Annual review 2009

As usual we started our 9th year of touring as THE DOORS EXPERIENCE in Zurich at the New Years Eve Doors Celebration with hundreds of enthusiastic fans, who came from all Swiss counties, France, Germany, Western Austria, Italy, France, Croatia and other countries.

Due to many requests we had our fan t-shirts also produced in 5 small sizes for children, whereas sizes from S to XXL are still available as well.

Some new mp3s were added to www.thedoors.at in 2009, as well as some new video footage from this year’s Zagreb concert. A lot of this is happening on our youtube-site www.youtube.com/baronlejois, where one clip “Break On Through in Zagreb 2007” has been downloaded more than 112.000 times up to now. Download figures of songs on www.myspace.com/thedoorsexperience have risen enormously once more. At the end of the year we counted 2.7 million downloads. Plus there is still Tihana’s Official Doors Experience Fan Site on myspace and our Facebook-Fanseite.

The year 2009 was closed almost like it was started: in the tightly packed Innsbruck Treibhaus, at the totally sold out Kammgarn club in Hard, and instead of the Alte Kaserne this time at the very famous Volkshaus Zurich (where Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger had played themselves 3 years ago with Riders On The Storm).

Fotos Treibhaus  Innsbruck 30.12.2009: Loïc Duliscouët

Fotos Volkshaus Zürich 31.12.2009: Loïc Duliscouët

European TV channel arte and German highly respected ZDF theatre channel aired the documentary „Jim Morrison lebt” (Jim Morrison is alive) several times, which starts off with footage of our concerts in Austria and Slovenia. Plus it features interviews with Jason “Jim” Boiler and enthusiastic fans.

Our tour year is well documented on www.thedoors.at, where we also reworked the navigation bar, re-opened the forum plus added new galleries and press reviews.

We are looking forward to seeing you again during our tour 2010!

 „Let it roll, baby, roll!“

Loads of new videos are on-line on youtube: Wild Child & Crystal Ship as filmed at the Stuttgart Wagenhallen with heavy liquid lights effects, Light My Fire from Stuk Maribor 2009, a clip about our last appearance at the Feast of Friends festival 2006, Build Me A Woman as performed in Innsbruck, a retrospective of some of our earliest concerts from 2001, plus Klaus’s breathtaking stunt at the climax of his Light My Fire solo from the Stadtsaal Krems 2003. All footage has been personally brought in shape for you by our very own Jason “Jim” Boiler.

A little road movie about our concert in Maribor has just been put on-line in youtube. In addition to the enthusiastic Sloveenian fans you'll see fans from Croatia, France, Spain, Turkey, Hungary and Southern Austria, wo all came to the capital city of Slovenia to celebrate The Doors' music with us and to honor Jim Morrison.

Who Do You Love (recorded live at the Szene Wien, Vienna, Nov. 5th 2009) is on-line on youtube, including backstage footage. Thanks, Oliver Koinig, for filming!

Last week we played concerts at Vienna's Szene Wien and at the Maribor Stuk. Both are top locations of the respective capital cities. Both had full house and crowds that enjoyed themselves to the maximum. While the Vienna audience contained fans from Slovakia, Hungaria, Czech Republic and almost all Austrian counties, in Maribor we were able to welcome guests from Croatia, France, Hungaria and southern Austria in addition to the Slovenian fans. Both locations will see us again quite soon, and we are looking forward to playing them again in front of such kind and energetic crowds.

Photos from Stuk/Maribor 2009 by Loïc Duliscouët

About four years ago two young sound engineers invited us to make use of older recording techniques (16 track tape recording). So we spent a night at the analogue studio of the Vienna School of Audio Engineering (SAE) to record some songs. A video clip of the session containing the song Break On Through has turned up on the web recently after all these years, produced by www.sum-music.com. Jason himself has retouched this clip and put a remastered version of it on-line on youtube now.

We warmly recommend you to buy some of the much cheaper pre-sale tickets for our upcoming show at the Szene Wien (Vienna) on November 5th.

Our rendition of Spanish Caravan (live at the Treibhaus-Turm Innsbruck, July 10th, 2009) is on-line on youtube.

