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.
-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.