Bands from the "Grand Duchy of Luxembourg" aren't very well known outside the small country, even Luke Haas, musician, comic-author, did his best to write the history of Luxembourg's Rock & Roll in (afaik) two books. I purchased the first one at the end of the 80ies in a local german grocery, but, you know: books. Someone's says "Oh, beautiful book, can i take it with me to read it at home?", and then they disappear ...
I had the chance to meet Luke Haas at the yearly comic-festival at Contern, where he sold me a copy of the "Lëtzebuerger Rocklexikon II". Rock is always kind of histories to tell and Luke did a great job in collecting an archive for these bands. He died some years ago but his work has survived him.
Thierry Van Werveke
First I saw Thierry in "Troublemaker", a small independent movie from Luxembourg about two guys, leaving prison, starting instantly new robberies, getting catched by the police, going to jail, leavin' it, starting a bank robbery and so on ... a wild and really funny circle of jail & robbery, troubles & shootings through that small & beautiful country. I instantly became a fan of the actor and the musician.
He then became famous in germany as an actor in some popular movies like "Knocking On Heaven's Door" (he's the perfect actor for troublemaking punks ...). But then, at the age of 50, he suddenly died in 2009. He didn't need a doctor - he knew, what was wrong with him.
Thierry was at his best singing in his Lëtzebuerg dialect, somewhere between Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg & Tom Waits. A great and unforgotten artist.
On the rare and never that popular side of the country, there are two rare CD's in the archives. The first is a copy from a friend (burning CDs for friends became popular those days) of the band "Galileo"
Galileo (LUX) - V
There's no further information on this record, Google isn't really my friend and given that there's a european satellite project sitting in Luxembourg called "Galileo"... yep, no further information on that. "V" may be a hint, that there are maybe records from "I-IV" ...
Sleepwalk - Fir Wat?
"Fir Wat?" is luxembourgish dialect for "Why". This EP reached a certain popularity (in Luxembourg ... and, surprise, in my wife's record collection)
If visiting Luxembourg, don't miss "The Family Of Man" ...
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