Review Concert Copenhagen the 4th of December

Robert wrote a review about the gig last weekend in Copenhagen! 
We had a great time in this city with much learning and discovering regarding the band and this concert. We truly hope that we can do this all over again :-)

Hereby some photo's regarding the concert:

 

The review of Robert:

Hi all

As promised the review about the RanestRane-show in Copenhagen at Friday the 4th of December 2015.

The event took place at a beautiful venue arranged by promoter Karsten Mortensen called Koncertkirken in Copenhagen.

The show

RanestRane kicked of with a beautiful intro which fitted perfectly. It took place in a church, what went on into the intro of the first song of H.A.L, the NEW album.

After the boys took their place on the stage, the "real thing" started, H.A.L in full length and power!

It took a few songs before the sound was good but during "Spacewalk" it got better and it was starting to get on "fire"!!!! The audience noticed that too and gave a warm applause after every played song, and that’s more than deserved due to the fact that H.A.L is a ”Masterpiece"!!! I will come with a review about HAL later. Without forgetting one of the other musicians, they are all four superb! The ballad "Buio Intorno" really made a ”marker" with Riccardo Romano on keyboards and Danny Pomo on vocals. But the passion and power they give to that song is just magnificent, magical!!!

The other song what really gave a thrill was ”Computer Malfunction”, here the band showed their skill on the instruments, combined with the Italian passion...."GRANDE"!!!!

After this the boys took a five minute break to come back with some of the older stuff starting with "Shining".

Kicking of with "Redrum" is by no means probably the best example about whats it all about with RanestRane.....music and movie....the classic scene of Jack breaking down the door with his axe, and Danny Pomo playing his drums. You just have to see that! I made a video of it, and it’s on You Tube called ’RanestRane Live in Copenhagen’!!! During this set I got the feeling the guys really where on fire and gave it all, great set in every way!

After this it was time for the more "Romantic and Classic”, Nosferatu.....

There just was "something" about this set, the music, Dracula, Lucy and all this played in a church.

It was almost if everybody was "in the music" and "in the movie" a strange vibe but good vibe, it just felt right!

I think a lot of RR fans have a "thing" for the Nosferatu album. Maybe because its their first, or maybe it’s the story.....but there is "something".

At the end it was time for some Monolith. Here the guys put’s on their best jacket and rocked the house!!! Leaving the audience with a standing ovation!!!

To return for an encore where some other Nosferatu pieces where played.

All good things come to an end… the audience loved it, and I talked to a lot of happy people after the show and got a lot of good and helpful feedback.

On a personal note;

Was it all perfect then? I asked myself......well probably not. Some things can be better or done different maybe,but it’s RR first European solo-tour. So there is probably a lot to learn too....

But for many of us, and them too, it’s a memory for life and a new experience where everybody has learned from, which can be helpful in the future.

One thing I do think we all have in common when it comes to this band: They deserve the best!!!! If they had unlimited resources to do it like they want it to??

Think BIG now!!......But until then its gonna be a "struggle" to survive in a "music-industry" where people hardly take the time anymore to listen to music.....sad but true..

But we will keep on supporting this magnificent band with whole our hearts and do our best to make it work out right!!!

Hoping to see you out there again at another RanestRane gig!!!

A few words from the band....

Our boys had a lovely weekend in Copenhagen, they were spoiled with presents and love from the Fanweb and Karsten Mortensen who arranged the concert in a beautiful church in Copenhagen!

Reviews and photo's will be uploaded soon!

After this amazing evening we received many kudos from the band and from Italy! Our family in Italy asked us to send them information and photo's during this weekend which we did!
We can't express ourselves with the right words at this moment as we are still shining....

The band has left us, they are on their way for more memories and concerts. We wish them much luck and we really hope that they will coming back to us in Scandinavia.

The boys left a note for us: Note from RanestRane

Words from us:

Thank you my dear beloved friends! Words cannot be found at this moment This is for us one of the 'shells' we found! Shells and memories We love you so much, the energy was magic, a new experience! Thank you for letting us step into your magical career which is called RanestRane! We will come back for more shells and memories somewhere! Thank you Karsten to give us this chance to have our boys nearby! Thank you my dear beloved Catia and Giorgio for the laughing and warm hugs! In our hearts forever!

Halloween with RanestRane and the Steven Rothery Band

Hi all!

Last month the boys supported the Steve Rothery Band in 3 places, Russelheim, Uden and Cologne where the lucky places. Unfortunately we were not there but we asked our friends to keep us updated during these 3 days and asked them to surprise us with photo's and small reviews!

We enjoyed all updates and we will show some of them!

