Onder Invloed

His new album ‘A Family Like Yours’ will be released next Monday, but while you wait for the new songs, watch Lucky Fonz III play old songs. Songs by artists who’ve influenced him heavily, like Bob Dylan, The Beatles, but also his friend Robin Block. He recites a poem by Block, and Block himself sings along on some of the songs, together with neighbour Cor.

The session, filmed in January 2009, was one of the funniest evenings so far on Onder Invloed. After eating only one sandwich on the train station in Utrecht, after working all day, the evening in Amsterdam was one of jokes; singing’ tea, coffee, no, tea, no, coffee, oh and tea; spontaneous collaborations with fellow singersongwriter Robin Block and neighbour Cor - who brought some beer with him.

It ended up being the longest and one of the most productive sessions so far. Otto Wichers (Lucky Fonz III) played even more covers than I’m going to put online right now. There’s one extremely funny cover of the Dutch song ‘Tante Julia’ by Boudewijn de Groot on the Exclusive-page, for which you can get the password by subscribing to the monthly Onder Invloed newsletter. And there’s more in the Onder Invloed archive, who knows if and when that’ll see the light of day.

For now, there’s a Bob Dylan cover called ‘Seven Curses’, a Beatles song called ‘Eleanor Rigby’, a Chin Up cover called ‘Set On Sin’ and ‘Jij en Ik’, a Dutch poem written by Robin Block. Photos by the great Brechtje Keulen can be found here. ‘Tante Julia’ by Boudewijn de Groot here.

Lucky Fonz III - Seven Curses - Bob Dylan

Lucky Fonz III - Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles

Lucky Fonz III - Set On Sin - Chin Up

Lucky Fonz III - Jij en Ik - Robin Block