Nick

I'd like to meet:

You!
Matthew & Rachel, (finally we met at the Point in Cardiff; 24th of February) (and again on a great day in November 2007 and again 4 days in January 2008), David Gilmour and Arnold Layne.

PS: 30 May 2006; we actually saw Arnold Layne, we seated at the 3th row in the Royal Albert Hall, and there was dear David Bowie performing Arnold Layne at a Daivd Gilmour gig. And yes it was unforgetable! So we didn't actually met, but it came close...

Jan 2008
17th January 2008 The Limelight, CreweSupported by Mr So & So
18th January 2008 The Point, CardiffSupported by Breathing Space
19th January 2008 The Riga Bar, Southend-On-Sea Supported by Touchstone
20th January 2008 The Robin 2, Bilston, Nr Wolverhampton Supported by Breathing Space

March
14th March Room Eleven De Nieuwe Nor Heerlen

April
10 Poppodium NIEUWE NOR, Heerlen: Rock ON Roll: The Stories w/ Marco Roelofs, Jan Smeets & Anneke van Giersbergen
Wonderful!
20 RWPL B - Verviers Spirit of 66
24 Mick Pointer & Friends: The Script!
May 2008
11 Roger Waters at "Megaland/ PinkPop"

Fish at PinkPopClassic
22 The Reasoning P60 Amstelveen, supported by Mangrove
23 The Reasoning De Nieuwe Nor Heerlen
24 The Reasoning Metropool Hengelo, supported by Mangrove
More wanna bee shows .

We saw:
Mangrove at P60 & Metropool 22 & 24 May as suport act for the Reasoning.
Rachel Cohen 22 May 2008!
Picture by Wilma at www.thedutchhammerheads.com/
22, 23 & 24

S.C.A.R. live in de Nieuwe Nor 23 May 2008!
Picture by Jaak Gebeelen at www.myspace.com/jaakgebelen .
Useful links: Mangrove , S.C.A.R. (Jack Pisters), P60 , Nieuwe Nor & Metropool .

Roger Waters live Megaland Landgraafin the lovely South of the Netherlands
date 11 May 2008.
Roger Waters – bass, acoustic guitars,
Snowy White – guitars,
Dave Killminster - guitar & vocals,
Chester Kamen – guitar & bass,
Ian Ritchie – sax, clarinet & acoustic guitar,
John Carin – keys, acoustic guitar & vocals,
Harry Waters – keys,
PP Arnold, Carol Kenyon& Sylvia Mason-James – vocals & percussion.

The Reasoning .

By Adrian the Rock at http://www.roscalen.com/
3 amazing days in January 2008. More info here .
And I was very pleased with the support acts: Touchstone & Breathing Space .

Mostly Autumn
2x at the LowLand X-mas tour 2007.

Pictures by Wilma Hoogendoorn Dec 2007 De Boerderij NL.
www.thedutchhammerheads.com .
What a great sound, thanks to John Spence!
More great pictures at; www.mostlypink.nl .

Avalon farewell gig with Scar and a week later Orion in a local pub; promising!

The Zombies at the Spirit of 66 November 2007.

Genesis
in Düsseldorf (26th of July).

Mostly Autumn in De Nieuwe Nor in the lovely South of the Netherlands (18th of May) & in 013 (2 days later ;-).

More beautiful Pictures of Joost Doensen .

BLind Ego a solo project of Kalle Wallner of RPWL at the Spirit of 66 (May 2007). Excellent what great Rocking Band with:
The line-up is: Kalle Wallner - guitar (RPWL)
Paul Wrightson - vocals (ex-Arena, wonderful!)
John Jowitt - groovin' bass (IQ, Frost, Neo, ex-Arena)
Yogi Lang - keyboards (RPWL, a real wizzard) Erwin Rieder - drums

The Reasoning in Cardiff at the Point, March 2007.

Absolute in Saint this is the most promising Rock-Prog of the scene today! Please visit their MySpacePage and be amazed!

Mostly Autumn in the Spirit of 66, 13th of December 2006 and Mostly Autumn in the Boerderij. And this was the ultimate X-mas party with some new songs of their fantastic album "Heart Full Of Sky":

Picture by Wilma, please visit het site:
www.thedutchhammerheads.com

Iona at the Spirit of 66; 26 November.
Tearbreaking...
One of the best gigs this year; and a big hoera for Gareth the man behind the desk. He made me feel if I was in studio, the sound was absolute great.

Iona at the St.George Church in Leeds.
November the 17th:

A great gig in a peaceful atmosphere. What a band.. 5 verry skilled profesionals with no big egos and just making fun and try to set down a great gig. And it was more then a great gig!
Thanks!

