The album Marcel recorded with Keith Caputo is completed! It's called "Fondness for hometown scars" and was produced by Martyn Lenoble (Porno for Pyro's/Jane's addiction), mixed by Martyn with Vincent Jones (Morrissey) at Andy Wallace's Sound City studio and mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound. Guesting on the record are Gerry Leonard (Rufus Wainwright/David Bowie), Craig Ross (Lenny Kravitz), Flea (Red hot chili peppers) and Zac Rae.
The album currently has no release date yet.

Two tiny pics of the gigs Marcel did with Keith!

Marcel will be doing a short Dutch tour with Keith
Caputo this month.
Here are the dates:

May 13th 013, Tilburg
May 14th Patronaat, Haarlem
May 16th Doornroosje, Nijmegen
May 17th Dauwpop festival, Hellendoorn (11.00 a.m!)

On march 23 Marcel played the Classics in rock event at the Ahoy arena in Rotterdam.
Marcel shared the stage with an impressive list of performers including John Waite ,Glenn Hughes ,Graham Bonnet (Marcel joined Bonnet for a blistering version
of the Steve Vai era Alcatrazz classic "God blessed video") Chris Tompson, Jon Anderson, Neil Murray and a whole cast of dutch caracters including Arjen Lucassen, Dany Lademacher, and Joost van den Broek.

The show is expected to be released on DVD sometime in the near future.

Marcel just got back from recording the guitar parts for Keith Caputo's new album in LA.
The whole proces took close to a month and while they were there anyway, Keith and the band (christened "the sad eyed ladies" for the occasion!) played a short set of new tunes at the Whiskey a go go.

Next month Marcel will be off to the Hollwood Hills to record the guitar parts for Keith Caputo's next solo album at the Newkingsound studio.
The as yet untitled collection of new songs will be produced by Martyn Lenoble (Porno for pyros/The Cult/Jane's Addiction/Dave Gahan etc.) and will also feature the talents of drummer Jochem van Rooijen (Miss Antarctica) and bass player Michiel Rietveld (A day's work)
Much more about all of this later...

Marcel has just recorded the guitar solo's for Classics in Rock's main theme written by Joost van den Broek (After forever) The Classics in rock event is said to be the loud version of night of the proms and will be held at the Ahoy arena in Rotterdam on March 23. Marcel will be opening the show with some blisterring guitar solo's in front of a big orchestra.Check out radio and TV commercials in the coming months for the studio recording.

A little while ago Branko made a really cool video for their single "Love is a fading star"
Check it out:

On October 17th Marcel plays "de Paap" in The Hague. as part of the Haagse Popweek.
See you there!

Check out this link for who's playing where during the week.



To get in the mood; check the Haagse Pop Server

The most important news is probably that you are now looking at this website!
There finally is a place on the web to put some of my music and many things related to it.
The main thing i am working on is my first solo album on which, apart from the drums and the odd guest performance, I played, sang, written, produced and recorded everything myself.
There is no release date or release structure yet, but in the meantime you can listen to a couple of songs that will probably end up on the record.
I might put up some other songs in a while so keep checking!

Apart from making my own music, I am also involved in a variety of other projects, sessions etc.
One of them is the band Branko.We have recently shot a video for the new single"love is a fading star",taken from the album "my world electric" on which I
played lead guitar.You can go to the listen section of this site, or go to Branko.nl for some more Branko.
You can also stick around here and go to the discography section to check out some other things i've done recently and not so recently...

Have fun!