11-02-2006: Haaksbergen turned into The Tropics

We were great. We were heroes, in Haaksbergen. We played for almost three hours in a row. Playing our parents record collections, occasionally freaking out in Teenage-Mary slide solo's amusing the 40+ as well as the minus 20 crowd. Playing whatever the people wished. Haaksbergen, with the pentagram as town shield. With the Grand Café Centraal as the place next to the church. We played together with Erik, for this occasion named Erik the Floater (referring to the great MSX video game Eric and the Floaters). M-Jo + Erik = The Tropics. I wrote a small piece of text about us which was sent to the local newspaper a couple of weeks ago. Part of this bio was put on a poster and this poster decorated the wall in the men's room. After visiting a family birthday party in Enschede we met at Erik's home and put together a set list. Then we went to the Grand café, set up all the stuff, and started playing. During the gig, again there was a guy trying to tune my guitar in-play, but this time it wasn't at all out of tune so i gave him the evil look and sung "The cars hiss by my window" so furiously that he left. Needless to say, the night ended getting a bit drunk and dancing with your mum, spinning around on the dancefloor singing wooly bully or something alike.

Let the pictures speak for themselves.



The Tropics