The last days we’ve got a lot of questions about The Gathering playing a benefit concert in Chile. So we decided to give you all some info about this matter.

Ever since we’ve heard ... Read More]]> Dear friends of Chile and around the world,

The last days we’ve got a lot of questions about The Gathering playing a benefit concert in Chile. So we decided to give you all some info about this matter.

Ever since we’ve heard about the earthquake and all the damages it caused in Chile, we immediately started talking about how we as a band can do anything to help.

As you also probably know Chile has a special place in our hearts. All the 4 times we have played there we’ve been overwhelmed by the warm welcome and great enthusiasm for our music. This was also the reason we recorded the DVD “A noise severe” in Santiago and some of us have also spent holidays in Chile to discover this beautiful country even more.

Chile is also the home country of our dear Gema, Renés girlfriend and an important member of The Gathering crew. We were in Greece the morning we heard about the earthquake. Gema immediately tried to reach her family, but due to the electricity cut off in Chile this was not possible. It was a very hard time for her and this also affected us all very much. Luckily she got hold of her family in the end finding they were safe, experiencing only material damages.

Straight away we talked about possibilities of how we could give out something positive to the people of Chile in these hard times

Playing music is what we do best (or at least we believe so;-) ) and this is something sincere and personal coming from our hearts. We discussed different possibilities to help and we all agreed playing a special concert there could not only raise money, but could also to give our beloved friends over there the strength and hope to rebuild their homes.

At the moment we are putting all our effort into making this idea come true. We’ve asked our own crew and the promoter in Chile to help us and we got a big yes from everyone! What we can tell you so far is that we will give a benefit concert in Santiago. We hope very soon (date and place to be confirmed). The band, crew and promoter will all do this for free and the (small) ticket fee will be donated directly to people in need because of the earthquake damages. The benefit organization is still to be confirmed.

As soon as we have more info about this we will let you know.

Until then please be patient as we will be working hard to make this come true.

We send our very best wishes to you all hoping you stay safe.

Warm thoughts from

Hans, René, Frank, Marjolein and Silje

We just arrived home from Greece, where we heard the terrible news. Our hearts go out to all the people in Chile who is affected by the horrible circumstances. It is no secret that Chile is our second home ... Read More]]> Dear people,

We just arrived home from Greece, where we heard the terrible news.
Our hearts go out to all the people in Chile who is affected by the horrible circumstances. It is no secret that Chile is our second home and we have a strong history together. We are thinking of you and we do hope the country will rise again as soon as possible. All the best to all of you!

Hans, René, Frank, Marjolein & Silje.

Event: Global East Rock Festival 2010 Date: 04-th September 2010 Country: Ukraine City: Kyiv Place: Sport-Complex “Chayka”, Autodrome

We ... Read More]]> Just got back from this incredible great Euro tour, and I already have some news for you! We will play a festival in Kiev, Ukraine this summer:

Event: Global East Rock Festival 2010
Date: 04-th September 2010
Country: Ukraine
City: Kyiv
Place: Sport-Complex “Chayka”, Autodrome

We are looking forward to play in Kiev, though it’s far away in time! (after the summer)
Cheers

Tomorrow will be the last day of our Euro tour together with our new friends in Autumn… It has been so wonderfull to be back on the road again and we want to thank everybody who came to our shows! ... Read More]]> Hello everybody,

Tomorrow will be the last day of our Euro tour together with our new friends in Autumn…
It has been so wonderfull to be back on the road again and we want to thank everybody who came to our shows! The response of the audience has truly warmed our hearts and given us so much energy! We have got a lot of new inspiration and are looking forward to make some new music very soon.

For our show tomorrow in Paris we have something nice & exclusive to give away for one of you that already has a ticket for the show. You have to enter our little competition where the lucky winner can get a signed West Pole poster, a really exclusive HTMAP signed poster and…. a retro Gathering bag from the If_Then_Else_ merch.

So, what do you have to do?
Send us (via Twitter) the answer to the following question:
“In what city did Hugo leave us and Marjolein jumped back into the Gathering camp for this tour ?”

The winner will be announced tomorrow around 3pm via Twitter, and then the lucky one can go to our merch stand and collect the gift there.

Now we are off to prepare for our show in Lille and we also have a little surprise for you lot coming today;-)

A tout l’heure les amis!

