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PostPosted: 23 Oct 2009, 10:48 
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Today is the day! Its The Gathering's 20th anniversary! See http://www.gathering.nl for more info, such as an upcoming Europe tour 2010 and some news about Hugo :)



Hello all,

And then, suddenly it is there! The 20th anniversary of The Gathering. Exactly 20 years ago my brother René and me, together with Bart Smits on vocals, started this band. No strategy, we just wanted to write songs so we could release a rehearsal tape. Lots of people in Oss were playing in bands, and they triggered us to do something for ourselves.

Exactly 20 years ago we biked from our parents house in Oss to a little village called Heesch, were we rented a rehearsal room on a farm, and started writing our first song: ‘Anthology in Black’. Great, exciting times. I can remember clearly it was freezing cold in that room in wintertime. I see Bart struggling to get the heater on with matches. Every Sunday morning we biked to that farm, most of the time with a big hangover because of a rough Saturday evening, and started early in the morning writing and playing songs.

A lot of things happened in those 20 years! Good times, bad times, but we always survived. Sometimes we had to struggle our way back and managed to come back stronger than ever. Most of the time we enjoyed playing in this band, seeing a lot of countries, touring all over the world and playing clubs and festivals, making 9 studio albums, 2 DVD’s and a lot of EP’s, singles (even a small top 50 entrance with Strange Machines) and live records, getting to meet some of our fantastic fans.. A lot of positive things to remember!

And now? A party? Well, we will celebrate this with the upcoming live gigs in the Netherlands and a European tour around January/February 2010! The tour will be around three weeks and we are all really looking forward to hitting the road again. There is some sad news in this though as Marjolein can’t go with us the first week of this tour due to her daytime job. Luckily she will be there the 2nd and 3rd week. So, who will play bass guitar then? :) We had only one name in our mind: Hugo Prinsen Geerligs. As many of you know Hugo was with us for 15 years and we were very happy when we asked Hugo and he said yes! 5 years have gone and now he will join us and help us out! These gigs will be something special for sure and give our 20th anniversary even more cachet!

Tourdates will follow asap.

We would be happy if you want to leave a message down under, say something on our message board, twitter, mysace, facebook or just send a nice card to:

The Gathering

PO Box 1366

6501 BJ Nijmegen

The Netherlands

Cheers!

Hans, René, Frank, Marjolein & Silje.

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Swpa re, ama einai ki oi Gathering 20 xronia sto kourmpeti, to 'xoume xameno.


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Den xerw alla enoiwsa poly omorfa me auto pou diavasa.Anaferomai sta 20 xronia (an kai h eidhsh gia ton Hugo dn me afhnei adiaforo)

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Wx, twra to eida auto me to Hugo, kalos eimai ki egw! Ela re Hugo 8ee! :D


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Αν έρθουν στην Ελλάδα με τον παιχταρά Hugo, θα ανάψω κερί στον Άγιο Βολφράμιο!

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θα ζησουμε μεγάλες στιγμές λέμε

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Dld to live to kleisame kai eimaste stis megales stigmes hdh? :P

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KingJP wrote:
Αν έρθουν στην Ελλάδα με τον παιχταρά Hugo, θα ανάψω κερί στον Άγιο Βολφράμιο!

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Peite kapoios sto afentiko tis Karjolein na tis dosei uperories, proagogi, auxisi, ta panta ola, na tin kanei kai executive manager an ginetai prokeimenou na kratisoume ton Hugo stin omada. Kali kai sympathestati i Mariolitsa, alla o Hugo einai Boss (pun intended).

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Peite kapoios sto afentiko tis Karjolein na tis dosei uperories, proagogi, auxisi, ta panta ola, na tin kanei kai executive manager an ginetai prokeimenou na kratisoume ton Hugo stin omada.
8a ths pei... otan 8a xasei th 8esh ths!

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Pantws pragmatika h marjo einai sympathestath alla o hugo htan o agaphmenos mou apo ta male melh ths mpantas. Otan efyge arxisa na skeftomai tis deuteres lyseis

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sas kwloeftiakse o Hans kariolia e? 8)

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Έτσι, με καλά νέα ξεκίνησε η μέρα :green: :flower:

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TO idaniko! Paraskeuh pairnw repo apo stones kai savvato Athina (ektos aprooptou)
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