Marjo Klingenberg (Uden)

Most of the time, when you are going to a gig, you are not looking forward tot he support act, because it’s the main act you want to see. But there are a few exceptions and one of them is the amazing RanestRane. The first time I saw them was over a year ago in Ulft when they were touring with the SRB and it was a jaw dropping experience. Second time I saw them during the Marillion Weekend PZ 2015 and again they were fantastic. The third time, true magic happend on stage in Roma together with Steve Hogarth, and they lifted the whole gig to a ridiculous high level. 

And then there was last Saturday 31 October in Uden, again as support act fort he SRB, but to be honest, RanestRane has passed the status of being a support act by far now. Normally the venue isn’t full yet when a support act starts, but it was full in Uden. Most of the time people don’t stop their conversations when a support act starts playing, instead they start talking louder, but at the moment RanestRane started playing Semi, you could hear a pin drop. 

The whole performance was just amazing (again) and according to the response of the the crowd they agreed. 

Is it a problem they don’t sing in English? Well, music is emotion and the Italian language (for me) is passion and emotion in one, so for me it even gives an extra dimension to the allready awesome music. Therefore I hope they wil never change this and keep singing in Italian.

Daniele Pomo, Riccardo Romano, Massimo Pomo and Maurizio Meo are passionate musicians from the highest level and they are getting better every time I see them. I can’t wait to see them again on December 6th when they are going to perform their new album H.A.L. If you haven’t seen them live before just buy a ticket, you are in for a real treat from an awesome band, and they deserve to be seen and heard and they deserve a ‘SOLD OUT’ sign on the venue of De Pul Uden.

Paul Kooijmans gave us some shots of his phone :-) He told us the following:

I'm not known with this band, but I loved what I heard! They received a huge applause which was well deserved!

Marco Keijzer also shared a photo as he couldn't resist to not take a few quicksnaps! 

He told us the following: I'm neither so very known with this band, I think I miss a front person or so, I cannot explain what I miss, but the music is lovely to hear and I'm really looking forward to the next album Monolith part 2! ( We told him that H.A.L. will be the part 2 ;-) And that it will be released very soon!)

Carolien van Goethem told us the following:

This was the 3th time I saw Ranestrane and I really enjoyed it. I don't understand Italian but their atmosphic music and lyrics took me away to dreamy street again. I loved to see them enjoying themselves on stage together. I am looking forward too their new album and hope too see them 6 dec in Uden again 

Christine Westbroek wrote us the following:

A Halloween night with RanestRane

Usually people try to scare the hell out of you at Halloween but this year I had a quite other experience. 

As a supportact for the Steven Rotheryband we got to see the Italian band RanestRane.

Four very nice guys who clearly enjoy to collaborate together and who performed the music from their first album Monolith, part 1 of a serie of three called A Space Odyssey.

On this night we heard the atmospheric and sometimes haunting sounds from the trip through space. 

Sometimes I got a feeling that I would like to hear some more vocals but on the other hand I think that they let us experience the emptiness and loneliness of space.

The compositions are really nice and the solo’s give space to all instruments and are showing the skills of all 4 bandmembers. 

I have to admit that I am not a great fan of supportacts because I have seen too many of them that I did not like at all but the 40 minutes RanestRane was playing were flying by and I really would have loved to hear more of them. 

Instead of scaring me they made me feel really happy that night. 

If you want to see this great band too then get your chance and go to see them in The Pul in Uden on 6 December. You are really in for a treat and you’ll get to hear more of them because this time they are not supporting an other band but playing a full gig. Don’t miss it!

Even our friend Kim Hostrup Hansen from Denmark went to one of the gigs! He went to Cologne and surprised us with a review and photo's! Even a familiar face of our Italian friend Irene! Hi dear Irene! :-)

Fanweb Scandinavia on the Radio!

Hi all!

We received the request of Paul Stoutenberg to talk about RanestRane.

And so we did! Unfortunately the interview is in Dutch but I made a translation for you all in English!

You can hear the interview here

Hi Lilian

Hi Paul

So nice to have you on the phone from Sweden to tell us about RanestRane

Well thank you for the invite! With all love I will do this for you

You are a great fan of RanestRane and also close to the band right?

Yes, that’s correct, it all started during the Marillion Weekend last year in Port Zealand. After this convention I made the first contact and tried to turn the band into the spotlights. That did work! Which is very nice and there is a lot of love in this work, which led to a true friendship which I appreciate.

I really like to speak with you about the band.

RanestRane is formed since 1998 right?

Correct.

You mentioned that the band are getting more attention, is this due the fact of the co-working together with Marillion?

Yes, on the album Monolith (where will will talk about later) they have Steven Rothery and Steven Hogarth as guest appearance. Also Rothery is the man who promote the band as wel me thinks as he took the boys with him during his solo tour. He is currently still busy with that as he will play as support for RanestRane in Italy tomorrow and the day after where they will promote the new album H.A.L and they also will play some Marillion songs.

