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The Unknown Beauty Of The 80's

A new volume of the series I created last year as an introduction to friends of mine containing more or less unknown tracks. Volume 3 3D - Dance To Believe Nik Kershaw - Elisabeth's Eyes Scary Thieves - Behind The Lines English Evenings - English Evenings Our Daughters Wedding - Moving Windows Red Bamboo - Dance Of Love H2O - I Dream To Sleep Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities In Dust Act - Where Love Lies Bleeding The Messengers - The Semi-Professionals (theme no 1) Class Action - Blast Off Bill Nelson - Finks And Stooges Of The spirit Fra Lippo Lippi - Say Something Roman Grey - Shangri La De Film - I Saw Your Dream Pseudo Echo - See Through Blue Zone - Don't Walk Away A Drop In The Gray - All The Same Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy - Kiss Me

All Sweet Things

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No-Man, Schoolyard Ghosts Tour de Boerderij, Zoetermeer 3 September 2008 Finally after years of waiting No-Man made it to mainland Europe. Playing their first gig at de Boerderij in Zoetermeer. At 8:30 their support Fear Falls Burning, which turned out to be just one man, Dirk Serries, tried to warm up the crowd. But listening to guitarloops played over samples for nearly half an hour isn't my kind of pleasure, so after a couple of minutes I returned to the bar to have another drink. At 9:15 No-Man kicked off when violinist Steve Bingham played his first string sample into the computer. Three samples followed and the string background of Only Rain played through the venue. Since Micheal Bearpark was having problems with his pedals, Bingham was given more time to play a nice violin solo intro. After five minutes, with the problems solved, the band finally took off. A nice set of songs was played in the nearly two hours that followed. Besides contributions from their latest album Sch...