45. 18-10-2008 Worm, Rotterdam

Some slight technical problems in the first few pieces, but once the record is set straight, things worked out better. Second gig with Olga. Soundguy was Grrrt-Jan, whom I didn't recognize at first, but then I knew. One of the good guys from the bad old days. Oh well. (FdW)

Not quite sure what to make of this performance. It wasn’t the location; Worm is great – nice, very laid-back people, good food, free drinks, a fine sound technician. It wasn’t the film presentation of Barbara Meter before our performance. That was, in fact, good fun. Five semi-abstract films with the first-ever scientific proof of UFO’s thrown in for free. Great exhibition by Dutch artist extraordinaire Wim T. Schippers too. People travelled from Nijmegen to Rotterdam just to see us. No, it must have been the fact that we had very strange technical problems in the first three songs, which almost ruined the performance for me. Without going too much into technical details, it had to do with tempo problems, which were luckily solved after 3 songs. I doubt the audience really noticed this. It frustrated the hell out of me though. Still, the second part of the set went very good. Probably the last time we played the set as it has been for some performances now. Good. (FK).

recording source: hard disc recorder

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44. 15-08-2008 Zomeravonden festival, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Beequeen played at a summer festival organized in the ENCI concrete factory near the city center of Maastricht. The factory is partly abandoned and its large halls were temporarily given over to the festival organization for cultural events. Lots of people visited the festival and enjoyed the bands, theatre and dance events. The food was wonderful. Beequeen played in the silo-hall. Due to program delays, we started 45 minutes late. At the start of the concert the electronic iron blinds, which separated the audience from the band, were closed. During the introduction music (from the Mulholland Drive movie), the blinds were opened to reveal the band. A very dramatic and successful start of the show. We played a good show and premiered The Honeythief to the audience, which even caused some hesitating clapping along of the audience. Will we ever turn into a monolithic stadium band like U2? Let's hope not. One U2 is quite enough. After the show, we stayed the night in a hostel. In all, a lovely day. (FK)

picture by Sietse van Erve. More pictures here
recording source: hard disc recorder

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43. 18-12-2007 UMC Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

During the festive season, the hospital where I work organized a series of live shows by employees. Beequeen was duly invited. To remain in the true spirit of Christmas, we decided to perform a live Christmasstory embellished with songs. For the story we invited Frank Anthonie van Alphen, a semi-professional storyteller and writer from Nijmegen, who reworked the William Burroughs story A Junkie Xmas for the performance. We were slightly dubious if a hospital of a Christian signature would appreciate Burrough's tale of a junkie trying to get a his junk (literally) and finally giving his last shot to a young boy who dies as a consequence, but once we got the foulest words out, it all sounded fine. During the story telling, we played a couple of songs from our regular set. Quite a large crowd showed up at the performance, which went really well. We even received flowers after the show. A first. (FK)
recording source: hard disc recorder

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42. 17-03-2007 Goudvishal, Arnhem, The Netherlands

I think this was supposed to a double bill for Edward Ka-spel and Savage Republic, but the latter didn't show, or where double booked, or whatever, so it became The Legendary Pink Dots and Beequeen. Goudvishal is a typical Dutch rock venue, with people talking through what whatever is happening on stage, but Beequeen, this time without Olga, was in fine form. I think, but what do I know? (FdW)

recording source: hard disc recorder

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41. 09-12-2006 Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden

The Nursey Foundation organised for many years great concerts in Stockholm - vivid memories of zoviet&france & shifts together in 1998 - but they called it a day with this three day event with all sorts of drone music - from Eliane Radigue, Charlemagne Palestine, to Ronnie Sundin, The Idealist, Sheriff, BJ Nilsen (always nice to see him), Moljebka Pvlse and others. Beequeen played their long version of 'Long Stones' and showed a video to it, which someone said 'that looked like an Apple screen saver'; you can't please 'm all. Freek and his wife did sightseeing Stockholm, whereas I worked for 2 full days at the EMS studio four to record some great Bucla sounds, one day together with Joachim Nordwall, for a future work together. Never loose a day's work. (FDW)
recording source: computer (but the spoken word parts were hardly recorded)

