The story so far...

1998

Summer 1998, a beach in Scheveningen, and a club called 'Mecca' was the place where it all began.  Dinand was the owner of the club and Dennis was playing with a reggae band at the club.  Dinand and Dennis got talking, and realised they had the same goals in life regarding their music ambitions and felt some really good vibes about it and so they started the ball rolling.

So the band was setup and three other people were approached and joined in, these were Cyril Directie on drums, Aram Kershergen on bass and Tony Cornelissen on guitar and vocals.  The name of the band was going to be 'Citizen Kane' until they realised that there was a band already out there called that and so they became 'KANE'.

They had a very good break getting noticed very quickly by a record company after just a few gigs together.  There was a few suggestions flying round so the record company could hear Kane including attending rehearsals or a demo CD but they wanted to hear them live.  It was at this time that Kane had no gigs planned but luck took another turn and they finally managed to do a demo at a local radio station called 'Radio Rijnmond' and after three months Kane had struck gold and they got their contract, which allowed them a bit more time to get themselves together with more songs and performances before heading off to recording studios.

1999

The first single got released in August of this year and so the story continues.  'Where do I go now' was the song and the video was made up from the rehearsals of the recording.  And as one of the stories goes..... Rob Stenders from radio 3FM played the single for the first time on prime time radio and everyone was calling Dinand to tell him to turn the radio on but unfortunate for him he was in a car which didn't have a radio, and so not to be left out he stopped the car and shouted it out instead!

The second single was released 'Damn those eyes' in December.  And proved to be the single that was going to help Kane with their breakthrough with the fan base just growing and growing....

2000

January 27th was the day that Kane's first album was released and the start to a successful career.  The title being 'As long as you want this' tells you something about Kane themselves and so long as the fans want Kane then they will continue to oblige!

Kane's 3rd single 'I will keep my head down' was released in May of this year and it was a song that Dinand had wrote for a close friend 'Marc Zieck, who tragically died in a tram accident in 1998.  It is a personal song to Dinand.

They began to tour in the summer and did many festivals all over Holland including the larger ones and this was just the start of all good things to come from Kane.

They continued to tour through the Autumn with a special performance at the Marlboro Flashbacks which is an event where artists do a performance of songs of their heroes and Kane did 8 songs from U2 with Dinand being a big fan of U2.  This performance was later brought out on a DVD in December called 'With or without you'.  Dennis used this occasion to treat himself to a new special edge sounding guitar!.  It was at this time as well that there was another change to the band line up and Ronald Kool joined the band playing keyboards. The next single released was 'Can you handle me' and this did really well in the commercial charts.  But then in November the beginning of many awards to come for Kane had begun when they won a prestigious MTV Award for 'Best Dutch Act'. December wasn't a good month with Dinand falling ill with his throat due to overworking it and this forced Kane to cancel the rest of their tour dates.  But it wasn't long after a welll deserved rest Dinand was back on track and ready to go again.

2001

The beginning of the year the news got out that Cyril the drummer was leaving Kane and was soon replaced with Andr é Kemp.  2001 saw Kane get many awards which was the Edison Award (A Dutch Award) for the best alternative band leaving 'Coldplay' and 'Radiohead' behind them.  They were nominated for 6 awards for the TMF Awards and they walked away with 3 awards coming out on top.

'As long as you want this' album had turned double platinum and in the summer Kane went back to the studio to start the recording for the next album.  It was at this time also that Martijn Bosman became the new drummer and 'So glad you made it' the title of the new album was on the way.

Kane did more promotional work and more concerts and in October the next single 'So glad you made it' was released and the titled album being released at the end of October.  Paul Jan Bakker joined the band becoming an extra guitarist in the line up.

November was time for more awards for Kane and for the second year running they won the MTV award for 'Best Dutch Act'.

2002

Kane started the year off by releasing the next single from 'So glad you made it' called 'Let it be'.  But 2002 saw members leave the band again and so it was goodbye to Aram, Ronald and Tony after the show in Heineken Music Hall.  But it wasn't long before 'Matto Kranenburg' joined the band as the new bass player.

April was a great month for Kane where they won 3 out 6 nominations at the TMF Awards.  They did an outstanding performance at the awards of 'Rain down on me' using a water curtain for effects right across the front of the stage.  It was shortly after this in May that 'Rain down on me' was released as the next single.

