Quite special, Bløf who does not fill two sold-out shows in honor of their 30th anniversary in the Amsterdam Ziggo Dome with a selection from their dozens of hits, but chooses to emphasize their recently released album. Polaroid†
On Friday evening, this thirteenth album by the Zeeland rock band was barely out for a day, but the eight songs played were received like old friends. And rightly so, because to be honest Then do it† Horizon and You are waiting for brought with just a little more dedication than hard sung hits like Love from London and Here† Polaroid is one of the better, most diverse albums in the band’s history. Singer Paskal Jakobsen has to roar less than usual and musically the band also dares to slow down a bit and play against the wind less.
Nice video too that during You are waiting for on the big video screen. Earlier in the evening, more than sixteen thousand people had become silent for a while because of the immense yellow-blue of the Ukrainian flag with which Man ended up.
No big words, but a nice gesture. Exactly the way the band has been stringing success to success for thirty years. Never with grandiose, innovative music, but from the outset with rock-solid, robust sounds drawn from Zeeland clay. Bassist Peter Slager’s lyrics (also published this week in book form) are just as important and are sung along verbatim, according to Jakobsen’s wishes, ‘at your very loudest’. It is remarkable that the climax does not come from the own repertoire but is reached with Everyone is from the world of The Scene. Bløf does not have such a steaming soulful song after 30 years. So they borrow it.
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8/4 Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam.