gReAt wEeKeNd...

I had a great weekend with Miri and some young people from Castelo Branco,my cousin Paulo´s friends... Finally we hang out with more alternative people around here... even though much younger than me, but well, I loved hanging out with them...people think I'm younger anyway, and in my heart I am ...
Most of them came to the land to celebrate the new year ... Joel is studying theatre in Madeira (Portuguese Island) and came on holidays with his girlfriend Silvia...so they had the chance to play together with their band "Blue Mind" ...

These guys rock !!! we had so much fun at their concert on friday night in a small village, in a place like the "Club" in Povoa de Atalaia, but a bit bigger and with a stage...

We went earlier to make the sound check and all that stuff, so we had plenty of time to wait until midnight for the concert to start...
we had a nice time just being funny and "breaking the ice" among the shy portuguese sitting in the corners just looking... Me and Miri also went with Lopes to his family's house in the village and got loads of nice food... Miri got to know more of the portuguese culture this weekend... she sat down at many kitchen tables and ate all sorts of things... That's so part of our culture!!!
We eventually went to the concert venue and they were playing "Pimba" music (that's really bad folk portuguese music), so we decided to play again and have a good laugh... I always find it hard to avoid understanding  the lyrics (they are really bad)...

The first band started, but they were not so good, just bad covers from other bands...poor guys, they're just starting... but we tried to cheer them up, singing along and "moshing"... in the end we had all of them jumping out from the stage and "body surfing" in the little crowd ... I think most of those people never saw that for real... it was fun !! they seemed to have enjoyed it ...

It was time for "Blue mind" now...  Petra, the drummer girl , lost a piece of her pedal... very punkish... they say it's already normal for something to go wrong...


Then they started and people really liked it... everyone was having fun and the concert went on and on... They have a great presence on stage...they're not so much looking for perfection in their music, but really having fun together... and they really set people free while they play... it was a cool atmosphere...we never knew when it was really over ...

Miri also went on stage to sing along... she was really excited... she really misses her punk-rock friends... and she really loved these guys...

Joel on guitar and vocals, Paulo on bass, Petra on drums...

Petra was already out of the drum set and the guy from the other band came to play along ...nobody cared about anything anymore 

It was really cool !!! Thank you "Blue Mind" !!!

We slept in Paulo's little farm house, just next to my aunt's ... and we woke up late after the long night... we had "brunch" with my aunt and uncle... we went to visit another cousin in the city and then we were ready to go out again to another concert in Covilha...about one hour from there... It's crazy that most of the time we had no place to go out, and this weekend was too much...
this concert was supposed to have a punk-rock band, but they failed, so it was only Metal, which is not particularly my kind of music... none of us liked it, but it was cool to be together one more time...
well, I was totally exhausted on sunday... I made a nice bath with fire and relaxed...