| NOVEMBER 2011 - MAYAN - SOUTH AMERICAN TOUR 2011 |
 | | The 1st South American Tour of MaYaN was overwhelming. We played with Mago de Oz in Colombia, did a sold out show in Guatemala, played with Megadeth in Mexico and even did an Epica acoustic in Sao Paulo. Everywhere we came the shows were a max success. With only 1 albumrelease this band kicks and sweats a 100 minute show! Bookhooker booked and rolled the whole trip. Laurens Evers on FOH, Erwin van Lokeren on lights and Willem van Roekel on guitars rocked the whole trip. Thank you guys! |
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| OCTOBER 2011 - RACOON - DUTCH CLUBTOUR |
 | | This month I tourmanaged the great Dutch poprock band Racoon. The bandmembers Bart, Dennis, Paul, Stefan and Manu rocked on this fully sold tour. Altogether with Marty Brugmans, Ken Kuipers, Ralph Swart, Jordi Langelaan, Erwin van Lokeren, Henk Caspers, Sandy Bakker, Harry Liefers and the support of EML we were able to run a very nice & smooth tour. March 31st, 2012 we will do the Racoon XL Heineken Music Hall show in Amsterdam.
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| SEPTEMBER 2011 - WORKSHOP TOURMANAGEMENT @ MUZIEK CENTRUM NL |
 | | Together with Okke Gerritsen en Jean-Michel Nelissen from Freezone, Jeroen will teach a workshop about touring. On Wednesday September 14th we have wise lessons & tips for musicians & managers. About stagetricks & sound. About how to set up your backline rapidly, smart and make it sound great? And about how to keep your band, crew, promotor, management etc happy? How to inform them, and what is the right language to use? Get your ticket for this workshop here
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| AUGUSTUS 2011 - BHA PROUDLY PRESENTS: MAYAN SOUTH AMERICA TOUR |
 | | 13-nov Teatro ECCI - Bogota - Colombia
15-nov Peppers Club - San Jose - Costa Rica
16-nov Teatro De Bella Artes - Guatemala City - Guatemala
19-nov Hell & Heaven Fest with MEGADETH - Guadalajara - Mexico
20-nov Circo Volador - Mexico City - Mexico
22-nov Club Chocolate - Santiago - Chile
24-nov Teatro Colegiales - Buenos Aires - Argentina
26-nov Carioca Club - Sao Paulo - Brazil
27-nov Fundicao Progresso - Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
28-nov Music Hall - Curitiba - Brazil
Tickets & Info: MaYaN website |
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| JULY 2011 - TM EPICA |
 | | With Epica we had great shows on summerfestivals like Gods of Metal(Italy), Lez Arts Sceniques (France) & Tuska (Finland). The shows in club Z7 (Switserland) and on Graspop (Belgium) were extra special. During the Z7 show I pushed the buttons to fire the flames. And I pushed them a lot. Check it out yourself and view the Epica song Unleashed here
. Erwin van Lokeren (EML) & Rene Grooney added great lights & pyro to the Graspop show.
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| JUNE 2011 - TM RACOON |
 | | A new band for Bookhooker.. I helped out Racoon TM Naomi van Hak by taking care on some Racoon festivalshows. The picture shows Concert at Sea, where Racoon successfully performed for about 35.000 ppl. Also I tm-ed them on AJOC Festival, Hoftedagen Hengevelde, Julianapop and Girls First, Java Eiland. In October I will be on the road with Racoon again, tourmanaging the clubtour dates of this great Dutch poprock band. You find Racoon clubdates here |
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| MAY 2011 - TM MAYAN TOUR |
 | | This month Mark Jansens new band MaYaN released their debut masterpiece album Quarterpast. Reviews are amazing. I tourmanaged their debut tour with lots of pleasure. The picture (by Audrey Dujardin) shows the killer production of MaYaN in Paradiso, Amsterdam. At the moment Bookhooker is booking the MaYaN South American Tour, scheduled for November 2011.
Link naar MaYaN website
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| APRIL 2011 - FINANCIAL TOURSUPPORT FOR EPICA & ANTILLECTUAL |
 | | With my Stichting Bookhooker Artist Support we help Dutch "international touring" artists getting financial support, in order to make their tourplans happen. This year we successfully requested for metalband Epica, for their UK & Balkan Tours in March. Also we had a successful request for the punkrockers of Antillectual, touring Russia now. Our next project is the forthcoming Euro-Tour of So Called Celeste. Check: http://bookhooker.nl/pdf/subsidie.pdf |
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| MARCH 2011 - TM EPICA & REVAMP IN THE UK |
 | | It has been a while since I have been in the UK. This tour I am TM for both ReVamp and Epica, doing shows in Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Manchester, Sheffield and London. The bands had great shows and good crowds so the tour was successful without a doubt. This circus rolled and rocked from the beginning until the end |
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| FEBRUARY 2011 - ON TOUR IN MEXICO & COLOMBIA |
 | | Willem van Roekel, Mark Jansen, Isaac Delahaye and me in beautiful Colombia. On my favorite continent to tour, I TM-ed the Epica tour in Mexico, Colombia and Equador. As always I tried to advance the shows as tight as possible in order to make life easy for everyone. All went quite well and the venues were packed again. In Mexico the band filled up 2000 seater venues. The theaters in Colombia were 1000 - 1500 capacities.
You will definitely find hundreds of recorded youtubes. |
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| JANUARY 2011 - 70.000 TONS OF METAL CRUISE |
 | | Well, just another nice experience: 40 bands playing live on a 5 day lasting Cruise in the Caribbean. When we went onboard in Miami, the whole stage production was still on hold at customs so the first planned shows were a bit delayed. No worries though. There was much fun to experience on the 11 decks of the Majesty of the Seas cruise-ship: swimming pools, climbing walls, bars, restaurants and 3 stages with loud & heavy music. On Cozumel (Mexico) Raymond Tabak, Yves Huts, Rory Romano, Willem van Roekel and me went for a windy scooter ride all over the Island. On the ship we did 2 shows. |
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