Last week our tour led us through Holland. The De Pul club in Uden, which we played for the second time, was sold totally sold out.

The other day we played at Open Keuken in Doentinchem, a brand new first class restaurant, which was very fascicnating to play in.

The marvellous reception at both locations, the friendly Dutch promoters with their caring teams made us forget the long and exhausting journey. We are happy about the Dutch guest book entries, which proof that we have found loads of new fans in Holland.

Our last video of the  the Almenno Rock Festival 2009 went on-line on youtube.

More pretty fine videos are on-line on youtube: L. A. Woman, Roadhouse Blues & Take It As It Comes and Love Me Two Times, as performed on the Almenno Rock Festival 2009.

A new video clip of our concert in Klausen / Italy (July 18th, 2009) is on-line on youtube.

It's been worth the wait for those who wondered if we would play Zurich again on New Year's Eve this year. Swiss top promoter Pino Quaresima has just confirmed the 31st of December for us, but not as usual at the Alte Kaserne, but at the most famous Zurich concert hall, the Volkshaus, where top stars like Tina Turner, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Pearl Jam, Pat Metheny, die Kasierchiefs, Ultravox, Scooter, Journey, Dream Theater, Asia, Pur, Alpha Blondy and most recently Riders on The Storm - featuring Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger - have played.

We'll see you on New Year's Eve at the Zurich Volkshaus!

Our version of Break On Through has surpassed 100 000 plays on youtube today.

Our video archive will be revisited soon, so that our fans will have new footage to keep them warm during cold autumn and winter days.

The weekend in Italy was pure pleasure for us. 3000 enthusiastic fans celebrated with us at the Almenno Rock Festival. Amidst them were fans, who even came especially from Germany, France, Croatia and Austria. The ultimate experience was when a great fireworks was shot off near the festival site and painted the evening sky in moody light, exactly while we played The End.

Pics: Loïc Duliscouët

If you are able to receive the ZDF-Theaterkanal on your TV, you are in for a special treat. The arte documentary "Jim Morrison lebt" (Jim Morrison is alive) about our concerts in Maribor an in Csaterberg is transmitted again. Here are the dates:

Fri, 11.09.2009, 00:55 Uhr

Mon, 14.09.2009, 23:55 Uhr

Wed, 16.09.2009, 00:55 Uhr

Sat, 19.09.2009, 23:55 Uhr  

Thu, 24.09.2009, 23:55 Uhr

Mon, 28.09.2009, 00:55 Uhr

Tue, 29.09.2009, 23:55 Uhr

Someone we do not know has recently put the arte TV documentary about us on-line on youtube. The feature was first broadcast on TV on December 27th, 2008. Anyway we wish you 10 exciting minutes full of music, interviews and fan comments, all included in the footage that dates back to our concerts in Csaterberg /Burgenland and Maribor Slovenia from November 2008.

If you are a member of Facebook, you can add yourself as a fan of ours here.

The coldest day of an otherwise very hot week was last Saturday, when we headlined the "Rocking in The Rain" Festival in Chiuso / Italy (near Bolzano). Hundreds of fans withstood the low temperatures and made us and themselves feel good at this extremely well organised open air festival. The stage sound was excellent, the promoters friedly and caring. Here are some pics by Loïc Duliscouët. Thanks, Loïc!

Those who attended our concert at the Innsbruck "Treibhaus" on July 10, will agree: to have the show not downstairs in the cellar as usual but in the so-called "Tower" was a great experience for all involved. The "Tower", a theatre with two balconys all around the room, is a great place to perform Doors music. Here are some photos.

R.I.P JIM

(1943 - 1971)

Two new video clips of our concert in Rijeka ( Club "Stereo Dvorana", March 13^th, 2009) are on-line on youtube.

For 2010 a concert date has already been confirmed. On February 26th we will play our third concert at the Backstage club in Wiener Neustadt / Lower Austria.

