Dan Mangan @ Tivoli

-Dan Mangan - caught this concert at Tivoli last week on the 13th with 2 friends from Utrecht (Rosa and Jeroen).

-Great music, in a nice intimate venue - I overheard one of the staff at Tivoli say that they thought they sold about 300 tickets (small shows are the best shows!)



-Up close with Dan Mangan - for the final song, in the encore, Dan and the rest of the band waded out into the crowd, and played (Dan perched atop a stool, right in front of me)

All in all a great show.  The second time in just around 8 months seeing Dan Mangan play.  Really great music, clever lyrics, warm and powerful sound, and really down to earth (was great to be able to just chat a bit with Dan after the show, compliment him on the performance, and shake his hand).

Laser Sol Lumen

So starting on the 20th of March, and running till the 26th, to celebrate that the University of Utrecht was 375 years old, there was a laser light show, spanning about 3km from the University campus just outside and to the east of Utrecht, to the dom (cathedral) tower in the centre of utrecht.  The event/happening was called Laser Sol Lumen (or so I gather, I didn't read too much further into it all).

I randomly saw it one night, and it was interesting and kinda captivating in a way reminiscent of the aurora borealis.  Very cool.  And from my top floor studio apt, situated somewhere between the dom tower and the University campus, they were just about going overhead.

So it was one week of laser lights in the sky



-Bright lights, bigger city? - this is about as good a picture as the iPhone was able to take at night, from my apartment



-lights over Wilhelmina Park - the park just a few 100 meters down the street, and what it looked like from there (my iPhone didn't want to take any such photo, so this one isn't mine)



-lights a the dom - here you see kinda the scope of what it looked like (also not my photo)



-from East to the centre - the view of the University, at the source (again, not my photo)