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40. 14-01-2006 Goudvishal, Arnhem, The Netherlands

For many reasons this was an important show for Beequeen. First and foremost, Beequeen was joined on stage by Olga Wallis, who sang on two tracks. Her presence gave the Beequeen performance that night an extra intimate atmosphere. Secondly, a number of songs from the latest CD The Body Shop made their live debut. And last but not least, Beequeen played as support to The Legendary Pink Dots, which is always fun. The show went really well and everyone was well-pleased. A video recording as well as a recording straight from the mixing board was made that evening. The show was on a special gothic evening and much fun was had observing the audience, who had clearly dressed up specially for the event. Separate mention has to be made for the Professor Snape lookalike. He was amazing. (FK)


recording source: DAT

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39. 04-11-2004 Club Cuba, Munster, Germany

Beequeen was invited to perform a new version of Long Stones And Circles. The Hören/Sagen - erzählende Musik festival (Hear/Say - narrative music) featured such artists as Jaap Blonk, Kontakte der Junglinge and Robert Ashley. Beequeen performed with Biosphere on the 4th of November. The festival was well-organised. The audience comprised around 60 people (sold out) who were very attentative. Beequeen played well that night, despite problems with the microphones. (FK)

recording source: mini disc

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38. 29-04-2004 Dobbelmanfabriek, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

For the second time, Beequeen was invited to perform at the "Wintergarden" poetry festival. For this performance we were specifically asked to perform Long Stones And Circles, which had been played at the previous "Wintergarden" festival in December 2003. This time the location was the Dobbelmanfabriek; a former soap factory. Even though the location was brilliant, the performance was pretty much ruined by the very talkative audience. During the quietest passages of the music, it was hard to hear ourselves play. A frustrating evening for us and for those who came to listen to the music. (FK)

recording source: mini disc. note that the glitch like sound is part of the recording, not the music.

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37. 28-12-2003 Café Merleyn, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

After our previous show in Merleyn we discussed the possibility of Beequeen participating in the Wintergarden poetry festival. However, we heard nothing from the Merleyn crew after that and basically forgot about the whole thing. Much to our horror we noticed one week before the performance in the programme that we were appearing. Somehow, everybody had forgotten to mention this to us! This left us only a couple of days in a very hectic period for the both of us to come up with 20 minutes of new music based upon poetry. In the end we used the structure and the "Finding the first water into the canyon" poem by Richard Long, which we had previously used on our 3 inch CD Long Stones and Circles and changed this into a completely new track. The live performance went really well. In fact so well, that we decided to re-record the music in a studio setting and consider it for possible future release. (FK)

recording source: mini disc

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36. 05-11-2003 Café Merleyn, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

We played as a support act to The Legendary Pink Dots. The set consisted mainly of the US set with some slight changes. Black Eyed Dog was played live for the second time and went really well. The performance went fine (despite the graining bum note I played on the keyboard), but the audience was very talkative. Still, lots of people came to see us, which was really nice. (FK)

recording source: mini disc

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35. 16-07-2003 Valkhof, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

During the world-famous "4-days walks" in Nijmegen, Beequeen played in the medieval chapel of the Barbarossa ruins in the Valkhof park in Nijmegen. A beautiful location. However, that night 3 other bands also played in the open air nearby. Our PA-system was a total disgrace: of the 5 speakers, only the 2 monitor speakers worked. As a result we played very quiet and at times the sounds of the other band (who all seemed to have 1-million watt speaker systems) washed over our heads, making it hard to actually hear what we were playing. Nevertheless, a great number of people came to see us and stayed during the whole performance, which was mostly based upon the US-tour setlist. (FK)

recording source: mini disc

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34. 19-04-2003 Living Arts Musuem, Reykjavik, Iceland

