BRIAN NELSON'S Biography

Part 4


 

 

From 1992 onwards Brian Nelson started
travelling to the South of France a few times
a year, to play in the 'Jacobin', Castel Rose,
in the sunny Cévennes and surroundings.
This place was run by it's former owner
Jaco Hennebert from Brugge, who once left
Belgium...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brian Nelson in 'Den Ekster'
Dranouter / February 1992

- a "retired" football player - to go and live in France
and - being a musician himself, having been very familiar with the music scene - to welcome live music
with open arms.
And besides all that... to send Brian to get him a Takamini guitar as good as his own, to fill his spare moments with...



Castel Rose, France 1993

 Back in Flanders, five years after "the four" - Brian, Dirk Van Gansbeke alias
'Skian Dhu' on drums, Dolf Wolf on bass and GT.Moore (England) on guitar,
mandola, harmonica or tin whistle - got together, a new album is released,
engineered by Kosmos and produced by GT Moore:

'Beautiful Losers' / Free Space records / 1995,
an acoustic based cross between rock & folk.

 


From left to right : G.T Moore, Brian Nelson, Dirk Van Gansbeke, Dolf Wolf

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With this band called Beautiful Losers - after the CD - the concerts went
well, although - possibly through lack of professional management - they didn't
make the big posters. At several occasions Brian mentioned he liked playing
at small events: "The atmosphere is better, the people seem more receptive...".
It explains why Nelson kept going back to doing solo gigs throughout his career.

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