A little support from your fellow artists never hurts. Perhaps that was the reason for Blue Velvet to put the window of a record store (containing the covers of the best-selling albums of 2011) on the cover of their CD. A smart sales trick, you can leave that to the people of Volendam. Frontman Jan de Witte is the son of Jaap de Witte, the guitarist of 3Js. Unlike his father, Jan only sings in
… English. Blue Velvet sees itself as a rock band and distances itself from the local eel sound on their website. The six of them play good rock after American example. Melodic and with great choruses, a sound that fits exactly in the format of 3FM. With the description 'it pops but doesn't get explosive', Blue Velvet concludes her band biography. There is the trick: this album offers professional but unfortunately also a bit too predictable rock music. Far from explosive, but made to please the widest possible audience. (PdK)more
