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October 2003, somewhere in the eastern part of Holland..
The concept of beginning a band starts to develop. Four good friends decide that they have had enough of playing other people's work. More than once they performed together in different bands and it became perfectly clear that there was a mutual 'vibe' going on between them.
Musically as well as personally, despite of the variety in musical influences and big differences in personality, they get along with each other extremely well.
Crossroads Studios in Borculo was booked on a weekly basis to write songs. Very quickly melodies started to develop in rough ideas, as well as in worked out 'endproducts'.
The band gave a local try-out gig on the 23rd of january 2004 and decided, after a lot of positive reactions and constructive criticism, to continue in the course that was set.
The band's style is best described as pop/rock, but groove is essential and here and there mixed with a healthy dose of funk.
The second gig in febuary is a bandcompetition (Slag Om Paaspop) at the same time. The band scores very high, a second place. The jury comments that the songs are build up very well. Also Marjan's melody lines get positive remarks.
After a year filled with a lot of gigs, Elister signs up again for "Slag Om Paaspop" and celebrates victory. This first place results into a place in the line-up for Paaspop 2005 in Zieuwent. (Also featuring Therapy?, Leage of XO Gentlemen, Autumn, Intwine & De Heideroosjes.)
In this period of time, Elister also records a demo at S&K Studio in Doetinchem. This demo is only used for promotional activities at the moment.
The beginning of 2005 is the time where Elister plans a tour with another local band called Dialogue (http://www.dialogueband.com). Goal of this tour is to get both names on the map in the region they both come from.
Under the name of Watch Your Back Tour '05, both bands are busy doing gigs, gigs and some more gigs!
After the tour, Elister will take some time off to increase the number of songs on their repertoire. After having done this, the intention is to record more songs and to release all of the recorded material.
This doesn't mean you can't see Elister live at all of course! We'll keep you posted!
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Member Since: 1/3/2006
Band Website: elister.nl/
Band Members: Vocals:
Marjan Welman
Guitar:
Douwe Kelderman
Bass:
Erik Rademakers
Drums:
Harm-Jan klein Gunnewiek

Former member(s):
Harmen Pen (bass)
Influences: Too big of a variety to sum up (metal, soul, stoner, funk, 70's, groove, gothic, rock, pop, classical etc..), Check out our "friends" to see our influences. :)
Sounds Like:
Record Label: We are up for grabs!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

3voor12 review Atak!

Heey all, Last saturday Elister played a pretty messy show (not musically though..! :)) at the Atak and 3voor12 wrote a nice review about it.. Check it out here: http://3voor12lokaal.vpro.nl/magazines...
Posted by Elister on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:22:00 PST

013 show presale tickets available here!

Hey guys!We're done recording and we hope to be able to present the demo cd to you all soon!But ofcourse we already play these songs live and for one particular show we need your support! We're partic...
Posted by Elister on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:24:00 PST

Elister on youtube!

Hey There, Since the last week a few "Elister video's" have been added to youtube besides the already legendary "German Follterfilm" (go check it out, it's out there for real! haha). Anyhow, we would ...
Posted by Elister on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:42:00 PST

Dear all..

...we're finished with the recordings and it's gonna be HUGE!! We can't wait for the result of the mixing, but for now we can say that we are more than satisfied with how things went..! Go check the p...
Posted by Elister on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:41:00 PST

Recordings!! (Part II)

Hey! The 9th of february Elister will be recording again! Yay!Just like last time we'll record at Dick Kemper's S&K studio, and we're going to record 3 songs. The song titles are:- For Real- Wake ...
Posted by Elister on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:20:00 PST

Recordings

Hey guys!First of all: happy new year! Elister wishes you all the best for 2008!We thought it might be a good idea to start off 2008 productive, that's why we are currently working on some songs and w...
Posted by Elister on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:26:00 PST

New formation, new myspace, new updates.

Hey all!As you can see we've adjusted the layout 'a bit'. The new Elister line-up deserves a new space. A bit of a fresh start you might say!Last friday we had a great time doing support for Xystus an...
Posted by Elister on Tue, 15 May 2007 06:24:00 PST

Harmen leaving..

Posted by Elister on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:40:00 PST

New songs added!

Hey all!Today we've posted two new songs! Well, one new one, and one that's sort of new, haha. They are: 'For Real' which is one of our newer stuff, and one of our oldies 'The Gift'. Both of them were...
Posted by Elister on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 05:41:00 PST

ELISTER as SUPPORT for STREAM OF PASSION

Since the 'Show section' on Myspace apparently doesn't work, we'll just post it here. ;)We are proud and honoured to announce that Elister is the support act for Stream Of Passion the 25th of January ...
Posted by Elister on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:07:00 PST