24th April 2008
Shot of a Gun
Congrats to Kane with the 2nd single from the forth coming album to be released 'Shot of a Gun' which made number in Holland.
Paard van Trojie pictures online
With thanks to Lydia again, I've uploaded some amazing pictures from the show that Kane performed last night at The Haag. This was their first full show in 2 years with new members in the band to help them out. They played a 60 minute set with many of the new songs on the setlist which went like this: Yeah Yeah Yeah, Wanna Make it Happen, Everything you Want, R.E.A.L., Rain Down On Me, All Day & All of the Night, Shot of a Gun, As Long as you Want This, Something to Say, Catwalk Criminal and finally I belong to you. You can view the pictures here.
7th April 2008
4 Years Online for Kane Rocks!
Today marks an amazing 4 years online for Kane Rocks. I've got nothing extravagant to celebrate with but then who needs cake and candles when you've got a 2nd single being released 11th April and a brand new album being released in May from Kane?! It has been an amazing 4 years I have to say even if the latter has been really quiet, that has been made up for the last few months. A huge thank you as always to the friends I've made along this route and to Kane for the amazing memories and thanks to you for all the support you give this site. Let's hope 'Everything You Want' brings Kane back to the UK soon!
2nd April 2008
EverythingYouWant - release date
The new album 'EverythingYouWant' is going to be released in Holland 9th May. As mentioned before for those in UK you can get the album from the Free Record Shop.
New Tryout dates
Kane announced they are going to do a small club tour. These dates and venues have been added here.
8th March 2008
2nd Single - Shot of a Gun
Universal Records have announced that Kane's 2nd single from the forth coming new album will be 'Shot Of A Gun' and will be released in Holland 11th April. Fear not UK people we can get our copies from here. The single will come in 3 different formats to include Club mixes and videos.
Tryout Gig - Den Haag
The guys will be doing a tryout concert performing new and old songs on 23rd March at the Paard Van Troje. Tickets go on sale this morning (8th March) from here.
1st February 2008
btaining Catwalk Criminal in UK
I've had a few queries on you can get Catwalk Criminal and any back catalogues of Kane here in the UK. I have found Free Record Shop to be the best and cheapest for shipping to UK and the most reliable so head over there and get your order in.
Catwalk Criminal almost there!
Today was crunch day to see where 'Catwalk Criminal' hit the charts and it has done a sterling job of getting to #02. Excellent job for a return single with a new sound. Well done guys.
Thank you!
I want to thank everyone that has signed my guestbook and emailed me about the new site. Due to lots of various problems over the last year it was a struggle but now Kane are back and I'm back and I hope to see you all sometime this year!
28th January 2008
Welcome to the 'new' Kane Rocks!
I thought it was time that I revamped the site and now that there are things happening for Kane now seemed to be a good time as any! It is hard to update a site where there is no news especially when the band are not in the same country but now Kane are back, they are signed to a new label, they have adopted a new raunchy sound and they are ready to hit the road.
I will do my best to keep you up to date as much as possible on this new shinny site, which I hope you like. There are still loads more things to be added and updated but I just couldn't wait no longer to go live to show you.
Now that Kane are signed to a new record label (Universal) I'm hoping as much as you are that this means they will bring and promote Kane and the new album to UK but until that time we will just have to continue to support them the best we can from this side of the pond!
Please let me know what you think of the site and if you have any problems with any of it. I hope you like it, now it's time to walk that catwalk.
Catwalk Criminal
Kane released a new single this week which you can purchase and download from here you just need to type in 'Catwalk Criminal' next to where it says 'Zoek Music'. You can also buy the hard copy from here . Any problems ordering your copies then just drop me an email and I'll do my best to help.
Album
Dinand and Dennis are currently in Woodstock currently working on the album which is due to be released in a few months in Holland.
24th January 2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DENNIS!
