Hi,

I was at the gig in Nijmegen in 1981, the only extra I can give you on that gig is that it was a double-gig with the Au-pairs and the weather was good (openlucht means open-air). Nobody had heard from the band at the time, but me and a few friends were instant fans!

Willem (Nijmegen)

I saw The Sound play live 10 times in total.

The first time was in Nijmegen (NL) at the open air concert in park De Goffert at 15 August 1981. I was very impressed and as a result saw them again the day after in Rotterdam at the Newpop festival. The next week I coincidentally met Max Mayers and the band's manager at that time in Diogenes a club in Nijmegen (the band appeared to be staying in a hotel not too far from there) and the day after I went to see them play again in Amsterdam. Ever since that week I have been a big fan. I used to write my impressions on concerts down in a notebook (and still do). Typical remark coming back in most Sound concerts is that they played so many new songs that you didn't know yet from their records. And usually they immediately made a good impression at me.

List of concerts visited (all in NL):

15-8-81 Nijmegen Park De Goffert open air festival

16-8-81 Rotterdam Zuiderpark open air festival Newpop

22-8-81 Amsterdam Paradiso support act: The Dolbies

30-1-82 Arnhem Stokvishal support act: Cheap 'n Nasty

24-7-82 Arnhem Stokvishal support act: The Prasidenz

28-1-84 Vaals 't Spuugh no support act

20-4-84 Amsterdam Paradiso support act: Fiat Lux

21-9-84 Rotterdam De Doelen Pandora's Box-festival

13-4-85 Amsterdam Paradiso no support act

1-12-87 Nijmegen Doornroosje no support act

Roel Spee

Mechelen, Belgium