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i’m going to make my own live music dvd’s from now on and sell em and get rich like warren buffet

watch at 12:53. i love that part

shot this at the Sugar Factory, Feb 19 2010

watch in hd

March 10, 2009 Paradiso in Amsterdam

did i enjoy mc lyte’s show last night at the melkweg amsterdam? yes! did i take any decent pics? no! why? sometimes a girl just wants to have fun and sometimes she accidentally brings the wrong lens.
after a few shots with my ‘wrong’ lens i gave up and was like: whatever i’m just gonna enjoy the show. deluge on the other hand took some great shots.

i was really excited about the show cause i saw her live 2 months ago and it was fun!

no different this time. she did her thing.. with a dj, a drummer and a back up mc. unfortunately the crowd was hard to enthuse. they probably weren’t familiar with her music and it probably also consisted of a bunch of amsterdam tourists who ended up at the milky way only to party on a saturday night. either way.. mc lyte did her best and with her charisma she got the crowd going.

she started the show with the classic cha cha cha. how can you not get hyped up? and after watching this female mc tribute to mc lyte i might even go listen to remy ma. (*not live*..maybe in 8 yrs..)

what amazed me is that nobody sung a long with lyte’s part of i wanna be down. HELLO. where or when did you guys grow up?!

after the show there was this interviewer asking my friend and i how old we were, cause he thought we were too young to know mc lyte. we might look young, fresh and wild, but we oldies, buddy.

photo by deluge
almost september

Nov 13, at Paradiso.

This show was crazy. In my memory Lucy Pearl’s show was the best i’ve ever seen. I don’t remember anything besides that Dawn looked fantastic. Raphael’s solo performance with band…they go side by side.

Here are some pics i took.

okay she wasn’t dawn robinson but damn.. she can sing.

my original tweet southern hummingbird cd got stuck in this cute baby blue dvd player i got from my old TV job.

i was scared to open (and break) the thing and also too lazy to take it to a pro to fix it. after that i had to do without tweet.
then after a few years i downloaded the album. now i’m back re-listening that album.

but what do you do after you’ve replayed that old tweet album over and over again? wait for her new album love tweet to come out? how long will that take?

the solution is: go get the dresden soul symphony dvd + cd. in stores today.

the dresden soul symphony combines classical music with soul music. new skool soul singers singing tracks by al green, gladys knight, james brown, marvin gaye, the jackson 5, the o’jays, stevie wonder and many more. conducted by jun markl and led by the orchestra of the mitteldeutscher rundfunk; four backing vocalists; the mdr children’s choir and four instrumentalists.

besides tweet they asked dwele, joy denalane and bilal to sing. good lord. (i’m not even religious so in real life i don’t really say that). they happen to all be favorites of mine.

i think i went to all bilal shows in holland. that’s like 7 times or more. no new album coming out? i didn’t care. every show has been entertaining to me. at his last show he introduced joy denalane and she impressed me. i wasn’t familiar with german artists, but i liked her style.

then there’s dwele with his soothing voice. men respect him for his musical abilities, women want to be serenaded by him. i listen to his music caus it takes me somewhere.

* the southern hummingbird cd is still stuck in the dvd player after 4 yrs.
* tweet looks great with the short crop.
* we need more of this out of the box thinking. anything is possible.

here’s a little teaser of the show.

i just watched it on dvd. it left me breathless. thank you.

so yeah. i went to see maxwell in amsterdam this sunday. it was the world premiere of his tour and it was a blast. after so long maxwell, it’s good to see you perform!

watch the interview where the talks about his absence.

i love his humbleness. btw for all the people who went to see him in amsterdam and complained about him being 2 hours late, even boo-ed him. cut him some slack! the reason why he was late was because he was nervous to perform after so long. i was told he nearly cancelled the show.
+ i was late myself. lol

beside the fact that his performance was on point, he’s also a very funny dude, enjoying himself on stage:

and ofcourse i couldn’t not take any pics. that just wouldn’t be me.

photos by ouxu (sorry maxwell). all photo rights reserved b******!

more photos (i’m still uploading) : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ouxu/sets/72157607816708304/