The Van Pelt + Fargo Reunion Tour

May 2012. It's a warm Sunday afternoon in Williamsburg, New York and I'm in a bar, drinking a beer - it's likely to be a San Miguel - and catching up with a friend I haven't seen for a very long time because of an ocean dividing us.

"Don't you think it's time for the Van Pelt to reunite? I know for a fact people in Europe would go crazy if you toured the Old Continent"
" Well yes, maybe at some point ...we have been kind of asked already... but I am not sure people even know who we are nowadays".
"You kidding??? Do it and you won't be disappointed" I replied, but we cut it short as I had the certainty he was just pandering me and there's nothing worse than bothering someone about their former disbanded band.

Unexpectedly, two years after that conversation, The Van Pelt released what would have been their third album back in the late 90's and announced a few summer shows in Europe: Italy, London and Spain.

The news itself was already enough to make my heart beat like a speeding train, but they all come at once, and I soon learned that Fargo, our local heros from Pordenone, would have reunited and played as well with The Van Pelt on their 2 Italian gigs.

The choice was hard to make but I've been waiting [for] you for hours and hours and hours, so despite being a dirty job I had to do it: pack my stuff and fly back to Italy was the only possible option to me.
Because We Are 98.

The Italian shows have just happened and, as if I were teenager again, I can now only feel the nostalgia for the days just gone.
Until the next one.


Below some videos I recorded in Conegliano and Marina di Ravenna.

The Van Pelt

Baggy Fargo

Skinny Fargo

[O tempora, O mores!]

FARGO.
Pastel Drawing
@ Apartamento Hoffman, Conegliano.




FARGO.
Me And My Half
@ Apartamento Hoffman, Conegliano.




FARGO.
I Won't Be Back
@ Hana-Bi, Marina di Ravenna





THE VAN PELT
Yamato (Where People Really Die)
@ Apartamento Hoffman, Conegliano.





THE VAN PELT
The Threat
@ Apartamento Hoffman, Conegliano.




THE VAN PELT
The Betrayal
@ Apartamento Hoffman, Conegliano.





THE VAN PELT
My Bouts With Pouncing
@ Hana-Bi, Marina di Ravenna





THE VAN PELT
His Saxophone Is My Guitar
@ Hana-Bi, Marina di Ravenna