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The following news was just release:

The popular American singer-songwriter John Fogerty is added to the bill of Night of the Proms. He became famous as singer-songwriter of Creedance Clearwater Revival and has been rewarded with a Grammy Award for his solo career. He wrote world hits such as ‘Proud Mary’, ‘Bad Moon Rising’, ‘Who’ll Stop The Rain’, ‘Rockin’ All Over The World’, ‘Old Mand Down The Road’, ‘Centerfield’ and ‘Born On The Bayou’. John Fogerty will share the Proms-stage this fall with Boy George , violinist Charlie Siem and a surprise act (in Belgium).

John Fogerty will be playing at Night of the Proms in Belgium and The Netherlands.

More info will follow later.

The last news provided by Jan Vereecke on his blog dates from the 19th of May, so already two and half months old. Since there isn’t too much news to gather these days about the upcoming artists, we asked some follow-up question to Jan Vereecke, organizer, on the 29th of July.

Jan, when do you expect to announce the full line-up?
There is finally some movement, in fact only this morning. Now, it can’t go fast enough. Maybe next week already?

In 2009, Jonas Isacsson of Roxette was part of the Electric Band; he was very enthusiastic about the NOTP form. In Charleroi 2010, Rob Winter played along but he’s too busy during the fall with Marco Borsato. Will Jonas become the fixed guitar player, following Laurie Wisefield?
No, it will be Leendert Haaksma, playing for Anouk and Natalia. He will join the Electric Band during the fall. We’re very honored!



Lichtmond will place the emphasis on a perfect sound and visual effects. Will there be a giant screen again like in 2007?
There will be even five screens who can form one big projector screen.

Will the movie music return to the program?
Definitely. I’m negotiating with the distributor of the Harry Potter movies for the use of images from the movie.

In 2009, extras from Fine Fleur made the show. Will they be active again during this years’ show?
During the fall, Fine Fleur will take of a choir of 24 persons. It’s not our initial intent to use extras again.

According to Dirk Hohmeyer, there will be a new DVD? Is that true?
Yes, we’re working on DVD 4, with mainly highlights from the last three editions.

Is there a new CD planned from the 2010 shows in Antwerp and The Netherlands, or will there be a new Best Of – CD?
That’s too early to tell. CD’s are having a quite hard time nowadays…



That’s all for Jan’s input so far. We’re looking forward to the news of the next weeks!

The head line for the NOTP shows in Germany 2010 is Sir Clif Richard, a living legend who is becoming 70 years old and scored his first hit over 50 years ago. Cliff will only perform in Germany.

Together with the head line for Germany, Lichtmond was announced as well, a nice pop project who releases their first Blue Ray DVD in September.

The presence of John Miles is also confirmed.

Read here our interview with Dominique Vanhaegenberg.

On the following page, you can read our interview with the German organizer, Dirk Hohmeyer.

Night of the Proms in 2011 in Poland

It’s 99% sure that there will be a first Night of the Proms show in Poland in 2011. There are two very nice opportunities but it’s sure that there will only be one show. If the decision is made, probably in the beginning of August, we’ll publish our interview with Kris Verbruggen, who will organize the show in Poland.

At the moment, there is little to no news about the Night of the Proms shows. After the world cup 2010, the headliner for Germany will be announced.

Boy George was in Belgium to promote the fall shows: he was outspoken questioned in the show De Rode Loper (VRT), and also in the show Villa Vanthilt (part 1, part 2) where he brought an accoustic version of Karma Chamaleon.



In a few days, we’ll publish our interview with Dominiek Vanhaegenberg, the sympathetic trombone player and biggest joker of Il Novecento and also, since many years, arranger of music pieces during the Proms shows.

Soon, we’ll also present Dirk Hohmeyer, the organizer of the German tours. And we’ll bring you up to date as soon as possible if there is more news about the plans for the shows in countries never visited before.

