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We will post the latest information about Anouk from around the world.
If you have anything from newspapers, magazines, concert reviews please keep us informed. If you have a 'concert experience' you would like to share with other fans, feel free to send it to us as well.
All contributions are welcome.

Anouk on TV

TMF will be showing its 'Videos of the Year', and 2 of Anouk's videos will be among them!

TMF - Eternal Top 100

TMF - Top Songs of 1998

For those of you that do not get TMF on the television, don't despair. You can watch it online 28K Feed ISDN Feed (requires netshow).

On January 10 1999, Anouk will be a guest on the tv-program Heeren van Amstel. No other details available at this time.

Together Alone - Collector Edition

Dino Music has recently released Anouk's wonderful debut album "Together Alone" in a very special collectors version. It is now available as a slimpack double CD. Yes, you are reading it right, a 2 CD set!

Besides the "Together Alone" album, a second CD has been added which includes the American remix of "Nobody's Wife" and the American videoclip of "Nobody's Wife" as well as the videoclip for "Sacrifice".

This collectors item edition is a 'must have' for the real Anouk fans!!

Anouk "Together Alone" In Stores Now!

Anouk's debut album, "Together Alone" arrived in stores Oct 27/98. It has already sold out in a few stores within 3 days of being released!

The first single... "Nobody's Wife" is the most requested song on a number of US radio stations.

Anyone interested in purchasing a copy of the North American release of "Together Alone", please send an e-mail to anoukland@purplelion.com
Once we know how many people are interested, we will 'bulk purchase' CDs to give the best possible price. We will then offer the CDs to interested people.
(payment via international money order only)

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

It will never be like this again.

Long hair can help to define the mood on stage. You can sway wild with it, but it also has disadvantages. That was what Anouk found out. On this (old) photo you can see the energetic singer as she still has her long hair.

But suddenly she had enough of it. Long hair, that falls like it falls, gets into your eyes all the time. And you bump against everything if you don't get it out on time.

Annoying, annoying, decided Anouk and she gave her hairdresser orders to put the scissors to it.

"Are you sure?", her hairdresser asked, a bit disconcerted.
But Anouk was sure of it !

So these day's she walks around with a fresh, short hairdo.
And to be honest, it looks so much better on her. Anouk looks much more 'decent' like this... but she is still an animal when she is on stage !

ANOUK 'Nobody's Wife' Promotional CD Single

To celebrate the release of Anouk's American Debut Release "Together Alone", Sony's Official Anouk Site offered fans a chance to win one exclusive limited edition of "Nobody's Wife" Promotional CD Single.
Sony had thirty-five (35) promo cd's to give away.

ILSE picks Anouk Land as Tip of the Day

Well, it seems that we received an unexpected honour on Oct 2/98.
ILSE (a well known dutch search engine) chose Anouk Land as their Tip of the Day (see pic).
As a result, we received a record number of visitors for the day (over 2000!!) and nearly a gigabyte of Anouk files and information were distributed to fans of Anouk.
We at Anouk Land would like to thank ILSE for this honour .

Sony/Columbia Delays Release

Once again the American release of Anouk's CD "Together Alone" has been delayed. The projected release date is now to be October 27.The first single is still to be "Nobody's Wife". We do hope this will be the final delay as fans are anxiously awaiting the release of this album in North America.

Concert Review: Anouk in "t Paard", The Hague

Saturday night August 22 in "t Paard". Anouk is going to perform in this small but very cozy cafe in The Hague (so it's a home game).

After a pretty noisy pre-show of 'Billy the Kid' and rebuilding the stage, she finally shows up under a booming applause. The atmosphere is good right away with the first number (Fluid Conduction). The audience is going through the roof and not for nothing: Anouk live on stage is super ! She raves like an animal but her voice stays very clear. The songs sound even better live than on the album.

Besides that, she has lots of humor on stage. This shows when she fully opens the zipper at the side of her pants, grabs her femur with two hands and shouts to the audience: "Look guys, cellulitis, I have it too!"

In the middle of the number "Nobody's Wife", where everyone is going through the roof and singing along like crazy, she suddenly stops after the line "I'll never be nobody's wife", walks to the edge of the stage to a boy who is singing along very loud and says: "What are you doing? That is not possible what you are telling there?" Then she looks into the hall and tells the audience: "Now you can see that I am right when I say that nobody is ever listening to lyrics?" Then she picks up the song where she stopped and goes on as if nothing has happened.

The band is fantastic and you can see that they are coming along real well together because while introducing and thanking the members of the band, Anouk starts to sing a serenade (and in Dutch...!) to the guitarist.

After an hour of singing she says that she has no more songs left, but after much coaxing from the audience, she sings a extra long version of the great number "Broken Glass". I think that this number should absolutely be on the next album. After this there are a few other numbers that definitely didn't sound wrong too.

Just when you think that it's really over she comes back again to give an encore and starts singing "Nobody's Wife" for the second time, but this time in an even rougher version. You will have to see before you believe what she is doing with her guitarist during this act. She looks like she was swimming in the sewer when she finally leaves the stage.

