Thanks for hitting up my request. Anneke and The Gathering were almost single-handedly responsible for originating the Dutch female-fronted metal sound. As someone said earlier, she inspired Floor Jansen (Nightwish) to become a metal vocalist, but she also inspired countless other female vocalist in the area. The Gathering were always more interested in pushing boundaries than fame, though. So, pretty much as soon as they established the Dutch female-fronted metal foundation, they abandoned it for more experimental sounds -- which didn't help their mainstream popularity, obviously. The other thing is that Anneke eventually left to persure her own music, but she is a sought-after guest vocalist across multiple genres.
For Dutch female fronted bands...Anneke is the grandmother of All.. She was here in 1993 aswell, and inspired Floor Jansen ( After Forever, Re-Vamp, Nightwish) Sharon den Adel ( Within Temptation) Simone Simons ( Epica) Anneke started in a jazz duo before she joined The Gathering and no one knew what a bomb did explode..
Within Temptation / Sharon den Adel are contemporaries. Sharon joined Within temptation in 1996, only 2 years after Anneke joined the Gathering, but before the Gathering got airplay. I always think Orphanage also deserves to be mentioned concerning Dutch female fronted metal.
If you want to see and hear a more recent Anneke you should check out AYREON - " Valley of the Queens " live - you'll get the added bonus of Floor Jansen and Marcello Bovio - three of the best voices you will ever hear ! Anneke van Geirsbergen has one of the best voices of the last 30 years - still performing today with solo sold out concerts and singing with both Floor and Marko on different occasions - definitely worth watching some more of her work !
The song that everyone from The Gathering should listen to is called Travel from the concert TG25: Live at Doornroosje. This is also the song that all React channels take. Here you can see how brilliant the singer is
A more mature Gathering can be seen at their 25th anniversary concert. This one, a tribute to Mozart, is a must see. It is called 'Travel': ruclips.net/video/Y46Lft_BZxo/видео.htmlsi=TWjT85LJhunpwYvy
The crowd is typical 90s in Europe. Pentecost is called Pinksteren in Dutch, and the band also comes from the Netherlands. This is the time the festival originally took place and hence the name. For me, the accompanying album is the best Album the band has done. In the Netherlands the band was even more successful with the following album, but then the chart positions began to decline. When lead singer Anneke van Giersbergen left the band, the band disappeared from the charts to this day. Anneke was able to stay solo in the Dutch charts. Here she is with Floor Jansen: Ayreon - Valley Of The Queens (Ayreon Universe) Anneke is still active today. Most recently she toured the Netherlands and Germany with Floor Jansen and through South America with Marko Hietala: Anneke Van Giersbergen y Marko Hietala - Wasted years - Iron Maiden cover Fun fact: Anneke's performance at a festival convinced Floor Jansen to become a metal singer herself.
This song and Anneke are Floor's inspiration to go into metal. Anneke is considered the Godmother of Dutch Metal. When she went solo she did also a lot of collaborations with amongst other Devin Townsend, Kevin Cavanagh, Amorphis, Ayreon, Within Temptation, Aristioir and others. She is a regular for Ayreon and participated last september 2023 in Tilburg at Beneath the Waves 10010101.
I remember watching this gig with my boyfriend (now husband) and thinking what would I give to have Annekes beautiful copper, curly hair. Many years later we had a daughter and she had long curly copper hair as a newborn. It never fell of, and she still has it, now 13 years old. 😊
The Gathering did a 20 yr. celebration concert and one of my favorites from it is "Travel", a song she wrote as a tribute to Beethoven. Another favorite is a duet she did with Sharon of Within Temptation titled "Somewhere". It is one of the sweetest and most beautiful duets of all time, in my opinion. Another one is "Valley of the Queens". Floor Jansen was with her.
Great you like the band and the audience , among the fans there was a girl named Floor Jansen . In intervieuws Floor told several times how she saw The Gathering at Pinkpop , Anneke's performance made her decide she wanted to be an artist to . For that alone we should be gratefull to Anneke 😉 but also fo her singing ofcourse Please lady's if you want to see Anneke at her best see Travel Live in Doornroosje !
In addition to the collaborations mentioned in other comments, Anneke van Giersbergen also sings on a project called "The Gentle Storm," put out an album with her progressive metal band "VUUR," and has solo stuff under her own name as well as Agua de Annique. She is an amazing singer and a lovely person!
