The development of Groots met een Mushy G has began, an entry within the Guinness Ebook of Information has been acquired and the rehearsals are over. Guus Meeuwis and his band are fully prepared for ‘the final Nice’ 9 occasions. “It is going to be a marathon, however I do not dare take into consideration that final one but.” And the singer doesn’t dare to consider the longer term after Groots.
A marathon, that’s how the Tilburg singer describes the 9 final Groots concert events. And for this you want good coaching.
“I prepare for health and voice. It’s important to dose. You truly need to give all the pieces on a regular basis, however then you possibly can’t stick with it.” Guus Meeuwis has already discovered this lesson within the sixteen earlier editions. “It is a bit like a soccer match: it’s important to go all out, however be sure you make it to the top.”
“There are lives in seventeen editions of Groots, I feel that’s particular.”
Meeuwis doesn’t but dare to consider the final Groots on Wednesday night, June 26. “Everybody thinks I’ll be devastated or unhappy as a result of it’ll be the final one, however most of all I’ll be relieved. Relieved that all the pieces went effectively.”
“Solely after I’m on vacation will I understand: this was the final, this would possibly not come again.”
Since 2006, the month of June has been all about Greatness for Guus Meeuwis. But in addition for his band and crew. One among them is singer JW Roy. “We ready ourselves in Could for seventeen years after which had the reveals in June. Throughout that interval, kids have been born, folks divorced, folks married, songs have been born. There are lives in seventeen editions of Groots, which I feel is particular.”
“I don’t know but what I’ll do.”
That may fully change subsequent 12 months. “I don’t know but what I’ll do,” says Guus Meeuwis when requested what June 2025 will appear like. “I let myself be shocked. Possibly I will go to Roland Garros, or possibly I will cycle the Alpe d’HuZes, or possibly I will do nothing.” There are not any plans for the longer term but. “That final one first.”
Every week earlier than the beginning of ‘the latter’, he’s shocked within the Philips Stadium with a world file: by no means earlier than has a solo artist carried out so usually in entrance of greater than 10,000 folks in a single place. Guus Meeuwis did it 63 occasions and on the finish of the month that file is 72 occasions.
“Unbelievable, I’m actually shocked,” says the ‘Brabant singer’. “I do know, in fact, that what we do right here is nice enjoyable and that it’s maybe fairly particular that we’ve been doing it for therefore lengthy. That is extra my feeling. However I by no means thought of it being a world file.”
The person from the Guinness Ebook of Information got here straight from Norway, the place he was for a chess file, to Eindhoven. “He stated that he had been watching movies of Groots for months to formally set up the file,” says Meeuwis with a broad smile. “He may even come to see the most recent Groots.”
Guus Meeuwis and his Groots are formally within the Guinness Ebook of Information (photograph: ANP).
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World file for Guus Meeuwis with Groots concert events: ‘Fairly a shock’