At meinbezirk.at (district Oberpullendorf) you can find a gallery of our concert at the Kuga club Großwarasdorf / Veliki Borištof on June 6th. Thanks to the extremely polite team of this extraordinary culture club. The sound was also extremely pleasing there.

 photos © Buzanich

On the occasion of our last concert at the Vienna Reigen club (May 15th), we were asked repeatedly when the next opportunity will knock for us to be experienced live in Vienna. Today we are able to answer this question: on Thursday, Nov. 5th, we will play at the Szene Wien again.

Our concert at the Hard Kammgarn club in Vorarlberg has been rescheduled for December 29th. Now we will be able to play the Innsbruck Treibhaus on Dec. 30th once more, just like all the years before.

To shorten your waiting for our upcoming concert (May 15th at the Vienna Reigen), we have put up two new clips on youtube. Both contain footage from our concert at the Röda in Steyr. Number one is a moving version of Crystal Ship, number two is a medley consisiting of Break On Through, The Changeling, Wild Child, Riders On The Storm and Light My Fire.

Two new concert dates have been added towards the end of the year.

On November 7th we will play the Stuk club in Maribor for the second time. That's Slovenia first class location, where the live footage for the TV documentary about us by trans-European station was filmed last year.

On December 30th we will play one of Vorarlberg's most reknowned clubs for the third time in total: tha Kammgarn in Hard.

We'd like to thank the entire team of the Röda Club in Steyr / Upper Austria, where we played last Saturday. The Röda was packed with more than 200 fans, who had a very good time there. Our thanks also go out to our sponsor Vega Nova - thanks, Erich Schlagitweit! Some more pictures of the event will be presented here soon.

In our press reviews you will find a concert review of our concert at the Szene in Vienna, as published in the most recent issue of "Back to the Beat(les)", Austria's official Bealtes fan club magazine.

We will be headlining this year's Almenno Rock Festival near Bergamo once more. We will appear there on Saturday, September 5th, and are already heavily looking forward to doing so.

Due to the decreasing number of entries we decided on closing the forum down. In times of myspace and other social websites a forum is not state of the art anymore. Nevertheless we are looking forward to reading your entries in our guestbook, as well as your comments and messages on myspace. Plus there is also the Official Myspace Doors Experience Fan Site and you can send us an e-mail to doors@thedoors.at.

And now here is a gallery consisting of pics of our concert at the Zagreb Boogaloo March 14th, 2009). Thanks, Loïc Duliscouët.

We have restocked our Doors Experience fan T-shirts in all 10 sizes. The shirts are available in S, M, L, XL & XXL. Plus due to special requests we also have junior sized T-shirts (XS, S, M, L, XL). They were produced in a socio-economic project by recovered and help-seeking drug addicts.

Yet another gallery of our Rijeka concert (March 13) is on-line. Thanks, Loïc Duliscouët, for your pictures.

Yet another gallery of our Rijeka concert (March 13) is on-line. Thanks, Matilda Rudec, for sending us these pictures.

We've just returned from Croatia, where we played 2 extremely successful concerts. In Rijeka there were more than enthusiastic 600 fans in the totally sold out Stereo club, in Zagreb - like every year - about more than 1000. The shows went down well on both occasions. More pics will be on-line soon.

  photos by Loïc Duliscouët

Last night Klaus Bergmaier was interviewed by Viennese radio station "Radio Orange" about his musical activities with Angelika Sacher (www.arbeiterinnenlieder.at.tt) for future transmission. But while being there Klaus was also invited to join the live broadcast and talked about THE DOORS EXPERIENCE before our live version of L.A. Woman was broadcast.

A new video of Light My Fire is on-line on youtube. It was filmed by Loïc Duliscouët at Alte Kaserne in Zurich on December 31^st, 2009.  

A new video clip of "When The Music's Over" from last year's concert at the Stuttgart Wagenhallen, filmed by Andreas Zeger, has been put on-line on our youtube site. Due to the limitations of 10 minutes on youtube, this extra long song had to be split up in two parts.

part 1         +          part 2

Yesterday we surpassed the sensational benchmark of 2.5 million mp3 plays on our myspace site.

For our concert at the PUM Festival on Carnival Monday (Feb. 23rd) in Schwanenstadt / Upper Austria the promoters have set up a special myspace site.

