News August 2008

-Hello there,
I have just finished moving house to a quieter area of the world where I can park my car in front of my house and my son has his own room; I even have an office area going on, it´s wonderful. That has kept me fairly busy and of course our little boy Luca, with whom I just love to hang out with.
-Christian, one of my dear friends based in Vienna has just set up his own modelling agency, so if you ever need to book models
click here.
-The legend Paul T has formed a new band in London, check them out,
they are crazy...
-We are also putting some new Strobez tours for the autumn together, I will keep you posted.
-And of course the Wasen is in sight, we started to arrange new songs, rock classics and hip new stuff, we are all looking forward to that.

News June 2008

-June is The Strobez month, we play lots and loud. And all over Europe, so make sure you drop in sometime to see what condition our condition is in!!
-Michael is back from Bozen, Italy.
Read about his discoveries...
-Hair of the dog are currently recording an unplugged album featuring their favourite songs, the release date will probably be mid-July.
PEACE


News May 2008
-The Strobez Season has begun and we already had a fantastic weekend in Holland and Belgium. Thanks to everyone for coming out, especially Den Overkant in Menen Belgium, YOU ROCK!
We´ll continue the neverending Europe tour in Zurich, going to Michael´s hometown Metzingen back to Holland and Denmark.
-Check out the new Pics.
-Michael is still living in Bozen, Italy and is gradually getting bored there, but the family will head home at the end of May.
-Hopefully see you soon at one of our gigs,
Rocknroll and PEACE

News April 08
Maike´s and Michael´s son Luca was born on the 25th of February. He was 52 cm tall and weighed 4KGs. He is much taller and heavier now. The family is currently staying in Bozano Italy where Michael´s wife is working until June.
Michael will start touring again in April, as you can see above.
The writing of the next Strobez album is in full progress and 14 songs have been written so far, no end in sight.
Come and see us play some time and spread the word,

PEACE

News February 2008
Michael is currently having a little break from touring due to the expectancy of the birth of his first child. Maike and Michael are very excited, it can happen any day now, stay tuned we will keep you posted!!
Finally a clip from last years Mega 80s show "welcome to the pleasuredome" has been released on youtube,
don´t miss it..
Some new tourdates of the Strobez´spring BENEGE tour are set up, come and see one of our shows.
Also Michael had to buy a new car with Dutch numberplates, but that´s probably not very interesting to the most of you.
Besides all that Michael is currently writing a lot of songs for the upcoming Strobez album, it´s great fun!!

PEACE!!

News January 08
-Michael just finished paying in the Christmas Circus with Ingrid Schwarz and her band, playing to over 70000 people in Maastricht and Rotterdam in the day, and playing club gigs in the nighttime wth The Strobez.
The circus was a fanastic experience with lots of fun, many new friends and lots fo elecric guitar solos...
-Currently Michael is playing in the French alps with his long time friend and colleague
Jim Garrett.
-There will be pics of the circus soon, so stay tuned,

Rock on and PEACE, Happy new year.

News December 07

-Michael started to play new strings on his acoustic, they´re great, check em out
here.
-The guestbook is finally back online, drop Michael a
message here.
-New pics from two recent Strobez gigs and yet another beer tent gig with Ingrid and her band.
-The Strobez started to work on their new album writing new material and rehearsing. The new album is said to be much more political than previous releases and is bound to be on the market in the second half of 2008.
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One reason never to fly with easy jet again
-Check out the new tourdates and hopefully see ya soon at one of the shows.

Rock on, Peace.

News October/November 2007

-Michael is currently recovering from the Wasen, which was as expected great fun.
Check out the pics. There are more to come soon until then be happy with these..
-Be sure to come to one of our gigs in the Netherlands if you can, especially Halloween in Rotterdam promises to be a great night.
-The Guestbook is currently out of order, a new one will be back during the next week or so.

-Peace and spread the word.


News August/September 2007

The
Wasen Madness is starting soon and Michael is preparing for it. This means bring your practice time up a lot to build up stamina, fitness training, no alcohol etc. Boring...:-)
But we are kind of looking forward to it because the Strobez are the rythmn section and thats allways fun, even though the gig lasts for 11 hours...
Note: Due to cancelations in the Netherlands we have moved the Strobez gigs on 29th and 30st of June to the South of Germany to entertain our friends and fans there instead.

News July 2007

Yeah!! A lot is happening or at least it seems so. Michael is very busy sending out information trying to get the band booked for the autumn and winter,
it seems we found some partners that are willing to help which is great. New publicity material has been printed and so on. YEAH!

Apart from that Michael has a new car which he is very fond of because it has a gas tank!! Travel for less. Good concept.
Check out new pics, especially the ones with drunk people from Ikast.
Cheers!

News June 2007
-The new Strobez homepage has been updated and relaunched,
check it out.
-A Strobez
MySpace site has been launched, become our friend or listen to some songs, or both.
-A unplugged video of I wonder has been added
here.
-Spread the word, peace.

News May 2007
-The Welcome to the pleasuredome premiere on May the 11th went really good and we had a cracking concert night, thanks to the tireless work of the shows producer Dodo. Check
here for pics and reviews.
-Al the untouchable has been back on tour with Michael, the dreamteam still sounds like a dreamteam.
-Feel free to leave a message in the guestbook.

News April 07
-Check out new pics from last weekends gigs in
Vlaardingen and Rotterdam.
-For all the German fans based in the deep west: Come and see us play our first gig in Aachen at the Wild Rover on Sunday the 22nd of April, the concert will start around 20h, and tickets can be ordererd at the Wild Rover.
-Spread the word, Peace.

-Vote for the Michael Strobel Band at German Radio bandcontest.

News March 07
-Vote for the Michael Strobel Band at German Radio bandcontest.
-Marko, Phil and Michael have decided that their new band name for cover gigs from now on will be "The Strobez". We could need your help with this, so
vote if you find that a good bandname or not.
Since we expect the result to be positive we already started to work on promotion material and webpage and so on:-)
-A lot of people have asked us to put a guestbook on the webpage, here it is. We hope all these people will drope us line, check it out.
-The film clips should be working now and there are a few
sound clips from the Think album to listen to.
-Because Michael plays all over Europe we have decided to put up a mailing list to inform the growing fan community every now and then about what is going on and where the next tour is taking place. Feel free to subscribe. Also we put the links page back up, check out what Michael´s friends and colleagues are up to and go and see them play.
-Michael´s wife
Maike will release her Maxi CD "grow into light" at the beginning of April, check it out, it features The Strobez as her backing band.

News February II

Someone has filmed little bits of a recent gig and sent to us,
check it out. Soundquality is bad, but still funny...

News February 07

After having finished playing in St. Moritz, Michael is currently very busy finding loads of work for the trio, so if you are an agent and want to add a new band to your roster, please contact us.
Also Michael is currently recording
Maikes Maxi release for her Germany tour this upcoming spring along with Marko and Phil. Nik is engineering this one as well, never change a winning team:-)

There will be a surprise for southern German music lovers when the new
STARPATROL show hits the road next spring.

As usual, a few new photos and tourdates have been added, check them out.