By the way: does anyone know the name of the sax player? I added all the names of the current line up and Gerry as special guest, but I don't know his name. Or is it Andy Hamilton?

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noelindublin wrote:

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...offered a good discount off tickets for those who had travelled to the Uk/Ire shows

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Crikey, didn't you get a cheap night out down the pub along with a meet and greet?  Interestingly, there were discount tickets available for some of the gigs.  As I left the Corn Exchange I picked up a pile of the tickets left as souvenirs and found some people had paid just £12.  Lucky buggers.

Only EasyJet fly to Amsterdam round my way, and I have vowed never to fly with them again.  But I'll make an exception.  Especially if they do it on the weekend of 1st March when I can celebrate my unbirthday.

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 Sorry I didn't mean it as a charity for those who couldn't afford tickets, more a way of publicising a gig in Amsterdam which might appeal to those in the UK/IRE who had already bought into the idea of going to see the Rats.  If you saw a flyer for a Rats gig in Amsterdam for next April, say, and you were getting a tenner or more off a ticket then that's the idea I was getting at.More a publicity thing for an inviting gig, that would be a great weekend away.

The Eurostar will be getting a connection to Amstedam from London,  in the next few years. I think the journey time will be about 4 hours from St Pancras to Amsterdam Centraal.

There are flights from London City to Rotterdam also.

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By the way: does anyone know the name of the sax player? I added all the names of the current line up and Gerry as special guest, but I don't know his name. Or is it Andy Hamilton?

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Anyone?

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[...] a guy who looked like he was a refugee from an old Irish showband, clad in a toxedo [...]

[...] as the sax player just looks a bit silly, and clogs up the stage [...].

Maybe they can call this Dutch beauty:

The Boomtown Rats & Candy Dulfer wearing orange clogs, live at The Paradiso Amsterdam in 2014. See you next year, deal??? Anyway, Noel, did you like the video???

Someone else who knows the name of the sax player at The Roundhouse???

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[...] a guy who looked like he was a refugee from an old Irish showband, clad in a toxedo [...]

[...] as the sax player just looks a bit silly, and clogs up the stage [...].

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Maybe they can call this Dutch beauty:

The Boomtown Rats & Candy Dulfer wearing orange clogs, live at The Paradiso Amsterdam in 2014. See you next year, deal??? Anyway, Noel, did you like the video???

 

Someone else who knows the name of the sax player at The Roundhouse???

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It's a good video, but unfortunately only one camera angle.

I've just booked a two day break in Eindhoven for the middle of December, or more correctly just booked a bargain flight. Might be a good Christmas market vibe- any excuse to get away from Dublin.

. I would love to see the Rats in Amsterdam. If they had promoted a gig in Amsterdam for next year,  and offered a good discount off tickets for those who had travelled to the Uk/Ire shows, then many might have taken up the offer, and helped to fill a venue in the Dam. 

I don't think the phrase 'clog up' is in any way connected to Dutch wooden footwear, but you never know.

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The Eurostar will be getting a connection to Amstedam from London,  in the next few years. I think the journey time will be about 4 hours from St Pancras to Amsterdam Centraal.

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By the time that happens and HS2 is there so I can go to the Birmingham gigs, they'll have to pump Bobby Boomtown full of amphetamine to get him on stage.   Suppose it'll be OK for us, we can get OAP discounts...

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noelindublin wrote:

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The Eurostar will be getting a connection to Amstedam from London,  in the next few years. I think the journey time will be about 4 hours from St Pancras to Amsterdam Centraal.

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By the time that happens and HS2 is there so I can go to the Birmingham gigs, they'll have to pump Bobby Boomtown full of amphetamine to get him on stage.   Suppose it'll be OK for us, we can get OAP discounts...

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The Eurostar will be connected to Amsterdam in 2016. OAP discounts? So I am the youngster here.... Well to be honest, it WAS a culture shock when I saw all those (happy) faces at The Roundhouse. I remembered BTR like 1978 > Hammersmith Odeon > Young > Rebels > Punk(y). So nothing changed??? But there were even some young punks and I could see (and you can see too if you watch my video) them pogoing/slam dancing during Mary and No. 1. Indeed, nothing changed.

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 I saw Bob in Paradiso in 1990, I guess during the Vegetarians Of Love tour. He played Lookin' After No. 1 at the end of the gig.