More news concerning our tourdates: our concert in Uden was transferred from October 24th to October 23rd, because there is yet another concert in the Netherlands on October 24th for us at the "Open Keuken" club in Doetinchen.

We'd like to thank all our German fans, who came to our two concerts this weekend in Stuttgart and Garching upon Alz (Bavaria), about 300 at each of the two locations. We have never had such a good time in Germany before.

New concert dates have been added: Saturday, April 11th, sees us play the art club "Röda" in Steyr (Upper Austria), whereas we were booked as headliners for an open-air festival in Klausen near Bolzano (Italy) for July 18th.

Just as promised we have put more photos from our concert at the Szene Wien (Vienna) on-line. Thanks, Helmut Stern, for sending us these professional pictures.

Our annual concert when school's out for summer at the Innsbruck Treibhaus has been confirmed for July 10th.

Our very next concert will take place at the Stuttgart Wagenhallen on Friday, February 13th. Pre-sale tickets can be purchased here. We are looking forward to playing Germany again.

An enthusiastic crowd gathered at the Szene Vienna this Thursday. They provided us with reactions we have only so far witnessed outside Austria or maybe at the Innsbruck Treibhaus. Tickets pre-sale figures made us expect quite a night, but what we finally lived through was gorgeous. When Jason got out of the backstage area after the concert, he was once more greeted with standing ovations for minutes. The Viennese audience was also in for a special treat, as we performed L’America from L. A. Woman and Build Me A Woman from Absolutely Live for the very first time.

Here you see some pics taken by press photographer Helmut Stern, who promised us even more of his great material, which we are going to present you in a gallery soon.

Photos © stern-press / H. Stern

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Loïc Duliscouët

Annual review 2008

As almost usual by now we started our 8th year of touring as THE DOORS EXPERIENCE in Zurich at the New Years Eve Doors Celebration with hundreds of enthusiastic fans, who came from all Swiss counties, Germany, Western Austria, Italy, France and Croatia.

 A change in our line-up took place in 2008. Our bass player Martin Plangl told us that he would quit the band for good by the end of the year due to personal reasons. Our new bass player Jürgen Schaupp took over bass duties on January 22nd in the Vienna Reigen club on the occasion of Martin’s farewell concert. Since then Jürgen has adapted well into the group as a musician and friend.

But the year 2008 had even more highlights for us in store: We have played concerts in 10 different countries this year, many of which we visited twice. New additions were Turkey, the Netherlands, Belgium and France. In these countries plus in Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Switzerland and Austria we gained loads of new fans. Another first for 2008 was that promoters in Italy and Turkey had us go to their countries by plane.

Like in every year we also added songs to our repertoire in 2008: Strange Days, L’America and the song Soft Parade in its full length. The fans highly appreciated this special treat.

Due to many requests we had our fan t-shirts also produced in 5 small sizes for children, whereas sizes from S to XXL are still available as well. One set of kids sized shirts has been set aside for Paul Bergmaier, Klaus’s baby boy who was born on February 19th 2008 as the first child within the group.

Some new mp3s were added to www.thedoors.at in 2008, as well as some new video footage from this year’s Zagreb concert. A lot of this is happening on our youtube-site www.youtube.com/baronlejois ab. Download figures of songs on www.myspace.com/thedoorsexperience have risen enormously once more. At the end of the year we counted 2.4 million downloads. Plus in December our Croatian fan Tihana started the Official Doors Experience Fan Site on myspace.

The year 2008 was closed like it was started: in the tightly packed Innsbruck Treibhaus and the Alte Kaserne Zurich.

On December 27th European TV channel arte premiered the documentary „Jim Morrison lebt” (Jim Morrison is alive), which starts off with footage of our concerts in Austria and Slovenia. Plus it features interviews with Jason “Jim” Boiler and enthusiastic fans. This show will also be broadcast on ORF1 and 3sat in 2009.

Our tour year is well documented on www.thedoors.at, where we also reworked the navigation bar, re-opened the forum plus added new galleries and press reviews.

We are looking forward to seeing you again during our tour 2009! 

„The soft parade has now begun, listen to the engines hum!“

 THE DOORS EXPERIENCE