Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => All the rest => Topic started by: level42 on May 27, 2010, 11:08:53 PM
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Last weekend we competed for the 4th time at the "Internationale Mars-en Showwedstrijden" at Hamont, Belgium.
Every 2 years this 3-day festival is held at the market place in the heart of this town just across the border with The Netherlands.
About 2000 musicians from Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Austria and the Czech republic compete for the highest honour, becoming "champion of the low countries" for the next 2 years.
Most of our drumband members and some fans go there for the entire weekend and we have a lot of fun looking and listening to the bands, the fireworks, and an occasional beer ;) We meet a lot of foreign musicians and it's a great weekend. On the monday we compete in the drumband section.
We recently became 3rd in the Dutch national championships (CKONG was there !) but this time we managed to score an incredible 90% score, with cum laude from the jury and became the champions in our section !
The bands are judged not only on music, but also on the marching and discipline.
Pretty amazing stuff. Some pics:
(http://gallery.me.com/andre.huijts/100675/dsc01244-224_20100525_1548511403/web.jpg?ver=12749937010001)
(http://gallery.me.com/andre.huijts/100675/_alm2353-328_20100525_1250572716/web.jpg?ver=12749941740001)
And so, yes Barry, I play bass, but not the kind I think you meant ;)
As a cherry on the cake, our band leader and "tambour-maitre" received the price for best "tambour-maitre" for the entire festival !
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CONGRATULATIONS André, what a great achievement. Would have loved to witness it live. Must have been a great weekend for you and your team members. Proficiat.
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Congratulations!
and, can anyone see L42 on the buttom pic?? :) :)
else, scroll down ;)
(http://www.opdenkelder.com/muerto/arc/l42.jpg)
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Congrats Andre!
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Nice pictures :) It's 'fresh' for the mind to have others hobbies, like music for example (same for me) :-*
Congrats for your position in that contest ;)
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Congratulations André !!! :spaceace:
Nice pictures :) It's 'fresh' for the mind to have others hobbies, like music for example (same for me) :-*
+1 :-*
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congrats on the win, andre! cool that you're the best of the best!!! :spaceace: :spaceace: :spaceace:
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Congrats Andre! ;D
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ja gefeliciteerd !
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good news!
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Thanks guys !!
And here's a pic to show how fellow musicians meet. In this case, some female colleague drummers from Fanfarenzug Strausberg (http://qlixu.de/FZSRB/index.html), Germany:
(http://94.100.118.82/972200001-972250000/972200501-972200600/972200597_6_UYCj_1.jpeg)
Oh, for more pics from our site: http://harmonieslikkerveer.nl/fotos.html?func=viewcategory&catid=33 (http://harmonieslikkerveer.nl/fotos.html?func=viewcategory&catid=33)
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Why are your hands floating in the air!! ::)
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They weren't a second before that pic :P
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They weren't a second before that pic :P
So you just took them off of the girls for the pic? Yeah, right. ;D
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Forgive me for not remembering exactly anymore. I think I had a couple of Martens beers before that pic.......quite a couple :D
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Massive chicks, were they twins? ;D ;D ;D
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Hi Andre,
Congrats on the high score!
Regarding the base, like Jack Nicholson said in a Few Good Men; Do I feel like the dumb f*ck now.... :-[
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Massive chicks, were they twins? ;D ;D ;D
I don't think so. Maybe sisters ?