Laura Veirs and Surfer Blood at Noorderzon

It’s been nearly two months since I last saw a gig, so the start of Noorderzon 2010 was much anticipated. Opening act (for me at least) was Laura Veirs and the Hall of Flames playing in the Spiegeltent. This gig had sold out well in advance and after picking up my tickets at the Kiosk I stood in a long line awaiting the opening of the tent.

Luckily for me it was mostly crowded in the back so there was enough room to move around in the front to take some photos. The gig was wonderful. I had wanted to see Laura for some time and was very happy that she stopped by here for her short European tour. They played a lot of songs and all members of the band performed wonderfully. I really liked Laura’s stage-performance and hope she’ll come around again soon

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The Spiegeltent hosts paid-for concerts, but at the festival area there’s also a great autdoors free gigs stage, the Dommelsch stage Het Dok. This stage is set at a pond, the audience is to sit along the shore of the pond. It puts you way back from the performing band, but the view is fantastic.

First band here was Surfer Blood. I’d heard a lot of positive things about this band in advance and was looking forward to seeing them. What a shame that they didn’t live up to it for me. It sounded to much of a formula-band to me. Can’t really put my finger on it, but I wasn’t grabbed by them. Shooting photos over the pond was quite hard, but that’s where a 100-400mm lens comes in handy

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