Never ride your bike in Amsterdam on the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd January. The entire city is strewn with shards of merriment from the night before. Tourists roam the streets like lost sheep. The bolder amongst them rent bikes and impede the natural free-form flow that is the norm in Amsterdam. The coffeshops overflow with red-eyed Italians and French and English. The Dutch stay at home.
The Maroccan kids in my neighbourhood search through the debris of firecrackers for extra bangs. Tonight is my first gig of the New Year in s’Hertogenbosch, aka Den Bosch. Plein 79 is the venue. It’s me as MC, Johan van Gulik as Opener, and
Martijn Oosterhuis as Headliner.
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