Upon arriving in Reykjavik we went to sleep almost immediately at Hilmar's house. After a couple of hours we drove into town and enjoyed the scenery. Iceland is a very impressive country! Dinner that evening was easily the best one we had during the tour; Hilmar treated us to a very posh fishrestaurant where I enjoyed catfish with crab and Frans had the reindeercarpachio and even whale - thank you Hilmar! The show was in an artgallery and was a real pleasure to do. Frans played a really good soloset as Freiband. The sound was great and there were quite a number of people present. Remarkable was the fact that there were many girls in the audience (in America we would normally draw a 99,9% male audience) and that they were a lot prettier than most US girls we saw. After the show we went into the city centre for a drink. And what a drink that was. We had a really great evening. We got back at 03.00 hours at Hilmar's house. (FK)
Also performing: Curver, Freiband and featuring artwork by Elin Hansdottir.

recording source: mini disc

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33. 17-04-2003 Free103.9, Brooklyn, NYC, USA

Question: what is it like to get lost in Brooklyn when it is dark outside? Answer: interesting enough to lock the doors of the car you're in. After a very very long drive from Cleveland (was it really close to 10 hours?) we arrived in the Big Apple. Brooklyn Free103.9 is an independent radio station, which is located in a squat-like building. Once passed the impressive entrée, the space itself is very friendly and features discolights, which light up to the beat of the music. The show went really well - one of the best of the tour. I met up with Mark and Moira at Brooklyn Free103.9, which was really nice. Mark and I have been corresponding for ages and he drove a long time just in order to see us play. After the show we drove to Seth Nehil's place where I spent a most uncomfortable night on the floor. Jason Bryant drove back to Ohio again straight after the show. He is a maniac really. Dinner that day consisted of fast food on the way. (FK)
Also performing: Andrew Liles, Seth Nehil, Stelzer and Talbot.

recording source: mini disc

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32. 16-04-2003 Doubting Thomas, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

A last-minute booked show for the Beequeen. When we finally arrived in Cleveland we found that Doubting Thomas was a really really small art gallery. They did have the largest PA-system anywhere on the tour though. After setting up and soundchecking we played an OK show. It was really hard to concentrate on the music as the owner of the gallery was clearly more interested in the sound of her own voices than the music. A frustrating evening for us and the small audience that was genuinely interested in what we were doing. For dinner we had intended to visit the notorious 'Hooters' restaurant, but unfortunately that was closed down. We had a lovely dinner at an Italian restaurant near the harbour instead. After the show we drove back to Massillon. (FK)
Also performing: Andrew Liles.

recording source: mini disc

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31. 15-04-2003 Garfield Art Works, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

A long drive to Pittsburgh. When we arrived at the gallery, there was no-one present so we waited outside in the sun. After a while, we were able to set up and do our soundcheck. The show went really well, up until the computer crashed for the second time. Despite that we were well pleased with the show. We also sold quite a few CD's in Pittsburgh. Dinner was a typical US food place: large steaks and greasy pizza. At the restaurant I also witnessed a 'Lobster Machine'; a fun fair like machine with a mechanical arm. Put a Dollar in the slot and see if you can grab one of the life lobsters inside - oh, and remember; don't hurt their eyes. Disgusting! We stayed in Massillon again, which was really nice even though I was not allowed to swim in the lake. Alas. (FK)
Also performing: Pancreatic Aardvarks, Impercept, Andrew Liles.

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30. 14-04-2003 ACME Art Company, Columbus, OH, USA

After a couple of hours driving we arrived in Columbus. On our way there we passed Lake Erie, which is a giant lake the size of a respectable European country. Before the show we enjoyed some drinks in a local 50's bar and browsed the nearby record store. At the ACME Art Company Andrew, Frans and myself played a special 10-minute thank you drone-piece for Jason Bryant who organised part of the tour, drove us around and generally put up with us. Because of the absence of a PA-system we were forced to play through a regular Sony stereo-system, which sounded not as bad as we had feared. The show itself went ok. After the show we drove to a Waffle House where we enjoyed, well, waffles. We had a great time during dinner and several embarrassing pictures of us wearing silly WH-hats were taken. Later that night we were pulled over by statetroopers for speeding. Even though the car was stuffed with interesting non-accounted for goods and people from everywhere without working permits, we were only given a warning - thank Jesu! We slept at Jason's girlfriends house in Massillon, which was really comfortable. The house also has a private lake with giant fish and turtles! (FK)
Also performing: Mike Shiflet, Andrew Liles.

