Only 23 years old, and already presenting the world with an extremely powerful voice creating soulful pop music, of course I am talking about Duffy, the lady from Wales. A debut album only few can accomplish, being compared to Dusty Springfield for example, quite a compliment indeed. She simple dazzles you with her voice, yeah, still mumbling about the album that is. Personally I was not that impressed with her track Mercy, but after listening to the whole album, she stole my heart, it appeared Mercy was the weakest song on the album in my personal opinion; there is only one thing about Duffy and her album Rockferry that really bothers me, same goes for the concert on which I will start in a few; it is too damn short!

Back in Paradiso, an awful amount of young women are present, not the crowd I would have expected Duffy may be only 23, but she is definitely way more mature in her music. It was quite amazing to hear a small woman produce such a rich and sensational sound! Born to perform and enjoying her presence on the stage as well the musicians; the fun and pleasure was so visible, simply turning off the sound would have given anyone a good feeling; but thank god, it was not! My two favorites were played with charm; Stepping stone and Distant dreamer, which was as well the last tune of a great show, a great night, see you next time Duffy. Thanks for the great night!

Cavalera Conspiracy, the new project of Max and his brother Igor. After getting a hold of the album Inflikted which sounded pretty good, adding a decent amount of anger building up in me I decided to release it by going to a serious metal concert, for those who are not familiar with Max, he has a pretty impressive history, Sepultura, Nailbomb, Soulfly, enough to release whatever is building up. Once inside Paradiso I was amazed that there were only 500 people while in the days of Sepultura Max gathered 10.000 people in Ahoy with ease.

Things started and Max went fucking nuts, he is truly a wicked man, the concert was filled with anger, hate and aggression, about 20x more than I expected and was ready for. After a couple of songs I figured it was quite entertaining, it’s like going to the zoo, and allow you to go into the cage with the wild animals, quite a thrill. I’ll save you my references to Satan and his spawn; which was obviously present, of course that is all a load of bullocks, but still, I am convinced they thought they were Satan spawn, they could have fooled me for that matter.

It was a new experience for me to see so much anger in so many people, it was hard for me to understand that some people actually like or maybe better put, need these kinds of influences to either calm them down or re-energize themselves. Half way thru the show I started missing the time I spent at Britney her concert, which was for your information a bet gone wrong, but we had fun anyway. But then again, who does not have good memories of the zoo? Stand alone you could step in with the wild animals, and hell yeah I was in the frigging zoo. It was a once in a lifetime experience, do not mistaken me, the album I can handle, the live version of Max is just too much for my precious soul and ears to handle.

It was good to have gone there; it shows the primal instinct of people; it was a place where evil floats to the surface with Max and his backspin kicking Chuck Norris alike guitar nutjob yelling and playing the sickest shit I have ever heard, did I forget to mention the evil creep on bass? I’ll stick with my chick tunes from now on; there is nothing in the world that can cause an amount of anger in me allowing me to fully appreciate the barking of Max and his bastard friends in its live form.

What can I say, just happy I am not so angry, and never will be.

For most people this was the day the Netherlands crushed France on the soccer field, me being not quite the soccer fan decided to pay a visit to Alanis while she was in town, after the first goal of the Netherlands I went into a not so crowded Heineken Music Hall; doubting it was because of Bon Jovi playing in the Arena I got what I wanted and needed! Although she did put on a little weight (I know I am bad ) the woman was rocking as she should, singing all great tunes from the past giving me goose bumps on various occasions! Head banging and going wild she is definitely at her best on stage! It is truly fantastic to hear the whole crowd singing the exact words, once again magic on stage, and when Alanis is back so will I.

Past Saturday Feist was performing in an overcrowded Paradiso, was a little late so Leslie was already on stage singing like a nightingale. There were some gorgeous light effects created by two ladies she brought along.

Being quite familiar with the sound of Feist the concert was a great experience bringing a warm and cheerful feeling over me, happy like a child I walked out, all I can say is you should go and see Feist if you have the opportunity, the music is magic!