Funki volgt Afrowhat-band Mdungu tijdens hun tour door Azië. De negenkoppige band blogt over hun ervaringen en deelt zo met de wereld wat voor vele Nederlandse bands een droom is: internationaal touren. Een verslag van hete temperaturen, inclusief muziek, foto's en video's. Aftiteling!
Verslag Thijs Blog, Seoul, 2nd october 2011.
The evening concert in Korea at the Jarasum Festival was fantastic. Ruben got a pair of chimes along with the rented congas and timbales and he knows how much i hate chimes......so he decided to put them in every distasteful spot that he could find during the gig with a result of cracking me up every time i heard them. Some inside jokes to keep us going even after a 12 day tour. The audience was fantastic. singing and dancing alone to every move we made and giving back such a great energy! Straight after the gig we did some more cd, poster, t-shirt signing and we were off again on our way back to Hong Kong. After another night of traveling we found ourselves playing the Hong Kong Jazz Festival. This festival has the greatest skyline in the world as a backdrop and Hong Kong by night is quite a sight to see from the stage. At this point Ruben found out that the heavy touring was breaking him up badly with hardly no energy left to play the shekere anymore which seemed to become heavier and heavier every song. Somewhere halfway through our set Ruben found out that the shekere was still filled with his socks and underwair from the travel which after removing them played much better! So kids, never forget to take your underwair out of your instrument before you play! After the show we had one more day in Hong Kong which we spent shopping for instruments, handbags (Ebou), dragons and postcards. The last evening we were invited by a group of Hong Kong Netherlands lovers to play some songs and to meet them. This night it was Benoits birthday so the birthday cake they arranged was a welcome surprise for him. After the party we went straight for the airport to catch the flight back to Amsterdam. Benoit tried his best to get an upgrade because it was his birthday, but didn't succeed.
Now we're back in Holland, looking back on meeting great people, dancing with hundreds of Chinese and Koreans, seeing our band picture on a hugh billboard on a skyscraper, eating great food and indefinable food, solving Rubens cube and the ever present company of Fred the Dog. Our first Asia tour ever was a blast, and we certainly hope it won't be the last!