recording source: mini disc

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29. 13-04-2003 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, USA

From Buffalo to Rochester is a really short drive. Since it is also near the Niagara Falls, we decided to make a stop and see the falls. We crossed the border into Canada without any problems with customs even though we had 2 Dutch, 2 English and 1 American citizens on board and the car was absolutely stuffed with musical equipment. The falls were really impressive. Frans made recordings of the noise of the falling. After the visit to Niagara Falls we drove to Rochester where we set up at the Visual Studies Workshop. This was the first (and last) time we were ever offered a free drink upon arriving at a venue. Goody. The show went really well and ranks as one of the best of the tour. After the show we went to a local diner to get the infamous 'sloppy (or garbage) plate', which consists of French fries (or should we call them freedom fries?), macaroni, burgers and bread mixed with several sauces of unknown origin. We enjoyed our plates at home at Brannon and Cara's where we also stayed the night. A very eventful night for some of us. (FK)
Also performing: Brannon Hungness, ?, Andrew Liles.

recording source: mini disc

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28. 12-04-2003 Soundlab, Buffalo, NY, USA

A long drive to Buffalo this time. The Big Orbit Soundlab put advertisements for our shows in the local papers billing us as 'Dutch drone legends'. Ha. The BOS turned out to be a large hall, which in case of a nuclear war was to be used as a fall-out shelter for the Buffalo population. A comforting thought. Our soundman was really something - he did manage to set everything up in the end and the sound was actually quite good. Even though we feared that no one would attend the show, the turn-up was quite high by the time we started playing. We did a good show. Afterwards we spent the night at Craig's, the owner of BOS, who owns an amazingly luxurious house. I slept really well that night in a 19th century enormous wooden bed. Our food consisted - yet again - of Indian food. (FK)
Also performing: Andrew Liles.

recording source: mini disc

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27. 11-04-2003 Rensellear Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY, USA

After a long drive we arrived in Troy late in the evening, after getting horribly lost in the city. Luckily the Troy students had arranged Indian takeaway food for us. The show went really well and there was a large audience present. Frans joined Howard and Jason for their performance that evening. We sold quite a few CD's. After the performance we went to a groovy bar in Troy, where I enjoyed a fantastic tuna fish sandwich and learned what pitchers are (fishtanks full of beer in case you're wondering). That night we stayed at Stephan's house, which was really nice. He has the habit of taking polaroid pictures of everyone who visits him. One of his walls is covered in polaroids. In Troy we said goodbye to Jason Talbot and Howard Stelzer and continued the tour with Jason Bryant. We dedicated the Troy show to Howard and Jason.
Also performing: Stelzer and Talbot (with Frans de Waard), Andrew Liles. (FK)

recording source: mini disc

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26. 09-04-2003 Flywheel Arts Center, USA

Most of the day was spent hanging around at Howie's playing records, which was fun. Jason Bryant cooked us a lavish breakfast. In the afternoon we drove the 2 odd hours to Easthampton, which looked like a Twin Peaks village between hills (does that make sense?). The Flywheel Arts Center is a really small and cosy place and we really enjoyed the atmosphere. The performance was one of the best of the tour despite the guitar mistake I made in "Pop pop fizz fizz". Damn. We met up with Idea Fire Company who did a great live show and are very friendly people. Scott Faust (IFC mainman) managed to change during the evening from his ultra-blue outfit into a ultra-yellow outfit, which was utterly brilliant. He was kind enough to trade some records with us as well. Dinnerwise some of us enjoyed a take-away pizza. After the performance we drove back to Boston. (FK)
Also performing: Stelzer and Talbot, Idea Fire Company, Andrew Liles.

recording source: mini disc

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25. 08-04-2003 Evos Arts Center, Lowell, MA, USA