Well, and then the party is really over. Tired and sweaty everyone is working their way outside, into the cold night, all with the same feeling, namely that this has been a great evening. And also with a certain sense that we are going to hear much more of this little but oh so well singing girl (and hopefully see too...)

Review by - Carolien (and a little of Axel too)

Anouk at Marktrock Review

Sheer beauty! And I didn't even mention Anouk's looks.

"I'm a bit hoarse and a little tired too", apologized Anouk. I never noticed that she was!

Her powerful voice made the houses on the Oude Markt shake on their foundations. She proved once again that she can sing all kind of tones, from high to low. Like the capricious "Together Alone"... first she charms you, and then she strikes hard by taking you by the skin of your neck and never lets go again.

Presenters Stanny and Peter predicted a pussy-power (Iggy Pop?) show and even challenged Anouk to do a strip-act. Unfortunately the first call won. However, just like at ParkPop, Anouk proudly displayed her latest purchase: a black sports-bra. Standard routine??

The first highlight in the set was the very first single "Mood Indigo" but the big applause was for her new single "Sacrifice". The first twenty rows were shouting "Nobody's Wife" and it was full of electric tension and bottled up anger. The five members of the band urged her on to 'freak out' and that was just what she did... Her sportsbra got baptized with mineral water and all brakes got released. "It's So Hard" she sang full of conviction. It all seemed so easy and natural.

Just when you thought that it was getting 'cozy', Anouk announced her last song. "But it will be nice and long" so she promised us. And yes, "Broken Glass" was performed endlessly, with a halfway predictable presentation of the band members... (btw, they are all cute). We would rather have heard a funky "Pictures on your Skin" or a captivating "The Other Side of Me" instead. Oh well, we forgive her for that.

Like the song before said "It's so hard but that's me"... And stay like that forever !! Alanis, eat your heart out !!!

Review by - J. Decrae

Anouk Rocks Belgium At Marktrock '98

Anouk performed live at Marktrock '98 on August 16 at 19:45-20:45.
Marktrock has been a truly European event for several years... it's no exaggeration to say that it's now one of the biggest street festivals in Europe.

Marktrock '98 consisted of five stages and 90 performing groups - an incredible program which is characteristic of the festival.

For more information Visit their Website.

Anouk at the 'Dick Woodstock Festival'

Aug 1, 1998

It was one big party there in Steenwijk (NL), where several bands were trying to steal the show during the four days at 'Dick Woodstock Festival'... Bands like 'Madness', 'The Dutch Police', 'Q65', and not to forget 'Billy the Kid', who were doing the pre-show for Anouk...

But the main attraction was Anouk with her band on Saturday night. She kept the crowd waiting until 10:30 PM, but it was well worth the wait... She did a number of songs from her album 'Together Alone'. She sang 'It's So Hard', 'Mood Indigo', 'Together Alone', 'Nobody's Wife', and 'Sacrifice', but she also did a few new songs too...

Yes, it sure was big fun there in Steenwijk, where even the mud couldn't keep the people away from watching Anouk perform live on stage...

A word of advice... Remember to wear rubber boots next year if you go there.

Anouk Received Double Platinum CD

It was BIG fun there in The Hague, where on a rainy evening Anouk was put in the spotlights by Tony, the boss of her record company. In an endless rain of words and continuous stunting with with the microphone, and trying to light another cigarette, he was attempting to describe the change in Anouk's life...

It was awarded to her in 'The Paap', the pub she used to sing in before all went crazy with her career. She received flowers and platinum for the tremendous sales of her CD 'Together Alone'... And she was shining like she never had before...

She normally goes dressed 'shabby'... but this time she was looking like a real lady... Her mother was also present...

The members of her band were also placed in the spotlights, as well as Barry Hay (who discovered her) and George Kooijmans of Golden Earring. It is a great accomplishment that her CD's are sold all over the world now...

"I have no idea how this will end" she says with a smile, "but it is very exciting of course"...

And it was late... Very late in The Hague.

American Release

The CD 'Together Alone' will finally be released in America on October 6 1998 nationwide. The first single to be released will be "Nobody's Wife".

Anouk, the pride from The Hague, stayed from the twelfth of July in 'the land of unlimited possibilities' to perform for two weeks in world cities like Miami and New York. That is because she signed a contract at Columbia Records, who are going to bring out 200,000 copies of her album 'Together Alone' throughout the country... And they will have to produce many more albums if it equals the success that it had in the Netherlands.

Anouk's success is very impressive, especially if you think of that before September 1997, when her second single 'Nobody's Wife' was released, nobody had heard of her before! But the very self-willed lady seems to be able to become an international personality within one year.

No Sleep Till ParkPop...