Anneke is such an increadible singer!! You guys should hear ayreon "valley of the queens", and lot other songs too. Other one is "garden of emotions" by Ayreon, she sings beautifully in the live version
Got all albums from these fellow Dutch countrymen....early start until recent. Very diverse and I like all incarnations/routes they went and they expanded/changed their horizon a couple of times throughout the years. Another great Dutch band is Epica....do the live version of 'The phantom agony' (live on 2 meter sessions).
just 21 years old here ;) and already a seasoned singer, she had been in a jazz improvision duo for a few years prior to her joining The Gathering. and everybody...everybody does say, when Anneke sings, she smiles, and she makes you smile, she can sing of death and destruction, but you still smile when she sings it.. incredible!!! She smiles when singing, she truly enjoys singing and telling the story, and the story is whatever is the song, and she smiles when doing it.
Anneke van Giersbergen fronted this Dutch Metal band in the 90s. She is a wonderfully talented singer and guitarist and performs a wonderful version of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill.
Wow. The Gathering... I'm surprised someone went for this underrated band...This singer Anneke van Giersbergen is not in the band anymore ☹ but she still makes music w/ various projects... The Gathering shifted away from heavy metal by 2000 and embraced more atmospheric/ psychedelic rock afterwards... but their best records were w/ Anneke on vocals 🤘🤘 Formed in the Netherlands in 1989, The Gathering were originally a doom metal band that was heavily influenced by the dark, gothic metal of Paradise Lost... the core of The Gathering are still brothers Hans Rutten (drums), Rene Rutten (guitar)... w/ Hugo Prinsen Geerligs (bass) and Frank Boeijen (keyboards) ... (Guitarist Jelmer Wiersma was an original member... left The Gathering in 1998) ...The Gathering released 2 albums w/ different vocalists - 'Always' (1992)... and 'Almost a dance' (1993)... and got some fanfare... It was the addition of female vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen that took The Gathering to fame in Europe w/ the 1995 album 'Mandylion'... 130K copies sold in Europe... This performance was filmed at a festival in '96 on that tour, but The Gathering hated the footage and opposed releasing it on a live DVD 'In motion' in 2001. 'Nighttime birds' was released in 1997 and The Gathering toured successfully in Europe... the band experimented w/ Pink Floyd, Radiohead and psychedelic influences on their 1998 double CD 'How to measure a planet'... it became 1 of their biggest albums worldwide. The Gathering established a psychedelic sound away from heavy metal on their next records - "if_then_else" (2000)... 'Souvenirs' (2003)... and 'Home' (2006)... A 2004 semi -acoustic live album 'Sleepy buildings' was also released followed by a 2005 semi-acoustic live DVD 'A Sound relief'... and a heavier live set in 2007 as the DVD 'A Noise Severe'... In 2007, singer Anneke van Giersbergen announced that she was leaving The Gathering to focus on her family and solo projects. In 2009, The Gathering announced new female singer Silje Wergeland from Norway was joining the band and on the album 'The West Pole'... their 10th album 'Disclosure' was released in 2012... After a hiatus in 2014, The Gathering recently released a new album 'Beautiful distortion' in 2022. Recommended songs by The Gathering - 'Leaves' ... 'Confusion' ... 'Liberty bell' ... 'Amity' ... 'New moon, different day' ... 'Eleanor' ... 'My Electricity'... 🤘🤘🔥🔥
Another great one (and much softer song) of Anneke is Jest Oldu on ´Beste Zangers´ (Best Singers) where Dutch singers perform songs for and of each other. In this song she sings part English/part Turkish. I met her once, she’s such a great soul.
This does nothing toward giving the depth of Anneke Van Giersbergen's amazing abilities vocally, although I do love this song. You should check out her several performances on Beste Zangers 2021, a Dutch TV show for and about Dutch Singers singing each other songs and songs that are important to them. They are all available on RUclips and they give you a better idea of her wonderful and amazing diversity of vocal skills. She's like a mentor to all of the Dutch women who front metal bands, especially Symphonic Metal Bands. Anneke has an extensive catalog with bands as well as a solo artist. Thank you for your reaction.
