On Hold Concerts – The Anna behind Yannani

Quarter update!

So it’s been a while since last time I posted due to constantly forgetting about it xD but there are a few things that has happened which I will briefly update you guys in this post.

So we left off just at the end of January, going into February. The events that happened were 1) Valentines Day, 2) The boys first concert of 2026 and 3) My first TCG convention.

FEBRUARY HAUL

Valentines day

Not much planned for that day because Nathan had band practice for most of the day, so I decided to do a little Valentines stream with my community. I had a lot of fun. Tried an upcoming game together with Seyaca and then a new cozy game called “A little to the left” which is about organizing.

I made reservations for Nathan and I do go out the day after to a place we have been several times called Amadeus which serves “All you can eat, ribs”. We tried taking our bikes besides me suggestion that we go by public transport. Nathan quickly realized that biking wouldn’t work and we had to ride home and cancel. He understood that I was a bit upset about this, so we decided to go out to one of the few restaurants closer to our home. We picked one and made a reservation. I had a GIANT calzone and Nathan had a chicken pineapple cream curry. Even though it wasn’t what we had planned I appreciate Nathan understanding they situation and we ended up having a nice time in the end ❤

The boys first concert 2026

The weekend after that aka 25th of February, the boys had their first concert of 26 in Gent. It was in this small very narrow bar with a small stage. They were the warmup band, but there were a lot of confusion about when they were going to play. First it was 10pm, then it became 9pm and at the last minute it went back to 10pm again, which is a bit annoying since Gent is ~1h drive from Antwerp. We also got to learn that the drummer had agreed to let the other band use his drum set, so we couldn’t even leave after their performance because of that. So we weren’t home until close to 1am, which isn’t the best.

The concert on the other hand was great! I personally thought they were WAY BETTER than the “Main” band. Not due to bias, but just like the genre better, the songs and just the overall experience. The members of the other band were all ~18-20, so they were quite young. They didn’t put any of their music online and was planning on just do physical stuff like Vinyls and CDs. They were apparently were well known and already had a decent fan base. I just personally didn’t really vibe with their music. The female lead singer also was kind of a drama queen and wore a pretty short skirt. Their most raved song was something about a monkey? idk xD Just glad when it was all over and we get to go home. I also had to wake up early the next morning.

My first TCG convention

The next day I woke up at around 8:30 am to get ready to ride into the city. I left my bike the underground bike garage by the central station and took the train to Breda. I was attending my first TCG (Trading card game) convention with Nacho and Moopie. It was my first time, since I don’t collect any TCGs. Nacho overslept a bit, so I got breakfast at the station before heading to the location. There were for some strange reason a lot of police people there that morning, even a small squad outside of the station as I left towards the buss stop. I never got to learn why.

After meeting up, we just walked around looking at all the stalls and all the cards. Nacho collects Pokémon cards while Moopie and I didn’t collect anything. I did however decide to get a few cards since I have been considering starting a new hobby, but I didn’t want to go with Pokémon. I picked the somewhat new TCG set from League of legends called “Riftbound” since I felt the most connected with that. I bought 5 single cards and 3 booster packs. The cards I got were really nice looking and I am excited to look for more in the future. We also had this funny moment where we walked around to find the best price for those transparent plastic sleeves used to protect the cards. I bought some and put them in my pocket and then we went to sit down. Not even 10 min later when we were a bout to leave, I asked Nacho if I could have some sleeves from here, and it wasn’t until I stood up and reached into my pocket that I remember that we JUST bought some! The best part was that all three of us had forgotten, despite walking around for past 30+ minutes looking for them. We all had such a great laugh and a great way to end the convention.