This week is a big week for Kane with their new single release and to add to the speciality of this week I am sure you would all want to join me in wishing Dennis a very Happy Birthday.!
I'm sorry for the lack of updates recently with all the amazing stuff going on right now with the release of 'Catwalk Criminal' but it has been really hectic for me with other things but I am working on someting and all will be revealed soon! Watch this space!
6th September 2007
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DINAND!
Today marks a special day and I am sure you will all want to join me in wishing Dinand a very big Happy Birthday!
I can tell you as well that there is going to be some amazing news coming shortly from Kane who are now ready to go and record their 4th studio album after taking all the time they needed to get the songs and sound that they want to get. They have signed to a new record deal and so in the next few months there is going to be nothing but good news from the Kane camp! Watch this space as they say! It sure feels good to be able to tell you some good news after such a long gap of nothing! Thanks for sticking it out with me!
19th May 2007
Dennis receives an Award
Dennis has received a special 'Dutch' Award called 'Duiveltjes'. This is an award for the best Dutch Pop Musicians. You can read what Dennis has to say about the award and his recommendation of another Dutch band here.
7th April 2007
3 Years online!
What can I say? Well the 3 years have flown by but it has been an amazing ride. I was hoping to have something special for you to help celebrate my 3 years online with my Kane website but unfortunately I've not come up with anything outstanding this year except to offer you to take a trip back to just over 3 years ago down memory lane to the very first time that Kane performed here in UK. I first saw Kane support Maroon 5 at the Mean Fiddler. This was followed on by seeing them another 2 times in this support role. You can read the review that I did for these 3 concerts and how I fell for this amazing Dutch band here . After seeing them at the Astoria I had the urge to do something to try and promote them to other people in UK, not knowing what at the time but along my train journey home the following day I came up with the idea of this website. It became a huge challenge as I had no knowledge of developing at all but with the help of a work colleague some how getting the website online in just 4 days was achieved and I've not look back since! The 3 support roles, the album 'What If' and the adrenalin of the website being recognised by so many people including Kane themselves prompted me in to really needing to see more of this band live and so with the help of Conny who I'll never forget I had a ticket to a showcase in Amsterdam that Kane was doing for other European record label representatives. UK being one of them countries. The show was amazing, I met some really nice people that made me feel very welcome and of course I got to meet the band to! You can read that review here .
From this showcase Kane were invited to do a showcase back in London at the Mean Fiddler. This went off really well and I had an amazing invite from the record label to join in the afterparty which gave myself and some friends the chance to meet Kane. You can catch my review from this event here .
A few weeks after this awesome showcase I got to go back to Holland to see Kane in all their glory at a full on headline show to 12,000 people at Java Island. A concert that was so special to a lot of the Dutch fans and one that will always remain special to me. This review can be found here.
August saw Kane return to do a Top of the Pops performance and also saw their single hit #38 in the UK charts. And all that was done with very little radio and TV play, regardless of all the requesting that was going on. Unfortunately that was the last time that Kane played in UK.
I've since been to Holland many times and have seen some outstanding performances of Kane, met some amazing people and experienced occassions that I would normaly only dream of. You can find all the reviews to the concerts I've attended including my trip to Delft for the fansite day from here .
I've done my best to keep up to date over the 3 years with this website and did what I could to keep it exciting for you, from translating interviews to running competitions to sharing life time experiences but with nothing happening in Holland I do have to appoligise for the lack of information in the last 6 months. But again I've had reasons on the personal level that prevented me from being on top form with being hospitalised and ill afterwards to my Dad passing away a few months ago. But I promise you as soon as Kane are back on the road, I'll be there to!
I'll just take this oportunity to thank the people that have made a difference to my life since this site started 3 years ago because some of them have become special in my life and very good friends. I'm not going to name names as I don't want to miss anyone out!
