City Carillonneur Viral After Metal Band Shares Video:

 City Carillonneur Viral After

 Metal Band Shares Video:

 'Outside My Comfort Zone'

August 7, 2021 - It's not really the kind of music you expect to hear coming from a church. Yet, recently there was  real heavy metal music coming from the church tower in the city of Weert. City carillonneur Frank Steijns and guitarist Jitse Zonneveld showed off a fine piece of metal with the song 'Ace of Spades' by Motörhead. The performance was picked up by the British band themselves, who shared it on YouTube yesterday.

During the Torenfestival (Tower Festival) Weert, people could enjoy live music at a distance of 70 meters, where Steijns played all kinds of music together with guest musicians for a month long all this summer. "This was the first and only music festival which could take place corona-proof. The city was our concert hall and we were tens of meters up high," he tells EditieNL. (TV program).

Hardly any preparation.

Guitarist Zonneveld is a big fan of Motörhead and had submitted this request to Steijns.

"I didn't know it at all. But if you wake Jitse at three in the morning, he can play it for you right away." One thing led to another and in no time he received the notes in his mailbox. The carillonneur had hardly any time to prepare. "We couldn't really rehearse, because then the whole city would hear it already," he explains. The two went upstairs about an hour in advance and briefly practiced on a fake carillon. "The first performance had to be flawless right away.

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Then the supreme moment finally there: "I was afraid I was going to be arrested, it sounded so loud all over the city. But everyone looked up with mouths open. That was really cool." After the performance, they shared a video on Face book. Soon a hundred thousand people had watched it.

" Jitse called me right away. He went completely crazy, because the band had shared our video on YouTube and other social media channels." Motörhead wrote: 'We really like this.'

Soon reactions came in from all over the world.

The Village People - known for the song YMCA - also shared the video.

Next edition?

The city carillonneur has been playing the carillon for 25 years and is also part of the André Rieu orchestra. He is trying to bring the music and the instrument closer to the people. Steijns has already performed with Blof and covered many songs. "But I've never gone this far outside my comfort zone."

Will there be a new edition? Probably. "There is a huge demand for it."

Thanks Ineke for the article and her and John's combined translation