After my train ride home, I went down to the garage where I parked my bike and was greeted by the worst possible scenario. My bike was STOLEN! At first I thought I had forgotten where I parked it, but then I saw my cheap locker that had been cut, just laying on the ground. It was such a shitty way to end the day. I couldn’t walk around too long either since my phone was on less than 20% battery and I needed it for my buss ticket. R.I.P bike :c

MARCH -> TODAY

March was quite uneventful. The only thing that did happen was that I applied to a job at our local McDonalds. I was given an interview which I was thankfully allowed to do in English. I mentioned that I was very flexible as one of the reasons to pick me. He then asked if I would be able to work a random 1pm shift, to which I answered “ye” and he went “woaw, you are indeed flexible” xD. I met up the next week for my 2h trial run of “proefperiode” as they call it here. It was a lot and much harder than I initially thought. I was in charge of the grill aka “making” the burger patties. I tried my best, but it was sometimes hard to use the spatula to scrape the burgers off the grill without leaving too much behind. I also did some finishing and just learned about the workplace in between. The worker who was in charge of training me did his best to do it in English, and he did a really good job. Later when things were quite and we had a small chat. He asked me which lvl my Dutch was. I said it was 2.4 and went “THEN WHY ARE WE DOING THIS IN ENGLISH!!” xD Apparently he was lower lvl than me. I tried to explain that it was due to being nervous BUT I was nervous xD

I ended up not getting the job in the end.

That leads us to Easter. Where nothing much happened. I did get to do a lot of games with friends and I also finally started my Easter chocolate. Nathan and I ordered a lot of Chinese food which were delicious. My next adventure is FACTS on April 11th. I am so excited cuz I will be meeting up with so many of my friends. We will be like 8 people walking around.

That’s it for this quarter update. I hope that you all have had a great 2026 so far. Enjoyed your Valentines day and Easter with either your loved ones or just celebrated by yourself ^^. Next post will be about my first FACTS experience (if I don’t forget again)

Chiao for now.

Just a quick trip to Norway

Last week I got back from my very short Norway trip. I was only gone for 3 days and those days went by so fast that I didn’t see the need write daily, but rather just sum it all up in one post.

So I travelled out on Sunday evening. Did the usual bus into the city and then train to the airport. The plane went as schedule and everything went smoothly. It was an evening plane from around 7-8pm. I arrived at my family home at around 10pm. Not much happened since it was late.

The first official day was spent on going for nice morning walk with my mother and a friend of hers. We didn’t walk up to “Grefsenkollen” this time, but different one. It doesn’t have a specific name, but it’s another one I used to do a lot growing up. It was nice 1h walk, then the rest of the afternoon was spent on completely defrosting and cleaning out the fridge. We moved all the food out, took out all the shelfs and cleaned the entire thing from top to bottom as well as putting a pot of boiling water in the freezer to remove all built up frost and ice. Evening was just spent with chilling and continue watching “Ginny and Georgia”.

On Tuesday we went for yet another walk, but not with the friend this time. We walked a bit longer than the previous day. When we were done with that, we went shopping at the nearby shopping mall. It was a late birthday present from my mum. We walked around in some clothing store and I eventually got myself 4 nice jumpers/long armed shirts. They looked really nice and I liked the fit of all of them. I also got a small wallet which I can use when I don’t want to drag my huge one around. My mother had an appointment at 5 pm, so we didn’t take too long. This evening was mostly used to repeat some stuff for my exam the next day and watch more Netflix.

My last day was the day of my Psychology exam. The day didn’t really go to much else. I met up at the mentioned place at 4:30. I registered at the front and then it was mostly a waiting game. I had to wait a bit over 1h before I could pick my assignment, and then I got 30 min of prep. I ended up getting the assignment to discuss “nature vs nurture”.

I was given a case about a pair of twins who went to the same school, were both well liked amongst their friends and extrovert, but one of them didn’t enjoy school and found it hard to go to class while the other one was doing great at school. Their parents divorced when they were 4 and that’s when the twins started living separate from each other, which was hard for the one that was also struggling at school.

I tried my best to answer as well as I could. I brought up a lot of different points and some theory, but I did have a hard time of remember the name of some specific theory or model. I felt bad about how I almost couldn’t answer any of their follow up questions. It was however given a word I had never seen in my 1 year of studying. However, I ended up getting a strong 3 out of 6. It’s not the best grade, but it does mean that I pass, which was the most important thing. After my exam my mother and I ordered sushi, finished the 1st season and then I just spent the entire night watching a different series until I had to leave for the airport again on Thursday morning.

