Pondertone lives! 28 october we will play support for Harlan T Bobo in dB’s, Utrecht. Apart from Patrick Tersteeg the Pondertone band consists of Roel Jorna, Jeroen Pelgrom, André Wierenga and Michel Fenderwoods. Come and join the fun!
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2014Forgotten Summer Hits
Thursday, July 24th, 2014This summer I posted Forgotten Summer Hits to our facebook and twitter accounts. Pondertone is not all melancholy and gloom, you know. All summer hits have now been compiled into a playlist, including two brand spanking new tracks from the upcoming album.
New song No Worries
Monday, July 21st, 2014
Check it out, folks! A brand new Pondertone tune. It’s s cheery song that will brighten your day, and we even got the Blue Grass Boogiemen to do a ‘hee-haw’ for us! (Hell yeah!) So what are you waiting for, start listening!
We would love to release this properly, so spread the word! (Share! Deel! Teil!)
Music that inspired Selotape Frankenstein
Friday, June 20th, 2014If you’re curious to know what (the hell) I was listening to when I was working on Selotape Frankenstein, feel free to follow this playlist on Spotify.
Silence Is Now… on Spotify
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
Our ‘attempt at hit album’ has become available on Spotify and other services now!
Bonus tracks Selotape Frankenstein unearthed
Thursday, February 20th, 2014
For the first time since their recording between 1998 and 2001, 12 bonus tracks can be heard. Three years ago I came across a cassette tape with ‘Pondertone live’ written on it. It happened to be a recording of my very first live appearance as such in 2001, presenting my debut album Selotape Frankenstein at O’Leary’s Irish Pub Utrecht. In the following weeks I dug deep into the Pondertone Archives and found loads of unreleased material. It’s with a mixture of melancholy and wonder that I present the magical Time Machine also known as ‘bonus tracks to Selotape Frankenstein’. Enjoy…
Warning: Selotape Frankenstein has come to Spotify
Tuesday, January 14th, 20141
3 years after it’s release our debut album Selotape Frankenstein has been (re)mastered and uploaded to Spotify.
It sure ain’t funny how time flies. A little over fifteen years ago I moved to Utrecht and started working on a couple of tracks that would eventually lead to the birth of Pondertone in 1998 and the release of Selotape Frankenstein in 2001. The album received exactly three reviews, all of them positive and promising. (Thank you GUN Magazine, LiveXS and another one I can’t remember) Nevertheless it sold no more than 35 handcrafted CD-copies, the other 15 were given away to my friends who helped me along the way and sent to magazines and record companies (only one of them replied, thank you Excelsior Records). As far as I know none of the CD-copies still plays today.
All sounds/words/pictures by Patrick Tersteeg 1998-2001.
Post-production/mix/veggie-food by Roel Jorna 2000-2001.
Mastered by Patrick Delabie 2012.
Christmas will be magic again
Friday, December 20th, 2013
For the first time -for no particular reason- Pondertone decided to record a happy song for Christmas.
Personnell:
Patrick Tersteeg – vocals, bass, programming
Michel Fenderwoods – guitars
Roel Jorna – backing vocals, solo guitar, tambourines, mix etc.
introducing Mien Tersteeg on toy piano.
Artwork by Patrick & Mien Tersteeg
The original version was recorded by the band International Language in 1996.
Written by Steve Gregory & Michel Fenderwoods
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Monday, December 10th, 2012
Pondertone celebrates the festive season once more. This time with a cover of the all time classic tearjerker ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ originally recorded by Judy Garland for the movie Meet me in St. Louis. Patrick Tersteeg and Michel van der Woude arranged and provided all the sounds and noises. Michel also made and directed the video. Enjoy!
Fate Presto shelved
Friday, September 9th, 2011After six years of toil and sweat Pondertone have decided to shelve the Fate Presto project indefinitely. Although the album was well underway to being finished, Patrick and Tom felt they were losing touch with the material. Certainly Pondertone will continue working on the album somewhere in the future, but untill then will focus on the new new album ‘From Now On’.