Concert Review: Tim Knol @ Biebelot, 25/11/2011

Tim Knol and band

Last Friday I went to a concert from Tim Knol in Biebelot (that's in Dordrecht). Here is my review, this time with some pictures too.

I went to this gig mith my Mum and my little sister. We arrived when the support act, Gerhardt, had been playing for a while already (we had to come to school for something, nevermind) so I don't actually know how they played. From what I've seen and heard I can say that however it sounded very good, it just wasn't really my taste. But as I said, I only heard four or five songs so I don't really know.

Gerhardt

For some reason, building up the stage for Tim Knol and his band only took about 15 minutes, which is the fastest I've seen so far. Maybe because Gerhardt were two guys with guitars, and the stuff Tim Knol and his band needed where already on stage or something. At least we didn't have to wait too long.

When Tim Knol and his band (okay I'll just introduce his band so I don't have to say 'and his band' all the time: Tim Knol: vocals, guitar - Matthijs van Duijvenbode: keys, vocals, percussion - Jeroen Overman: bass, vocals - Kees Schaper: drums, vocals, percussion - Anne Soldaat: guitar, vocals) stepped on stage, the crowd started screaming and shouting like hell (Biebelot isn't very big, but it sounded like we were in Wembley or something) and you felt everyone was exited. Throughout the concert everyone was dancing, singing, and people who couldn't sing were shouting, there was just this relaxed vibe the whole time. The band played some songs from their first album that all sounded familiar to me, altrough there where only three songs that I can actually sing along (Sam, this song that just goes like 'In this shallow water, we can't drown' but I don't know the name of the song, and When I Got Here). Tim Knol's second album is Days, but I don't actually know any songs from the new album yet. They sounded really good though.

Another picture of Tim and band

There where some funny moments, like when Tim Knol asked some guy in the audience if he had been to one if his shows in Germany and some guy in the back goes like 'COME ON TIM, GO ON!' and Tim Knol just goes like 'Hold on, I'm just having a conversation with this guy over here!' or when Tim Knol told that their drummer, Kees Schaper, once really had to go to the bathroom in the middle of a gig and just walked away, and I guess the same guy shouted 'Come on Kees, you can go now! We don't mind, just hurry up' or at least something like that. And of course everyone just randomly shouted 'Tim Tim Tim Knol Knol Knol Tim Tim Tim Knol Knol Knol' every now and then.

I am very bad at remembering setlists, but I do remember that Sam was the last song they played, and the whole crowd just sang along and this guy in front of us started danging really weird, it was fun.

This is actually my wall

When the gig ended we walked to the merchandise stand as quickly as possible because Tim was going to sign posters. It was really funny because my sister and I were one of the first people in line and two girls in from of us wanted to take a picture and Tim tells my sister and I 'Hold on. Just one more picture and I'll be with you' and we were just like 'Yeah, fine.'. Tim looked a bit stressed. It was really funny because my hands got really shakey when he signed my poster and I wanted to say someting like 'cool, thanks dude' but the only thing I could actually say was 'Thank you'.

Close-up

I don't actually have anything to say anymore. All pictures in this post are made by my Mum, except for the pictures of my poster and shirt, those are made by me. Hope you liked my review!

Gasoline Diamond

 

My awesome Tim Knol t-shirt!