The More You Live, The More You Love

Volume 12 01. Scary Thieves - Tell Me Girl 02. Vitamin Z - Burning Flame 03. Microdisney - Town To Town 04. The Adult Net - Waking Up In The Sun 05. Terry Blair & Anouchka - Ultra Modern Nursery Rhyme 06. Secession - Fire Island 07. The Comsat Angels - Will You Stay Tonight 08. The Painted Word - Independence Day 09. The Quick - Hip Shake Jerk 10. Yello - I Love You (7" version) 11. Virgin Dance - Are You Ready For That Feeling 12. The Caretaker Race - Somewhere On Sea 13. Millions Like Us - In Love With Yourself 14. The Mock Turtles - Strings & Flowers 15. Dollar - Give Me Back My Heart 16. Swans Way - When The Wild Calls 17. The Adventures - Another Silent Day 18. Power - Work Hard 19. Giant Steps - (the world don't need) Another Lover 20. B-Movie - Remembrance Day (extended) 21. Clark Datchler - I Don't Want You! 22. China Crisis - Scream Down At Me

Paradiso, Amsterdam 09 September 2009 It was 25 years ago that A Flock of Seagulls played in the Netherlands. Then at the Noorderligt in Tilburg, this time it was at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. In all those years a lot has changed. The 'new romantics' was at its highlights, and A Flock of Seagulls had scored a small hit with The More You Live the More You Love, and Mike Score was a fashion icon with his hairstyle. Nowadays it is a band living on the fame of their early eigthies hit I Ran, which became a hugh top ten hit in the US, but hardly did anything in the Netherlands. It were the singles Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You), and The More You Live the More You Love which gave the band some success overhere. It also is a band that consists of a founder member accompanied by new members. Of the original band only Mike Score is present, accompanied by Joe Rodriguez on guitar, Pando on bass and Micheal Brahm on drums. The sound of the band was heavy but very well balanced, an...

Volume 11 01. Sons Of Heroes - Strange Eyes 02. Empire - My Imagination 03. Associates - Those First Impressions 04. Fiat Lux - Secrets 05. English Evenings - What's The Matter With Helen 06. Cava Cava - Brother Bright 07. The Pale Fountains - ... From Across The Kitchen Tabel 08. Electric Guitars - Language Problems 09. B-Movie - Scare Some Life Into Me 10. The Time Dance - Picture 11. Gangway - My Girl And Me 12. Perfect Day - Jane 13. Waterfront - Nature Of Love 14. Dalek I Love You - Ambition 15. The Passion Puppets - Voices 16. Haircut 100 - Too Up Two Down 17. The Light - Contrasting Strangers 18. H2O - You Take My Breath Away 19. Bonk - I'm Not Unusual 20. The Painted Word - Frances 21. Clark Datchler - Broken Spirit

After the release of Double Exposure, Steven Wilson decided to focus on his own projects. No-Man had had a good start from both Exposure albums, and soon afterwards his new progressive band Porcupine Tree would be formed which is still active and will release a new album The Incident soon followed by a hugh European tour. But from the now turned prog lowlands, The Netherlands, came some new volunteers to carry the flag. Main man was Peter Lindenbergh, also responsible for a magazine in English on progressive rock called Freia. In later years the editorial staff would change the name to Background Magazine. Since it wasn't an English project anymore, this album features only main land European bands, with the Netherlands delivering three out of eight contributors. In the years to follow this release The Last Detail, Asgard, Isildurs Bane and Odyssice would become names in the prog scene. The most important thing of this compilation was the fact that the musical atmosphere of the pro...

10cc did a theatre tour through the Netherlands during February and March. I recently found the time to write a late review about it. It sounds strange but it turned out to be a great succes. 10cc nowadays is mainly Graham Gouldman, the only founder member left of the four who started 10cc in 1972. Besides Graham Gouldman Rick Fenn and Paul Burgess are involved with the band since 1977. Mick Wilson joined in 2000 and Keith Hayman is the musical director of Cliff Richard and working with 10cc since 2006. Still the subtitle for the tour is "Featuring Graham Gouldman and Friends". But it's nice to see such respected artists perform in a theatre creating an intimate atmosphere. Although I've never seen the legendary line-up or the two plus line-up in later years, this re-incarnation of 10cc delivers a good evening of great songs performed with a lot of fun and enthusiasm. It was just a walk along memory lane with a pack of great seventies hit singles, some sixties tracks ...

A year after the release of Exposure, Double Exposure was released. This time more bands wanted to anticipate in the concept. So in the end it turned out to be a double vynil album with contributions from England, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands and Italy. Again the concept was to give bands a change, which just had released an album or were in the progress making one. But this time it turned out to be that bigger names were involved. Ishtar - M'Allegro Molto Vivace The Bond - Seriously Sibling Mazlyn Jones - First Light Heimdal - Somnis No Man Is An Island Except For The Isle Of Man - Faith's Last Doubt Anthony Philips - Promenade Rousseau - Breakfast At Tiffany's Airspeed - Far Away Screams Haze - In The End Plenty - Forest Almost Burning / Sacrifice Rog Patterson - Party Piece Galadriel - Summit Abel Ganz - Dangers Of Strangers Weirdstone (the old trip) - Circles Egdon Heath - In The City Notturno Concertante - Nocturne Anthony Philips is the best known participant on th...

I think it was somewhere around 1984 when I listened to the radio on a frequent base. Every Thursday we had a two hour program running on the Dutch radiostation Hilversum 3 in which they played tracks from new albums. It was a great program called LP Show. A couple of years later they changed the name to the CD Show. It was a well known program where they played every style of music, normally without talking through the intro and outtro of the music, and on several occations they broadcasted live shows. Through this show I discovered new music. Became interested in bands like Marillion, Pallas, IQ and Pendragon, and so into progressive rock, or the neo-prog as it was called, since all these bands were from the eighties. It was also around this time that a small Dutch magazine called Sym-Info was starting, and this magazine brought more names to my attention. It was basicly an A5 magazine at the start filled with reviews, but later on with interviews. Since they knew the music they were...