We tried to make the site easier to browse through and we’re now setting the ... Read More]]> Yes!!! The Gathering is on tour through Europe!!
To celebrate this we decided to get you a new layout! We hope you will appreciate it

We tried to make the site easier to browse through and we’re now setting the accent on interactivity!
Bye bye old fashioned guestbook, and welcome comments on news items! If you wish to comment, you’ll need to register, it’s a process that takes only a few minutes. And we hope you’ll be many to use it!
Since this is a new feature, there might be some glitches still, if you encounter any difficulties, please Contact the webteam.
Via your user profile you can also subscribe to different ways of staying tuned with the Gathering’s activities.

Also, you may now check the videos via the website without going via the youtube channel. Each new video will be automatically added to the videos section.
In the future we’ll try to set some more add-ons to increase the interactivity.

To those who are lucky to catch the band on one of their tourdates, we wish you a lot of fun! And to those who, unfortunately, cannot attend keep your mind up! And give another spin to the West Pole

Cheers
the Gathering webteam.

Hope you are all fine and well! We are packing and are about to leave. Yes, our European tour starts tomorrow! Exciting!

Here we have some new shows for march 2010, all Dutch gigs:

sa 06-03 De Kelder – Amersfoort su ... Read More]]> Dear all!

Hope you are all fine and well! We are packing and are about to leave. Yes, our European tour starts tomorrow! Exciting!

Here we have some new shows for march 2010, all Dutch gigs:

sa 06-03 De Kelder – Amersfoort
su 07-03 Patronaat – Haarlem (the re-scheduled show!)
fr 12-03 Doornroosje – Nijmegen
sa 13-03 Bolwerk – Sneek

Cheers, hope to see you all soon!
H.

Hope you are all fine and well. We are glad that we and Patronaat/Haarlem have found a new date to reschedule our cancelled gig in dec. 2009 (due to heavy snowfall). We will play in Haarlem sunday the 7th of March ... Read More]]> Hi all,

Hope you are all fine and well.
We are glad that we and Patronaat/Haarlem have found a new date to reschedule our cancelled gig in dec. 2009 (due to heavy snowfall).
We will play in Haarlem sunday the 7th of March 2010. Old december tickets are still valid!
Let’s hope we will have some spring in the air in March, and no snow

Cheers!
Hans

We want to thank all you nice people that has supported and followed us through 2009; a very exciting year for us here in The Gathering. We are truly grateful and it means a lot to us that we ... Read More]]> Dearest friends,

We want to thank all you nice people that has supported and followed us through 2009; a very exciting year for us here in The Gathering. We are truly grateful and it means a lot to us that we had such a nice response on The West Pole and the new line up of The Gathering!

We are very much looking forward to another eventful year with touring lots of countries and meeting many of you friends and fans playing and sharing our common interest: music:-)

When all the snow came down here before Christmas we used the opportunity to enjoy it making a brand new little video for No Bird Call. You can see it here

And with that we wish you all the best with lots of love, happiness and good music in 2010 -)
HAPPY NEW YEAR and see you on our upcoming Europe tour!!

JANUARY 2010

fri 22 Krefeld (ger) – Kulturfabrik
sat 23 Erfurt (ger) – HsD (formerly Gewerkschafshaus)
sun 24 Berlin (ger) – Columbia Club
tue 26 Karlsruhe (ger) – Substage
wed 27 Nurnburg (ger) – Hirsch
thu 28 Prague (cz) – Abaton
fri 29 Krakow (pl) – Loch Ness
sat 30 Bratislava (sk) – Randal
sun 31 Budapest (hu) – Diesel

FEBRUARY 2010

mon 01 Zagreb (hr) – Mochvara
tue 02 Milan (it) – Alcatraz
thu 04 Barcelona (es) – Salamandra 1
fri 05 Alicante (es) – Nave 8
sat 06 Granada (es) – El Tren
sun 07 Madrid (es) – Heineken
tue 09 Lyon (fr) – Ninkasi Kao
wed 10 Pratteln (ch) – Z7
thu 11 Aschaffenburg (ger) – Colos Saal
fri 12 Vosselaar (be) – Biebob
sat 13 Lille (fr) – Le Splendid
sun 14 Paris (fr) – Elysée Montmartre
sat 27 Thesaloniki (gr)- Block 33 club
sun 28 Athens (gr)- Gagarin 205 club

Hugs
Frank, Marjolein, Hans, René and Silje