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Flamborough
Head new live dates: April 18 Starsound Studio, Utrecht.
We team up with:
Silhouette - Silhouette band website
Also Eden - Also Eden Website
At the Starsound Studio in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Flamborough Head new live dates: March 20 2009 Piekary Slaskie, Poland, March 21 2009 Ostrow Wielkipolski, Poland, March 27 2008, Progfever Festival, Leeuwarden.
French label Musea and Finish Colossus released "Inferno - A Progressive Rock Epic", based on the first first cantica of the Italian Epic Poem “The Divine Comedy”. Flamborough Head composed a song inspired by Canto IX. For more information on this project please visit the Colossus website.
Five Flamborough Head guitarplayers at ProgFarm 2008:
From left to right:
Hans Spitzen (Nov 2007-Jan 2008) - played guitar on our track Daughters Of Night on the Finnish Colossus Canto-project
Eddie Mulder (2001-2008) - One For The Crow, Tales of Imperfections, Live in Budapest
Andre Cents (1994-2001) - Bridge To The Promised Land, Unspoken Whisper, Defining The Legacy
Gert Polkerman (Sept 2008-?)
Rients Draaisma (Jan-March 2008) - gigged with us in Poznan, Poland
Finally Flamborough Head has found their new guitar player. We welcome Gert Polkerman who impressed us with his guitar playing and his friendliness at one of the auditions. We all look forward to working together and we are sure there are many fine gigs and releases to come with this new line up. Please take a look on Gert's bio (and picture).
Flamborough Head's Gert Polkerman Live at Dundelle (Picture@Wybrich)
Flamborough Head will support our friends of Leap Day at their debut gig in Dundelle, Bakkeveen on Saturday October 11 2008.
Flamborough Head will support Kayak at their gig in Iduna, Drachten, Holland on Saturday September 20, 2008.
ProgFarm 2008: Nemo (France), Credo (UK), The Skys (Lithuania), Flamborough Head (NL) and 5Bridges (NL). For more details please visit our ProgFarm-page!
In the spring and summer of 2008 Flamborough Head will record the tracks for our new studio album which will be released early 2009. This will be the last album recorded by our guitarist Eddie Mulder. Different expectations of the future of Flamborough Head made Eddie decide to leave the band after the next studio sessions. We had a great time and we part as friends. Besides, most band members will work with Eddie in several future projects (Leap Day and Trion a.o.).
Flamborough
Head gigged at the Art-Rock-Festival in Poznan, Poland at the Blue Note
Klub on March 15 2008 together with Sylvan. Thanks to Witold of
for organising this nice event! For a nice Polish review please visit the Rockarea.eu
website.
Live Pictures@Andrzej Hajdasz
Cyclops released the first live album of Flamborough Head. Live in Budapest was recorded at the A38 venue on the Danube in Budapest earlier this year at the Miniprog Festival 2007.

