The More You Live, The More You Love

What a year 2010 turned out to be. Great concerts, great albums of new acts and old acts. New albums and great re-releases. It was an expensive year, but I enjoyed the music from the first to the last day. And I know we still have some days to go, but by now I can come up with a top 15 of albums of 2010. Since the list of albums was so big and the re-releases were so much, I decided this year to come up with a list of new releases and a list of re-releases, because music is my passion, my first love, and I can not leave all those nice re-releases out of this years list. So first the top 15 of new albums, produced and released over 2010. 01. Marina & The Diamond - The Family Jewels 02. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - History Of Modern 03. Alphaville - Catching Rays On Giants 04. Mirrors - Broken By Silence 05. Hurts - Happiness 06. Customs - Enter The Character 07. Mylene Farmer - Blue...Noir 08. The Script - Science And Faith 09. Steve Hackett - Rails 10. Ultravox - Return To E...

Last weekend I had a nice weekend with friends. While drinking nice beers, eating delicious cheeses, we enjoyed listening to music and watching music DVD's. Around one o'clock two of the three left and we decided to turn on some Rush DVD's, and of course turn up the sound level as well. I put on the X3 DVD set and we played the DVD of the Grace Under Pressure tour enjoying the music very much while drinking from our Westvleteren 12. Since I learned earlier this week Rush will visit the Netherlands next year on their Time Machine Tour, their music hasn't been out of my CD player or on my computer. I have listened to Moving Pictures a lot. It is the album they gonna play entirely during this tour. Friday I managed to get a ticket for the concert and the listening became more intense. Okay Ahoy is not a hall I like to visit, and I promised myself not to go there anymore. But well the problem is, Ahoy is the only hall in the Netherlands big enough for Rush. So for one time ...

It was a long time ago that Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark played the Paradiso in Amsterdam. It was during the Liberator tour in 1994 that Andy McCluskey played there with another band. But tonight it was the original band with a new album History Of Modern, that turned the Paradiso in a great atmosphere. But first it was time for Mirrors, a modern pop-noir electronic four-piece from Brighton, UK, who released four singles sofar, and had a special Limited Tour CD, Broken By Silence for sale in the merchandise stand. They took of with great synthpop sounds which were related to the pioneers in synthpop or electronic music of the late seventies and early eighties. You can hear influences from bands like Tubeway Army, early Depeche Mode, Human League, OMD, Heaven 17, Kraftwerk among others. Their performance is a bit similar to Kraftwerk, as they perform in tuxedo’s and try to stand there as dummies. Only half an hour was enough to show the potential of this young band, which want to r...

Take time to see the wonders of the world To see the things you've only ever heard of Dream life the way you think it ought to be See things you thought you'd never ever see Take a cruise to China Or a train to Spain Go round the world Again and again Meet a girl on a boat Meet a boy on a train And fall in love Without the pain Everybody needs love and adventure Everybody needs cash to spend Everybody needs love and affection Everybody needs 2 or 3 friends These are the things These are the things The things that dreams are made of These are the things These are the things The things that dreams are made of Take a lift to the top of the Empire State Take a drive across the Golden Gate March, march, march across Red Square Do all the things you've ever dared Everybody needs love and adventure Everybody needs cash to spend Everybody needs love and affection Everybody needs 2 or 3 friends These are the things These are the things The things that dreams are made of These are th...

Volume 23 01. The Mood - No One Left To Blame 02. Kevin Kitchen - This Couldn't Happen To Me 03. Fra Lippo Lippi - A Moment Like This 04. Tanh Chi - How Long Is A Day 05. Haircut 100 - Fish In A Bowl 06. DEVO - Whip It 07. Leisure Process - Rachel Dreams 08. Nik Kershaw - Radio Musicola 09. The Kane Gang - Motortown 10. Bill Nelson - Eros Arriving 11. Paul Haig - Never Give Up 12. Endgames - Somewhere To Run 13. The Big Supreme - He'll Deceive 14. Thomas Leer - Searchin' 15. Peter Coyle - Shattered 16. Robert Görl (DAF) - Darling Don't Leave Me 17. The Tempest - I Want To Live 18. The Angels - No Secrets Alan Parsons - Standing On Higher Ground 20. Echo & The Bunnymen - Bring On The Dancing Horses

01. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - History Of Modern 02. Propaganda - A Secret Wish: Deluxe Edition 03. Customs - Enter The Character 04. Marina & The Diamond - The Family Jewels 05. Hurts - Happiness 06. Lostboy! A.K.A. Jim Kerr - Lostboy! 07. Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back 08. The Scipt - Science And Faith 09. Villa Nah - Origin 10. Ultravox - Return To Eden 11. Brandon Flowers - Flamingo 12. A-Ha - 25 13. Everything Everything - Man Alive 14. Run The Red Light - Run The Red Light 15. Keane - Night Train

An evening of Pioneers Of Love, Willow and Customs at the Patronaat, Haarlem on November 4, 2010. Review follows soon including pictures Setlist Pioneers Of Love Intro - Purgatory Walhalla Confessions For All I Care Fear Of Heights Persist Pretend Franz New Frontiers Setlist Willow Setlist Customs Intro Where The Moon Spends His Days Shut Up, Narcissus Talk No Nonsense Tonight We All Stand Out Justine Violence We Are Ghosts Rex Transmission (Joy Division cover) The Matador