Tourist LeMC brings calm version of Spring song in ‘Lie …

They had carefully chosen their outfits, Jelle Cleymans and Jonas Van Geel. Tonight the duo took center stage in ‘Love for music’. Their colleagues draw on their debut album, the solo oeuvre of Jelle Cleymans and that of Spring. Tourist LeMC, for example, released a relaxed version of ‘Free Fall’.

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“Of all the artists, I am most curious about you”, Cleymans said. “You’re a language artist, so I assume you’ve done something completely different with it linguistically.” Whereupon Tourist LeMC had to admit nervously that, after having completely adapted the songs of Emma Bale and Willy Sommers over the past few weeks, he barely touched the lyrics of the Spring song. Free fall had tinkered.

“I thought: those songs are in the context of Ketnet, written for a teenager”, the singer explained his thesis. Would that text still hold up if you put it in a ‘more serious’ context? This is one of the few covers whose lyrics I’ve barely touched. ” Although the end result turned out to be unmistakably Tourist. His free fall was not as fast as that of Cleymans at the time, he sang the song at a much slower and slower tempo. Ronny Mosuse was enthusiastic. “Now I actually think it’s a good song.”

Warm-up for Spring

The artists also released songs from Cleymans & Van Geel’s first album, which was released last year. “We released our first record of our own songs and then there was corona. So we hardly played these songs ”, says Van Geel. Although not everyone chose a song from the duo. The oeuvre of Jelle Cleymans solo and that of Spring was also frequently used, of course.

Speaking of Spring, the gentlemen had a funny anecdote about that. Van Geel once turned out to have been an audience warmer for the popular Studio 100 band. He even auditioned for Spring at the time, but it was not supposed to be. He did, however, regularly accompany Cleymans, who became the frontman, on gigs. “Jelle was known and I was more or less his appendage, I was always there. Then a concert was recorded for a DVD and they said let him heat that up. ” Cleymans’ response: “Ah, those good old days.”

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But, back to Love for music. Geike Arnaert sought her inspiration from the duo’s debut album, but colored a bit outside the lines. She brought Omarm, a song by BLØF that Cleymans and Van Geel covered. A cover of a cover, really. Inception there is nothing against it. But the end result was clever: enthusiastic and experienced, as always.

Close the door

Shortly before, Arnaert had been summoned to the stage by Ronny Mosuse, who invited her for a short dance during his version of Only. “Your songs are very musical,” he said. “There is a lot of melodrama in it.” Cleymans’ statement: “That’s because of Jonas. He’s a bit of a drama queen. ”

Emma Bale was also inspired by the album of the two friends. Homesickness she translated to Boy Bye. Where Cleymans and Van Geel beg their loved one to come back in the song, Bale answers them. “You sing that the door is open and I sing that I am completely done with it.” She pulled the song completely into her own world. Her hit Cut loose lurked around the corner.

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Tonight Bert Ostyn paid an ode to the cheerful gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt with Old black BMW, his version of Cleymans’ Toyota camry. And Willy Sommers also brought ambiance I remember Blankenberge, an ode to the legendary Ten to see on the tones of By train to Ostend.

Icing on the cake

Cleymans and Van Geel closed the evening modestly with Party from The Scene. “The icing on the cake”, said Bert Ostyn with good intentions. Van Geel reacted as dry as a bone. “That won’t. It will be that piece of whipped cream that you think: ooh, too bad that has happened. ” Whereupon the company burst out laughing collectively. There is still no lack of atmosphere.

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