered deaf in one ear.”
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Mike Stern & Richard Bona, Boerderij 7/11/2004
“Then he gave a very good impression of being tied to a runaway washing machine, forever set on the spin-dry cycle. ”
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