Clan Of Xymox

[Ron West]

Cool story Joost. :-)

Ronny has really mellowed as of late. He didn't have the arrogant
pretension like he's has in the past and he was joking with the crowd.
On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 5:30 AM Mikael Hansson <forums at deadmengods.com> wrote:
>
> Heh, I’ve heard this story in person but this post is quite vivid :-)
>
> I’ve seen them twice this decade, the best was the last one, a few years ago. More performing ‘with' than ‘to' the crowd and even some smiles :-)
>
> I guess/hope Ronny’s grown out of the “I’m a 4AD-goth-god-complex” becoming a dad and passing 50 some years ago :-)
>
> /Micke
>
> > On 4 Nov 2018, at 10:48, Joost Schuttelaar <joost at joostschuttelaar.nl> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Joost Schuttelaar
> > The Hague, NL
> >
> >
> >
> >
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