After a 1,5-hour drive we arrived in Lowell at RRRecords where we met up with Ron Lessard (who organised the show), which was really nice, as I had known him for many many years, but never got the chance to meet up with him in person. Of course the obligatory picture of us outside RRR with Ron was taken. I was really disappointed that I was 10 years too late for picking up my copy of the Emil Beaulieu LP, which you could only get if you visited RRR's in person. The Evos Arts Center turned out to be something of a rather rowdy former sportsbar. There were quite a number of people present and most of them seemed keen on speaking throughout the performances, which was annoying. Apart from that the performance went well, even though our computer crashed once. I also met Brian K. Smith of 4WAT whom I have known for years. It was a great pleasure to finally meet him and see 4WAT wrestle on stage. Before the performance we enjoyed a great Indian meal with a waiter who kept belching when he thought we couldn't see or hear him (we could - so strange). After the show we did a video-interview for Brainwashed. In the night we drove back to Boston. (FK)
Also performing: Stelzer/Talbot/Rawlings, 4-Way Anal Touchfight, Emil Beaulieau, Andrew Liles.

recording source: mini disc

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24. 07-04-2003 Berwick Research Institute, Boston, MA, USA

That morning we visited some record stores in Boston. Jason Bryant (Infraction records labelführer and co-organiser/driver of the tour) found a copy of the Beequeen - Ownliness CD marked 'promo' in the second-hand section of Twisted Village records. Now you know what happens to promo-CD's! That evening we played our first performance in front of an American audience. There had been a warning for a snowstorm in the Boston area, which may account for the fact that there were only approximately 10 people present. However, those present were very attentive to our music. Almost everyone seemed to be drinking alcohol from bottles hidden in brown paper bags. Jason Bryant went out to secure his own liquor and came back looking shocked; apparently the neighbourhood is not one of the best of Boston. He refused to tell what happened to him and he is still in denial as we speak. The performance went fine and afterwards we travelled home through the snow, which was really beautiful. Dinner that night was next to nothing since it started snowing and everything was closed - we are open 24/7 but not when it's snowing. (FK)
Also performing: TWIN, Andrew Liles.

recording source: mini disc

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23. 06-04-2003 MIT Radio Session, Cambridge, MA, USA

A relaxing day of getting up late, enjoying a breakfast consisting of muffins (cultureshock) and sight-seeing Boston before we drove by car to the MIT radio session. There we played our first performance of the tour. No audience was present at the recording. After the performance, which went really well for a first show, we had a very funny interview with the MIT radio host. The interview (and performance) was recorded for broadcast on Thursday 10 April 2003. Dinner that night consisted of Tai food in Boston, which was very good. (FK)
Also performing: Andrew Liles.

recording source: computer

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22. 07-04-2002 Extrapool, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (collaborative with Girlfriends)

Girlfriends consists of 2 guitarists, a bassplayer and a drummer. Like Beequeen, they come from Nijmegen and have a contract for releasing music with the American Beta Lactam-Ring Records as well. Girlfriends enjoy playing Krautrock in the broadest sense of the term. Even though there are many differences between the two bands, there are also some interesting similarities. These led to the idea of playing live as one band. So in the tiny but cosy and crowded Extrapool club in Nijmegen Girlfriends and Beequeen joined forces. Those present were; Erik and Martin on guitar, Rob and Freek on bass guitar, Maaike on drums and Frans on his laptop and synthesizer. It seemed almost everyone added at least 7 or 8 effect-units to their set-up. Raymond did the sound and recorded the show on digital 8-track for a possible future release. The show itself went really well, especially considering the fact that they played together for the first time. Prior to the show a 16-mm compilation of 50's trash and horror clips were shown much to the audience's amusement. Quite a nice evening. (FK) Soundman: Raymond Steeg.

recording source: mini disc

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21. 03-03-2001 Toon festival, Haarlem, The Netherlands

During this show, where we premiered material from the CD "Ownliness", water-videos were projected on all four walls and the ceiling as to make the room appear like a giant aquarium. The show itself was very relaxing and showed to us that wecould do our more "song-oriented" material also in a live environment. After the performance quite some people came up to us asking if the material played live was available on CD. Much later that evening we went to an Indian restaurant where we had to wait 2 hours before being served, but had so much fun I almost died with laughter. Quite a lovely day. (FK)
Soundman: Raymond Steeg

This concert was not recorded and is the only entry on this blog where there is nothing to download. The concert was along the lines of the previous concert at Moyland (FdW)

