We were up on the balcony, the crowd was fashionably late to fill up the brand new Melkweg Max hall to the brim exactly when the support act, Alamo Race Track, started playing. That band was really cool and I hope to hear more of them.
When AM started playing, the crowd went mad and even fell over during the first song (so I’m told, I had to run to the loo and was back on the last chord).
This was the first gig in Holland that I’ve seen in 10 years where the crowd jumped like crazy, people shouted the lyrics along, there was stage diving and lots and lots of crowd surfing. The band played some new tunes and loads from their first album. They nailed the old stuff and the new material sounds promising.
The Monkeys were as nonchalant as ever, and we were having an absolute ball.