It was about time we had another bit of video footage to show you, guys. So, these ones were done in Sligo on Feb 20^th by the good people of www.thebandwagontv.com Recorded totally acoustic in a small caravan, with an amazing sound all things considered. Eddie and his double bass had some problems fitting under the low ceiling. Great fun to watch.

Nothing to do with the Liverpool guys’ music, but with the way they were received by their audiences of teenagers…that’s the way we felt a few days ago in Sligo when we played a stormer of a gig for 700 teenage girls in the Ursuline College. Gosh, they know how to scream…The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl in 1964, revisited. It was -obviously- a private function for them and also a surprise. Their teachers managed to keep the secret on what was happening. They knew ’something’ was going on but didn’t know what. Eventually, a few minutes before us going on stage they were told it was not Westlife, or The Beatles…it was NoCrows. Well, it made not a bit of difference: the screaming session started as if we were indeed John, Paul, George and Ringo. This one will be remembered for a long time. Thanks girls for such a warm welcome to your school. I hope it was better than 2 hours of maths.

We’ll follow that with a short trip to Brussels where we’ll be guest to one of the most popular morning shows in Belgian airways…’En nu serieus’…meaning, ‘Now seriously’. Very serious is the fact that this Crow writing this (Felip, I repeat) likes mornings as much as a kick in the backside, and these really civilized people who live in the political capital of Europe, when they mean ‘morning’ they mean ‘really early morning’. We’ve to be at the radio station (National Radio by the way, www.radio2.be) at 7 am for soundcheck. The only sound I normally make at 7 am is my powerful snoring, so we’ll have some craic with me trying to find strings on my guitar…will I find the guitar even so early?

Anyway, after playing to an estimate audience of 1 million early morning Belgians, this Crow will go to bed again to try and recover energy and feathers to fly to Wervik where we (‘Wer vik’ …stupid joke, sorry) will be playing a more intimate gig in t’Isermael at the more Crow-friendly time of 8.30 pm.

I forgot to say that for the first time we’re flying cello and guitar with us as well as fiddle and mando (which always came with us in our trips away). It will be some extra craic…there might be tunes in the plane….Oh, no, better not, Ryanair might make us pay 100 euro per tune, or is it a euro per note you play? Gosh, there are no cheap flights anymore…

Chat to you at the other end of this journey.

FelipCrow

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Before No Crows go into hibernation though there’s still a bit of activity: A trip to Germany and Belgium (once again), where I believe NO CROWS are advertised in blazing letters in train stations all around the country! What do innocent commuters make of this? Have the Belgian government passed a new law whereby our black feathered friends with the ugly voices are banned from train stations?

Felip, 15th Nov ’09

(Check our Facebook. There might be some videos of it soon)

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Looking forward to our first trip to Germany and return to Belgium

Hi guys, Monday 5th October ’09. Felip here this time, new to this world of blogging. Just a couple of days before our first trip to Germany and really looking forward to it. We’re playing at the party of the opening night of a dance festival in Saarbruecken, the very south of the country, very close to the border with France, land of lovely white wines. We hope to make them dance even without the white wine.

 Still far away from finishing the new album, but you’ll all be happy when it’s out. It will be a cracker.

 This month of March we have a couple of private functions, one of them with our beloved friend Oleg as Steve is very busy with The Waterboys new show, An Appointment with Mr. Yeats. From here we want to wish Steve, Mike and the rest of the band the best of luck with the shows.

 Finally, letting you know we’re really looking forward to our trips to Belgium and Spain in May and hope to meet some of you guys over there.

 Salut,

Felip