Biography
The Wild Romance are a rock & roll band based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, featuring ex-personnel of the legendary Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. Herman Brood himself died in 2001. The new Wild Romance (initially called Dany Lademacher's Wild Romance) is essentially re-established version of his backing band. They perform Herman Brood classics, but also record and release new material.
The band was, remarkably, established by Amsterdam business man Jan 't Hoen, a Herman Brood fan and amateur drummer whose dream it was to be the drummer of a revived Wild Romance. Having made a fortune in real eastate, money was no issue and 't Hoen decided to make his dream come true and 'buy the band': he hired former Wild Romance guitarists Dany Lademacher and David Hollestelle, plus Brood's former manager Koos van Dijk, and 're-formed' the band in 2013, initially under the new name, Romanza Brava.
The fantastically bumpy first year of Romanza Brava's existence was documented in the documentary 'Buying The Band' (2014), which - upon completion - was turned down by several film distributors and documentary festivals in The Netherlands, before going secretly viral online, notably amongst Dutch musicians, in 2017. Music platform, 3voor12, brought the film to the public's attention in early 2018 and it became an instant online cult hit.
Well before the 'Buying The Band' documentary took off online, however, Romanza Brava had changed its name into Dany Lademacher's Wild Romance, undergone several line-up changes, toured internationally (including a string of performances with German star, Nina Hagen) and recorded an actual studio album, 2016's Out Of Heaven.
The band is still active as of 2018, now simply as Wild Romance. Their second studio album of mostly original, new material is entitled No Time (2018).
Website: www.wildromance.eu
2018 line-up:
Edgar Koelemeijer: lead vocals
Dany Lademacher: guitar, vocals
David Hollestelle: guitar vocals
Otto Cooymans: keyboards, vocals
Gee Carlsberg: bass, vocals
Jan 't Hoen: drums
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