DIV4S is not coming to Night of the Proms; Jan adds to that: ‘This year!’ and so we hope that the classical artists for 2011 are already booked. Another artist is already programmed: Charlie Siem, a young violin virtuoso from across the Channel. We think it will be definitely worth it, and have written it all down in the following presentation.

Here, we present you Barry Hay of Golden Earring; finally he, who was on the NOTP wish lists for such a long time, is coming.

The first name for the fall shows is made public: Boy George.

CLICK HERE to read our full review of the Charleroi show of the 24th of April 2010. The enthusiastic reporter can’t decide which title to use:

• DIV4S venerunt, viderunt, vicerunt!
• Very strong Sharleen, Kim charming and rocking, fantastic overwhelming DIV4S, Laurent as he is, Fine Fleur & Il Novecento in very good shape
• Artists and musicians perform 200 %, hall just crowded for 80 %
• Women in power !
• International interest from more than 1000 km away !
• The discovery of 2010 !

Click here for the playlist

The organization starts a television campaign with the commercial below; we hope that the Spiroudôme will be sold out that day, unfortunately only that day and not a second show. John Miles will be absent since he’s daughter is scheduled to give birth that day.

Franck van der Heijden, who wrote the most arrangements for the Night of the Proms editions since 1995, has a brand new website: www.franckmeseka.com. Those who are still hungry for more information about Franck after a visit to his beautiful site, we’re happy to point them to our interview on our website with him.

For the rest, a lot of new video’s in the lists.

We wish all our Night of the Proms friend a happy 2010 with a lot of musical pleasures.

We leave 2009 with a mixed feeling. A musical very good edition in Charleroi with a quite disappointing number of visitors; this risks the chances to enjoy another Night of the Proms show again in the spring of this year. The spring shows could be made more attractive with more communication about the shows and more visibility in the streets, press, etc … to make them as successful as 2008. We’re waiting for news from the organization.

The silver jubilee in 2009 added a new aspect to NOTP: the party is not only a concert but also a real show; the editions in Antwerp, Arnhem and Rotterdam surprised by the choreography of the extra’s, the performance of Fine Fleur and the remarkable lightshow. This renewed concept should be kept as guidance for next editions. On top of that NOTP taught us to keep delivering good quality for a reasonable price. End conclusion: a very grateful feeling for NOTP in 2009 and we really hopeful for the fall editions of 2010.

We learned a lot during the first five months of our website; we thanks Christophe, Laurent, Kris and Wim a lot for their cooperation, the organization, all visitors, friends on our forum and all those who have send us their feedback of material. 2010 will be an investment in the archives of NOTP and let our website evolve more than before.

Dries en Bernard

After some time of silence (in fact, technical work behind the scene), it’s time to add some new inforation.

First of all, new video’s have been added.
We also added the playlists for the Dutch and Antwerp editions.
Thanks to Steven Gielen, we also have a very nice review of the Dutch premiere.
Also a review of the German premiere in Hamburg has its own review.

During the rest of the day or tomorrow, we try to add some more video’s, and the artists for the 2009 editions will be added in the lists.

Enjoy!

We’ve added a large photo gallery of the Antwerp edition, thanks to Christophe Courouble

The tracklist for the German cd of the 2009 edition is released:

1. Il Novecento / Fine Fleur – Nox Argentea
2. Heaven 17 – Let Me Go
3. Katona Twins – Scarlatti’s Metamorphosis
4. Christina Stürmer – Engel Fliegen Einsam
5. Alan Parsons – Sirius & Eye In The Sky
6. Il Novecento – Le Carnaval Romain
7. Roxette – The Look
8. Christina Stürmer – Mama (Ana Ahabak)
9. Alan Parsons – Silence And I
10. Heaven 17 – Temptation
11. Ouvertüre Dichter & Bauer – Il Novencento
12. John Miles feat. Katona Twins & Sharon Den Adel – Stairway To Heaven
13. Il Novecento / Fine Fleur – Bolero
14. John Miles feat. Toots Thielemans – If I Could
15. Listen To Your Heart – Roxette

10th of November

We were there at the third weekend of the NOTP edition in Antwerp. The lightshow has some minor changes. Remarkable is the power that Marie shows on stage during her performance; during the first weekend she was still fragile (due to laryngitis), in the second week she has to sit down a lot, but now she glows from a reborn power.

