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Old 11-19-2010, 08:07 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: 2010-11-18 Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam + MEETUP
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Originally Posted by Camiel View Post
I have noticed that more often when I was in the HMH. Is it an Amsterdam thing?
it is a general dutch thing, i must embarrassedly confess. it also happens at paradiso, de melkweg, tivoli, etcetera. it has even got some press from music journalists and even writers (joost zwagerman, a dutch novelist, has written about this if i am correct). it somehow started during the end of the nineties. it is as if people choose concerts to meet up with their friends and discuss their lives as you would do in the pub, in stead of going to concerts to listen to music. it is totally irritating, but what to do about it?