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Richard's Big Day Out

by Richard Foster

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Three recorded thoughts that masquerade as something else. I decided to release them for the (approximate) 20th anniversary of my arrival in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

I came to the Netherlands for three months, disembarking on its shores on a bright and hot April Fool's Day, 2000. I worked in the Bollenstreek, packing plants for a mail-order delivery company. That three-month stint was the beginning of eight straight years working in bulb sheds, fields and the back of lorries; checking tulips for signs of disease, cleaning the detritus from under hyacinth packing machines, or chucking 25kg of lilies into a serpent-like washing machine. You name it, I did it.

The Netherlands has changed so much since then it feels like another planet. Maybe it always was. I have great difficulty when I think back, in accepting this other country was ever "real"... Was I witnessing it as a departing spirit? I really liked it. I wish it would come back.

The thoughts were originally created in 2014, to be performed at a poetry-come-music evening in Groningen that also boasted noise rock lords WOLVON and some others. Other times, they've been aired at Space Siren and The Avonden gigs and recorded with Lukas Simonis and Ergo Phizmizz, on diverse stages and places like OCCII and Katzwijm; usually just for the laugh.

Recorded in one take in Oegstgeest 2020 AC (After Covid). The recognisable vocal inflection was used when I realised - in the back of my mind - that I'd forgot to breathe properly and had to borrow a trick or two from the Two Bards of Salford.

I would like to assure the Dutch police and immigration services that I am in possession of all the relevant documents, correctly filled in, and have not, nor ever have, committed any crimes either here, or in my native land, the United Kingdom.

One final thought. Please download the picture I've chosen from the Museum of Photocopies and, in time, photocopy it.

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released April 23, 2020

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