The development of Groots met een Gentle G has began, an entry within the Guinness Guide of Information has been obtained and the rehearsals are over. Guus Meeuwis and his band are utterly prepared for ‘the final Nice’ 9 occasions. “It will likely be a marathon, however I do not dare take into consideration that final one but.” And the singer doesn’t dare to consider the long run after Groots.
A marathon, that’s how the Tilburg singer describes the 9 final Groots live shows. And for this you want good coaching.
“I practice for health and voice. It’s a must to dose. You truly need to give all the pieces on a regular basis, however then you possibly can’t stick with it.” Guus Meeuwis has already realized this lesson within the sixteen earlier editions. “It is a bit like a soccer match: you need to go all out, however be sure you make it to the tip.”
“There are lives in seventeen editions of Groots, I feel that’s particular.”
Meeuwis doesn’t but dare to consider the final Groots on Wednesday night, June 26. “Everybody thinks I’ll be devastated or unhappy as a result of it’ll be the final one, however most of all I’ll be relieved. Relieved that all the pieces went nicely.”
“Solely after I’m on vacation will I understand: this was the final, this would possibly not come again.”
Since 2006, the month of June has been all about Greatness for Guus Meeuwis. But additionally for his band and crew. Certainly one of them is singer JW Roy. “We ready ourselves in Might for seventeen years after which had the exhibits in June. Throughout that interval, kids have been born, individuals divorced, individuals married, songs have been born. There are lives in seventeen editions of Groots, which I feel is particular.”
“I don’t know but what I’ll do.”
That may utterly change subsequent 12 months. “I don’t know but what I’ll do,” says Guus Meeuwis when requested what June 2025 will seem like. “I let myself be shocked. Possibly I will go to Roland Garros, or perhaps I will cycle the Alpe d’HuZes, or perhaps I will do nothing.” There are not any plans for the long run but. “That final one first.”
Every week earlier than the beginning of ‘the latter’, he’s shocked within the Philips Stadium with a world file: by no means earlier than has a solo artist carried out so usually in entrance of greater than 10,000 individuals in a single place. Guus Meeuwis did it 63 occasions and on the finish of the month that file is 72 occasions.
“Unbelievable, I’m actually shocked,” says the ‘Brabant singer’. “I do know, after all, that what we do right here is nice enjoyable and that it’s maybe fairly particular that we’ve got been doing it for thus lengthy. That is extra my feeling. However I by no means considered it being a world file.”
The person from the Guinness Guide of Information got here straight from Norway, the place he was for a chess file, to Eindhoven. “He stated that he had been watching movies of Groots for months to formally set up the file,” says Meeuwis with a broad smile. “He may also come to see the newest Groots.”
Guus Meeuwis and his Groots are formally within the Guinness Guide of Information (photograph: ANP).
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