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A Dutch tribute band to Bryan Ferry's Roxy Music.

Early years sound. Saw them in Oud-Beijerland, may 13th, 2000. They're great!

Some Avalon Mailing List posts:

From: van Lammeren, Anton
maandag 15 mei 2000 15:26
To: 'avalon@smoe.org'
Subject: RE: [AVALON] Dutch Roxy tribute band...

Hi all,

I've have been there with Andy. Oud-Beijerland is a mighty small town with a lot of bars that made it difficult to find the place anyway. Missed Streetlife and 2 or 3 more.

Met Han and Patricia -Vampirella?- and some more of the Dutchies that will go to Petworth next June. Atmosphere was indeed great. Quite a good pre-seventies imitation, though I never saw Roxy perform then.

Ron, the singer, had the kaki Siren-shirt with Roxy Music logo on left upper arm. No Phytofix Paris, I suppose. Smoked a sigaret during encore, St. Moritz. (Ah!)

Eno was brilliant: great vest with panther spots. And real Brian sounds. These two are 'authentic fans', Ron told me.

Then Andy and Phil: both skilled players, and especially Andy with his long sax solos got the people on their feet. Phil's solo in My Only Love was longer than the real Bryan permits I think.

Good bass and drums also. A true Paul no-nonsense Thompson drummer. Balder and not a slim, but solid drumming. Would love to hear The bogus Man with them.

Even took some pictures and if they turn out right I might put one up on my web site.

Tara! Anton.

- Anton van Lammeren

private e-mail: avl@dds.nl

"Next time is the best time, we all know"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivor Canning
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 1:30 PM
> To: Avalon
> Subject: [AVALON] Dutch Roxy tribute band...
>
> "Saturday May 13, there will be a Roxy Music Tribute- gig by
> the Dutch band  Re-make/Re-model in Oud Beijerland
> (a little town nearby Rotterdam.
> R/R play a lot of old RM/BF-stuff (most of the first 5 albums).
> Coming up gig will be partytime (waisting is too much fun)!!!
> There will be a lot of Roxy die-hard fans, so join our Roxyparty.

From: Han Snijders
Sent: dinsdag 16 mei 2000 22:14
To: avalon@smoe.org
Subject: [AVALON] All the guys imitate us, but the originals are still the greatest

Some Dutch Avalonians had a party in Oud Bijerland, a little town near Rotterdam. Re-make/Re model the Dutch Roxy tribute band was playing in a small cafe. First we had a meeting with some people I only knew from the net, telephone or a quick talk after Ferry's concert in Amsterdam. Always nice to meet people with a taste almost as good as your own.

And then Re Make/Re model. You won't believe your ears. What a sound!!! O.k the musicians are not as good as Paul, Phil, Bryan, Brian and Andy and John but as a whole they are fantastic! The saxplayer is so incredible good that when he played with Bryan as a stand-in for Andy nobody would complain, no joke! Ron has a very powerful voice. Although his voice isn't exact the same as Bryan, he has a very powerful voice that works very good on numbers like Street Life, Mother of Pearl and the Strand. One minor problem he cannot whistle, at the end of Jealous Guy he started to hmmm but one of the people in the audience took over Ferry's role and then we heard the longest whistle-solo in the history of BF. The guy refused to give back the mike. The drummer have the same power as Paul, very dry, straight sound, definitely not an Andy Newmark. But he plays a better Out of the Blue then John Sutton. Our imitation Brian has the same hairdresser as the real one and played his part very well, A little problems with his keyboard in In Every dream home but more important he was able to recreated all those weird sounds of the first two albums. What a wonderful Virginia Plain he did! The Guitar player was a more early seventies Rock orientated sound, In my opinion a bit too much. (but I'm more a Hubbard fan then a Phil fan..Sorry)

The played about 25 songs mostly Roxy from the early period some Ferry songs. The set had the same construction as what we expect from a Roxy/Ferry concert: the beginning with the more difficult and slower songs and the end party time with Do the strand, editions, Re make etc... My favourites were the in'crowd, Price of love which they gave there own extraordinary twist and Prairie Rose. All the songs were done very very well. Beautiful My only love Btw.

If there will be an Avalonmeeting on a lager scale somewhere (London?) in the future it would be a good idea to asked them to play!

Han

From: Johnny Reece
Sent: dinsdag 16 mei 2000 22:36
To: avalon@smoe.org Subject:
[AVALON] RE : All the guys imitate us...