When U2 seems in Las Vegas later this 12 months for a fall residency, will probably be the primary time the band has carried out reside since December 2019. However that is not the one motive the reveals will likely be noteworthy.
It is also reportedly solely the second time within the band’s 40-plus-year profession that they’re going to carry out reveals with out certainly one of their core 4 members, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. (The primary time was in 1993 when bassist Adam Clayton missed certainly one of U2’s Zoo TV Tour reveals in Sydney because of a debilitating hangover. His bass technician, Stuart Morgan, stuffed in; the incident pushed Clayton into sobriety.) Mullen Jr. had beforehand introduced that he wouldn’t be becoming a member of the band on the highway in 2023 whereas he handles well being points.
His alternative is Bram van den Berg, the 40-year-old drummer of the Dutch pop-rock band Krezip. The group, fronted by Jacqueline Govaert, was initially fashioned in 1997 in Tilburg, Netherlands; van den Berg joined in 2004. The band is standard within the Netherlands — they’ve performed their dwelling nation’s Pinkpop competition six occasions — in addition to in different components of Europe, Krezip has launched 5 albums, three of which van den Berg has contributed to.
Van den Berg, who was born within the small Dutch village of Wamel, joined his first band, One in a Million, in 2001, whereas learning on the Fontys Rock Academy in Tilburg. Three years later he joined Krezip and performed his first live performance with them on New Yr’s Day 2005. That very same 12 months, the band launched its third album, What Are You Ready For? “I’m a tune drummer,” he mentioned in a 2005 interview with Drummerszone. “Do not get me unsuitable, I really like the heavy technical drummers, however [I’d] reasonably deal with songs: serving the tune, so to talk.”
Watch Bram van den Berg Carry out With Krezip at Pinkpop in 2009
Van den Berg, who has additionally drummed for VanVelzen, Drive Like Maria and Guild of Stags, has cited varied rock drummers as inspiration. “I simply wish to create a full sound and attempt to create that by taking part in as I do,” van den Berg mentioned in 2005. “My biggest influences truly do the identical. Drummers like Roger Taylor, Taylor Hawkins and Dave Grohl. Man, their sound is simply superior. However on the similar time, they’re additionally drummers who deal with the songs, not the heavy technical stuff. For example, take ‘We Will Rock You’ [by] Queen. It is increase increase tak, increase increase tak. That rhythm is completely nothing however the whole lot on the similar time. The general public is aware of it, remembers it and claps [its] arms on it. That is the way it ought to be.”
Though Krezip break up up in 2009, they reunited in 2019 at Pinkpop, and in addition introduced final month that their sixth album, Any Day Now, will arrive on April 7.
In an Instagram submit, Krezip acknowledged they’re “extremely proud” of van den Berg, noting that U2 is certainly one of his favourite bands. “We have recognized for a very long time how good he’s,” they mentioned.
Extra particulars on U2’s reveals on the MSG Sphere on the Venetian in Las Vegas will likely be introduced later.
“Very enthusiastic about this chance to affix Bono, the Edge and Adam onstage in Las Vegas,” van den Berg wrote in an Instagram submit. “It is large footwear to fill however Larry and the band have been so supportive, I can not wait!”
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