RPWL at the PROG-RÉSISTE CONVENTION 2006 at the "Spirit of 66" Verviers (B).
Even without the great video projections they have, the show was amazing. Maybe the lack of the visual elements did bring the music to a higher level...
An absolute great show, if you like a combination of Genesis and Pink Floyd in an own style, go and see them:

ProgSol Festival the 21th in Suisse!

Magenta (fabulous), Roger Hodgons (really amazing, he came close to what David Gilmour did to me)(and he was just alone with Mr.McDonnold on woodwinds!!!) & Machiavel (nice) on Saturday the 9th of September in Theux.

Fish, Sylvan, Second Out & my dear friends of Mostly Autumn at the Loreley Festival 28th of July. Pictures here .
Was great to catch up with them and seeing so many familair faces.

Roger Waters - bass, acoustic guitars & lead vocals,
Andy Fairweather Low - Guitar & backing vocals,
Snowy White - Guitar,
Dave Kilminster - Guitar and Vocals,
Graham Broad - Drums,
Jon Carin - Keyboards, guitar & backing vocals,
Harry Waters - Hammond,
Ian Ritchie - Saxophone & bass,
Katie Kissoon, PP Arnold & Carol Kenyon - backing & lead vocals.
At the Arrows Rock Festival in the Netherlands.
Pictures here .
.. With;
Porcupine Tree (awesome),
Riverside &
Ray Davies & others.

Monday 29th of May 2006 at The Royal Albert Hall;

David Gilmour,
Rick Wright,
Guy Pratt,
Jon Carin,
Phil Manzanera,
Steve DiStanislao,
Robert Wyatt,
Dick Parry &

David Bowie!Simple Brilliant!!!
A review here .

Luckily I had the great opportunity to meet these lovely people;

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20 May 2006.
Magenta at ther ProgDecennIO festival in de Boerderij with Satellite & Mangala Vallis.
What a show and happy Birthday Tina!
A review you can find here .

12th of May: Nick Barrett & band in the Spirit of 66.
What a great gig, wonderful show with movies and great craftmanship!
A review you can find here .

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07th of May: Odin Dragonfly & band in Rotterdam with Fish.
What a lovely ladies!

29th of April: Iona in the cozy festival in Anthines.
Great band and what a beautiful voice Joanna has. Dave, Frank & Troy Donockley as nice as always, cheers my friend.

26th of April: Mostly Autumn in the Spirit of 66.

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More pics: jeanluc031.aceblog.fr &

the DutchHammerheads .

A review you can find here , pictures, info bio and tourdates.

19th of March: David Gilmour HMH Amsterdam.
Speechless....
Happily I was able to write it down .

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Picture from NY by Michael Jurick, more excellent pictures at: www.jurick.net/.

News about David Gilmour you can find here ; reviews, pics, soundsamples, links, sessionplayers, gig reviews and more Spare Digits.
Enjoy!

2 Competitions running :
Free Tickets for The Reasoning in the Netherlands &
2 special editions by Glass Shadow of Mostly Autumn!
Competitions are running!

Music:

Pink Floyd, Mostly Autumn, The Reasoning, RPWL, Magenta, David Gilmour, Iona, Blind Ego, ProgAid, IQ, Pendragon, Yes, Camel, Marillion, Odin Dragonfly, Strangefish, Ezra, Genesis, The Alan Parsons Project, the Beatles, the Pretty Things, Jadis, Troy Donockley, Galahad, Sallem Hill, Phil Manzanera, Credo, Blackfield, Dave Brainbridge, Pineapple Thief, Riverside, Mike Oldfield, Guy Manning, the Tangent, Michelle Young, NoSound, Porcupine Tree, Iain Jennings, Julia Jenkins, Arjen Lucassen, Radiohead, Coldplay, U2, Simple Minds, Mermaid Kiss, Fish, All About Eve, Karnataka, Landmarq, Kara, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Roger Waters, Rick Wright, Supertramp, Roger Hodgons, Steely Dan, Syd Barrett and many more bands.
Visit www.mostlypink.nl and see what I mean.

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My top playlist of this moment:

1. Awakening by The Reasoning ,
absolute a masterpiece, please check them out!

2. The RPWL Experience by RPWL

3. Glass Shadows by Mostly Autumn .
The new stunning album from Bryan Josh & Heather Findlay.

Visionary Position by Panic Room .

Metamorphosis by Magenta .

Blackfield II by Blackfield .
Etarlis River Side R.E.M.
Fabulous album, influenced by the mighthy Floyds... absolute madness from these Polish Rockers.
Songs from Pennsylvania by Ezra .
Mirror Blind Ego a brand new solo album of Kalle Walner (RPWL)!
9 RPWL 5 live tracks and 4 "solo"- tracks by this great German band.

