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yep... there's one youth hostel near the Vondelpark, a rubbish sleepinn for a few zloti's.

All other cheap hotels are considerable, since Amsterdam is not THAT big.

Coming to Brussels, well, coming to AB (again), as I live in Brussels. It's weird, I think it's two years since I saw the band last now, am I even a fan still? My life has changed so much...

randdebiel² wrote:My life has changed so much...

good for you!
wouldn't it be weird if everything would always stay the same? imagine for example a band playing the same setlist for over a decade, no one in there right mind would tolerate that would they.

christophe wrote:

randdebiel² wrote:My life has changed so much...

good for you!
wouldn't it be weird if everything would always stay the same? imagine for example a band playing the same setlist for over a decade, no one in there right mind would tolerate that would they.

I agree, on the other hand, fatherhood seems to mean "absolutely no minute on your own, ever!"
will be my first gig in, hey wait a sec, not that long ago actually,
went to the sex pistols in lokeren in the summer

missed cohen on Monday due to illness though (got it from my daughter )

BTW, Christophe, how have you been in the meanwhile?

randdebiel² wrote:

christophe wrote:

randdebiel² wrote:My life has changed so much...

good for you!
wouldn't it be weird if everything would always stay the same? imagine for example a band playing the same setlist for over a decade, no one in there right mind would tolerate that would they.

I agree, on the other hand, fatherhood seems to mean "absolutely no minute on your own, ever!"
will be my first gig in, hey wait a sec, not that long ago actually,
went to the sex pistols in lokeren in the summer

missed cohen on Monday due to illness though (got it from my daughter )

I wanted to say you can only blame yourself for that, but I imagine the missis has a part in it as well
I can't imagine having the responsibilities a father has, I don't think I would be that good in it to many other stuff I wanna do first (and I'm not even speaking about this silly gig)

maybe see you there though.

mh wrote:It's a compact enough city center, very easy to get around on foot or by tram, but Marnixstraat has quite a few cheap 'n' cheerful hotels and is only about 10 minutes walk away. One of our 'Dam regulars would be able to advise better.

Have a look here: http://www.hotelstravel.com/netherlands-nh-am.html - areas 1, 2, 4 and 10 are the ones to check out.

That's great thanks!! . Just looking at the ticket site.. it says that you have to have a membership to the Paradiso to go to the gig ( why? ) and can get one at the box office. Is that situated in the same building? If not, can anyone please tell me where I can get one , or if for some reason the box office is closed or something of that nature? Cheers in advance

Dunno about the reason why, but you can get one with the ticket on tickermaster.nl.

christophe wrote:

randdebiel² wrote:

christophe wrote:good for you!
wouldn't it be weird if everything would always stay the same? imagine for example a band playing the same setlist for over a decade, no one in there right mind would tolerate that would they.

I agree, on the other hand, fatherhood seems to mean "absolutely no minute on your own, ever!"
will be my first gig in, hey wait a sec, not that long ago actually,
went to the sex pistols in lokeren in the summer

missed cohen on Monday due to illness though (got it from my daughter )

I wanted to say you can only blame yourself for that, but I imagine the missis has a part in it as well
I can't imagine having the responsibilities a father has, I don't think I would be that good in it to many other stuff I wanna do first (and I'm not even speaking about this silly gig)

maybe see you there though.

Ah, but I'm a bit older than you too

To be honest, I always thought I would be very bad at it too, but once your baby is there, everything changes

I'll be there, hope you will be too!

randdebiel² wrote:I'll be there, hope you will be too!

I'm busy as usual, way too much on my head to be on here as often as I used to.
I'll give that concert site another look and just maybe i'll order me a ticket

Honeythorn wrote:

mh wrote:It's a compact enough city center, very easy to get around on foot or by tram, but Marnixstraat has quite a few cheap 'n' cheerful hotels and is only about 10 minutes walk away. One of our 'Dam regulars would be able to advise better.

Have a look here: http://www.hotelstravel.com/netherlands-nh-am.html - areas 1, 2, 4 and 10 are the ones to check out.

That's great thanks!! . Just looking at the ticket site.. it says that you have to have a membership to the Paradiso to go to the gig ( why? ) and can get one at the box office. Is that situated in the same building? If not, can anyone please tell me where I can get one , or if for some reason the box office is closed or something of that nature? Cheers in advance

membership is what we call nonsens bureaucracy. In other languages it's meant 'theft'. I'm sorry. It doesn't bother me anymore after 15 years of going strong in that venue. and yes you can buy it during that night. There goes the price of your kebab...

mh wrote:Dunno about the reason why, but you can get one with the ticket on tickermaster.nl.

Extra income. Ridiculous but then again the tickets are cheaper than for the German gigs for example. Ticketmaster sell them together with the tickets indeed.

I'm amazed ny the prices of the flights to the Dam. £140 was the cheapest. Hamburg is £75 in comparison.

Considering doing that instead. Anybody else going to that one?

(I still might do both )

Hom_Corleone wrote:I'm amazed ny the prices of the flights to the Dam. £140 was the cheapest. Hamburg is £75 in comparison.

Considering doing that instead. Anybody else going to that one?

(I still might do both )

I can do Dublin to Amsterdam and back for €95.

Hom_Corleone wrote:I'm amazed ny the prices of the flights to the Dam. £140 was the cheapest. Hamburg is £75 in comparison.

Considering doing that instead. Anybody else going to that one?

(I still might do both )

Tried checking out indirect flights via London or so with one of the low cost companies? You might find a more bargainy flight that way...

Hom_Corleone wrote:I'm amazed ny the prices of the flights to the Dam. £140 was the cheapest. Hamburg is £75 in comparison.

Considering doing that instead. Anybody else going to that one?

(I still might do both )

What about the other Dutch airports on a low cost carrier?

try the eindhoven airport..depending on where you coming from. I fly out of there very frequently (like on monday). it's driving me crazy that I can't go and buy tickets yet. I need to know where I will be living and then decide. f**king A..okay I'll go and continue working on my resume now:(

I have NO idea how to book a flight....I shall have to enlist my friends' help

Honeythorn wrote:I have NO idea how to book a flight....I shall have to enlist my friends' help

Easyjet, very cheap. Fly from London (stanstead, gatwick, luton, maybe Heathrow), Liverpool, Edinburgh and Belfast.

consider this, for me is ceaper to fly to Cologne thn Milan

Gollum's Cock wrote:

Honeythorn wrote:I have NO idea how to book a flight....I shall have to enlist my friends' help

Easyjet, very cheap. Fly from London (stanstead, gatwick, luton, maybe Heathrow), Liverpool, Edinburgh and Belfast.

Ahhh no Birmingham? Bugger!!!!

glad they come to brussels, cause i drove up to Amsterdam yesterday to catch a band in the Heineken Hall and found it a bit far to drive back at night..

Ah feck it. It's only money.

@Honeythorn - They do fly from Birmingham - it just isn't cheap.

When there's a will, there's a way.
It's much easier when you have a proper flying phobia and have to travel by bus or car thousands of kilometres across Europe. A mere two days to get to - say - Sweden or Bulgaria.
I recall a guy who hitch-hiked all the way from Russia.

Hom_Corleone wrote:Ah feck it. It's only money.

@Honeythorn - They do fly from Birmingham - it just isn't cheap.

Oh right. Hmm...well my friends can drive, so if it means a cheaper flight they may want to drive to another airport or get someone's parents to drive us ..... We shall see. Haven't booked either tickets or flights yet as I have to pay for Whitby first ( next week I shall be there watching Specimen ect, yay! ) The second I get back though, I'm in there.