Tomorrow, the shows in Antwerp are over; from the 13th of November the editions in the Gelredome (Arnhem) and the Ahoy (Rotterdam). The show of the 23th of November in the Ahoy will be the 700th show. From Friday the 27th of November, the German tour is kicked off in Hamburg and will last until the 20th of December in Dortmund.

Christophe is singing along with Fine Fleur in the Netherlands and Germany (first part): so keep an eye on his blog!

At the premiere, we (Dries and Bernard) conciliated with Stephan, our colleague from the German fan site.

At his visit to the Proms show last weekend, Laurent (our French friend), was welcomed by an always cheerful John Miles.

For Charleroi, still no artists are contacted.

We would like to bring a full report of all years, starting with the concerts of the ’80s and the ’90s. Where you there? Send us your impressions of those concerts so we can publish them on our site.

We are not sure of the running order for the editions between 1985 and 1994: can you check this (for example through the cd tracklist and own notes, memory, etc…) ?

You can always reach us through admin@notpfan.eu

A new review of the Antwerp edition (after a second visit) is available here.

Due to some problems we hadn’t been able to add the third part of Carl in the magazine Dag Allemaal (in Dutch). This is now also made available:
page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4

Again we’ve added new video’s: Shaggy, Foreigner, Paul Young, Pointer Sisters, and many others…

Thanks to some of our colleagues as fans (Laurent, Wim, Jorg and others), our video lists contain over 250 links, amongst them some remarkable ones: the oldest one are from…. 1988 with Al Stewart, but also take a look at Beverly Craven from 1991, Oleta Adams in 1996, David Garrett in 2002, a medley from all classical pieces from France 2006, Rodger Hodgson from different editions and Il Novecento with Sleeping Beauty from 2008.

The lineup for Germany is added here and also a review of the overture from Poet and Peasant, which can be found here.

Again some changes. 2 movies are added in the: 1 of Karl Jenkins in Rotterdam (thanks to Wim) and one from En Vogue & Robert Groslot (thanks to Laurent).
Furthermore the article ‘Night Of The Proms in 2009′ has a new layout and a lot of translations are added.

Have fun.

For the occasion of the fall editions in 2009, not only will there be a Best of John Miles at Night of the Proms CD released, but also a new general Best Of Night of the Proms double disc with 33 songs. Together with the 15 of John Miles, the NOTP fan gets 48 new tracks offered for sale!I orderd the CD through the website of NOTP and had it in my letter box only three days later.

This double ‘Best of’ goes on into the tradition of the last ones released in 2002 and 2003, so a wonderful mix of some classical pieces and more recent songs of modern artists. The most songs date from 2000 or later; Bryan Ferry, Al Jarreau and Roger Hodgson paid their contribution in 1995, Status Quo in 1999.

Some songs were never put on CD before. ‘Sanctify’ from the Simple Minds was recorded in 2008, probably in Antwerp, while ‘Enolay Gay’ from OMD, the powered closure, was recorded in Benidorm (Spain) in 2008. They form a nice completion to the collection of all the NOTP fans.

When you not own the complete NOTP CD collection, you will be pleased with the recordings of the artists that only played in Germany (and sometimes Spain). On the German CD the songs of Mike Oldfield, Kim Wilde and Paul Carrack were recorded during the rehearsals in Antwerp and were later on mixed with the sound of the audience. It are these prerecorded ones that you’ll hear again on this CD.

This double disc is a nice collection with a perfect overview of the last editions. It’s a very good investment for who doesn’t own the 63 pervious released CD (over the different countries).

Tracklist

Thanks to Christophe, we can now offer our site also in French. The complete translation is still ongoing but some items are already translated.

Enjoy.

a report of the 10/08 persconference in Antwerp is available here.

