As a solo artist I mainly do the more melodic less raunchy stuff.
But that doesn’t mean I am free of raunchyness! Hey, I’m as raunchy as the next guy! So there. I have two great musician friends that I love playing with. One of them is Hilmar Leujes, bassplayer – the other one is Ian Rijksen, drummer. Together we can be raunchy as raunchy can be!
And these days we are. We have formed a band called The Rodberries. The Rodberries are all about energy and catchiness. Hilmar writes about 50% of the songs for the band. And I write the other 50%, I co-write the lyrics to a bunch of them together with Charline van Deth.
We are now in the process of rehearsing (and still writing!) for our first gig ever as a band, on May 9th starting at 20.00 hours at the free open air festival during the Giro D’Italia in Amsterdam (organized by the beautifully nice people and great organizers of Feest in de Pijp). It’s at the crossroad of the Eerste Sweelinckstraat, de Tweede Jacob van Campenstraat and the Gerard Doustraat, in De Pijp in Amsterdam. Everybody please drop by to catch us do our show, if you’re in the neighbourhood!
It’s all so very fresh, The Rodberries have nothing seriously recorded yet, but here are five demos of songs written we are certainly going to play: