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2010/07/05 Current Activities: Bart is performing with David Bowie Tribute EchoBowie these days. Ron is performing with Roxy Music Tribute Remake/Remodel in the near future. Some Material that we recorded in 2005 at De Salon is online now at YouTube
2008/06/03 Bob Dylan session Ron, Bart, Kees and Leslie will be performing Bob Dylan songs at Podium café "De Graauwe Hengst", Thursday june 19th.
2007/08/09 We're sorry to say Frantic ceased to exist. It was fun while it lasted. Thank you all for the support you've been giving us!
2006/11/24 So we didn't make the final. We got as far as the last seventyfive bands. Clash report. Single: Jealous Guy.
2006/11/13 Although not the best recording ever of Frantic, don't forget to vote for us at the "Clash HitList" at the The Clash Of The Coverbands site. Currently we are at place 76.
2006/11/12 Call Bart on 06-24238943 to order tickets for coming friday, and we will do our best to arrange some tickets for you for € 8,50. We have a limited time to arrange tickets, so be quick.
2006/11/09 New date for The Clash Of The Coverbands. Next week: Friday November 17 at Plan C.
2006/11/07 Frantic has received a wildcard for The Clash Of The Coverbands. We need your support more than ever, so stay tuned for more info! We've added the Correct setlist of the last round. Thanks to all who were there!
2006/10/13 Quarter finales of the Clash tonight! Door opens at 20:00u. We play as third band. Be there.
2006/08/24 We will be sending Cd's + bonus DVD to all who preordered sometime next week. Thanks for you patience!
2006/06/30 Tracklist CD: In the midnight hour Trash Nobody loves me Ladytron Just like you Out of the blue The 'In' Crowd Spell on you Shame shame shame Let's stick together Virginia plain Editions of you Do the strand If there's something Spin me round
2006/06/29 I (Bart) had a lot of fun yesterday. The band gave me a wonderful customized "For you pleasure" framed photograph. We played a short but special set with two new songs and a lot of songs we only played once or twice before
2006/06/28 The CD is ready. For those who preordered, I'm bringing a couple tonight!
2006/06/26 Reminder! Bart is celebrating his birthday next wednesday at "Spot the Loony"! View the calendar for details.
2006/05/12 Thanks to DJ Mulder we have some nice pictures of the "Clash" gig
2006/05/01 Although mentioned at the website of "De Salon", Frantic will not be performing there May 25.
2006/04/26 BTW. The DVD and CD will be available together soon from this site for the price of € 13,- + shippingcosts. This offer will be for a limited time only. After that we will only sell the CD.
2006/04/25 A nice little gathering at the Spot last night. At last we gave the promised free DVD to Mark Harbers and Fred van Stralen. We gave away two because of the long time we took to get the DVD ready. The DVD tracklist: In the midnight hour Trash Nobody loves me Amazona My Only love Price of love Shame shame shame Let's stick together Virginia plain Editions of you Do the strand If there's something Spin me round
2006/04/19 Next monday we present our DVD at "Spot the Loony". Door opens at 20:00u and closes around 20:30u. Only on this evening DVD & CD will be available together at a price of € 13,-. Admission is invitation only so mail or call us when you want to join us.
2006/04/17 Very positive report on the site of The Clash Of The Coverbands!
2006/04/08 Frantic did well at the Clash yesterday. Next september we will compete in the next round. Setlist and some quick images available here.
2006/03/06 Moved all images to the archives folder. Changed the interface so you can see what information is available for every past gig. Added some images to the archives.
2006/02/28 We recorded the gig, for our own use, last saturday. The result was better than can be expected from a soundboard recording. So in the archives you will find one song.
2006/02/23 We will introduce our new band member next saturday. Come and support him on his first gig with us (he will need it :-). We are thinking about planning a warm-up gig on the friday before the July Roxy Music concerts (Werchter and Bospop). Wanna party with us? let us know in the poll. This week 2 years ago we played at "van Diggelen". We have some nice memories about this gig. In the archives is one we would like to share.
2006/02/20 Frantic will be competing in The Clash Of The Coverbands. First round April 7, 2006 at Plan C. Frantic will be playing at café "Honky Tonk". Look at the calendar for details.
2005/12/05 Renamed the "setlists" pages to archives. Added a newspaper article to the archives page for 20051109. As almost everywhere on this site, click on the little picture to view a larger one, click on the larger picture to return to the page.
2005/12/04 Just wanted to let everybody know that we had a very good time yesterday! One new song was played: "In every dream home a heartache". The complete setlist.
2005/11/08 Winner of our first poll is "The bogus man". This song will be added to our playlist soon. (but not tomorrow ;-). Expect more polls coming your way soon!
2005/10/31 Tell us what you want to hear! Vote for a song in the poll. Just found an attempt at a publicity shot. Find it here
2005/10/29 Made the setlists of past gigs available
2005/10/25 Long overdue. There are some new pictures from the april gig. Courtesy of Jane and Al Fraser. B.T.W. for the ones thinking, where are those recordings? Video is just about finished. Audio still has some work to do. The first set is almost done. When finished we will make a song available through the website.
2005/10/24 Bart & Erna (a/d Haar) play/sing in The Funkalicious Collective. This band has made it to the district finales Rotterdam of the Clash of the Coverbands. Friday November 18th, 2005 they compete at Plan C, Rotterdam for a place in the national semi-finales at Paradiso, Amsterdam
2005/09/30 Another gig has been confirmed. Look at the calendar for details.
2005/09/20 Two new gigs have been confirmed. Look at the calendar for details.
2005/09/05 Nice gig yesterday, we played "Casanova" for the first time. Those who were early could hear the first (test)mix of the april gig (my only love).
2005/07/27 We're playing at the Spot, September 4th for a birthday party. Although it's a party, everybody is welcome to join us!
2005/06/21 There are some new pictures available.
2005/05/10 We are working on the audio/video recordings at this moment. We expect that this will take a month or two. As soon as we have something ready we will post a sample online.
2005/04/27 The Salon has some pictures online of last sunday Read some reviews here.
2005/04/25 Wow! I'm listening to a, somewhat distorted stereo recording of yesterdays gig. Thanks to all for being there and thanks for all the positive feedback. For us it was an amazing afternoon and it took me at least two hours to get off my cloud. p.s. The 32 channel recording went as planned, above recording was made on a different device. For those who haven't been to yesterdays gig, we're very sorry to say that the minitour to Scotland has been canceled.
2005/04/20 We've been very busy the last ten days. Last saturday we worked with two additional musicians. Tomorrow the dress-rehearsal takes place at "De Salon". We hope to see you all sunday!!
2005/04/09 The gig tomorrow at the "Spot" will proceed as planned. Ron has sufficiently recovered to be singing.
2005/04/08 Ron is not feeling well at all. It is possible that we have to cancel our gig for sunday. Please check back tonight or tomorrow morning for more information. To make sure everybody sees the news, this page is temporarely the first page you get.
2005/04/02 For a low(er) resolution site browse to lowres.
2005/04/01 There is a video available now. This recording was made last year at the "Podium" in Schiedam. Our second rehearsal was the day before yesterday, we added another new song to the repertoire. Next week we're gonna work with one of our special guests for the gig at the "Salon"
2005/03/25 We're making a 32 track audio recording of the concert at the Salon. If all goes according to plan we should have a live cd by the time we get to Schotland. Not enough time to fix the easter egg so we gonna give it away. Warming up gig! Frantic will play april 10th, 2005 at "Spot the Loony". Warning: No new songs will be played, we are saving them for "de Salon".
2005/03/24 We're back on the mainserver again. Our first rehearsal was yesterday. We enjoyed ourselves!
2005/03/21 Form is working again. Site is slightly slower because it's on a spare server for now
2005/03/20 Murphy. As a result of a server crash the website was offline for some hours. Mail and forms still don't work, and the server i have to use now is a lot slower.
2005/03/19 After several days of problems getting to the website I finally found where the problem was. There was an error in the DNS configuration of my DNS provider. The result was that in about one third of the cases the wrong website showed up. It should be fixed now. For those using Internet Explorer: I'm sorry, you cannot find the easter egg. I'm working on a solution.
2005/03/17 Our website is now located at www.frantic-band.nl, please update your bookmarks It seems that the new servername is not yet available everywhere (technical explanation). For now both www.frantic-band.nl and www.toetsenist.com/frantic are available. The flyer for 24th of april is available here. Warning! 188Kb .pdf.
2005/03/15 All gigs in Scotland are confirmed. see our calendar page
2005/03/14 Activated the new website Added pictures to biography page. We've hidden a little "Easter Egg". Shouldn't be too hard to find. We hope you'll enjoy it
2005/03/13 Added first content.
2005/03/12 Created the new design for the 2005 spring gigs. Because we will probably play in Scotland this year, we changed the standard language to English for now.