Oeps I forgot my dear friends from York:
HEART FULL OF SKY
MOSTLY AUTUMN.
Think this hippie bollox will stay in my sky filled Heart till the last beat... absolute madness.
A Mostly Autumnish album, the guitar work is amazing, Bryan was more as capable to take the best of David Gilmour & Richie Blackmore and get it mixed in a heavenly soaring play.
And our dear Heather has laid down some great warm, low, sensual vocals on several tracks... the best she ever did!
Chris Johnson has put in all his skills of his sound factory that he has devollepped as sound engineer and musician.
And the rest of the band rocks: Angela with her gorgeous flute play, Liam on guitar, Andrew on drums, Andy on his rambling bass, Troy on Ulliean Pipes (a Deep Purple song with Ulliean Pipes, mad!), Peter Knight on violins (excellent play), Olivia with some great vocals, Anne Marie Helder with some backing vocals and at last a big hoera for the engineer Will B..
Emotional epics, rocking songs, catchy tunes, powerful acoustic musings, it's all in there.
Art work? If I say Rembrandt and Chris Walkden the photographer, can you imagine something??? Beautiful.
And again; when I heard that album my Heart was filled with the Sky that was painted by the famous Dutch painters in the Golden era....
Looking forward to hear it again and again and discover all the layers that are hidden into this masterpiece of this band from York. The best I heard in years! Absolute madness.

New Live dates for the UK here !

The Reasoning .

If I'm on line I can't get enough of the Reasoning with their 4 songs on their MySpacePage. Please take a look at their spot: www.myspace.com/thereasoninguk .

The new album is out now and mixed by the famous Dave Megan (Marillion/ U2).
Their own online shop .

October 2007:

Riverside a new double album and a masterpiece !
A mix of porcupine Tree, Anthema & Pink Floyd with ambient hiphop ingredients...

The Mermaid Kiss with a new album.
Pre-ordere here .
A fanatstic new release.
A concept album about an own created fantasy world. Rich instrumentations, stunning vocals and ethernal melodies. With the use of flute, oboe, uillean pipes (Troy Donockley), cor anglish, smooth guitar work and excellent keyboard loops.
A must have for fans of Karnataka & Iona. And think that Mostly Autumn, Magenta & White Willow fans will ove this too.

A review you can find at this lovely place .

..Fortune Telling by Strangefish . Great!
www.mermaidkiss.co.uk .

"Home" fantastic album of
Magenta "Songs from Pennsylvania"
new album of Ezra
More Info about David Gilmours new DVD.

"On An Island" new album of
David Gilmour "All around the World" by
ProgAid"All around the World" the single of 2005! Wonderful, your favourite musicians gathered on one single, 5 tracks and a video. Great voices, more as 11 guitar solo's in one track, keyboard solo's, flute, ulliann pipes, violin, bass loops, great drums, what else do you wish!?!
It's called ProgAid .

Please listen and be amazed .

Please check them out at www.iona.uk.com or
www.myspace.com/ionauk
and become friends.

Roger Keith (Syd) Barrett - 6th January 1946 to 7th July 2006

The new Blackfield album is released
+ a fab DVD!

Movies:

"Once in a lifetime there comes a motion picture which changes the whole history of motion pictures...", quote from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" * The Life of Bryan - Monthy Phyton,
* Lord of the Rings (both) - Peter Jackson, (one of my favourite books),
* De Tweeling / the Twins a Dutch movie about the holocaust, tear breaking,
* Fahrenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore (yes, this is the world we live in),
* The Wall - Alan Parker, absolute fabulous, Bob Geldoff who's hardly speaking... , the music, excellent,
* Trainspotting - an English B-film, anti-drugs, an eye opner for our youngsters, a sort of Christiane F.,
* 24 hours party people, another English production, a film about Tony Wilson, the Joy Divission, Happy Mondays, New Order, funny, authentic shots, the madness of our high school time...
* Oceans 11 - with the great cast, a funny, fast action movie with some hilarious acts.
* The Green Miles - with Paul Hanks as head guard on Death Row with John Coffee (M.C.Duncan) & Mr.Jingles. * Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino and of course more of him... .

Television:

David Gilmour ; Remember that Night Live!
Voted to the best DVD by the visitors of DPRP .
And keep an eye on David; he's working on a new album. A live recording of the gig in Poland plus the 40-piece orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Preisner!

Books:

Lord of the Rings - Tolkien, everything from Edgar Alan Poe, Roald Dahl, Ludlum, Lovercraft, Guy DeMaupassant, Dan Browne, Stephen King, Nicci French.

Heroes:

The Reasoning
with
Awakening
Reasoning vid

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An excellent new promising band.
New album will be released in September 2008; "Dark Angel" .