I jeszcze minirecenzja z Amsterdamu:
" Hi there,
The venue (I had never been to before) was small, and the stage was very small. I believe no more than eight people could stand abreast in front of the stage, which could hold no more than one keyboard, one guitar plus stool and one musician. René van ommenée was there too, and he told me that he now hoped that his new album Gridlock would soon be released. Hi Monique, hi Jan, hi Koen Vijverman! Nice to have seen you all (again).
Hammill opened with Time For A Change, which I was watching from the third row (standing venue) in my Judge Smith T-shirt. There haven't been that many concerts of late that he didn't play at least one Judge-song, have there? The second song was The Comet. Also Stumbled (or in the second guitar set?). The guitar set ended with Sitting Targets, which had a (for me) newly arranged instrumental
mid-section. Then on to the keyboard for The Siren Song, which also had a newly arranged mid-section. After A Better Time, he told us:
Many people, mainly those who don't know me as well as I suspect you do, consider me a merchant of doom of some sorts. But I feel that the act of writing and arranging and performing music is a very positive one. And this last song was a testament to that. The next one is too, although this one is right on the edge between positive and negative. I am not quite sure, but it might have been Bravest Face he then played. Or A Run Of Luck. One of the songs (can't remember) merged into Faculty X. He also played The Mercy. The audience was especially silent and attentive.
Back to the guitar, it was Central Hotel, and I Will Find You, and Driven, and maybe some more. While he was tuning his guitar, he told
the audience: This is the moment you may chat among yourselves... but the audience remained dead silent. The last guitar song was Modern.
After that he put his guitar aside but remained seated on the stool. I am now about to leave you, he said, and I will leave _that_ way
(pointing right across the audience to the back of the venue). I will not come back. Then he stood up, and started to sing Again a
cappella, glass of wine and music sheets in hand. Near the end there was a small silence and the audience started to clap. But he shushed the audience into silence again, and sang the rest of the song while he came down from the stage, and while singing walked through the audience in the direction of the back door.
Mark."