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THE CONVENT

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Singer of The Convent Carlo will tour with his new band "Dead Guitars"supporting the Mission on their European Tour - Check out the dates!
THE CONVENT
came together as a concept in late 1985 and throughout the band's evolution some members have come and gone , and all of them have been at one time or another, vital to the band's development. That they were able to continue to grow for over ten years and generate genuine affection amongst lovers of guitar music in Germany, is a testament to passion and the power of it, the root of all fine art.They began with an occasional independent single, which in turn led to the band's first cd "COUNTING THE STARS" ,self financed and distributed for the most part at the numerous concerts the band played across Germany and Holland (the singer's homeland).
The band began to gather a strong reputation and came to the attention of 'STRANGEWAYS RECORDS' based in Hamburg. STRANGEWAYS agreed to take over the distribution of "COUNTING THE STARS" as well as finance the band's second album "TALES FROM THE FROZEN FOREST". Mark Burgess, former lead singer of the UK indieband THE CHAMELEONS', who was also a big fan of the band, was invited to produce the album. He was already partially involved in a production role on the first album.
JoJo Brandt However with STRANGEWAYS came a degree of inflexibility as the realities of working within the constraints and financial motivations of the music industry began to seep in. A band of visionaries, dreamers, idealists, found the compromises too great and it was decided that they would strike out on their own once again. Besides, the group's two leading lights, Carlo van Putten and JoJo Brandt were beginning to move beyond the boundaries of the traditional band set up. As the nineties influences took hold JoJo began to yearn for a more progressive approach, whilst Carlo began to paint his canvasses in a wider arena, resulting in a collaboration with ADRIAN BORLAND, the leading light with THE SOUND, an English band Carlo admired very much. It also saw him reunited with one of the founding members of THE CONVENT, Florian Bescht. This collaboration, entitled "WHITE ROSE TRANSMISSION" was released in 1995 and was a watershed in Carlo's development as a singer and lyricist.
THE CONVENT came together again the following year, 1996 to record the band's third album. Produced by Yves Altana, a Corsican musician/producer living in Manchester England "CRASHED CARS & LOVE LETTERS" contains some truly great moments. The band were able to well and truly put the eighties behind them and embrace the nineties, "crash the car, and walk on down the hall."
The Convent 2000 But THE CONVENT were once more alone, without national distribution or promotion and 'CRASHED CARS' was almost a victim of it. Thus RED SUN, a concept that had previously existed in a spare bedroom in Vollersode, was truly born. It's driving force, Carlo van Putten, it's aim, not only to further the cause of THE CONVENT, but also the music of others, unheard mainly due to the lack of commitment on the part of a stale and apathetic music industry. Great music deserves to be heard, that is RED SUN's aim.
The latest release of THE CONVENT is the album "...about Kings and Queens and stolen bicycles..."
Carlo brought out his third white rose transmission album "bewitched & Bewildered" in November 2006 and just finished a new album with his new band Dead Guitars called "Airplanes" which came out in June 2007 on Echozone Records. Jojo & Stefan have a band in Germany called "Sonnenbrandt". At the moment there are no plans for the band. We'll see what happens next....
(Lars Fischer Silverbird music)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/17/2006
Band Website: fuego.de/theconvent
Band Members: Carlo van Putten - Vocals
Jojo Brandt - Guitars
Stefan Bornhorst - Guitar & organ
Carsten Lienke - Bass
Roland Kaufmann - Drums

OUR MUSIC IS AVAILABLE VIA:

The Convent singer Carlo van Putten's new band "Dead Guitars" Brought out their debut album "airplanes" alongside Guido Lucas at the 'Blue Box'. The album has been released 1st of June 2007 Have a listen to the album down under :

DEAD GUITARS
Tracklisting "Airplanes":
1. Name Of The Sea
2. Feels Alright
3. Crumble Zone
4. Airplanes
5. Sweet Revenge
6. Crash
7. Shine
8. This Was A Year
9. Should I
10. The Great Escape
+ Name Of The Sea (Video)

Release: 01/06/07
You can get the album at Amazon or Red Sun :


Influences: oh... to many to mention. But a lot of eighties cool guitar bands like Echo & the Bunnymen, The Sound, Comsat Angels, The Chameleons, the Doors, Bowie, and many many more stuff.....
Sounds Like:



Record Label: information +31356911704
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Marthas Harbour - All about Eve - Cover

Hello again,   As some of you might know I'm also the singer of White Rose Transmission. This is a project that I started years ago together with Adrian Borland (The Sound). I just put on a new v...
Posted by The Convent on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:53:00 PST

Dead Guitars will support The Mission next week

Dear friends,   one week left to work and we'll be sitting in our night liner following The Mission and do the support on their "farewell" tour. We did some rehearsals last weekend, got the mer...
Posted by The Convent on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:53:00 PST

Happy new Year & more................

Dear friends, fans and other friendly human beings ;-)   First of all I want to wish you all a fantastic & magical new year!  I have had a great time in Antwerpen and a good start in 2...
Posted by The Convent on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:47:00 PST

I will sing twice on December the 15th

Dear Friends,on December the 15th I will do the opener myself for Dead Guitars, that means you've got me twice ;-) Check out www.myspace.com/whiterosetransmissionI will do an acoustic set of White Ros...
Posted by The Convent on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:32:00 PST

Carlo with his new band on tour supporting The Mission

..> The Mission & Dead Guitars Hello dear friends,Carlo's new band Dead Guitars have the conformation to tour together with The Mission on their Farwell tour. It is a great honour for us to b...
Posted by The Convent on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:50:00 PST

The Convent - new website & "new" songs

Dear friends & fans,Hope you are allright and still interested to hear some news from us.I worked another night to create a new website for The Convent. I uploaded some songs too. Talk to you if t...
Posted by The Convent on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:08:00 PST

Carlo's new band "Dead Guitars" album out now !!

The Convent singer Carlo van Putten's new band  "Dead Guitars" Brought out their debut album "airplanes" alongside Guido Lucas at the 'Blue Box'. The album has been released 1st of June 2007 Have...
Posted by The Convent on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:49:00 PST

Carlo on tour in Germany. I hope to see some of you..

I'm on tour in Germany. I hope to see some of you out there. First I do an acoustic set with White Rose Transmission www.myspace.com/whiterosetransmission (only the first 3 concerts)Then I will p...
Posted by The Convent on Mon, 21 May 2007 12:59:00 PST

The Church on Tour in Europe !!!!! April dates

Hello There,  friends of us are on tour in April this year. I will go to all the Dutch shows, hope to meet some of you out there. Don't miss them, they are one of my favorite bands of all time!!!...
Posted by The Convent on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:01:00 PST

The Convent - Red Light Melancholy Album review Germany

Hiya there, I found a nice review about our album "Red light melancholy" : http://www.backagain.de/wavegoth/convent.htm Greetzzzz Carlo ...
Posted by The Convent on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:06:00 PST