this is where Pearl Jam first got the big crowd..1992 they themselves where flabbergasted and Eddie Vedder took his biggest stagedive here and he took pictures of the crowd to take home to Seattle, because they thought no one was going to believe them playing for crowd as this. ruclips.net/video/w-gmaO4qw2s/видео.html
Great reaction! I would suggest some of the best female vocalists singing together: 1. Within Temptation featuring Anneke Van Giersbergen - Somewhere (Live) HD, a lovely duet Sharon den Adel (Within Temptation) and Anneke van Giersbergen accompanied by a full orchestra ruclips.net/video/7eqBmEO5MHE/видео.html 2. Ayreon - Valley Of The Queens (Ayreon Universe), Marcela Bovio, Anneke van Giersbergen and Floor Jansen, singing together. ruclips.net/video/TbebO5BZi-I/видео.html 3. Epica - Sancta Terra (featuring Floor Jansen) Live Retrospect show, a duet great Simone Simons (Epica) and Floor Jansen. Epica, accompanied by a full orchestra. ruclips.net/video/cx22Yuj2nzg/видео.html
Thanks for hitting up my request. Anneke and The Gathering were almost single-handedly responsible for originating the Dutch female-fronted metal sound. As someone said earlier, she inspired Floor Jansen (Nightwish) to become a metal vocalist, but she also inspired countless other female vocalist in the area. The Gathering were always more interested in pushing boundaries than fame, though. So, pretty much as soon as they established the Dutch female-fronted metal foundation, they abandoned it for more experimental sounds -- which didn't help their mainstream popularity, obviously. The other thing is that Anneke eventually left to persure her own music, but she is a sought-after guest vocalist across multiple genres.
For Dutch female fronted bands...Anneke is the grandmother of All.. She was here in 1993 aswell, and inspired Floor Jansen ( After Forever, Re-Vamp, Nightwish) Sharon den Adel ( Within Temptation) Simone Simons ( Epica) Anneke started in a jazz duo before she joined The Gathering and no one knew what a bomb did explode..
Dutch/Holland girl Power fireworks indeed!!!🤟💫❤
Grandmother?! Some respect - she's not that old! Let's say the Momma.
Within Temptation / Sharon den Adel are contemporaries. Sharon joined Within temptation in 1996, only 2 years after Anneke joined the Gathering, but before the Gathering got airplay.
I always think Orphanage also deserves to be mentioned concerning Dutch female fronted metal.
If you want to see and hear a more recent Anneke you should check out AYREON - " Valley of the Queens " live - you'll get the added bonus of Floor Jansen and Marcello Bovio - three of the best voices you will ever hear !
Anneke van Geirsbergen has one of the best voices of the last 30 years - still performing today with solo sold out concerts and singing with both Floor and Marko on different occasions - definitely worth watching some more of her work !
BOOM, and i feel young. The Gathering was one of my favorite Bands in the 90s.
The song that everyone from The Gathering should listen to is called Travel from the concert TG25: Live at Doornroosje. This is also the song that all React channels take. Here you can see how brilliant the singer is
One of the most powerful performances I've ever witnessed.
@@SteveOpstad ik ook. 4 juli 2024 op paleis soestdijk anneke van giersbergen en floor jansen
A more mature Gathering can be seen at their 25th anniversary concert. This one, a tribute to Mozart, is a must see. It is called 'Travel':
ruclips.net/video/Y46Lft_BZxo/видео.htmlsi=TWjT85LJhunpwYvy
The crowd is typical 90s in Europe. Pentecost is called Pinksteren in Dutch, and the band also comes from the Netherlands. This is the time the festival originally took place and hence the name.
For me, the accompanying album is the best Album the band has done. In the Netherlands the band was even more successful with the following album, but then the chart positions began to decline. When lead singer Anneke van Giersbergen left the band, the band disappeared from the charts to this day. Anneke was able to stay solo in the Dutch charts. Here she is with Floor Jansen:
Ayreon - Valley Of The Queens (Ayreon Universe)
Anneke is still active today. Most recently she toured the Netherlands and Germany with Floor Jansen and through South America with Marko Hietala:
Anneke Van Giersbergen y Marko Hietala - Wasted years - Iron Maiden cover
Fun fact: Anneke's performance at a festival convinced Floor Jansen to become a metal singer herself.
Wow
It was this performance that convinced Floor Jansen. It was live on national tv.
This song and Anneke are Floor's inspiration to go into metal. Anneke is considered the Godmother of Dutch Metal.
When she went solo she did also a lot of collaborations with amongst other Devin Townsend, Kevin Cavanagh, Amorphis, Ayreon, Within Temptation, Aristioir and others.
