Clan Of Xymox

[Joost Schuttelaar]

On 3 Nov 2018, at 22:03, Ron West <ronwest at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Not too much live these days... all prerecorded tracks with bass and guitar.


Not much has changed then in 15 years :) from the archives…

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> From: "Joost Schuttelaar" <joost at greenskin.net>
> Subject: My gig
> Date: 14 September 2003 at 14:16:34 CEST
> To: <music-bar at ampfea.org>
> 
> So, friday I had the gig at ATAK, Enschede. We were the first to play, Clan
> of Xymox the last.
> 
> It was terrible.
> 
> We came at 18:30, Clan of Xymox was soundchecking. The first thing: Yeah,
> Clan of Xymox will leave all their stuff at the stage, so you'll have to
> find a place to fit in between. Hmm, we are a band of 6 people and we had to
> bring our own drumkit (Clan of Xymox doesn't use one). The stage was not
> very big so... quite a task. But we managed.
> We had a _very_ short time for sound check. For vocals, less than 10
> seconds. During the first song (in the soundcheck) we played we couldn't
> hear anything. It didn't really get better.
> And then the sound-engineer (major ass, don't care if this is archived) came
> to us saying:
> 
> "The stagevolume is already too loud."
> 
> We have to be more quiet than the second band. Well, that's kind of a task
> since we make quite fierce metal, and CoX makes electro-gothic (which is
> sweet as honey compared to us).
> 
> On stage, the only sound we had producing was the drumkit and one bass-amp
> (excluding monitors of course). The guitar player even used a modelling
> effect straight into the PA. The drumkit itself, unamplified was already too
> loud in the hall. So, we were asked if the drummer can play a little bit
> softer (WTF?!). No, ofcourse a drummer can't play any softer. There's no
> volume knob you know.
> 
> "Ok, then you might just as well go home."
> 
> WTF!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??*^$*&^$*(censored) really professional.. yeah.
> 
> Ok... to make a long story short. The sound just sucked. It sucked so much
> and the sound itself dripped of arrogance. I don't care if the sound sucks,
> if the people try at least to make it something (the monitoring guy did,
> thanks man), but we were treated really like garbage by that guy (rest of
> the people of ATAK were very nice, have to say that too).
> 
> So, our performance sucked. Again, good response from the crowd, but we knew
> what happened. So many errors... really sloppy playing. Worst gig ever...
> 
> But the people still liked it... We even had to do some signing on the towel
> I used on stage... hah-hah :) (terrible, but secretly I like it) ;)
> 
> I didn't really like the gig of CoX, the music was nice but most of the
> music came from DAT. Jay, that just does not rock. Even a computer on stage
> rocks so much more than a DAT.
> 
> Ok, thanks for my rant. It was friday and I'm still a bit pissed about the
> way we were treated. It seems they don't know the words: 'support your local
> bandscene'.
> 
> --
> 
> Joost Schuttelaar
> joost at greenskin.net
> Check out www.endymaeria.nl, Dutch doom/black/gothic-metal
> 

Hah! :) young me.

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Joost Schuttelaar
The Hague, NL