Muziekrecensies
The multi-talented Clive Nolan plays in several bands and has made a number of solo albums. He is also a composer/producer of musicals and projects, such as Imaginaerium. This was founded by singer Laura Piazzai, and guitarist Eric Bouillette. In 2022, they released ‘The Rise of Medici‘. Eric passed away before the release. Friday 26 … Read more, available in English and Dutch
Physical Graffiti is an international Led Zeppelin tribute band. Last summer, they performed at Bospop (Weert). Saturday night 20 January they played in Weert again, this time in venue De Bosuil. The age of the audience was varied; many visitors were too young to have seen the real Led Zeppelin live. Well before the start, … Read more, available in English and Dutch
Multi-instrumentalist/singer Edward Reekers became well-known to the broader public through Kayak. But even before leaving this prog band, he was musically active in various fields. He was asked by Syb van der Ploeg to join ‘Motel Westcoast.’ This theatre production managed to be successful for several years. Moreover, Edward toured the Netherlands with Symfo Classics … Read more, available in English and Dutch
John Mitchell is known from prog bands such as It Bites, Arena, Frost*, Kino, and last but not least his band Lonely Robot. On the day storm Pia raged across the Netherlands, he gave an acoustic concert in De Pul (Uden). He did this together with the versatile Jez Fielder. Among other things, he is … Read more, available in English and Dutch
English prog band Mostly Autumn performed at De Bosuil in Weert on Sunday afternoon 17 December. The support act was The Dutch Lisa de Bruijn, aka Liza Weald. She describes her music as “conscious soul songs about self-love and the magic of life”. Very modestly, Liza, guitarist Thomas Couperus and bassist Ivan Schoelink walked onto … Read more, available in English and Dutch
Damian Wilson has been active for 30 years as frontman of several bands. He celebrated this anniversary with his ‘One Knight Only’ tour, which featured five musicians. Some of these include band members of Lalu, of which Damian is frontman. Other bands Damian has been a part of include Threshold, Landmarq and Headspace. He has … Read more, available in English and Dutch
Whoever says Focus, says Thijs van Leer. The band has been around for over 50 years, fans of all ages visit their concerts. So too on Sunday afternoon 29 October in De Bosuil in Weert. The youngest fan was still in primary school age. Before the concert started, visitors were welcomed by Peter Verkennis of … Read more, available in English and Dutch
Fortunately, the second day of Bruis Festival in Maastricht was sunny. Pendejo was allowed to open on this beautiful Saturday afternoon. On this occasion, they were on stage with an XL formation. That means there were two extra horns with them, namely: Joost Verbraak (sousaphone, trombone and trumpet) and stand-in Isaac McCluskey (trombone). VolcánPendejo opened … Read more, available in English and Dutch
Guitarist Steve Rothery is of course known from Marillion, whose hit ‘Kayleigh’ is familiar to almost everyone (young and old). On the beautiful late summer’s day of 7 September, Steve Rothery and his band were in De Bosuil in Weert (The Netherands). The support act was provided by progressive rock & pop duo The Dave … Read more, available in English and Dutch
American hard rock band Tyketto has been around since the late 1980s. There was a break of a few years, but the band is active for many years now. These rockers have performed at De Bosuil in Weert before. On the first Friday of June, another gig was scheduled. First, Belgium’s Wildheart was allowed to … Read more, available in English and Dutch