Soft Parade was a Dutch alternative rock band, from Tilburg. The band went on from 1991 to 1995. Origin
After writing a repertoire for one year, Eric Maas (bass) and Hans Bos (song / guitar) directed the band with Dick Brouwers (hammond), Joop Pollet (guitar), Edwin Visser (drums) in August 1990 ) and Marieke Giessen and Sigrid van Woudenberg as background singers. Two weeks later, the band signs the English Anxious Records, album label by David A. Stewart (Eurythmics). In June 1991, a first ep of which Nobody Told You Anything and Cry All Over Me will get airplay in England, the Netherlands and Belgium will appear. Visser, Giessen and Van Woudenberg are replaced by Pascal Vermeer, Titia van Krieken and Marjolein Kempen respectively. Stewart then produces the debut album PUUR, after which tours followed by, among others, the Netherlands, England (with Shakespeare Sister) and Germany (with The Godfathers).
The London Video Clips ("When Violets Meet" and "Strange Flowers") are featured on MTV, as well as the "Nobody Told You" clip by A. Swietkowiak. Soft Parade is described by many as 'Velvet Underground meets nineties pop'. Later, Henk Jonkers (Fatal Flowers), Gerben Ibelings (Bad to the Bone) and Marc Lamb (Claw Boys Claw) join. At the time of the latest CD Get Well Soon (Polydor / Peermusic), the line is closed by Jacques Beljaars (drums) and Paul van Weert (Keys). Particularly is Running for Love, a duet with curator Toni Halliday, recorded in the London Church Studio (1992). Discography
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