Grab a chair, kick off your shoes, chill and chat.I was never successful in catching the Stones live. I was a fan from about 1964 onwards but tickets were always scarce or the gigs were hundreds of miles away. A bit easier once I came to England but were always sold out before I could get a ticket. Once ticket sales were online the scalpers were buying up blocks of 100 and were sold out in less than a half hour. Sad really.
I did get lucky with a few other concerts. Eric Clapton, Hall and Oates, Tina Turner, Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, Osibisa, The Carpenters (my friends), Eddie Harris (jazz sax), Dick Dale & the Deltones (West Coast surf music), Jimi Hendrix (Ile of Wight), Roxy Music, and probably a few more but I was too stoned at the time to remember.
From Dartford to sweet dreams of heaven
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Hotrodder
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From Dartford to sweet dreams of heaven
On my headstone it will say: Please switch off mobile phones. I'm trying to get some sleep.
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RobertArthur
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Yesterday, to be honest, the routine of heading into the city centre – where the action is supposed to be – is a bit of a thing of the past, I found myself sitting on a terrace in the centre of Amsterdam, almost like a tourist in my own city. What struck me after half an hour was the sheer number of men, women, boys and girls wearing T-shirts and other items of clothing featuring images or slogans relating to the Rolling Stones. That can’t be a coincidence – something’s about to happen; I’m clearly no longer in touch with the nightlife scene.
It only really dawned on me at the little temple of pop music ' Paradiso' . Ronnie Wood is in town, performing on Monday. The tickets were, of course, all sold out. And the price is certainly steep: € 206.50.
In the "Parool", an Amsterdam newspaper, an interview with Mick Jagger (not in town). And does he still remember that first performance in the Netherlands? It’s etched in his memory. Below is an extract from that interview about a new tour, a new album and a new single. And new, but yet familiar music. Released as a digital single on May 5, 2026, ahead of the album release on July 10, 2026, ' Foreign Tongues'.
" Of course he remembers it: that one wild night at the Kurhaus, well over sixty years ago. The famous hotel in Scheveningen was ransacked by fans of The Rolling Stones. A very young Mick Jagger hid behind the stage. “I remember watching in amazement as people violently tore the carpets off the walls. Moments later, the police rode up the stairs on horseback.”
The British superstar has performed 43 times in our country, but still has very vivid memories of that very first Rolling Stones gig outside England, back in 1964. The band played just four songs, a couple of them even without microphones because over-enthusiastic fans had pulled the cables across the stage and – believe it or not – tried to chew through them. “Wow, I thought the Dutch were such a peace-loving lot.” Jagger rolls his eyes melodramatically towards the ceiling, but can’t hold back his laughter. His face crinkles. “Not at all... Not that night!.”
It only really dawned on me at the little temple of pop music ' Paradiso' . Ronnie Wood is in town, performing on Monday. The tickets were, of course, all sold out. And the price is certainly steep: € 206.50.
In the "Parool", an Amsterdam newspaper, an interview with Mick Jagger (not in town). And does he still remember that first performance in the Netherlands? It’s etched in his memory. Below is an extract from that interview about a new tour, a new album and a new single. And new, but yet familiar music. Released as a digital single on May 5, 2026, ahead of the album release on July 10, 2026, ' Foreign Tongues'.
" Of course he remembers it: that one wild night at the Kurhaus, well over sixty years ago. The famous hotel in Scheveningen was ransacked by fans of The Rolling Stones. A very young Mick Jagger hid behind the stage. “I remember watching in amazement as people violently tore the carpets off the walls. Moments later, the police rode up the stairs on horseback.”
The British superstar has performed 43 times in our country, but still has very vivid memories of that very first Rolling Stones gig outside England, back in 1964. The band played just four songs, a couple of them even without microphones because over-enthusiastic fans had pulled the cables across the stage and – believe it or not – tried to chew through them. “Wow, I thought the Dutch were such a peace-loving lot.” Jagger rolls his eyes melodramatically towards the ceiling, but can’t hold back his laughter. His face crinkles. “Not at all... Not that night!.”
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RobertArthur
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Ronnie Wood, Imelda May and Chanel Haynes yesterday evening in Paradiso. Songs of the Faces, Bob Dylan, The Stones, Chuck Berry, The Shangri-Las, Aretha Franklin and Willie Dixon. The large yet, at the same time, small and intimate auditorium at Paradiso. Ronnie in action and here together with Imelda May.