July, 2nd 2011: Rock and Roll festival, Heemraadsplein, Rotterdam (start: 14.00) with The Explosion Rockets, The Magic Strangers and Danny Verone, with ANDY TIELMAN
August, 14th 2011: Reti, Belgium, (private party)
August, 27th 2011: Rockabilly Swamp
December, 1st 2011, 20.00 – 21.00 radio programma Listen to Bluezy (Radio Ridderkerk) http://www.rtvridderkerk.nl
In January this year Dee Ann was invited by Phil Friendly to sing along with him on Jackson at Radio Rijnmond.
In April the whole band was invited to Megastad FM, where they played some live songs.
On December 1st, 2011 Dee Ann was interviewed by Nico Bravenboer on his radioshow, BLUEZY Radio Ridderkerk
Dee: ”It’s a studio with three studio booths. They have been broadcasting for about 20 years now. Nico has always done his Blues show and he is also the organiser of the annual bluesfestival in Ridderkerk http://www.sbrr.nl/ and he is the winner of the Keeping The blues alive Award 2010.
We had a blast. We laughed our asses off! But I also had the chance to talk about how I started playing the piano in several bands and ended up singing with The Nightcaptains. Also introducing my new band Dee’s Honeytones. We just finished the demo. So some Rockabilly songs of Dee Ann and The Nightcaptains were played and two bluezy songs of Dee’s Honeytones. Nico called me a bitch but that was because he didn’t expect to be laughing so hard for one hour. Hahaha. It was really fun.”
You can order the Dee Ann and the Nightcaptains t-shirts for 10 euro’s + 3 euro’s shippingfee (for the Netherlands).
Sizes:
Girly: S, M, L
Regular: M, L, XL
Send an email to Dee-Ann@live.nl with your size, amount and address. We’ll send you the payment information. Or come to our show and get yours right there and then.
Sunday August 14th, I was just sitting and reading in my little hideaway in the woods when I got a call that I had to come home quickly to get prepared for a last minute gig in Belgium. A band cancelled. So we went and did save the day of a very cool birthday party at a beautiful Ranch like home with a barn like room where we played. The guest were enthousiastic about our music and we were again happy to play our music, this time for the Belgians for the first time. I think the Belgians will see us more often…
At the Route 55 Rock and Roll Festival Dee Ann and the Nightcaptains received the Andy Tielman award for “keeping Rock and Roll, especially Rockabilly alive. Mr. Tielman believes this act has a great future and handed out this award to stimulate their work.”
We are proud and honored to receive this award in his name.
One sunny Sunday afternoon at Cafe Fame in Hoorn. We were building up our backline. Marc stood on a barstool to attach a cable to the ceiling. Mars was standing in front of him and then… bang! Marc fell off the barstool right on a suitcase and kicking Mars in the hand. We haven’t started yet and already the drummer hurt his back and the bass player hurt his thumb. But… they’re die hards, music is a perfect healer.
Miriam brought Ruud and Mascha to our gig. Ruud is the singer of the Explosion Rockets. Needless to say he’s a huge Elvis fan. So Ruud kept on nagging about me playing an Elvis song.
http://www.explosionrockets.nl/ We’ll be playing in Rotterdam with both our bands on July 2nd. Mascha was so kind to use my camera and take pictures of us.
I always have to drink a lot of water to keep my throat and myself cool. Can’t keep my feet still. I had my drink tickets on me, but I lost it somewhere during the first set. Or did I give them to Mars? He said he didn’t have mine. I looked in my purse… nothing… But no worries, I got my water anyway.
During the second set a bunch of women AND men, dressed in colorful dresses, high heels and wigs in all kinds of colors came in. The party was complete. Finally at the end of the show, I called Ruud to approach the stage, (he just came out of the mensroom) and we played I got stung for him.
At the final, on Whole lotta shakin’, Mars got so heated up, he put his doublebass on the bar, climbed on it, and continued the song standing on the bar. He was out of his mind and the joint went out of their heads.
Back at home I found my drink tickets… I forgot I kept them in my bra, and while jumping and dancin’ they slid downwards, stuck on my belly.
