Moonflower concerts Tour 2024-2025

Biography

Moonflower was (is) 1.) a pop/rock band from the Utrecht area in The Netherlands, that existed from 1993 to 1999. During their six year career span, they released two albums, being "The Real Thing" (1994, Columbia) and "Shelter" (1996, Epic). Musically, Moonflower leans heavily towards semi-acoustic adult contemporary and indie rock and female US rock singers of the mid and late 1990s. Therefore, the band's music can best be compared to that of Sheryl Crow, 4 Non Blondes, Alanis Morissette, Heather Nova, Michelle Branch, The Sundays and the otherwise relatively unknown Norwegian girl band The Tuesdays. The songs of Moonflower may also appeal to listeners of Dutch artists like Anouk, Krezip, Lois Lane, Meg and Judith. The Dutch band Moonflower (not to be confused with the Bristol funk band The Moonflowers) consisted of singer Angeline Bonette, keyboard player Geert Veneklaas, drummer Jean Monsou, guitarist Jan Kanis and bass player Pebbles Willekes. Monsou, who prevously played in the well-known Dutch bands Time Bandits and Secret Sounds, had already been in another band with Bonette and Veneklaas, called Jeanny's Wild Obsession. Their only releases were two UK singles in 1993, "Love & I" and "You Can Tell The World", both issued on the Polydor label. Since the venture with Polydor did not work out (as of today, the album remains shelved), the band returned to Holland and changed their name to Moonflower as a result. They were signed by Sony's Columbia label soon after. In 1994 Moonflower gained attention in The Netherlands with their debut single "Angel", which became one of the most played songs on Dutch radio that summer. Despite massive airplay and video rotation, the single failed to chart in the Dutch Top 40 and only made it to #44 in the Mega Top 50. And even though the debut album "The Real Thing" and its subsequent singles only enjoyed minor success, press reviews for Moonflower were raving and they were selected for opening shows in Holland of both Zucchero and Amanda Marshall. While only the 1996 single "Roses" managed to receive some substantial airplay, Moonflower didn't seize to exist until 1999, while keyboard player Geert Veneklaas had already left the band in 1996, just after the release of the second Moonflower-album. After their silent departure, it seems like Moonflower has fallen into obscurity, without maintaining airplay on Dutch radio for any of their released singles. In September 2006, Pierre Oitmann, of the popular Dutch music website 3VOOR12, pointed out that Moonflower's break-up was "due to lack of success", while describing their most well-known single, "Angel", as a "moving little pop song [...] inextricably linked to the summer of '94". Jean Monsou and Angeline Bonette continued to work together in the 2000s. In 2001, Belgium singer Yasmine had a hit with "Ken Je Dat Gevoel", penned by the two former Moonflower members (with Angeline being credited as Angelina). As of 2008, both Monsou and Bonette are in the Utrecht based 1980s coverband The Serious Moonlight (named after David Bowie's 1983 tour and subsequent concert film "Serious Moonlight"), with former members of ChaCha, The Snipers, The Whisper Mode and Zalesky. Keyboard player Geert Veneklaas never joined a new band after leaving Moonflower, but is still active as a solo-musician. He publishes his music on several online platforms like Soundcloud. 2.) a blues-soul band from the Czech Republic, more info including some extracts from their songs see: http://bandzone.cz/moonflower#/moonflower 3.) a darkwave/synthpop group from North Carolina, formed in late 2020. The band consists of members from Black Bouquet, Hyperbolic Paraboloid, and Pretty Boys Must Die. Their sole EP is available on No Curfew Kids bandcamp page, https://nocurfewkids.bandcamp.com/album/we-didnt-speak-on-yesterday. 4.) an art pop/electronica project formed in 2021 by Italian artist Niccolò Rovelli. https://blacklizard.bandcamp.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.