Saturday 27 April 2013
Village hall Langbroek
BAS PAARDEKOOPER and the Blew Crue (21.00 hours).
support act Jasper Lagemaat & Doghouse (20.00 hours)
tickets € 12,50 (excl. service costs) via ticketscript and Village hall Langbroek and canteen SVL in Langbroek.
21.00 hours
Saturday night April 27th 2013 we organise together with the Village Hall in Langbroek a fantastic blues night. We have invited the band of Bas Paardekooper contracted. We saw Bas and his friends in December 2009 in Wijk at work in theatre Calypso. An impressive blues evening with then still young American guitar talent Eric Steckel present. Look here …. We had Bas on our wish list again for quite some time. This time not in the Calypso but in Langbroek.
Bas Paardekooper and the Blew Crue was founded in 2007. Frontman Bas Paardekooper (1981), inspired after hearing Jimi Hendrix’ “Hey Joe”, taught himself the rudiments of guitar playing at the age of eleven. Supported by his parents, Bas developed his playing and grew a passion for the instrument that is now inextricably linked to the name “Bas Paardekooper”. With the music of Hendrix as his first lesson material, it was inevitable that Bas would later develop into a blues rock guitarist. However, it took a number of years and various bands before he could fully focus on playing the type of music that, as many will agree, “was written for him”. After a friend urged Bas to start his own band, it didn’t take long before the line-up of what would eventually become “the Blew Crue” was ready. Within no time Bas wrote the first songs of which six were eventually released on the EP ‘Hang On To Tomorrow’ (2008). Live, their own work was complemented by covers of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Walter Trout, Joe Bonamassa and (of course) Jimi Hendrix. From their first performance, Bas and Crue’s pleasure and dedication radiated from the stage. After the release of their first official album ‘The Blues On My Side’ (2010), the band got into a whole new wave. The album contains 10 original songs, all written by Bas, and shows a band that, after a few years of playing together, is able to perform not only the standard three-chord blues-scheme, but also more complex compositions. During this period the band played many gigs, which only made them closer and tighter and put the name Bas Paardekooper and the Blew Crue on the map for good in the Netherlands, large parts of Germany and Belgium and even in England, the United States and Russia. Meanwhile, the band has released its third album, entitled ‘Broken Heart For Sale’ (2012), which raises the musical bar again. All corners of blues rock are explored on this album. A number of tracks are provided with rich arrangements and polyphonic vocals that give the songs an almost symphonic character, but always leave enough space for the incomparable guitar playing of Paardekooper. The release of ‘Broken Heart For Sale’ took place on 20 December 2012 in a tightly packed ‘Boerderij’ in Zoetermeer. A venue where the band has performed on a regular basis and where Bas experienced a personal highlight as “special guest” during a Walter Trout gig. The band can still be found in their rehearsal and recording studio at least twice a week, regardless of the number of gigs, because as they say themselves: “There’s always a song we can play even better with some practice, there’s always a song that needs to be finished and there’s always a song we need to think of”. But most of all, Bas Paardekooper and the Blew Crue are “on the road”, where they still play every show with as much pleasure and dedication as their first one, almost six years ago. The band consists of:
Bas Paardekooper (Gitar and vocals)
André de Bruijn (Bass gitar and vocals)
Roel van Leeuwen (Drums and vocals)
Wouter Hoek (keyboard and vocals)
20.00 HOURS SUPPORT-ACT
DOGHOUSE
Young Wijks bluesrock-talent in BLUESinLANGBROEK
BLUESinWIJK likes to give young blues talents the opportunity to gain the necessary stage experience. One such talent is 21 year old blues rocker Jasper LAGEMAAT from Wijk. Jasper has already played for BluesinWijk with the hard-blues rock band The Pillars. At their performance on Queen’s Day 2012, Jasper surprised a full Market Square with a beautiful Wilhemus guitar solo. Meanwhile, he is studying at the Arts & Entertainment college in Amsterdam. There he formed another band, with which he focuses more on blues than on rock. The band is called DOGHOUSE and consists of Jasper, Bram Jansen (the Pillars) behind the drums, Luuk Verheijden on bass guitar and Shawnee Erfmann as vocalist. Saturday night 27 April Jasper and his band will get all the space they need to show and hear what they are capable of. They play from 20.00 hours as support-act of Bas Paardekooper.
JASPER LAGEMAAT