The More You Live, The More You Love

Ultravox played the 013 at Tilburg on 12 October 2012. For someone living halfway between Alkmaar and Amsterdam to drive to Tilburg on a Friday night is asking for troubles. There are traffic jams along the route and although the Garmin told me, when leaving, it would take one hour and thirty-five minutes, just after driving a couple of kilometers the time went up to over 2.5 hours. In the end we arrived in time and were at the venue just a couple of minutes before the start of the concert. Then it turned out that being on the guest list does not mean that you can straight walk in. No, I needed to queue up in front of the pay box. Meanwhile a guy was desperate trying to sell some extra tickets. Since the starting time was coming closer in the end he wanted to give them for free to anyone who want them to have. Nobody reacted so in the end he tore them apart and walkid into the venue. By the time I was checked and finally was able to enter the ha...

September already and it seems the year is filled with a lot of new releases. The last top 10 I presented came from July, and at that time Unheilig and It Bites topped the list. Just two months later and several new releases have found their spot in the new top 10. Even surprisingly is the new number one. After so many years The Fixx finally wrote a new studio album, which is one of the best they ever made. Also it is thirty years ago the band released their first album Shuttered Room, which still is one of my favourite eigthies albums. 01. The Fixx – Beautiful Friction 02. It Bites – Map Of The Past 03. Unheilig – Lichter der Stadt 04. Clock Opera – Ways To Forget 05. Rush – Clockwork Angels 06. Nik Kershaw – Ei8ht 07. No-Man – Love And Endings 08. Marina And The Diamonds – Electra Heart 09. Big Big Train – English Electric (part one) 10. Dead Can Dance - Anastasis

No-Man, Cultuurpodium de Boerderij 31 August 2012  After four years No-Man returned to the Cultuurpodium de Boerderij at Zoetermeer with a great setlist and an enthousiastic band. This time the band was much more relaxed then when they played there in early september 2008. Tim Bowness and Steven Wilson did introduce the songs with a smile and a joke and the band was in top shape. With an audience that came to listen to the band, instead of talking during the concert, it became a memorable evening. The setlist contained all the songs from their recently released live album Love And Endings with eight extra’s including the new uptempo track Warm-Up Man Forever, and also Close Your Eyes and the encore Back When You Were Beautiful, which were both on the setlist for the first time. Housewives Hooked On Heroin was spontaneously played as a third encore, Tim and Steven both complaining against eachother that they had not had the time to practice the song. Steven even asked...

The first of August, and finally a day with high tempertures again. With a bit of luck tempertures will move above 25 degrees Celsius, and during my walk in the park at lunchbreak I already noticed people were taking the advantage out of the beautiful weather. Sun worshipers along the canal of the Staten Bolwerk, boats in the water and the lyrics of Come Summer by Fra Lippo Lippi in my head. This is the way that It feels, Beyond the border and out of reach I'm hiding in places where no one can find me, Touching the simple life When summer comes breezing I’d like to be there The sun and the sea and a breath of fresh air When summer comes, there’s nothing so true Somewhere in heaven and over the moon This is the way that it feels, Climb to the top of the highest mountain See what is hidden behind the blue curtain, See what is given to us When summer comes breezing I’d like to be there The sun and the sea and a breath of fresh air When summer comes, there’s nothin...

Top 50 1980 - 1989 in no particular order: A nice e-mail conversation with an editor of the progressive rock magazine iO Pages, brought us to our lists of top albums from the decades of our youth. He is from the sixties, my roots lies in the eighties. I came with a top 50 of albums in no specific order. I know this is a list of the day created, at another place in time it for sure will look different. Already I noticed bands who are missing, albums overseen. But well it's the top 50 of today. artiest titel jaar van uitgave 10CC Windows In The Jungle 1983 Adventures, The Sea Of Love 1988 Berlin Count Three And Pray 1986 Big Country The Crossing 1982 Bush, Kate The Hounds Of Love 1987 Camel Stationary Traveller 1984 China Crisis Working With Fire And Steel 1983 Clan Of Xymox Clan Of Xymox 1985 Deacon Blue When The World Knows Your Name 1989 ...

After a while finally a new volume. volume 25 01. Peter Godwin - Emotional Disguise (extended) 02. Peter Coyle - Closer 03. Care - Whatever Possessed You 04. Freedom - Obsession 05. Ghostdance - Celebrate 06. Cava Cava - The Clown 07. The Kingfishers - David 69 08. The Weather Prophets - Why Does The Rain 09. Bradford - Gang Of One 10. Jazzateers - Black And White 11. After This - Fields (extended) 12. The Danse Society - Red Light (shine) 13. Les Enfants - Slipaway (single version) 14. Niagra Calla - All Your Love 15. Power - Sad Boy 16. McCarthy - Should The Bible Be Banned 17. Fatal Charm - King Of Comedy 18. B-Movie - Institution Walls 19. Kudos - Better Late Than Never Since several people were asking to resend some of the older volumes, here are volume 10 , volume 15 and volume 24 .

Already halfway through July and time to update my top 10 of the new releases of this year. 01. Unheilig - Lichter der Stadt 02. It Bites - Map Of The Past 03. Galahad - Battle Scars 04. DeeExpus - King Of Number 33 05. Mothlite - Dark Age 06. Rush - Clockwork Angels 07. Ultravox - Brilliant 08. Clock Opera - Ways To Forget 09. No-Man - Love And Endings 10. Squackett - a Life Within A Day