No more San Francisco this time, but time for a flashback to Antwerp! As some of you know, my sister got married in the month of May. My father, brothers and I set up some sort of “family-surprise-rock-band” and played a couple of songs on her wedding. And yes, my dear friends, this blog is proud to bring you an exclusive preview of our whole set…
So crank up the volume, hit the play button, boost the movie to full screen and dig this!
Crazy Little Thing Called Love from Flaming Philip on Vimeo.
In the movie, you might have recognized my father at the bass, my brother Tom at the mike, my other brother Bruno dealing with the drums and me handling that gorgeous Fender Stratocaster lead guitar…
After this song we played “You don’t know me” from Milow and “Nothing else matters” from Metallica. (If you should check out the latter’s site: these guys might be better than us, but for sure they are also far more ugly!)
To view the other songs of our set, just click on the link under the movie and browse the other movies by Flaming Philip, our professional photographer/movie maker—thanks again, Phil! For those too lazy to click through to the movies, allow me to put my second favorite here, the last song of our set:
Rockin' In The Free World from Flaming Philip on Vimeo.
Oh Lord, what about that ending! Ain’t we rockin’ the place! Actually, this video was cut at the end because women of all ages just invaded the stage—a little embarrassing, and certainly not suited for this blog. One of them even tried to steal my boxer shorts, can you imagine? So, although we are clearly not short of groupies, you might want to leave your profile information in the comments, you never know!
And of course, please do lavish your praise for them funky bass lines, those compelling vocals, these thrilling drum riffs and that fat guitar solos on us in the comments…
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Haha,
precies the jackson5 of the kelly family of (alle, vooruit) the white stripes
At last, after lots of rumours and chatter, the videos are out on the internet!
So our technical comments from the rehersals have been incorporated to provide four magnificent pieces..uh-hm...ok, the rehearsals were already perfect as they were.
For your information, these videos have been shown to Hungarian locals and they have also liked it a lot. We have already scheduled a tour for your guys in Budapest, Siofok, and Miskolc. Though they'd prefer leather jackets to this Beatles look...
Perfect! We already have a tour bus/camping car and a couple of leather jackets so I guess we are all set then.
We can actually drive our motorbikes onto the stage, if that would please your audience. This would raise the price a little but hey, that shouldn't be the problem, right?
And you might want to open the new Martyn Joseph concert we're planning early October, or shall we ask Martyn to open for you?
Een nieuwe verwijzing naar Spinal tap is aan de orde ;)
Motorbikes are spot on! Especially if you run over Martyn Joseph during the show, then he will have lots of new poignant stories to tell with his one-guitar orchestra and one-person choir. ;)
As far as I'm concerned, this was the most rewarding musical (and so much more) experience in my life!
Thanks, Wim, for coming up with the idea (and of course thanks to all my dears realising, supporting and - showing to - enjoying it)
me at the bass
Martyn just gave me a call. He wasn't too confident with the motorbikes and Nicolas's plans and so on, so he will probably not open for us. Anyhow, we have plenty of work preparing our show for Werchter next Summer so no hard feelings...
Anyhow, it was indeed a very nice experience, and we will certainly keep you posted should a new "event" come up in the future!
hey
I 've acutally been there and i thought it was great!
great drumworks of Bruno, fantastic bass of Mr Van Thillo and ofcourse , not to forget, Wim Van Thillo, the star of the evening! :p
greatest mariage I've ever seen!
my congratiolations!
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