She is a regular for Ayreon and participated last september 2023 in Tilburg at Beneath the Waves 10010101.
I remember watching this gig with my boyfriend (now husband) and thinking what would I give to have Annekes beautiful copper, curly hair. Many years later we had a daughter and she had long curly copper hair as a newborn. It never fell of, and she still has it, now 13 years old. 😊
The Gathering did a 20 yr. celebration concert and one of my favorites from it is "Travel", a song she wrote as a tribute to Beethoven.
Another favorite is a duet she did with Sharon of Within Temptation titled "Somewhere". It is one of the sweetest and most beautiful duets of all time, in my opinion.
Another one is "Valley of the Queens". Floor Jansen was with her.
A tribute to Mozart 😊
Great you like the band and the audience , among the fans there was a girl named Floor Jansen .
In intervieuws Floor told several times how she saw The Gathering at Pinkpop , Anneke's performance made her decide she wanted to be an artist to .
For that alone we should be gratefull to Anneke 😉 but also fo her singing ofcourse
Please lady's if you want to see Anneke at her best see Travel Live in Doornroosje !
In addition to the collaborations mentioned in other comments, Anneke van Giersbergen also sings on a project called "The Gentle Storm," put out an album with her progressive metal band "VUUR," and has solo stuff under her own name as well as Agua de Annique. She is an amazing singer and a lovely person!
Anneke is such an increadible singer!! You guys should hear ayreon "valley of the queens", and lot other songs too. Other one is "garden of emotions" by Ayreon, she sings beautifully in the live version
Got all albums from these fellow Dutch countrymen....early start until recent. Very diverse and I like all incarnations/routes they went and they expanded/changed their horizon a couple of times throughout the years.
Another great Dutch band is Epica....do the live version of 'The phantom agony' (live on 2 meter sessions).
just 21 years old here ;) and already a seasoned singer, she had been in a jazz improvision duo for a few years prior to her joining The Gathering. and everybody...everybody does say, when Anneke sings, she smiles, and she makes you smile, she can sing of death and destruction, but you still smile when she sings it.. incredible!!! She smiles when singing, she truly enjoys singing and telling the story, and the story is whatever is the song, and she smiles when doing it.
Wow, this brings me back! I remember my first discovery of this band nearly 30 years ago.
‘Talented little band’. The Gathering is the trend setting band for female fronted symfonic metal. Their album mandylion is an absolute metal classic.
Yeah. But other albums...
Anneke van Giersbergen fronted this Dutch Metal band in the 90s. She is a wonderfully talented singer and guitarist and performs a wonderful version of Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill.
She did a song with Devin Townsend and on more since 2019's Empath.. he names her "The Tinkerbell of Metal"
Wow. The Gathering... I'm surprised someone went for this underrated band...This singer Anneke van Giersbergen is not in the band anymore ☹ but she still makes music w/ various projects... The Gathering shifted away from heavy metal by 2000 and embraced more atmospheric/ psychedelic rock afterwards... but their best records were w/ Anneke on vocals 🤘🤘
Formed in the Netherlands in 1989, The Gathering were originally a doom metal band that was heavily influenced by the dark, gothic metal of Paradise Lost... the core of The Gathering are still brothers Hans Rutten (drums), Rene Rutten (guitar)... w/ Hugo Prinsen Geerligs (bass) and Frank Boeijen (keyboards) ... (Guitarist Jelmer Wiersma was an original member... left The Gathering in 1998) ...The Gathering released 2 albums w/ different vocalists - 'Always' (1992)... and 'Almost a dance' (1993)... and got some fanfare...
It was the addition of female vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen that took The Gathering to fame in Europe w/ the 1995 album 'Mandylion'... 130K copies sold in Europe... This performance was filmed at a festival in '96 on that tour, but The Gathering hated the footage and opposed releasing it on a live DVD 'In motion' in 2001.
'Nighttime birds' was released in 1997 and The Gathering toured successfully in Europe... the band experimented w/ Pink Floyd, Radiohead and psychedelic influences on their 1998 double CD 'How to measure a planet'... it became 1 of their biggest albums worldwide.
The Gathering established a psychedelic sound away from heavy metal on their next records - "if_then_else" (2000)... 'Souvenirs' (2003)... and 'Home' (2006)... A 2004 semi -acoustic live album 'Sleepy buildings' was also released followed by a 2005 semi-acoustic live DVD 'A Sound relief'... and a heavier live set in 2007 as the DVD 'A Noise Severe'...