Flamborough Head will participate on the new Colossus Project "Inferno - A Progressive Rock Epic", based on the first first cantica of the Italian Epic Poem “The Divine Comedy”. Inferno will be released by Musea somewhere in 2008. Flamborough Head will write a song inspired by Canto IX. For more information on this project please visit the Colossus website.
On Sunday February 25 Flamborough Head gigged in Budapest at the A38, together with our friends of Yesterdays. Thanks to Akos & Zsolt and all the rest of Yesterdays for their warm welcome. Special thanks to Eszter, Josef and Istvan for making us feel so at home!!!
Marcel & Eddie at the A38, Budapest, Hungary (Picture@Istvan)
Please visit YouTube for some video's taken from our archive.
January 19 as support of Mangrove (Gigant, Apeldoorn).
On Saturday December 9 2006 Flamborough Head supported Kayak (De Boerderij, Zoetermeer). Please visit the website of Willem Klopper for some excellent pictures of this evening (and all his other beautiful photo's):
Flamborough Head has been invited to gig at A38 (a club in a ship on the danube), Budapest, Hungary on Sunday February 25 2007 together with our friends of Yesterdays and Harmony In Diversity (featuring ex-Yes member Peter Banks a.o.).
Flamborough Head gigged at pROCKfest, a two day festival in Bunde, Germany on Saturday November 11. Line up: The Flower Kings, Riverside, The Watch, FH, Abarax & Pendragon. A big thanks to Udo Grasekamp of Abarax for organising this excellent festival! For photo's and reviews please visit the pROCKfest Website, for some reviews in the local newspapers click here. Here some Dutch quotes from Chris Bekhuis' review on pROCKfest: "De tweede dag van pRockfest werd geopend door onze landgenoten Flamborough Head. En ik heb het al vaker geroepen: wat blijft deze band toch groeien! De band heeft een uitstraling op het podium die past bij een geroutineerd gezelschap dat niet anders doet dan alleen maar optreden. En dan te bedenken dat deze formatie volgens mij zo langzamerhand veel meer in het buitenland heeft opgetreden dan op vaderlandse bodem. […] De band liet op het Duitse publiek een meer dan goede indruk achter wat ook kwam door het grote spelplezier dat de band uitstraalde. Ik blijf het een raadsel vinden waarom deze band niet veel meer in de gelegenheid is om in Nederland op te kunnen treden, want hun toegankelijke vorm van symfo steekt die van muzikale buren Mostly Autumn met gemak naar de kroon." For the complete review on pROCKfest please visit the Progwereld site.
Koen at pROCKfest, Bunde Germany. Picture@Maurice Dam
ProgFarm 2006: Ghiribizzi (Belgium), Yesterdays (Hungary), Silver Lining (France), Splinter (NL), Also Eden (UK) - acoustic set - and Flamborough Head (NL).
A live performance of the track " Mantova " will, exclusively, be
added to the forthcoming Cyclops-sampler number 6, to
be released later this year.
Flamborough Head gigged at the Summer's End Festival, again a two day festival which was organised on September 30 and October 1 in The Robin2, Bilston, UK. Line-up: Pendragon, Strangefish, White Willow, Flower Kings, a.o. Please visit the excellent Summer's End official website.

Flamborough Head at Summerend 2006, Bilston, UK (Picture: Stephen Lambe)
Flamborough Head has been asked to contribute a track for the Moody Blues tribute album Higher And Higher which is released by the Italian label Mellow Records (MMP 481 ABC). We re-arranged Bless The Wings.
Flamborough Head gigged at Baja Prog, Mexicali, Mexico on Thursday March 9 2006 at the Teatro del Estado. Please visit the Progwereld site (ProgVizier) for a day to day report (sorry, Dutch only) on our marvelous trip to Mexico written by all the Flamborough Head members. a big thanks for Alfonso Vidales and Cast for their invitation! Brian Schenkenberger made some excellent pictures of our show:

Flamborough Head finished their new album which is called
Tales Of
Imperfection. Here are some of the first quotes: "All
in all a very good album! There is happening a lot in a musical way, you
never get bored.(...)The music of Flamborough Head has [..] an
undeniable echo from Renaissance[..]. But overall: highly recommended to
all the fans of real symphonic prog with a taste of folk (and even some
neo-prog)". "The
whole feeling of the CD reminds me of the 70s, sometimes a lot like
RENAISSANCE and MOSTLY AUTUMN, yet rockier than the first band and more
melodic rock based than MOSTLY AUTUMN, so somewhere in between these
bands. The vocals of lead singer MARGRIET BOOMSMA are truly wonderful
(...) Sounds cliché, but I really think FLAMBOROUGH HEAD has now
released their strongest record, because each song has got all the
elements a classic progressive rocksong needs to contain, which are rich
keys, beautiful melodic guitarsolos, clean melodic vocalwork and even
some flutes played by the female singer. Definitely a CD worth checking
out for any fan of high class music."