On Thursday I spent the first half of the day just arriving back home to Belgium, and the second half I spent on attending Nathans concert. It was really fun. Despite being quite tired since I only was working on 2h of sleep, I tried my best to be energetic. I even jumped and danced during KARO’s performance. I did have a lot of fun and I also took a lot of photo’s which sadly didn’t turn out as good as usual since I was using my own camera, but they weren’t half bad either

First time attending a motorcycle meetup

Yesterday the boys had their first concert of this year but it was NOT what I expected at all. Regardless it was a lot of fun both for the band members and for the crowd.

The only thing we knew before arriving was that it was an Portugese event. We arrived at around 8:30 pm to set everything up and the first thing we realized driving up to the event was that there were a lot of bikers. This was apparently a meetup for “A.M.A” (Amigos Motards Antwerpen). It’s my first time attending such a meetup. The boys had a bit a trouble communicating without the singer present due to most of them communicated better in Portugese, but he arrived shortly after. Since the lead singer is part Portugese and it was primarily because of him that they accepted the gig. The guy that was in charge of the audio setup and such was very sweet. He tried his best to communicate in English when needed. It was quite funny to see the boys in my shoes aka not knowing what was going on due to the language barrier.

After the setup and the small sound check we sat down for some foods. They were serving BBQ and the guitarist ordered stuff on our behalf. We got a baguette with meet in it. Quite simple, but I didn’t mind it. When they had eaten the show began. I was planning on streaming it over on my Twitch channel like I usually do, but since it was in a remote area the internet was too bad.

They started with a new song which sounded really good. They had did the rest of the setlist with some covers in the middle. I did my usual job of taking photo’s but it was a bit difficult due to the bad lighting. The crowd seemed to be having a fun time, one of them kept wanting to dance with me which made me a bit uncomfortable. Towards the end they even asked for an encore which is the bands first time. They even got one of the guys up on stage singing to one of their songs with his own lyrics. We might not have understood what he was saying, but he did perform a lovely harmonica solo. Since they started their performance quite late, it was already past 11 when they finished. So we just packed everything and headed home. Listening to a lot of AI country music in the car.

I was feeling a bit under the weather prior to the concert, but the time there was so fun that it made me feel much better. Next concert is already next Thursday, which will be held much closer to home. As always, looking forward to it.

As always, head over to this link if you wish to check out the band -> https://linktr.ee/weareonhold

Hope you all have a lovely rest of your weekend and I’ll speak to you next time ^^

Road trip to Gent with some nice tunes.

This Friday my boyfriend’s band some doing another concert, but this time in a different city and even though ended well we did run into a few problems which made the experience a tad more stressful xD

The concert was being performed in a city named Gent, which is about 1.5h away with car. Neither my boyfriend or I have a license so unless could catch a ride with someone we would have to take the train, which would make the entire traveling time at least 2h. Thankfully the drummer had space for us in his car due some plans being changed on his end. According to the schedule they boys were suppose to be there at 6 pm to set up everything, then sound check at 7 and the concert would start at 9 pm. Unfortunately the stuck in hard traffic on his way from work and picked us up almost 1h later than he originally planned, which already set us back quite a bit. On top of that, on our way to the other city there had been a car crash with a lot of cars involved which made the whole motorway slow for another 20 min. Because of all this, we didn’t arrive in the city until a bit after 7pm. Then we had to park across the water and with help from all 3 of us carry all the stuff for 350m. Even though we were 3 people, everything was still very heavy. but we made it in good enough time for everything to work out.

Despite everything, the concert it self went really well. They even performed 2 new songs which even I hadn’t heard. Everyone seemed to enjoy the show including themself. I was okay their photographer and tried my best to take as many photos as possible. I think they turned out okay. The concert lasted for about 1h with total of 11 songs. We stayed a bit afterwards, but not too long since we still had a long ride home. Thankfully the were no crash on our way home, so just smooth sailing.

When we got home we were quite exhausted and just eat something and then headed straight to bed. I’m looking forward to next time which will happen next Saturday.

Check out the band here -> https://linktr.ee/weareonhold

I hope you all had a nice weekend and a wonderful start of December. I will update this post with pictures when I get them.

Halloween Performance at KMSKA!

