In 2014 guitar player Adje ‘Adrian’ Vandenberg is finally back with a new album. And a new band, comprised of largely unknown youngsters. Singer Jan Hoving immediately catches the ears because he sounds a lot like David Coverdale. He used to be in the band that played as a support act in Tilburg for Whitesnake 2008 tour (video). No wonder Vandenberg contacted Hoving when the local soccer team FC Twente became national champion in 2011 and asked him to compose and play a song for the occassion.
Musically Adrian Vandenberg certainly has been around. He refers to bands like The Free, Cream, Bad Company and Led Zeppelin as his main influences: seventies bands with a pure, honest and ‘open’ sound. And it showed, especially in his first (professional) band Teaser and Manic Eden (song).… Read the rest