Two weeks ago I read in a Facebook-update from my favorite band, a Swiss band called 77 Bombay Street, that they would be coming to the Netherlands soon. I was excited to read this: the last time they were here I only found out about it one week after they had their concerts. I learned from reading the post that this was not going to be an ordinary tour. They hadn't booked any official venues and were asking their fans to invite them for a concert in their living room. I immediately started daydreaming about my favorite band playing in my home. My living room is not huge but big enough to host a small concert, so I sent an e-mail to the management of the band.
The initial proposal was for the guys to come play on Thursday 30 July at around 5pm. I'm going to start in a new job per 1 August and how cool would it have been to invite my colleagues to a concert at my place after my last working day, before heading to the center for some beers? Unfortunately the guys from the band would already be going home on Thursday, but they did offer to play a short session in a park close to my work around lunch time on Tuesday. Of course this was a great alternative for me! Unfortunately the rain seemed to spoil things. It was quite rainy on Tuesday and for a long time I didn't know whether the concert would go through at all. In the end the guys contacted me that they were going to play at a shopping center in De Meern instead of the park. This shopping center was being renovated and therefore the guys had to play in a construction site, which was a fun experience for them as well, especially because construction workers were passing by from time to time. This is what the venue looked like:
As you can see the concert was pretty small. Due to the rainy weather and the uncertainty whether the concert would go through at all, only 5 other fans from Facebook showed up. Luckily I had been able to motivate quite a few colleagues to come with me to this little concert so we still had a good crowd for the guys. And they made some new fans as well! All of the colleagues who were there (plus one who couldn't make it but checked out their music on YouTube) liked their music.
After the concert we talked a bit with the guys and I got a photo with the band plus a signed album with the message "Good luck with the new job!". I can tell you now that I will certainly be there when the band comes back to the Netherlands.
In case you never heard about 77 Bombay Street before and got curious, here are some music videos by them:
Up In The Sky
Follow The Rain (to give you an impression of how well they sound live)
I Love Lady Gaga
Long Way
The initial proposal was for the guys to come play on Thursday 30 July at around 5pm. I'm going to start in a new job per 1 August and how cool would it have been to invite my colleagues to a concert at my place after my last working day, before heading to the center for some beers? Unfortunately the guys from the band would already be going home on Thursday, but they did offer to play a short session in a park close to my work around lunch time on Tuesday. Of course this was a great alternative for me! Unfortunately the rain seemed to spoil things. It was quite rainy on Tuesday and for a long time I didn't know whether the concert would go through at all. In the end the guys contacted me that they were going to play at a shopping center in De Meern instead of the park. This shopping center was being renovated and therefore the guys had to play in a construction site, which was a fun experience for them as well, especially because construction workers were passing by from time to time. This is what the venue looked like:
As you can see the concert was pretty small. Due to the rainy weather and the uncertainty whether the concert would go through at all, only 5 other fans from Facebook showed up. Luckily I had been able to motivate quite a few colleagues to come with me to this little concert so we still had a good crowd for the guys. And they made some new fans as well! All of the colleagues who were there (plus one who couldn't make it but checked out their music on YouTube) liked their music.
After the concert we talked a bit with the guys and I got a photo with the band plus a signed album with the message "Good luck with the new job!". I can tell you now that I will certainly be there when the band comes back to the Netherlands.
In case you never heard about 77 Bombay Street before and got curious, here are some music videos by them:
Up In The Sky
Follow The Rain (to give you an impression of how well they sound live)
I Love Lady Gaga
Long Way