20. 08-09-2000 Schloss Moyland, Kleve, Germany

Natursymfonie – Beuys keep swinging. This show was organized by Stephan Froleyks at the Schloss (castle) of Moyland. This castle holds the largest collection of artworks by Joseph Beuys, so as you can imagine we were thrilled to play there. Before the show, during the communal dinner, we watched probably the funniest Germanic performance ever (even though we were the only ones who thought so). We played in the evening in the middle of the woods next to the castle just in front of a mausoleum. A beautiful location. The show was very ambient and was recorded by both ourselves and the German national radio for later broadcast. The recordings made by Beequeen that night were released as an LP called Natursymfonie by US based label Beta-lactam Ring Records. The package features, among other things, autumn leaves from the actual site where we performed. After the show we spent the night in an early 20th century kurhaus which was beautiful. (FK)
Soundman: Raymond Steeg

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19. 08-02-1997 Asta, Kaisersautern, Germany

Wonderful evening with Maeror Tri and Kapotte Muziek at the university campus. It was back to the old days really with Che and RAF posters all over the place. The show itself featured bits and pieces from the 'Treatise' CD. (FK)

recording source: DAT

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18. 21-09-1996 Extrapool, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Extrapool club lacks a stage but compensates this with lovely people. The complete Nijmegen underground was present at this performance which was pretty nice. (FK) Soundman: Frank Verschuuren.

recording source: DAT. two pieces were released on 'TREATISE' (CD ­ 22 September 2000)
Auf Abwegen aatp 08, Germany, 500 numbered copies

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17. 11-02-1996 VPRO Radio Studio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

recording source: DAT. Slightly different than the 'STETSON' (CD - 19 March 1997)
Mort aux Vaches : Stetson Staalplaat, The Netherlands, 600 numbered copies

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16. 31-05-1994, O42, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

This was the day after my birthday. We played a good performance in front of about 150 people (who all came for The Legendary Pink Dots of course). At this performance we also premiered our CD 'Time Waits For No-One' for the audience. Every tenth visitor got one free. We made the papers with that action. (FK) Soundman: Raymond Steeg.

recording source: DAT

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15. 12-02-1994, Backstage, München, Germany

This turned out to be some sort of leather gothic SM party. What fun we had! The performance was pretty good. After the show we were interviewed by a guy who was amazingly drunk. So drunk he actually forgot to plug his microphone in his walkman. The funniest interview we ever done by far. Due to bad organisation it turned out we had no place to sleep at 6 in the morning. Eventually we crashed the organiser's home which was the dirtiest house I ever encountered. (FK) Soundman: Peter Duimelinks.

recording source: DAT

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14. 11-02-1994, Juze, Peissenberg, Germany

This was a wonderful performance in front of wonderful people. After the performance someone came up to me and gave me a record of his own music because he had liked us so much. I also clearly remember the beautiful landscape and our wonderful walk through the snow in the mountains prior to the performance. (FK) Soundman: Peter Duimelinks.

recording source: DAT

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13. 30-10-1993, Tara, Emden, Germany

Never played a hall this small. Before us played Mohr who was very much into entering the Guiness Book of Records for being the loudest artist in the smallest venue. Maeror Tri were also present (like many other Beequeen performances (they are always fun to be with). The performance itself was pretty good. (FK)Soundman: Peter Duimelinks.

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12. 29-10-1993, Rote Flora, Hamburg, Germany

We played on the third floor of a derelict building. Had a wonderful Doner Kebab for dinner. The performance was good even though the audience was very talkative. I remember desperately trying to get to sleep at 4 o'clock in the morning while some stupid German guy kept nagging on about scenes from Fawlty Towers. That was pretty horrific. (FK) Soundman: Peter Duimelinks.

recording source: DAT

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11. 19-02-1993, Salles des Festes, Nancy, France

A tragedy. This was a well-rehearsed show including visuals at a pretty pretentious festival (Cold music from the northern shores as we were billed). After about 15 minutes Frans' equipment blew up. He left the stage angrily leaving me to finish off the set by myself. The confused audience gave us a very polite applause. (FK) Soundman: Peter Duimelinks.
This show was not recorded. For download there is the original backing tape that we used that evening. It was supposed to be a very first rough version of 'Long Stones & Circles.

