Antwerp –
One of many artists who performed on the Antwerp Grote Markt on Thursday for the large folks competition of July 11, was Bart Peeters. He regarded again on the time when he traveled nearly your entire world because the frontman of The Radios, then with an English repertoire: “We even performed in Senegal. After all, that’s solely potential in case you sing in a world language.”
Peeters has been untrue to the Flemish language for some time. “Now I’m very joyful that I’m singing in my very own language once more. If you wish to inform one thing that’s near your self, then that’s a lot simpler within the language you grew up with.”
“I found that I might translate Swimming within the pool, which I wrote for The Radios in my twenties, into Swimming within the sea in a single stroke of the pen. I really just like the Flemish textual content higher than the English model.”
“’Swimming within the Sea’ brings collectively many issues superbly.” — © Sarah Van den Elsken
Peeters is very joyful along with his nomination for Radio 2 Zomerhit on this moist summer time. “I nonetheless have one thing to make up for. In 1992 we had been additionally nominated with The Radios. However one of many guidelines is that you need to be current in the meanwhile of the ultimate. And simply then we had a efficiency in Budapest with Bryan Adams.”
“A summer time hit must be in Flemish, I feel, it is usually the Flemish summer time. With Swimming within the sea I don’t consider the Mediterranean Sea in any respect. I consider the glowing silver-grey North Sea. In its personal method essentially the most stunning sea on this planet.”
“This tune brings collectively many issues superbly. I get to sing a tune in regards to the sea on the seaside. My spouse and I’ve had an residence in Heist-aan-Zee for years. Robert Mosuse, who died of mind most cancers on the age of thirty, spent the final a part of his life there. He was there along with his sweetheart for the peace. So after I sing in regards to the sea, I all the time consider the good Robert Mosuse. With out him, The Radios would by no means have existed. Robert was our most vital singer.”