In 2007, singer Anneke van Giersbergen announced that she was leaving The Gathering to focus on her family and solo projects.
In 2009, The Gathering announced new female singer Silje Wergeland from Norway was joining the band and on the album 'The West Pole'... their 10th album 'Disclosure' was released in 2012... After a hiatus in 2014, The Gathering recently released a new album 'Beautiful distortion' in 2022.
Recommended songs by The Gathering - 'Leaves' ... 'Confusion' ... 'Liberty bell' ... 'Amity' ... 'New moon, different day' ... 'Eleanor' ... 'My Electricity'... 🤘🤘🔥🔥
near the end.. she "let the boys rock out"then she looks back, hugs herself and then it is done, she IS the front one
Another great one (and much softer song) of Anneke is Jest Oldu on ´Beste Zangers´ (Best Singers) where Dutch singers perform songs for and of each other. In this song she sings part English/part Turkish. I met her once, she’s such a great soul.
This does nothing toward giving the depth of Anneke Van Giersbergen's amazing abilities vocally, although I do love this song. You should check out her several performances on Beste Zangers 2021, a Dutch TV show for and about Dutch Singers singing each other songs and songs that are important to them. They are all available on RUclips and they give you a better idea of her wonderful and amazing diversity of vocal skills. She's like a mentor to all of the Dutch women who front metal bands, especially Symphonic Metal Bands. Anneke has an extensive catalog with bands as well as a solo artist. Thank you for your reaction.
Yes, Anneke kicks ass - today too 🤘😊👌 She's got lots of great co-op songs and performances with other metal artists. Great sense of humor too 🙂
Well, this brings back some memories... I'm in that crowd somewhere! Pinkpop, Dynamo, Lowlands. Summer holidays were sweet.
Anneke was such an angel, back then. She grew up to a serious music so quickly.😢
Anneke..what a voice
The song that opened me to metal, back in 1995, now almost 30 years ago.
Gostei das reações delas. The Gathering atravessou as gerações❤
Cant but love Annekes performance, this is my happy place
this is where Pearl Jam first got the big crowd..1992 they themselves where flabbergasted and Eddie Vedder took his biggest stagedive here and he took pictures of the crowd to take home to Seattle, because they thought no one was going to believe them playing for crowd as this. ruclips.net/video/w-gmaO4qw2s/видео.html
I believe Floor and Anneke are performing together in concert sometime this year.
Suggestion: Travel, very pretty song.
This gives me a nostalgic vibe.. 🤟🤘🙏
I’m somewhere in the audience.. 🇳🇱🔥
Grtz from The Netherlands
Wow cool
I love this song released long time ago (1995) by The Gathering 🤘🤘 I would recommend you to check and react to this song: THE GATHERING - Leaves
The Gathering are still out there, but they have a new singer, and a very different sound nowadays.
one of my fav bands 😅
Anneke was (is) so freaking cute….
Great reaction! I would suggest some of the best female vocalists singing together:
1. Within Temptation featuring Anneke Van Giersbergen - Somewhere (Live) HD, a lovely duet Sharon den Adel (Within Temptation) and Anneke van Giersbergen accompanied by a full orchestra
ruclips.net/video/7eqBmEO5MHE/видео.html
2. Ayreon - Valley Of The Queens (Ayreon Universe), Marcela Bovio, Anneke van Giersbergen and Floor Jansen, singing together.
ruclips.net/video/TbebO5BZi-I/видео.html
3. Epica - Sancta Terra (featuring Floor Jansen) Live Retrospect show, a duet great Simone Simons (Epica) and Floor Jansen. Epica, accompanied by a full orchestra.
ruclips.net/video/cx22Yuj2nzg/видео.html
LA CHANTEUSE EST COOL ET GENIAL👍👍
Yoyo fffffff 😮😮😮😮
watch queensryche live in tokyo 1984 take hold of the flame
Please, react to "Travel" by TG
Please reaction to - BAD OMENS THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND
do tim conway and harvy korman from carols shot....the skit was the dentist....poor harvey almost peed himself
Is that 3 generations? I can barely tell who's the oldest. Meema looks hot!
Yes, we are 3 Gen mother, daughter and grangmother.
Not great but still better than this 2010 -2020 decade crap
Lekker hoor ook uit Nederland echt wel ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Reaccione a Carry on of Angra. Saludos desde Argentina