Happy Halloween friends. I know this goes up on the day after, but that’s okay. I was busy for most of yesterday evening so didn’t have to time post this before midnight. I will tell you all what I was doing.

So the day started quite early. Nathan had taken free from work because he had to head to band practice at at around noon and then it was off to the city for their performance later that night. For those who doesn’t know this, Nathan’s band aka On Hold used to have a female singer, but she left to focus more on her solo career. They have stayed in contact as good friends and about a month ago she hits them up asking if they would be down to play with her on one of her shows that she was doing in the city. So the boys have been practicing 7 of her songs together with her and yesterday was their big performance. Perhaps their biggest one yet in terms of audience.

The even was held a the museum for fine art called KMSKA. The event started at 6pm and lasted till 9:30pm with multiple performances from different singers. KARO and On Hold (Aka my boyfriend’s band their friend) was main act of the evening and therefor was scheduled last. Despite this they had to be there from 2 pm to setup, do soundcheck etc…, so I didn’t see him or the other until later when I arrived at the event.

I had also invited two of my friends to come to the event. They both live 1h+ away from me, so it was really nice of them to take the time to join the show and keep me company. We met up at around 7:30pm and decided to head for dinner before entering the event. We went to a close by pizzeria and their pizza’s were really delicious. They had a special Pumpkin pizza with cheese, pancetta and a nice sauce. It tasted really nice and for dessert I decided to give the Tiramisu a second chance, but I still didn’t like the taste so my friend finished it off for me.

After we had eaten we headed to the venue and met up with my boyfriend. I introduced him to my friends and then we just enjoyed our evening listening to the other people performing before it was their turn.

I managed to have a small chat with the singer and asked if she was nervous to which she responded with “I feel like dying”. I told her that if anything went wrong she could just blame the boys for no support xD She entered the stage and gave an incredible performance. Before every song she had some small talking points which were nice. We got to know a bit about her backstory and the backstory to her songs, which I always appreciate. They did a really good job and everyone else at the event seem to agree as well.

After the performances it was just packing down all the equipment and then head home. I said goodbye to my friends and thanked them for coming and was happy that they seemed to enjoy the show and would like to come again, when the boys are actually playing some of their songs. Rest of the night was just chilling with some games before heading to bed. Nathan had after all been up and in full swing since 11 am.

PS! If you want to check them both out I’ll leave links to their music. Keep in mind that one of them are in Dutch, but it should be easy to navigate to their songs if you just want to take a listen.

ON HOLD -> https://linktr.ee/weareonhold

Another concert, another photo job

Yesterday my boyfriend’s band had another concert. This was their 3rd one in total and by far the biggest one. The performed in a local music café and had quite the crowd this time around.

Day started pretty normal. Boyfriend left for band practise a bit after noon and I decided to boot up a small stream while I was waiting. After he came back we just had to wait until we would be picked up by the drummer and head to the venue. I thought he said 8:45, but it was actually at 6:45 which meant that I had to cut my stream shorter than usual.

We arrived at the café at around 7 pm, then they boys started to slowly carry everything in while stayed by the car to make sure nothing got stolen since it was full of very expensive equipment. When the last piece was taken out I just followed them in. They started setting up the stage and I prepared my little setup for a test stream during their sound check, since I was planning on streaming their concert. The drummer told me about what he had brought for this concert in terms of camera equipment, since I was again signed to take photo’s of them. Besides the normal lens he had brought a giant flash to mount on the camera and a wide lens. He said I could be creative and used them as I saw fit. I was quite nervous, because I don’t have any experience with a big flash in a low light setting when it comes to photos, so this was uncharted territory for me, but I was determined to do my best and hopefully learn along the way.

The concert started at 9:30 pm and then I was off walking around talking photos. I also started up stream, but I had warned my community that since I would be taking photo’s I trusted my mod to give me feedback and keep the peace in chat. Funny enough during my concert a young woman realised what I was doing and while I was busy walking around on the floor, she nudged my tripod a bit to make sure everyone was in frame. So even I had some camera assistant without me knowing it. My friend noticed it and made a cute comment and thanked her for moving the cam. This was by far their BIGGEST concert both when it came to audience and play time. They got 1 whole hour to both play all of their songs and some a couple of covers and the floor was full of people enjoying their music. It was really nice to see. The two covers they did was the opening of the tv series FRIENDS and a song for the “The kids aren’t alright” from the Offsprings. Both of the covers was done in a an intentionally goofy way as an nice break in between their songs. They even included the opening of “Bad Guys” by Billie Eilish just for fun which ended with being a fan favourite from stream.

