Een onvergetelijke belevenis voor zij die er toen bij waren, een ontdekking voor zij die het gemist hebben. Het wordt ongetwijfeld gezellig en een blij weerzien van en met vele streekgenoten.
Wil je een persoonlijke uitnodiging? Mail dan naar theo.vanhemelrijk@telenet.be. Hij antwoordt met plezier.

Zaterdag 10 september 2016 om 20.30 uur.
In de schouwburg van Ter Dilft, Bornem (ingang langs Absveldstraat, tussen huisnummers 21 en 27).
Gratis.

**Aankoop van dvd of cd is ter plaatse mogelijk.**

Met de groeten van Theo, Harry, Ille, Renaat, Willy Van Damme, Leona (Vaandrig), Eric (Splinter)...

At the end of the 70s Harry Woods and Theo Van Hemelrijk wrote a song called ‘Law of the Land’. It was this song which would form the basis for ‘Suspicion’, a pop song that comes eerily close to perfection. There were however enough coincidences with high impact, such as an English producer with a penchant for Michael Jackson, recording studios in Cologne and London and a new drum part after a personnel exchange. Luckily Theo Van Hemelrijk has a box full of tapes and cassettes so that we can hear the history of ‘Suspicion’ in this ‘Mastertrack’.

You can enjoy the podcast on radio1.be or on iTunes

Toy is a Belgian group formed in the early seventies. Theo Van Hemelrijk & Harry Woods form the backbone of the band.

The debut album ‘Bad Night’, released in the spring of 1979, was recorded in the Swan Studios and remixed in Matrix London. The album's most prominent singles were ‘Crazy Monday’ and ‘Coconut’. The album and singles got airplay from Belgium to Holland and Germany to the UK and earned Toy a place as a household name in the live circuit.

With drummer Marc Bonne, the band recorded a second album ‘The Split’, produced by the German Jürgen Krämer, in the Dierks Studio. When the album was almost finished, they realized that there was a cherry on the cake missing, so they hired producer Alan O‘Duffy (a sound engineer for Paul McCartney) for the song ‘Suspicion’. The song became a hit, measured with the standards of a Belgian rockband of those days, with a venture into the hitparade and television. The single was used in the German television series ‘Tatort’ (1981) and in Tom Barman's pic ‘Anyway The Wind Blows’ (2003). Toy played on the motion picture's premiere party, treating the crowd to a JJ Cale cover ‘Anyway The Wind Blows’. Then the cops came to break off the show. To this day ‘Suspicion’ remains one of the true classics of Belgian popular music.

In 1993 the band signed to ‘Koch International’ and got to record a full-CD ‘Brand New Toy’. The CD got quite a bit of attention on the radio, but during too short a period.

In 1999 they compiled the best material from ‘Bad Night’, ‘The Split’ and the singles from 1983-1993 on the ‘AnTOYlogy’-album. However, the band insists this is not at all an ‘epitaph’ : nowadays Theo Van Hemelrijk & Harry Woods keep on pursuing their quest in search of the ultimate song.