Last Friday night I went to two superb events, the first was GUP Magazine’s launch party of their latest theme ‘The Street Issue’ at Kahmann Gallery. Quite an impressive turnout of Amsterdam’s uber cool rocked up for this summer celebration of the bimonthly Guide to Unique Photography, also featuring an exhibition by students from The Royal Academy of Arts The Hague.

After this I headed over to Sociëteit De Sauna for the 1 Jaar Kraakhelder party! It was here that I bumped into an admirer sporting a Dolly Rogers Groupie t-shirt. (I love it when that happens!) Apparently, I left too early and missed out on the lucky lapdance raffle. Still, it remains one of my current fave underground venues in Amsterdam.

I owe my friends on Twitter a big thank you as your tweets reminded me that I had two tickets to go see LCD Soundsystem. It was a brilliant show where they played their classics with a new rock twist that’s evident on their new album This is Happening. The new tracks got the crowd going and the classics nearly turned the famous Paradiso into a mountain of rubble. If this is their final tour then they went out with style.