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Oi ? De Grote Prijs Van Nederland...translated it's The Big Prize Of The Netherlands (or is it price...? oh well, whatever...) It's a contest for musicians from all kinds of styles, but it's devided into 4 categories : -HipHop/RnB -Dance -Singer/Songwriter -Pop/Rock The artists that participate range from veterans in the music business to total amateurs. Many decent Dutch bands/artists reached fame after taking part in this contest, well, and winning it ofcoarse... Some of em...? Well, uhmmmmm : -Total Touch, a Dutch due, brother and sister, that make lovely songs, mostly in english. Only enjoy national fame. (didn't win, but they did participate and reached fame eventually) -Junkie XL, a Dutch Dance artist (or whatever his style is :P) Used to score commercial international hits with Rude Boy, a dutch MC/rapper idunnowhatheis. Nowadays he's roaming festivals as a "solo" act enjoying himself immensely :) (participated as Mambo Jambo, was also not a winner of the contest :P) - Johan, one of my favourite Dutch bands, they make catchy pop/rock songs. They sing in english and make videoclips with garden gnomes, always fun....;) (participated as Visions of Johanna, and guess what...? They didnt win either :P Same year as Junkie XL) - De Heidenroosjes, great dutch Punk band (and omg! they didnt win...) - K's Choice, loved by many, they enjoy international fame with their great songs, a must in your playlist if you like, uhm, good music (participated as The Choice in the same year as De Heidenroosjes, didn't win) From 1996 onward they introduced the 4 categories I mentioned. - Green Lizard, great Dutch rock band, they have some great acoustic songs they did for 2 meter sessies, a dutch acoustic music program with international bands and singers. I love those songs, the other songs are great too, dont get me wrong...All english (though they did release a dutch song, but it sounded Disney to me :P) (OMG! They won!) - Brainpower, a dutch rapper who looks whiter then Eminem, its probably his glasses...:) He's a great rapper though and had an international hit this year (?) with a remake of a great song, One Mic, featuring uhm...uhmmmmm....or was it versus.... (he won best HipHop/RnB, as a rapper...) - Raymzter, some dutch rapper, dunno him really, just see him on TV as a zap by...(won RnB/HipHop) Well, that's about all the winners or participants that now enjoy (inter)national fame. I hear you wondering why I'm posting something about it... Well, I went to a regional final this saturday, but not as a visitor, uhm, well, not really... I was there with one of the participants, in their uhm, posse ;) They were taking part in the Dance category and had to beat 3 other acts for a place in the national finals. They being 2 DJ's/Producers from over here called Coming Soon Live. They make Techno and Tek-House (or is that Tech-House ?) The contest was in this uhm, disco thingy in some town i had only heard of but never knew where it was...the Buk Buk in Heiloo...the what!? Indeed.... We were first to arrive and immediatly made ourselves at home, everything there was tiny so making yourself feel at home was mostly squeezing yourself into some corner. Not long after more people arrived, mostly 20-25 year olds that looked like uhm, well, kids. Compared to our veterans anyway, both being 30+ years old :) There were also 2 guys as support for our act (yea yea, not mine, but hey...), 2 VJ's. Something the others didnt have :) Our (me and a friend, who is related to one of the guys participating) job was clear, check out the competition and bust their kneecaps if they posed a threat...oh, and take pictures for i brought my camera... Our group went up to the relax area (a small attic with a few couches and a big fridge) and made it our home base :) I drank all the beer in sight leaving nothing for any other support people thingies (cos artists dont drink...) Another group of contestants joined us upstairs and we started checking them out. They were a group of musicians with instruments and a computer that set the rhytm and bass. They had a sax player, a flute weirdo, a african drum player, a bassguitar guy and a guy with a keyboard.... Me and my friend started chatting up this girl, thinking she was the girlfriend of one of the guys. Darn was she hot! Yum! We discovered all kinds of weird things, including her knowing a lot of people we knew, eek! But we also discovered she was the singer of that group...darn! She was tiny, but not the 18 year old i gave her, no, she was 25, hmz, and had a great voice, darn! Me and my friend decided not to break her kneecaps, oh no, for I had far better plans with her, after she took her jacket off and her cleavage stared at me...;) Anyway, blah blah blah... So we had microwave dinners, more beer and talked to a bunch of people. The contest started freaking too late, and we were last in line too... The first act, to our surprise did very very well, very well indeed, but that was prolly just cos i fancied the singer ;) It was a swinging group of uhm , well, scarecrows, or zombies, or whatever, only 2 of them moved while on the stage, the others stood there with their instruments, staring at the ground or some fixed point on the far far horizon :P The did play, but without moving (much). But yum, she moved nicely indeed... The second guys were : a 21 year old who didnt know anything about technology or programs or anything, the other guy was a guitar player to support the first guy... It was, uhm, boring. His comment afterwords : We need a singer... The third act was a DJ who uhm, put on records, and uhm, mixed em....He did make the music himself, lets just say he mixed better... Then finally, after 6 hours of drinking beer and hanging around our act was finally up... After 2 minutes of play the first act of that night took to the dancefloor and all started going crazy on the Techno of our guys....thats usually not a good idea, in my opinion anyway....But omg, they rocked, and the girl...had a boyfriend waiting....bah! The jury had to talk for a bit to pick a winner, so we went up to get some beer.... I decided to talk to the girl some more, the nice thing about getting a backstage pass, no boyfriends upstairs...;) My friend, who produces music asked her if she wanted to record something (nice pickup line that...) And lo!, she did. On telling her i was his text writer she decided we should both have her number. Did i mention i dont have a phone...and i had been drinking beer for 7 hours straight....? Well anyway, on getting downstairs again, our guys had already won and were looking for us all over, with champagne and a big cardboard ticket thingy for the finals. So i took some more pics and uhm, had some beer, cos i hate champagne :S We stayed a bit more and went home, all tired, satisfied, and, struggling to remember a partial phonenumber cos my brain had decided to spring holes... So what do i remember of the number ? Well, it had a 1 in it, i think.... So next up, the finals in the Paradiso in Rotterdam on the 5th of december...I­'ll remember to bring a pen then... (not my next post, that will be up tomorrow when im destined to meet more girls and such...;)) | posted by merc, 1:50 PM