Kane's next single wasn't released then till October which was 'Hold on to the world' and in December they did two shows in the famous 'Ahoy' stadium in Amsterdam.  The first show was sold out in 20 minutes with the second show being sold out shortly after.  These shows were amazing performances and in March 2003 a DVD was released with lots of backstage footage as well.  They finished off this year by doing some acoustic shows in Amsterdam.

2003

2003 saw more ups and downs for Kane and did put some strain on the band.  It saw more members leave the band - Paul Jan and Matto left in January leaving Kane having to get some session musicians in to continue.  And as if that wasn't enough for them they lost a very close friend who had supported them from the beginning - Maddy Van Kijck lost her fight against cancer in February. In February they did some unplugged concerts at the Pepsi Stage in Amsterdam and recorded the show for a DVD which was then released later on in 2004.  They also made history again this month with doing a live concert that got broadcast across the internet and Kane was the first Dutch band to achieve this. Auditions were set up to find a new bass player and these found Dion Murdock who after playing drums in other bands became Kane's new bass player.  March saw the release of Kane's next single.  This was a song that Dinand originally wrote for another Dutch artisit 'Anouk'.  The song 'My best wasn't good enough' can also be found as a duet on 'Anouk's' album 'Urban Solitude'.

They next released 'What If' in June, which is a compilation album of songs from their first two albums.  They were re-written, re-recorded and re-mixed with their sights set on using the album to achieve their dreams in other countries.  June brought Dinand very good news when on 29th June he became the proud Daddy of 'Dean Maddy'.

'What If' made the number slot in Holland's charts in July and they soon followed on with the release of another two singles, this time being 'Before you let me go' featuring 'Ilse de Lange' and also the Tiesto Mix done by 'DJ Tiesto' of 'Rain down on me' was released. Although 2003 didn't start off to well, it improved more and more as the year went on and on 17th September whilst on a visit to Las Vegas, 'Dinand' got married to 'Guusje Nederhost' the mother of 'Dean Maddy' and a well known actress in Holland.  December 2003, Kane played to four sell out concerts in the HMH, Amsterdam.

2004

Kane have now got their sights on the rest of Europe but another set back...

On the 29 th of January Guusje Woesthoff – Nederhorst, Dinand's wife died.  Everybody in the whole country seemed to be in shock. Dinand wrote a special song for her named ‘Dreamer' Gussies Song. All the benefits for that song go to KWF, the Dutch Cancer Foundation. On the day of the funeral (which is also Guusjes birthday) all radio stations played the song at 12.00. In every chart ‘Dreamer' came in at number one.

As they say life goes on!  And so Kane move forward and they stepped out on to UK turf as the support act for Maroon 5 which also saw them as the support in Germany and Scandinavia.  They played their first gig of 2004 in Holland 3rd April with Nico on keyboards.  That show proved to be very emotional but everyone got through it and Kane showed their loyal Dutch fans they were back on track.

Kane then opened up their dreams which was to start making progress outside of Holland.  For UK, they released their first album here 'What If' in June and done a showcase where they headlined their first show in London at the Mean Fidler which was very successful.  They then released their first single in to the UK charts 'Rain down on Me' in August achieving a goal that many bands have failed by reaching 38 in the charts.  They have also made great progress in other European countries this year.  November saw Kane winning for the 3rd time a MTV Award for best Dutch & Belgium Act.  Another great achievement for Kane and something to be very proud of.

Although they were hoping to make it back to UK to do a small club tour, it was decided to wait till the release of their next album and tour with new material in 2005.  Towards the end of the year, Dion announced that he was joining another band to go back to playing drums but the rest of the band along with Yolanda Charles as the bass player hit the studios in Brussels to start the recording of 'Fearless' the title they have now given the new album.

2005

The guys have recently returned from completing the recording of the new album and also a photo shoot in LA.  Holland will see the release of Fearless very soon and the rest of Europe will follow afterwards.  Some small tryout gigs are to be performed in Holland before the album release all of which sold out within 15 mins of going on sale and in Kane's words 'They are back'!  And hopefully that statement will mean they will be back in UK as soon as.....

2006

2007

2008