"THE FERRYMEN OF KHARON"
PRESENTS
"IN CONCERT"
SATURDAY 4TH OF JUNE 2011
(JC 'Togenblik - Beveren Waas)
IKON 20th Anniversary Tour (Aus)
ERATO (B)
VENDEMMIAN (UK)
NEW to the Line-up of Beveren 'Togenblik 4th of June 2011 !!!!!
The UK Gothic Rock - Post punk Band VENDEMMIAN !!!!!!
This Great band is back !!! Now on Tour with their New Album and visiting Belgium for an exclusive gig !!!
INTENS (B)
Dino Molinaro (Bass), Chris McCarter (vocals, guitar), Clifford Ennis (guitar), David Burns (Drums)
(Australian Gothrock/Darkwave band)
Gothic-Legends from Australia coming back to Europe:
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IKON
"20th Anniversary" Tour 2011
01.06.2011 D-Zweibrücken, Kontrastbühne
04.06.2011 B-Beveren, JC Togenblik
06.06.2011 CZ-Prague, Lidovy du*m Kbely
08.06.2011 D-Hamburg, Silber Club (+ guests)
09.06.2011 D-Köln, Underground
10.06.2011 D-Hagen, Werkhof (+ guests)
exclusive Belgian gig!
Celebrating their 20th Aniversary !!!
With the returns of David burns as live drummer
and Clifford Ennis (Razorfade, Subterfuge) on guitar !
Australian band IKON has been creating its unique brand of wave music for eighteen years. Chris McCarter (vocals, guitar, programming) and Dino Molinaro (bass) began to write songs as high school students in 1988. In 1991, their original name Death in the Dark was replaced by IKON, and the band’s original singer was Michael Carrodus, who departed in 1997 after two albums. The duo was joined by guitarist Anthony Cornish in 2006 who fulfilled live duties until 2010.
Love, Hate and Sorrow, IKON’s sixth studio album was released in November 2009 and was three years in the making. While retaining the essence of influences such as Joy Division, early New Order and Death in June, IKON has added further textures to the band’s style to produce its most accomplished full-length release. Love, Hate and Sorrow embraces melodic song structures without forgetting IKON’s origins and the music that inspired the band to release its first album fifteen years ago. The response to the first two singles shows the new material's appeal to fans of old- and new-school wave music: Black Magazin named the first single ‘A Line on a Dark Day’ the second-best track of 2008 and music journalist Mick Mercer commented that these “pioneers in the Gothic genre” have produced a “pure dreamy wave cut” in the form of ‘Amongst the Runes’.
The band embarked on its seventh European tour in September 2009. Love, Hate and Sorrow saw IKON return to their first European label, Apollyon (with whom they first signed with 1994), and also marks their signing to Vendetta Music in the United States. The band has also released its first music video clip for ‘A Line on a Dark Day’. The next single from the album will be ‘Torn Apart’, a slower track which, in its touching simplicity and raw emotion, marks a departure from the powerful guitar-based club tracks for which IKON is renowned.
IKON has a prolific history of recordings (five EPs and seventeen singles in addition to albums) and plans to re-issue its first two albums, In the Shadow of the Angel and Flowers for the Gathering, in remastered and expanded format. This will make these pioneering releases available to fans who have just discovered the band and will reward those old enough to have bought the originals with a generous selection of bonus material from the band’s archives.
On the strength of a repertoire of old and new hits, IKON has frequently toured Australia, Europe and the UK. IKON has played on the same bill as The Sisters of Mercy, H.I.M., Soft Cell, Death in June, London After Midnight and The Mission. IKON has performed at the Eurorock Festival in Belgium, the M’era Luna Festival in Hildesheim, Germany before an audience of more than 15,000 people and has also appeared twice at the world’s largest goth festival, Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany.
IKON has been called “the AC/DC of goth” for its long-term success creating and performing music that rocks internationally from all the way Down Under. In 2009, IKON returned to Europe, and delivered its best album yet, Love, Hate and Sorrow and its first video clip for the single 'A Line on a Dark Day'. 2010 began with IKON supporting H.I.M. in Melbourne and will see the release of a video single, covers compilation and live DVD.
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ERATO
(Belgian Gothrock Darkwave band)
Ever Since their debut in ’93 ERATO has always put the song first. Together with strong live performances. Winning the first Gothrally in ’97 has put them on the map in the Belgian dark alternative music scene as upcoming Gothrock promise.
Over the years ERATO has been living up to this reputation playing strong sets of honest contemporary dark rock on several stages in Belgium as abroad.
Their music, a rare blend of the purest gothic/new-wave sound of the eighties and
contemporary rock, has conquered the hearts of many and has put them on stage together with bands as the Sisters of Mercy, Skeletal Family, Ikon, Violet Stigmata, the Cruxshadows, Two Witches, Faith and The Muse... and many others.
Armed with a persistent fan base and a strong D.I.Y.-attitude, Erato has released 4 albums that have reached music lovers all over the world.
Today ERATO is a full option live band that guarantees a whole new live experience with nostalgic touch.
Erato continues what it always done best: playing great songs with heart and no
compromises.
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(Belgian Dark Electro Band)
their first official gig !!!
"And then … I decided to enjoy the weird …"
Het vreemde is een microbe. Peter De Koning, protagonist van intens, wordt ermee besmet rond zijn vijftiende levensjaar. Groepen als Dead can dance, Delerium, yelworC, Endraum en Moon of Sorrow geven gestalte aan het gevoel dat in hem huist.
In 1999 wordt hij lid van Crossvaults, een groep die donkere elektronische muziek combineert met metal. De groep kent een relatief succes en treedt op in verscheidene milieus. De eigenaardige breaks, het muzikale non-conformisme, de geavanceerde drumtechnieken en de vreemde stijlovergangen zullen voor intens een bepalende leerschool zijn. Joris, gitarist van Crossvaults, zal later de leadgitaar voor zijn rekening nemen in intens.
In 2002 treedt Peter voor de eerste keer op onder de naam ‘intens’ op een groot uitgevallen verjaardagsfeestje van vriend Bart De Poorter, die de toetsen voor zijn rekening neemt in intens. De setlist bestaat dan nog enkel uit ‘kindsoldaten’ en een remix. Met Bart speelt Peter ook ten dans in Hedera helix en Gestalt.
Peter blijft intussen een massa nummers maken voor intens, maar door de vele actieve nevenprojecten zoals Crossvaults, Hedera helix, TraumaSutra en Hybryds lukt het niet om voldoende tijd vrij te maken om het project professioneel uit te werken.
Wendy zet in 2007 de groep weer op het rechte pad. Haar etherische stem geeft de het project een nieuw geluid. Haar visie op muziek is exact dezelfde. Conformisme moet eraan geloven. De spirit van punk in een surrealistisch jasje … Een verhuis naar Nederland dwingt haar om te stoppen, maar de toon is gezet. Intens moet en zal weer op de planken staan. Peter besluit zelf te zingen.
In 2010 ondergaat intens een ware metamorfose wanneer besloten wordt om de groep om te vormen tot een complete live band. Oude bekenden Joris en Bart worden vast personeel. Later worden nieuwe getrouwen gevonden in de persoon van Dirk (gitaar) en een verse Bart (bas). De laatste zorgt ervoor dat de stijl meer richting wave glijdt. De voordien prominente elektronische bassen verdwijnen.
Intens is herboren!
Het Vreemde blijft.
