#skik

Slight revamp of my first irkensona Skik ♥

You know you need sleep when you’re LoOpy

something that isn’t a skeleton! 

This is Skik, he’s tired and anxious at any given time

Tobias Meyer & Skik.

| CSI*** Spangenberg 2017 |

1. Qualification for the GP

Prize Giving

frank miller does lizards good

1) Op fietse - Skik. 

Well, my youth was not all shining and happiness, but the times when it got better, I associate with this song. Skik was a band that played a bluesy poppy kind of indierock but were singing in Drenthian dialect. Even if it's sometimes hard to understand for native Dutch speakers, they did have catchy lyrics, yet simple, about non-pretentious subjects. Op Fietse is a desciption of a bicycle-tour and the sense of freedom. Other songs were about not being able to wait,  the sense of amazement when stuff changes, and finally, an ode to dried sausage (when I saw them in concert they added an extra chorus about cheese for the vegetarians). Well, back to 'Op fietse', meaning On (my) Bicycle. I was cycling a lot back then (10 K to school), and still am, so naturally I connect to this song. In teenage nostalgia I also think back on starting our first band (never produced, talked more really). Oh, the late nineties! It was the time of guitarbands becoming almost mainstream, some last whiff of grunge (not in this song though) and these kind of music video's, with band members just walking around.