The interview with Robert Groslot is on line.

The tracklist of the CD from John Miles is announced.

Again some more movies added of Bryan Ferry, Chrissie Hynde en Natasha St Pierre (thanks Laurent for the info).
Besides the movies, also a new artikel about the classical works on NOTP.

Enjoy.

We added a drop-down list for language-selection.
At the moment only the homepage and this update-post is available in English, but we’re working on translating the rest as soon as possible. If you encounter any problems, feel free to let us know.

At the bottom of the video-page, the backstage movies from Steven Schelfhout during the 2005 editions were added.

We have a new column in our menu: “on and off the stage”. In this column we present people who play a part in reaching a succesful edition.

Enjoy.

Some extra information about the 2009 editions and some extra movies.

A broken link in the video-page is restored and for the rest some extra video’s of Roger Daltrey are added.
For the 2009 editions, there is a new subcolumn ‘persconferences’ under ‘Night Of The Proms in 2009′.
Finally, some extra information regarding the lights handed to the public can be read in “tips and tricks” (in Dutch “weet en meet”).

Enjoy!

Also France and Charleroi are added to the playlists.
For Germany, we’re happy to point to the wonderful website of Stephan: http://www.notp-fanpage.de/

Today, the last artists is made public, being OMD.

After their wonderful performance in Charleroi in 2008, this band is also coming to Antwerp and The Netherlands.

Last year they brought the hits Maid of Orleans, Enola Gay and a combination of Souvenir/ Locomotion .

We think, that they will bring these hits also for the 2009 editions.

In the midst of his busy preparations for the fall editions of 2009, Jan Vereecke; one of the two Jan’s behind the Night Of The Proms editions; replies briefly to our questions:

When will the last artists be known for the editions in Antwerp and The Netherlands?
Jan: The last artists will be made public on the 24th of August.

Will there be CD of the editions in Antwerp and The Netherlands?
Jan: We’re not sure about that. Now that both programs are running equally, it may be the worth the effort, but then all the artits will have to give their permission. In any case, we’re working on a double ‘Jubileum Best of’ CD with the greatest moments of the last 25 years. There will also be a ‘John Miles Proms Best of’ CD with some nice duets of John with guests of the Proms.

Will there be a fourth DVD?
Jan: We would like to do this next year.

Why is there a suprise quest for the editions in Antwerp?
Jan: This concept dates from 1992, when the editions in The Netherlands were performed before the Antwerp editions. In The Netherlands, Raymond was booked as extra quest and when we saw his success there, we decided to also invite him for the Antwerp editions…

Will there be National or International suprise quests to the 25th edition?
Jan: No, just like we announced Soulsister 2 years ago, and so we hadn’t got a suprise act, we’re now announcing Toots Thielemans: we consider his presence too important not to announce it.

Will Fine Fleur be back on stage?
Jan: Absolutely, there participance will be very special. That’s all I’m saying right now.

Thanks a lot, Jan!

A lot of the Spanisch and Dutch information is added. For example the playlists and the artists (both alphabetically as chronologically available).

Have fun with it

We opened our forum for visitors. Those who wish can register and leave some feedback. If you want to see certain content on our site, let us know. Remarks regarding our site (errors, corrections, etc…) are of course also welcome.

Again some new video clips are added. Furthermore there seemed to be an error in the alphabetical list with video’s, this should be sloved.
Last but not least, some French and Dutch dvd information is added.
Tomorrow, again something new

18.08.2009: we added some new video clips of the 1996 edition with Kamiel Spiessens, Gue Yue and Percusionists of Il Novecento. Thanks to Laurent for the tips!

17.08.2009: we added some new video clips, some previous unknown recordings of the 1990 edition with Alan Parsons Project, and with Gary Brooker (of Procol Harum) as guest start and keyboard player! Then there is Colin Blunston (She’s not there) in 1993, Peter Koelewijn in 1998 and INXS in Rotterdan during the 2003 edition. Thanks to Wim and Laurent for their tips!