Jacqueline Govaert and Ben Saunders @ TT Festival
I love my hometown, but truth be told, Assen isn’t much of a lively town. Except that one week a year, when we’re taken over by bikers. When the TT Motorraces come to town, the week leading up to it Assen turns into a biker-city with three days of festival with musical performances for just about every taste.
Wednesday was pop-music day so for the main stage some of the bigger names in Dutch pop music were contracted. Once the evening was setting in, Jacqueline Govaert and band played. I got to shoot some photos of her not so long ago at the Dauwpop festival, but I wasn’t really happy with them then, so I was glad I got to try again. The show went well I think, considering it isn’t a full n music festival and most people didn’t mainly come for music, but for ‘a good time’. Still Jacqueline got the field to move and sing and I was ably to update my shots.
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Seeing as I was at the main stage I figured I might as well stay for the next act, the main act of the evening. He got the area completely filled, won the ‘Voice of Holland’ show and is known by just about everyone in the Netherlands, but will not be known by anyone outside it. Now I can’t say he can’t sing, I mean he did win the talent show after all and though I personally really don’t like the concept, I’m assuming that the jury and voters do have at least some sense of music. And the band will be capable as well (did like the backing vocalists 
), but I hate the music. There, I said it. Sorry. The amount of carpets on the stage, the props (old lamps, typewriter, old phone, etc) make it feel so absolutely fake and though I don’t mind tattoos (seen my share at concerts), there’s something in Ben that just triggers the wrong nerve in me. So after three songs I left. To each his own, and this ain’t mine.
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