Live from Nijmegen

Blood Red Shoes are giving an encore right now. Live from Doornroosje.

The Appie Kim Team (we have WiFi here)

five days

1. FIVE DAYS LEFT 'TILL THE SUN SETS
(And I am still in bed)

It's been a good year for the brain dead
Everyone got what they asked for
But my wishes were too meager
I should have asked for more

As my sleep deprives me from my work
I can't get anything done
Still I got what I asked for
I only wanted a little sun

FOUR DAYS 'TILL RAIN COMES
(And I'm still in bed)


2. THREE DAYS BEFORE I GET SHOT IN MY HEAD
(And I am still in my bed)

Listen, I hear a storm coming
Don't let the sun get away
Send the clouds back to where they came from
Let me have one more dreamy day

'Cause when the rain reaches my castle in the sky
It will be too late to save the rocks from falling
I'd wake up and realize where I am
And I can hear the cops calling

TWO DAYS LEFT BEFORE I GET STABBED IN THE CHEST
(And I am still in my bed)


3. ONE DAY LEFT TO MAKE UP AND BREAK UP
(I hide under my bed)

As I can hear the footsteps
slowly but surely closing in
I make my way back to where I came from
To end where I can win

The memories of whom I loved
The departed, are now gone
When I left them so sweetly sleeping
I didn't know what I had done

They kicked in my door
And I came to my senses
I flew out the window
And left when the summer did

letters from a friend

one night I talked to a friend
we were in a bar and there were some girls
sitting all by themselves at the next table
I told him, I said
'hey man, how 'bout them?'
he said 'ah screw them, I got my own mind to burn'
'I ain't needing no heartless old cow to sicken up my life'
so I replied in an orderly fashion
'well, that just ain't right. or perhaps it is'
'sure is', my friend said

so we ordered ourselves a couple more drinks

after two more bottles down the old drainpipes
the girls were still sitting there
one of 'em sometimes nudged in our general direction
so I started talking to my friend again
I told him, I said
'they do look awfully lonely up there'
and he said 'if we'd go up there and buy them drinks
we'd all look awfully lonely up there'
'there just ain't nothing to discuss with them'

so we ordered ourselves a couple more drinks

later that night we happened to bump into one of the girls
making our ways to the toilet to let off some of the proverbial steam
it seemed she had had too much to drink
and I told my friend, I said
'just look at her, I think I'm falling in love'
and my friend said 'well then why don't you propose'
so I replied
'that just won't be right. or perhaps it will'

so we ordered her a couple more drinks

at our marriage my best friend was also my best man
and he said to me, he said
'look, I'm happy for you'
and I guessed I looked happy, too

we all had lots to drink that day

at 29 my wife whats-her-name died
I wasn't too happy about that because now
I had to raise the kids all by myself
and I had no idea what their names were
so I called up my friend, and I told him, I said
'hey man, this happiness thing ain't working out for me'
and he replied
'well, yeah.. I hate to say I told you so'

so we got together and ordered ourselves a couple more drinks

now I'm an old man but not half as bitter as I was earlier
I'm almost turning 26, it's somewhere this spring
I guess there's just not too much more left for me
or that's what my friend told me
I accidentally shot him through the head
last Friday I believe
because of his damn paintings and poems

now I got twice as much more drinks to drink
ain't I a happy fella

Master

Master
I've done it again
Master
Wake up
I've done it again

I found myself a maiden
And I've killed her
I've slain her
I put her to sleep with your poison, master

That's when I took my saw
and sawed off her limbs
That's when I hanged her up the highest tree
And took her down
When she stopped struggling

Master
I've done it again

“I'm going home, I'm already depressed and this is making me more depressed”

- A member of the audience

“Holy showcase, Batman! It's a sheet of bullet-proof glass!”

- Robin

“Pak maar vast wat je het liefste vast hebt”

- Marcel to Gerard van den Ijssel

“It looks exactly like a normal umbrella, except for its unusual size”

- Batman on a giant umbrella

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7": 5 Strings,

released June 23rd 2008 by Knife Slits Water. Pressed in coloured vinyl and the sleeve is silkscreened in beautiful fluorescent orange, pink and GOLD.

It contains two songs: 5 Strings and Everybody Is Your Friend. Get it at our gigs or through Knife Slits Water!

Our album, (=AOK),

released October 22nd 2007 by Willie Anderson Recordings, has received praising reviews from OOR, Plato, Incendiary Magazine, MusicFrom.NL and more.

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De Nieuwe Vrolijkheid's 8-track debut album, released in March 2007 by Willie Anderson Recordings.

Review 1, review 2.

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DE NIEUWE VROLIJKHEID SPLIT 7" SINGLE

Red vinyl split 7" single with DNV on one side and Vox Von Braun on the other. It has the DNV songs You Want My Blood On The Floor and Dig Two Graves on it. Only 250 were made, each is hand numbered!

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DE NIEUWE VROLIJKHEID - WE ARE JOHN WAYNE EP

De Nieuwe Vrolijkheid's six track debut EP, released mid 2005 at Dying Giraffe Recordings under the Creative Commons License.

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