"Yes boys, these are tits..."
She looked over the playground with her well known brutal expression and saw that the victory was in reach. Even a raw egg, that landed on her T-shirt could not ruin her day, even as the immature pleas to show her breasts to the yearning public... Anouk Teeuwe from The Hague was standing on the stage of PinkPop and saw a girl's dream come true. What does a raw egg matter now??

No one had heard of her one year ago when her first single 'Mood Indigo' was lying in the shops and this blonde diva was working on her singing career... Encouraged by George and Barry of Golden Earring she decided to take her chances and threw herself completely into rock music. She expected that her career would be a career of a long breath and that she would have to kick in many closed doors... Her new single "Nobody's Wife" changed everything. This 'hot' rock number didn't become just a hit, but it became a Number 1!! A song that changed the life of at least one person completely - the life of Anouk Teeuwe herself... Comparisons with, for example, Alanis Morisette were made, although Anouk herself thinks that she doesn't belong in that 'corner' of alternative singers...

Her success was getting bigger every day. Anouk became a phenomenon and complete tribes were wondering if this woman's legs could carry this sudden overabundance... There were lots of pop critics who were trying to put her down.. Anouk herself was able to make a few things true, but her band saddled the criticism, 'was not from this time...' Bullsh*t! She said to her boys and to herself, and she decided to prove the contrary... At PaasPop, PinkPop, and at ParkPop, she was applauded by thousands of people... The fairy tale called Anouk is not over.. Not in a long way!!

Anouk wanted to sell enough singles to be able to perform live... A spectacle like Pink Floyd gives their audience is her ideal, connected with the intensity from a man like (the artist formerly known as) Prince... Anouk is on her way to achieve all her goals. She performs in countries like Italy, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland and many countries more...

This success story deserves caviar, and certainly not raw eggs.

Anouk's Album Rockets

This is something that Holland has never seen before. Anouk from The Hague, only 22 years old becomes the fastest selling rock artist in Holland ever!!

The bomb that brought Anouk in the center of publicity with one big bang was called "Nobody's Wife". A beautiful rock number with an equally beautiful videoclip that shows a beginning singer from her best sides and that generated so much attention that "Together Alone", her first album shot like a rocket to the top of every hit list. Right now there are over 550,000 albums sold in Holland alone. "Together Alone" is a real big hit in Scandinavia now too..

But high trees catch much wind... After being the "darling" of the press and the public, the media showed itself bloodthirsty... They said that Anouk and her band were showing a horrible and provocative show... She got a storm of criticism over her, and many people were wondering how long this fairy-tale would last... MTV reacted smart and booked the young star for a live show. Now everyone can see that she has a great show, powerful and sensitive. She has already accepted an invitation to perform at PinkPop this summer.

Anouk Live on MTV

Anouk, the Dutch pop sensation of this moment performed live on MTV. The music station broadcast a 30 minute show on the 12th of March... The show was taped in "Palladio" in Helden. There were 1700 visitors to watch this show. Anouk is working her way to the top with her debut album "Together Alone" and the single "Nobody's Wife" that is on that album.. The CD came in on the Swedish album-chart at third place, while "Nobody's Wife" is the #2 song in that country for the fourth week now. "Nobody's Wife" is also in Belgium, Norway and Denmark in the top 100.

Playgarden-stage Kerkplein (The Hague stage)

Gee, everything has been going so fast for Anouk. Who in the Netherlands ever heard of this nice blonde girl two years ago?? Outside the local music scene that is... Nobody, or?? But the chance of breaking through, like Anouk got, must be used... It was two years ago during the 'Zeeheldenfestival' on the Prins Hendrikplein that Barry Hay jumped on stage with her and asked her if he could sing a few songs together with her... The next step was a demo, and a CD-single together with George Kooymans at the end of April, and the follow up of that at the begin of May ... Like I said: everything has been going fast for Anouk...

Anouk, now 22 years old, very blonde and with a very good 'appearance', and even more important, with a voice that goes through marrow and bone... Getting enough attention with such appearance is not too hard to do... And she was being conspicuous... Supported by the 'Earring boys' Barry & Sjors, that beautiful Anouk became a eager media-object. Almost every medium (including Prive) was paying attention to her first CD, and were publishing her sometimes eager and embroidered life story... She was a hard to handle adolescent... Unstoppable, irrepressible... She did everything that God had forbidden... It was in one of the children homes where she came in touch with music from Dennis Weimar who arranged her first performance in the 'Pater'... She was singing in a background choir of a rhythm 'n blues band for some time after that, but she knew that she could do more than that... So she started up a band of her own... Her saxophonist made a joke about going to the music conservatory, and they wanted her there right away... The sun began to shine for Anouk when she was discovered by Barry Hay... Her first single 'Mood Indigo' appeared in October 1996, and it was written by Barry and George. That provided her alot of performances...

A very important part was that she did the pre-show for Golden Earring, and that will make her performance on 'KoninginneNacht' look like a piece of cake...

One of the songs that she will sing that night without any doubt will be her new single 'Time is a Jailer', a ballad that will make Anouk's star rise high.