But it’s not only Rothery but also Hogarth which helped the band with this project. He also sang in a few songs or actually spoke some lines in a few songs. But many Marillion fans will recognize this of course immediately. It’s respect for each other from both sides I think.

You said that they will play in Rome tomorrow?

Yes that’s correct! 

That will be the start of their tour through Europe where they will even stop for a gig in the Netherlands right?

Yes, they will be in Uden on the 6th of December at venue the Pul where they will present their Album HAL and they will play some other songs as well. But which songs… that’s a surprise.

So you do not know which songs will be played?

Hahaha no, I don’t know. I haven’t got the privilege to know that hahaha.

Well that is one reason more to join the gig in Uden on the 6th of December!

Absolutely!!

I mentioned before that the music really is impressive. I do believe that it will be even more impressive when you will see the band live isn’t it?

Well from my experience, I’ve seen them live last year 2014 in Copenhagen during the Rothery solo tour, I didn’t knew RanestRane, never heard of them either, but anyway, I was sitting at the first row and I was blown away by their talent. I didn’t understand a single word due the fact they sing in Italian, but the music really got their hooks in me.

4 talented guys were creating amazing music, and I was sold!

So I think that this might be the ’thing’ for most people when you hear and see them live on stage. You will be convinced by their emotion, their way of playing and so the rest doesn’t matter anymore. Their music is full of energy, emotion and passion.

Well I’m getting very curious and will go to the gig in Uden on the 6th od December that for sure. The first song I played was from the first album Nosferatu. From which year is this album? 

Ehh let’s think, this album was released in 2007 and is based on the movie of Werner Herzog Nosferatu perhaps better known for the older people with the name Dracula.

I am one of them…

hahahah

If you will see and hear this live, is there also a screen where you will see the movie or not?

Well if RanestRane has the possibility to show the movie on screen, which is possible 9 of 10 times, they will do that. The movie will be shown on the background, so they can show you their story better. The music and emotions will be heard. The music will lead you through the movie and the movie will lead you through the music. 

There will be not so many people being familiar with the movie Nosferatu but the movie The Shining will be more known. And that is the second album right?

Yes, the movie with Jack Nicholson as main actor, where he plays a person which is getting psychological pressure. And I think this album is also psychedelic actually.

I will play the song Incubo of the album the Shining. Which scene of the movie do I need to think of?

Incubo…. let’s think…. I think Incubo shows the part in the movie where Jack get’s the first psychological problems….yeah I think so….

Alright! I will play this song now, and will get back to you after this song.

INCUBO…..

We have played the second song of 4 now which is called Incubo from the album The Shining.

If I’m right, this is also an album which contains 2 cd’s right?

Yes that’s correct

If you put these albums next to each other, do you hear any development?

Yes, my opinion says that there is development. Yesterday I had a little chat with Riccardo Romano the keyboard player, Nosferatu was released in 2007. It took 3 years to write this album. Riccardo told me that they were very young at that time, they were ’searching’ and in full development. The songs were shorter, but they learned a lot about the writing.

They had the same project with the Shining, I think this is really their ’kind of thing’, producing a kind of soundtrack to a movie in their own style. They tried to make the songs a bit longer, but the problem is that you are bound on the different scenes in a movie. You can’t write a song of 10 minutes in a scene which only takes 5 minutes. In that time perhaps something completely also is going on…. 

But the boys are telling that they see development through all those years. I agree, I think you can hear it as wel as it’s more progressive and more empathy. The Shining is one of my favorite albums.

But the boys of Marillion were not involved by these first 2 albums right?

No, this was RanestRane’s project and goal I think. If we take Daniele Pomo, he loves books and stories and movies. He is the one who is addicted to these kind of things.

Marillion came later in the spotlights, but that is an another story.

I spoke with you before and you mentioned the name of the drummer Daniele Pomo, he is also the singer of the band right?

Yes

But that’s difficult I think?

Yes, he told somewhere that he is from beginning a drummer and actually he didn’t want to sing, because it didn’t felt natural to him. Though, after much practicing and learning the best technical parts in drumming and combine this with singing made it different for him. He made improvements in music and he could put his emotions in music by singing which gives him a good feeling and makes him happy.

I have seen Marillion several times and well if we see Steve Hogarth, he is an eye catcher. I mean the music of RanestRane is fantastic but to watch RanestRane, might that be not a little bit static?

Well I agree for a small part I think. I think that RanestRane might need to think about their set up on stage, because this ’problem’ or if you want to call it problem, people are wondering who is singing. That’s not weird of course as Daniele is most of the time hiding behind his drumkit and cymbals but I think that the set up on stage might do difference when people can see him. Also I hope that Daniele might come in front of the stage as there are some songs on the new album without any drums. So people might see the singer of the band :-)

Well the boys are growing and are getting a bit more famous of course, I can imagine they think: We will see what is happening..

