Here we are standing. Next to the pinball machine. We had to wait setting up our equipment until an older guy finished his game. Ro halfhide (on the left) and me (Mary Joe Jones) on the right. Discussing which song to play next. Our debut gig last thursday december 8th 2005 in bar Soundgarden, Amsterdam, consisted of over one hour and a half of music. We are very happy that we exist. I've been tuning my guitar during the whole set, and at some point Marijn (singer/guitarist of Dutch band Nuff Said) permitted himself to tune it with his free hand, the other rolling a cigarette, while i was playing. The funny thing was, though, that the tuning thing successfully became part of our act. Some songs, like Lowell George's Find a River was so out of tune that the strings started to interfere with eachother in a special way and it gave the song's sound the right amount of weirdness, as someone in the audience mentioned after the gig.
The bartender, impressed, asked me after playing who was my biggest influence, and gave me the choice between Velvet Underground/Lou reed, or Syd Barrett.. Of course i couldn't answer him right away but luckily i remembered that once i have been awarded the Syd Barrett No-fi award by a Dutch music magazine (i forgot which!). He said he could understand that very well. Unfortunately this award never found its way to me.

pictures taken by pietje puk