I saw a poster yesterday that said that one of my favorite contemporary Dutch musicians is performing on Liberation Day in my hometown Zwolle.
Time to watch this clip of one of his first songs again
Spinvis - Astronaut

During the "Week van de psychedelica" (april 22 - 29) three Dutch radio stations are joining forces.

Today Dutch alternative classical radio station De Concertzender will broadcast the night of the psychedelica.
Between 19:00 PM - 09:00 AM CET (13:00-03:00 EST, 10:00-01:00 MST, etc...) 14 hours of "Technicolor Dream" music will be broadcasted.

First hour: "Technicolor Films" psychedelic music in films
Second hour: "Door de technicolor mazen van het net" = (hard to translate) "Through the Technicolor meshes of the Net"
Third 4 hours: Joe Boyd (Pink Floyd's first producer) and The UFO club
Fourth 6 hours: Chosen live from the vast psychedelic record collection of Hans von Seydlitz (a.o. Pink Floyd, The Kinks, Tomorrow, The Move, The Smoke, Yardbirds, Arthur Brown),
Fifth part, one hour: "Briljant but failed" a.o. Mark Wirtz's Teenage Opera
Sixth part: one hour: "Curt Boettcher, too good to be true", a documentary
Seventh part: Chill out, nonstop sunshine pop

You can listen live from the Concertzender's website

Steve Hanks
This is a recording of one of my favourite local bands in Haarlem, Holland in the mid eighties: The Breeze. I had a serious crush on the female saxophone player. (They also had a very masculin male saxophone player/singer, but although I went through a bi-sexual try-out period, he wasn't my type ;)
She was the main reason I ever tried to learn to play the tenor sax, so I could at least see her once a week at lesson.
I recorded their complete last concert in Café "De Flapkan" on two cassettes, from which I lost the one with the main part of the evening on it. But I'm glad I still have my favorite cover of theirs:

The Breeze - Depot depot

As I said, they split up after this gig. And my sax teacher gave, eh no sold me one of the last PR picture cards. Somewhere in the proces of producing 52 weeks, where I originally planned to post this recording I must have put it somewhere I can't find it anymore. So as an illustration I have taken the first picture I found by picture-googling for Breeze

Yes, GOC 19-23 were available for members only. Here we're continuing with:

Thomas Mapfumo in concert Paradiso Amsterdam may 16 1978

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More Mapfuno music

A 120 minute cassette with live music:

1. Robert Palmer Live at Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam september 20 1984

2. The Bob Color live at Ekkel Horizontaal january 1993 (website)

3. Death by Bongo live at Ekkel Horizontaal january 1993

4. Lilian D. Jackson live at Ekkel Horizontaal january 1993

5. Pim Maas - Heart Break Hotel live at Ekkel Horizontaal january 1993 (Records by Pim Maas)

6. Julya Lo'ko live at Ekkel Horizontaal january 1993 (picture)

7. Youssou n'Dour live at Africa Feel Festival june 1985

8. The Kuni Kids live at Ekkel Horizontaal ( picture)