Exactly, they received so many positive reactions after the Marillion Weekend 2015 of fans and new fans and of Marillion as well! I understood that at the moment the boys were on stage, they thought that Marillion was preparing their selves for the concert that evening, that was not the fact… Marillion was watching RanestRane from backstage and they told the boys that they never had seen so many people applauding for a support act as that evening!

And so the boys received a boost to believe in their project, and to keep on going! And that’s of course very pleasant to hear!

Yes, I can imagine that! I want to go further to the third album A Space Odyssey, I believe it’s a part of trilogy? 

Yes correct! It’s an album based on the movie A Space Odyssey.

Well David Bowie based his song also on that album right?

Ehh I think so hahahaha I’m not very updated regarding David Bowie background hahahaha

But I know that Roger Waters of Pink Floyd uses a scene of this movie in one of his songs

Okay!

Hahah That’s what I know, but Bowie? No idea!

But anyway, the will split this movie in 3 parts, and the first album is also called A Space Odyssey right or ,no, wait it’s called Monolith. When was this album released?

This album was released in november 2013. And on the studio version you will hear English spoken parts and also the voice of Steven Hogarth and the guitar solo of Steven Rothery.

Materna Luna is the one which I will play soon.

Yes that the one with Rothery, And they also have a live version which contains Italian spoken parts.

Okay, and do you hear again differences between this album and the others? Because Marillion is involved in this album.

Marillion is involved as support, it’s a completely different album, an another genre, not that romantic as Nosferatu, not that psychodelic as The Shining but more space! More keyboard sounds. I think Monolith and also H.A.L are Riccardo albums.

I want to listen!

Me too!

Alright, I will play Materna Luna with Steven Rotary as support!

MATERNA LUNA

So and that was Materna Luna with the fantastic guitar player Steven Rothery of Marillion

I mentioned that the album is released already in Japan but not for the rest of the world. Are the boys of RanestRane that popular in Japan?

Well to make a long story short…

They played in 2013 on the Italian Prog Rock Festival where they played together with l Rovescio della Medaglia which is an Italian Prog rock band. They played together with an orchestra the album Contaminazione, hopefully I say it right, which was released in 1973. This was at the festival in Tokyo. There is also a fan which has her own website like me. So yeah they are popular there as well.

Very Special!

Well Progrock lives also in Japan! No matter which language!

Yes, as we speak about the language, it’s not an easy language to understand. Has the band never thought about to write in English?

No they haven’t! Point 1: English is not their mother language, they don’t speak this language for perfect 100% either, therefore they cannot express theirselves either. They cannot give 100% as they want to, when they need to write in English.

They are saying: We are RanestRane, we are from Italy, and we want to show our emotions in our own language! And I agree with that completely!

I mean, take the Marillion Weekend as example. 3 days of music, more than 50 different countries, I’m 100% sure that some of them doesn’t speak or understands English but love Marillion anyway….

Yes, but I’m sure that there are more people speaking English than Italian…

Yes that’s true, but it’s the music which needs to get the hooks in you!!

Yes sure, absolutely!

And that’s their goal! And I completely respect that! If RanestRane will write in English, they will not be RanestRane anymore… they will not have the possibility to put their emotions in the music which they normally do…..

The Album H.A.L is not released yet worldwide besides Japan, but with the support of RanestRane and you we have the possibility to hear 2 songs!

Yes indeed!

Do you know only these 2 songs or the complete album?

I know the whole album

So you are the ones besides Japan who knows?

Can you give a tiny impression?

Yes, it’s called H.A.L, named after the computer in the movie. It’s a romantic album, it’s warmer, less conversations and singing, but it gets YOU!

The first time of listening, I got tears in my eyes, how can they do this…

I was not the only one, the boys also had their tears during writing the album. So much emotion, so much passion… they are playing all their own role which you can hear clearly.

Definitely the best album of RanestRane!

I think you made RanestRane fans curious and also other listeners. I can imagine that people want to see RR live.

Well it’s my advice to do so! Let’s get surprised in Uden!

You will not be there…

No, but in fact I would love to meet Dutch fans perhaps in Copenhagen where I will be on the 4th of December!

It’s even the release date of H.A.L. Time for party!

You will be there?

Yes! Together with the promoter in Denmark, we managed to get the boys to Scandinavia! And as a big plus: The release date of H.A.L!!

Well I want to wish you much fun on the 4th of December, thank you for your chat about RanestRane! 

Thank you!

We will now listen to the song Computer Malware. It’s the premiere!