After they were playing we were just hanging around the café. A couple of people even came up to my boyfriend to congratulate him and even ask him some question either about him or the band in general. It was really fun to see him get some attention. We were there for quite some time because the drummer was still hanging out with his family for even longer than he himself had anticipated. I did also get to talk to a new girl who was a friend of the guitarist. We had some interesting chats where we talked about how we got to know the two boys aka my boyfriend and the guitarist. I must say I wasn’t too invested into the story personally, but I also understood that she defiantly was tipsy, so I just rode along with it. The girl also got to try out the camera and this might have been the booze, but she didn’t know which button to press to take the photos. I decided to make a funny regard saying “Hope I don’t need to worry about her taking my spot as the photographer” to which the drummer responded with “Oh no, you don’t have to worry, you REALLY don’t” to point out that I was more quipped than her. I did tell him that I felt that the photo’s wouldn’t turn out as nice this time around to which he said “without you we wouldn’t have any photo’s, better to have the option than to not” which in does make a lot of sense.

It wasn’t until it was past midnight that we finally got in the car, after disassembling the drums and other stuff too. We arrived at our place at around 1 am and just relaxed on the sofa until we eventually when to bed.

Overall it was very successful day. The stream still needs some work to improve, if it’s possible. Other than that, I enjoyed it a lot and it was really fun to take more photo’s of them and looking forward to doing it again.

Like last time, If you want to check them out or hear any of their music check them out for yourself – https://linktr.ee/weareonhold

WillRock 2024

Yesterday was a really exciting day. My boyfriend’s band was performing as a warmup band on a really small festival and I even got a surprise for myself too.

WillRock is a 3 days rock festival which takes place in a park in Wilrijk. This year they made it so that small bands could submit their music and have a chance to be picked to play on one of the days. My boyfriend has been in a band for more than 3+ years and they decided to try their luck. It was a really happy surprise when they got the told that they had been picked. It was only a 30 min performance, but just being there was great for publicity.

The day started quite normal. Boyfriend had a small band practise at around noon so that the band could just make sure everything was in order. Last time they were practicing for a performance, the guitarist broke one of his strings and funny enough he did the same thing before yesterday’s performance. Some people say that breaking a string is good luck, not sure if they see it that way xD. After their practise we headed to the park.

Upon arrival the boys slowly started to bring all their gear up onto the stage. Then the drummer turns to me and says “do you want to take some backstage photos of the band?” I agreed on doing it and made a comment about studying “media and communication” in high school, which led him to lending me his VERY expensive camera stuff so that I could take better photo’s. Just like that, not even 10 min in and very on the spot I was now the band photographer. The guitarist arrived and they did their sound checks and then they were ready for their performance.

I tried my very best to take as many photo’s as I could and I tried my best to make sure that they looked alright. Walking around to get different angels, making sure the exposure was well balanced etc. I was quite nervous since I wanted to do a good job and make sure that I didn’t trip or fall. It was really great to hear them play as always and they even played a song that I hadn’t heard before.

After their performance we just stuck around a bit and listened to the other bands before heading home. The second band even shouted out my boyfriends band a couple of times, which was really nice of them. My boyfriend and I even started talking saying that if the drummer ends up liking the photo’s I might be allowed to do it more in the future. Since they would want to have it for their portfolio and even thought the drummer has more experience and would love to do it himself, he obviously can’t since he’s too busy playing. Boyfriend still has to take it up with his band, but that could be a fun thing for me to do whenever they have gigs and stuff.

The rest of the day was just spent streaming and playing with friends. I really did have a lot of fun taking their photo’s and I hope I get to do it again this upcoming Wednesday for their 3rd concert where they get 1h to preform.

If you want to know more about them or even hear some of their music, check them out here – https://linktr.ee/weareonhold