// the band members


// vocals & guitar //
FRANS
On my ninth birthday I received a guitar from my father, which he had bought at a popular shop named “Geutjes” located on the Kruiskade in the city of Rotterdam . Now, playing that guitar was another story...



// vocals //
MARIE-JOSÉ
Bare with me, you’re at a party placed in some centuries ago... for a change, there is actually a good band playing, sure, you dance a bit and your dearest friends are talking you into singing a song with the band...



// guitaar & background vocals //
HENK

I must have been four years old when I started to bother my mother and father to get me a piano. In response, they were desperately trying to explain that apart from the large amount of money involved, it would definitely fill up our living room and having dinner for four around the piano was not what I had in mind, did I?...



// bass //
LANNY

Born in Apeldoorn, raised in Rotterdam, got wiser in Amsterdam, started to work in Brussels, studied classic guitar in London, drank far to much beer in Munich, lived like a god in Paris, fully enjoyed the California sun in San Francisco and now with both feet on the ground in Brussels...



// keyboards //
JOOST
Get them while there still young, must have been the way my parents were thinking. Music has always taken central stage at our home. As a young man I was allowed to hammer on our piano in any way shape and form I felt fit, although, in those days one would most likely not call this playing...



// drums & background vocals //
WIM

I was born on August 24, 1955. At a very young age I started to play the E flat Clarinet, but decided in 1969 to switch to the drums. Together with my older brother we created a band, which became known under the name of The Flails...