A girl everybody likes

The perfect concert to end an year of perfect concerts:

The singer with the most incredible hair....

Kris Berry and Perquisite in the paard on 21.12.2013

Beautiful, jazzy songs with poetic lyrics supported by excellent musicians

Perquisite plays electric cello, guitar, and support keyboards, 

Marnix Dornestein plays Guitar

and the three support brass players add to the groove

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3m7QzxngLM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlG0wOicLB4&list=RDAbkehzBN1Z8

Famous.....Why he and not me?

The american english songwriter Julian Velard gave a concert in the Paard

His musics reminds most of Randy Newman

Julian apparently is envious of Justin Bieber.... Why HE and not Myself

why does this mike do that? It seems to turn away from my mouth

http://www.paard.nl/event/JULIAN-VELARD

He was supported by Anthony's Putsch

Tour into the galaxy....

 

The Danish band "the asteroids gelaxy tour" played the paard last Thursday

Vocalist Mette Lindberg ist the bands center piece 

The band was formed in 2007 and so far has produce two albums

The bands first proper live show actually was as opening act of Amy Whinehouse in Copenhagen

And of course, the asteroids have to be fotographed with some stars....

When performing live the band extends to a six-piece with horn section, featuring Miloud Carl Sabri (trumpet), Sven Meinild, Mads Brinch Nielsen (guitar), and Rasmus Valldorf (drums)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5h-LAvQDCQ

 

De Kift, 31.3.2011

De Kift is a dutch band found in 1988.

The music is influenced by punk, fanfare, rock and popmuziek.

The lyrics use poems from for example Lucebert, Wolfgang Borchert, E.M. Remarque en Jan Arends.

The members are Ferry Heijne: vocals, trombone, trumpet, gitar, Jan Heijne: trumpet, Han Hulscher: trumpet, lira, Patrick Votrian: trombone, tuba, eufonium,

Mathijs Houwink: (contra)bas, guitarron,Wim ter W eele: drums, gitar, vocals,Pim Heijne: gitar, banjo,Marco Heijne: vocals, samples, lira, steeldrum.

Their albums are collectors items... CD's for example come in wooden cigar boxes, books with a lot of plates to glue in. They are full of fotos and drawings and real works of art.

But they also have an inventive collection of instruments, a lot of them self made.Here an organ playing a paper strip

Tuning the big sound machine in the background

Playing on glasses

and on a suitcase

http://www.dekift.nl/

Monikpop

Who still can remember the times when this was all without computers?

BOO! A successfull South-african band, with Chris Chameleon and Ampie Ono

The band was found in 1997 by Chris Chameleon, Ampie Onno and Leon Retief. In 17 years the band had 800 concerts in 17 countries. 

The style was called ‘monkipunk’, resulting in a ‘South West Music Award’ in 2002 for the best popalbum, and the number ‘Stagefright’ was first in the top 40 South african pop-chart