AND finally a huge thank you to each and everyone of you that come back to my site and support it when you can. Without you then it wouldn't have become what it is today and I hope that in a few months time when Kane hit the studio it will become buzzing again and lets hope that the next album brings Kane back to UK otherwise anyone joining me for a trip to Holland?! Ha! Thank you again to you all! AND Happy 3rd Birthday Kane Rocks and A very Happy Easter to you all, hope you have a lovely time and hope the sun keeps on shinning!
24th February 2007
So long Martijn
With great sadness it has been announced that Martijn is leaving Kane. He feels he has reached a crossroad in his life and needs to take a different path and persue a different direction. I want to wish him well and hope everything goes to plan. He will be missed greatly. Dinand & Dennis has entered their good luck wishes along with a message from Martijn on Kane.nl This is not in English yet but, Martijn reflects on many things including his trips to UK to support Maroon 5 and Top of the Pops! and Dinand & Dennis wish Martijn good luck and reflects on all the good memories they've had along the path of Kane. And that the recording for the new album still goes on.
Martijn good luck and health and may you have great success.
21st January 2007
Startlive - HMH, Amsterdam
Kane played a gig along with another Dutch band called Di-rect last night. With thanks to Lydia again, I've now put online her amazing pictures that she is happy to share with you all. The setlist they played was: Something to say, Believe it, Before you let me go, Hold on, So glad you made it, Damn those eyes, Rain down on me, Fearless and a cover of Helter Skelter. I'm told it was a great night once again and that Kane did say that they probably won't be doing any live shows now till November. So a long wait to catch a gig but a new album will be in the making whilst we wait patiently! You can view the pictures here .
29th December 2006
Update!
I would like to appoligise for the lack of activity on this website recently. After my operation, things got complicated and it took a lot longer to recover than I hoped and then to top it all my Dad recently passed away suddenly and so my time has been spent elsewhere, I am sure you all understand. BUT 2007 I will do all that I promised in the last newsletters I sent out on the mailing list. Watch this space as they say! I would like to thank everyone for their continued support over the last year, especially those from UK, I am sure you are all as frustrated as I am to bring Kane back to UK and lets hope 2007 will see them return upon our shores, and a thanks to the Dutch and Belgium people that keep in touch, your support has been appreciated also. 2006 saw many exciting things happen for Kane in their own country, from performing their biggest show in Den Haag to winning the best rock band TMF award, and it also saw some great personal achievements happen with Dennis getting married and Dinand becoming a Dad again recently to little Jimmi. From the latest updates on Kane.nl 2007 is looking more exciting with lots of things to look forward to including another new album. Bring it on, lets rock! . On that note I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year, and hope to see you all on the KANE road in 2007 .
21st November 2006
Close Encounters of a different kind...
The people from high above were looking down on Kane last week. A terrible fire broke out in the building next to their studio and the bad news to start with was they were just going to let it burn down, but thankfully it didn't transfer to the studio and the only thing they suffered was the bad smell of smoke. Phew! You can read Dennis's account of the night on Kane.nl.
14th October 2006
TMF Awards 13th October and the winner is....
They did it! Kane won the best band award at the TMF Awards last night, making this their 9th one. Congratulations to you all and well done, you've done us proud again another award well deserved. You can view some of the pictures showing you Kane performing Helter Skelter' and receiving the award by visiting the TMF website and clicking 'fotoboek' on the top menu.
5th October 2006
Some huge thank yous and an update!
Firstly thank you to everyone that has sent me messages to get well soon. I am slowly on the mend, just will take a bit longer than anticipated due to a few problems but still I'm on the right road now. But now I have some huge thank yous to say for the surprise that turned up. Firstly Kane, you really did bring a smile to my face and I am totally touched that you took time out for me. Thank you to Diana for liaising it all. Thanks to the Kane crew for the card. Thanks to Hugo for helping with the banner and finally a big hug and thank you to Lydia who had the idea and put the plan together in hope to cheer me up in my hospital bed! I will forever be grateful for the pictures and the cards and pressies to you all.