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10. 18-12-1992, Doornroosje, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

This was a support act to The Legendary Pink Dots. We both cannot remember much about this show. (FK) Soundman: Raymond Steeg.

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9. 11-11-1992, Die Bunker, Mainz, Germany

A loud show. The soundman forgot to switch on the house PA system until we were into the second song. After that we were Very Loud. They were still constructing the venue when we arrived and I remember them installing the toilets while we played. According to rumours, a group of Nazi's tried to get in, but fortunately they could be kept out. (FK) Soundman: Peter Duimelinks.

recording source: cassette

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8. 12-06-1991, Die Börse, Wuppertal, Germany

Once again as a support act to The Legendary Pink DOtSe We did a wonderful performance in front of around 300 people who were very enthusiastic. A video tape was made that night. One guy came up to me after the show and told me my guitar playing remembered him of Ashra Temple. Wow! (FK) Soundman: Raymond Steeg.

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7. 03-03-1991, Stichting Plaatsmaken, Arnhem, The Netherlands

This was actually a tape concert. Beequeen was asked to supply the soundtrack to Erik van Wesserlo's 8mm film 'Metamorphazen' which dealt with the subject of a face alteration after a jaw operation. Photos of the face alteration were also on display in the art gallery. During the length of the exhibition the soundtrack was played on a continuous basis. (FK) No soundman was needed.

recording source: DAT

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6. 29-11-1990, Doornroosje, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Parts of this performance were used for the 'Fond' one-sided LP. We had a huge glass window pane on stage which was smashed at the end of the performance. The sound of the smashing nearly blew up the PA system and the audience's ears. A great show. (FK) Soundmen: Maarten lJf and Edward Kaspel.

Two of these pieces were released on "FOND" (33RPM one-sided LP, Early 1991)
Korm Plastics kp 3490, The Netherlands, approximately 220 copies

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5. 18-08-1990, Kontrast, Hulst, The Netherlands

This was staged as a hometapers festival. The organisation was a shambles: there was hardly any food or money. We got both in the end, but since we closed the night and other groups played well longer that expected, we had to cut our set short to 15 minutes. The set itself was pretty noisy. (FK) Soundman: Gidoo Doesburg.

The piece 'Iraq' from this concert was released on "A NIGHTMARE IN HEAVEN" (C90 + booklet - 1991) by Hahamandad (no catalogue number), Belgium

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4. 16-06-1990, Diogenes, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

This is where we presented Brion Gysin's Dreamachine for the first time ever in The Netherlands to the public. We got Diogenes to pay for 3 Dreamachines and we played a soundtrack for 45 minutes during which the audience could experience the Dreamachines. No recordings were made, but a selection of the used 4-track tapes ended up on the 'Nouen' flexidisc. (FK) Soundmen: Beequeen.

Since there are no recordings of the actual concert, we uploaded for this post the extensive, first version of 'Nouen'. Download

3. 01-12-1989, Centrum Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium

It was freezing cold and the club lacked a stage. The food supplied was 'watersoup' which tasted much like the word. There wasnít a god in Belgium that night. We played together with The Haters who are great fun though. (FK) Soundman: Peter Duimelinks.

Two of these pieces were released on "FOND" (33RPM one-sided LP, Early 1991)
Korm Plastics kp 3490, The Netherlands, approximately 220 copies



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2. 23-05-1989 Diogenes, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Again a support act to the Legendary Pink Dots this time in Nijmegen. Elke Peucker joined on vocals and flute. The performance was recorded on videotape. A specially compiled film of an ethnical nature was shown during the performance. One person fainted. (FK) Soundman: Hans Meyer.

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1. 13-01-1989 Ekko, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Our first live show as a support act to the Legendary Pink Dots. We played unannounced to several hundred people who didnít know how to react. We used. several tapedecks, a nearly defunct little keyboard and effects. I remember one tapedeck being broken which gave most of the performance a distorted effect and basically ruined the recordings made that night. We survived. (FK)

recording source: cassette

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