ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN: 6 songs on 2 Meter Sessions in The Ballroom (2021)

After thirteen years as the front woman for melancholic metallers, The Gathering, Anneke van Giersbergen struck out on her own in 2007. Since then, her creativity has known no bounds. Anneke quickly solidified a successful solo career (initially under the moniker Agua de Annique), and has recorded and performed with Canadian metal genius Devin Townsend multiple times. She has also lent her serene yet powerful voice to the likes of: Anathema, Icelandic folk group Árstíðir, Within Temptation, Ayreon mastermind Arjen Lucassen, Amorphis, and prog legend John Wetton. In 2021, she released a new solo album: ‘The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest’, her 23rd career album. It proves, once again, that the award-winning Dutch artist defies being pigeonholed by any genre. - Listen to “The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest“ in Spotify: Anneke van Giersbergen visited Dutch television show “2 Meter Sessions“ on April 29, 2021 and she performed four songs of the new record and a song from The Gathering: 00:00 Losing You 03:18 Lo and Behold 06:11 Saturnine (The Gathering) 09:38 Love You Like I Love You 13:08 I Saw A Car 16:16 Weary ===================== About 2 Meter Sessions ==================== Based in the Netherlands, 2 Meter Sessions is an independent, ongoing (new) music platform with a great legacy. Monthly we film 3 to 4 sessions with promising and breakthrough acts from all over the world. Many well-known acts have visited the show; from James Taylor, Elliott Smith and David Crosby to Damien Jurado, Ben Howard and Josh Ritter, via Radiohead, Nirvana, Coldplay and Foo Fighters. Archive footage can regularly be seen in (theatrical) documentary movies, like “Mystify: Michael Hutchence” (with footage of our session with INXS, filmed in 1997), “Heaven Adores You” (with footage of our session with Elliott Smith, filmed in 1998) and “All I Can Say” (with footage of our session with Blind Melon, filmed in 1993). The show started back in 1987 by radio presenter Jan Douwe Kroeske. On his popular national radio show he persuaded New-Zealand band Crowded House to play a couple of songs. The response of the public was so great, that 2 Meter Sessions quickly became a household name. In 1993, the show made a successful transition to national television. From there the show became a national phenomenon, for over 10 years, with filmed sessions of new talent, breakthrough acts and arrived career artists. Almost a million of 2 Meter Sessions cd’s were sold in the Netherlands. • Subscribe to our Youtube-channel for more unique music sessions: • Playlist with over 150 well-known 2 Meter Sessions clips since 1993: • Listen to 2 Meter Sessions on Spotify: • • • === #AnnekevanGierbsergen