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 Ah yes, I remember seeing the posters at the time, but I had been too badly scarred by Deep In The Heart of Nowhere to seriously consider it.  Was always a bit strange getting tickets for the Paradiso back then.  You had to buy the ticket from the record shop on Utrechtsestraat and the ticket looked like one of those old style cinema ticket with no name or date like below.  I remember when I went to see Happy Mondays, I thought that there was no way they were going to let me in!

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My god, you know Amsterdam! Utrechtsestraat, Get Records (don't exist anymore) or Concerto (still there). Don't know about those "cinema tickets". Maybe they sold those to foreigners ha ha! 

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I was living there, so I wasn't a tourist...  I got lucky with my apartment as I only took it as it was within walking distance of the metro to take me to Bijlmeer.  Near all the good record shops (I used to spend far too much time in Concerto), Albert Cuypmarkt and the Heineken brewery (hic), along with plenty of good bars and restaurants like the Sluizer.

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It's a good video, but unfortunately only one camera angle.

I've just booked a two day break in Eindhoven for the middle of December, or more correctly just booked a bargain flight. Might be a good Christmas market vibe- any excuse to get away from Dublin.

I would love to see the Rats in Amsterdam. If they had promoted a gig in Amsterdam for next year,  and offered a good discount off tickets for those who had travelled to the Uk/Ire shows, then many might have taken up the offer, and helped to fill a venue in the Dam. 

I don't think the phrase 'clog up' is in any way connected to Dutch wooden footwear, but you never know.

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Thanx about the video. Maybe the next weeks I can find some time to enhance the audio a bit. The place where I stood at level 2 went very crowded too, so I couldn't walk around to search for other angled shots, because someone else would immediately take my place. In any way it's a difficult place to take some shots because of the pillars, but I'm very glad I took my mini-camera with me (and a mobile charger of course...). Pity it went off during Rat Trap. I came in at The Roundhouse at 5 pm. They were doing their sound check, but I couldn't get in although I tried. I tried to talk about the Meet & Greet, but the girl at the ticket office didn't give in. 

WTF are you gonna do in Eindhoven of all places? OK, there's a train station, a town hall, Philips Company, PSV Eindhoven (Bobby Robson was head coach there), ASML, the technical university, the ugly Stratumseind and that's it. If you're looking for Christmas vibes, go to Maastricht (by train one hour from Eindhoven) or go to Aachen (Germany). You can go there by Interliner bus (half an hour from Maastricht Central Station). Most of the Dutch people who wants to go for Christmas markets go to Germany for two or three days.

I would love to see BTR in Amsterdam too. I saw Bob in Paradiso in 1990, I guess during the Vegetarians Of Love tour. He played Lookin' After No. 1 at the end of the gig.

Ahh, clog up, oh man, that's funny. You mean obstruct or block, well I didn't get it. No wooden shoes at the Dutch Christmas markets, maybe if you go to Maastricht you could catch a DVD of André Rieu .

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 I'm not going to Eindhoven for the Christmas market literally- I rather  meant that there will be a Christmas vibe on the streets as it's near Christmas. I just like the buzz and difference of a European city, and if you look up the Internet or guide books there is enough to do in Eindhoven, trust me. What do the locals do otherwise?

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noelindublin wrote:

I've just booked a two day break in Eindhoven for the middle of December, or more correctly just booked a bargain flight. Might be a good Christmas market vibe- any excuse to get away from Dublin.

 Dublin is great at yuletide.  Only problem is the Band Aid song playing here, there and everywhere.  I did manage to avoid it last year, though sadly I had to leave for the airport just as the pub was filling up with girls in skimpy santa outfits...

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 Maybe not if you live here. Streets full of annoying Dubliners selling c***, in a grating accent. Shopping zombies everywhere, taken in by the commercialisation of Christmas. Cold, dark nights, wind, rain.... need I go on? There's no romance, as someone once said.

Ah - the wonders of Google. Mystery solved 

Derek O'Connor

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Shopping zombies everywhere, taken in by the commercialisation of Christmas. Cold, dark nights, wind, rain.... need I go on? There's no romance, as someone once said.

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Huh, and you still want to go to Eindhoven??? OK, if you like Dutch Design and Dutch high tech maybe it's the place to be in The Netherlands, but you can do that in a few hours. Go to Maastricht, Den Bosch (also called 's Hertogenbosch) or Breda, these are real nice cities. In particular Maastricht is a nice old town (Vrijthof, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Plein). I love it to go over there, because Maastricht is a little bit different from the rest of The Netherlands and I mean that in a positive way.