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| Baseless (2003-) is a international college pop/rock band formed early 2003 by Dutch/Canadian guitarist/singer Jeroen van Bommel (1981) and drummer Dutch/German Gimon de Graaf (1983). | |||
| The current line up consists of Bulgarian Kiril Nikilov (1983)on guitar and (Brazilian)Marcos Campos Leite (1984) on bass guitar. | |||
| The band gained popularity by melting together American alternative rock culture with their own Bulgarian, Brazilian, Dutch and German roots. | |||
| History- | |||
| The band took their name from being "bass-less", starting as a band featuring 3 electric guitars. The band first formed to play several critically aclaimed covers of the late Alice in Chains, as a tribute to the passing of Laine Staley. Much of the band's early work had profound seatle influences, some which can still be heard in their early work. This was to change whenwhen, 3rd guitarist, "alti" also known as the macedonian machine left to continue his academic career in England in the summer of 2004. | |||
| The period from august 2003 untill august 2004 had become one of the most unproductive and difficult years for the band. With the band no longer as unit on campus but dispersed after Jeroen moved to Maastricht to obtain his master's degree, performances and practices became sporadic. Jeroen also admitted into sinking into a depression, demotivated by the way things were going musically, profesionally and personally. The departure of Alti in 2004 added permanency to Jeroen's desperation with regards to the band's future. On a deathly timeschedule to finish his Master's thesis he suffered a long burnout. | |||
| The sudden departure of "the machine" casted doubt on the future of Baseless. In August 2004, Marcos Leite was proposed by guitarist kiril "kiko" Nikilov to fill the vacancy. Leite, lifelong friend of Kiril Nikilov, from the time they went to highschool in Istanbul (Turkey), was available to fill the vacancy. | |||
| Jeroen, having finished his masters, had moved back to Utrecht. With the band reunited in Utrecht with Leite as the new Bassist. The new impetous of energy and creativity led to the Studio Moscow sessions where the band's debut "my girl" single was released and recorded in early January. | |||
| There was so much buzz that Platex Records, signed and released their single without even seeing them live. Major labels sounded interest but were hesitant to do more as the band did not even have a full length album. March 8th was the first concert that featured the current line up of Kiko, Marcos(Leite), Jeroen and Gimon. The new direction and sound was amply noted and led to hectic series of concerts that showcased more and more distinctive and innovative material. | |||
| In the summer of 2005 the band intended to take a short sabbatical in Bulgaria in preparation of a new album. What followed where a number of unanounced concerts as well as the critically aclaimed recording of "untied" in Sofia, Bulgaria. Currently the band is playing a number of sessions as well as working on a much anticipated full length album release. | |||
| Releases | |||
| 2003-Forgiven (live bootleg) | |||
| 2005-My Girl (Single, platex records) | |||
| 2005-Untied (Sofia Acoustic Sessions) | |||
| Mark Donnelly Bourrie, (1957-), author and academic based in Ottawa, Canada. | |||
| Born Toronto, April 2, 1957. | |||
| The Boure' family originated in Normandy and had close ties to the French crown, one member serving as first minister to Francois I. Gilles Boure' immigrated to Canada in 1676 and settled at Charlesbourg, just north of Quebec City. Henri Boure' was captain of the Charlesbourg militia on Montcalm's right at the Plains of Abraham. The militia fought a fierce fighting retreat at the St. Charles River. A cousin, Joseph Bourret, was Montreal's second mayor, serving during a virulent outbreak of cholera that killed more than 10,000 people. His mother's family, the Gilmans, were prominent politicians, writers and educators in New England. | |||
| Bourrie holds a BA in History (Waterloo), a diploma in Public Policy and Administration (Guelph), a Master's in Journalism (Carleton) and is working (in 2005) on a doctorate in History at the university of Ottawa. He began his journlaism career at the Hamilton Spectator as a summer student, worked as a student reporter at the Globe and Mail, and spent a summer on the staff of the London Free Press. | |||
| In 1979-80, he was assistant business editor at the Toronto Sun. From 1981 to 1989, he was a freelance correspondent for the Globe and Mail and from 1989-1999 wrote for the Toronto Star. His work has appeared in every major Canadian newspaper, in newspapers in the U.S., and, through the InterPress news service operated by the United Nations, in major newspapers throughout the world, translated into a dozen languages. He is also a frequent contributor to legal publications. Bourrie has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994.Bourrie is contributing editor of Ottawa magazine and has written for other major Canadian periodicals. | |||
| He has won a Canadian National Magazine Award, was nominated three times, and was nominated in 2004 for a Canadian Association of Journalists award in magazine writing. He was also awarded a National Newspaper Award certificate of merit in 1979, for a first-person account of a close encounter with an F5 tornado. | |||
| His first book, Ninety Fathoms Down, a collection of Great Lakes ship stories, was published by Dundurn/Hounslow in 1995. He has also witten The Parliament Buildings (1996), By Reason of Insanity (1997), Flim Flam (1998), The Parliament Buildings (with Malak Karsh photos, 1999), Hemp (2003), True Canadian Stories of the Great Lakes (1994), and Many a Midnight Ship (1995). | |||
| Bourrie is also a world-recognized amateur expert in Ordovician invertebrate paleontology. He has dicovered several new important fossil localities and a number of new species of trilobites, crinoids, and other examples of early life. | |||
| His wife Marion van de Wetering is the author of An Ottawa Album (1996) and A Kingston Album (1997). | |||
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http://www.ottawawatch.blogspot.com | ||
| http://www.platexrecords.com | |||
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Mark Bourrie
Mark Donnelly Bourrie, (1957-), author and academic based in Ottawa, Canada. Born Toronto, April 2, 1957. The Boure' family originated in Normandy and had close ties to the French crown, one member serving as first minister to Francois I. Gilles Boure' immigrated to Canada in 1676 and settled at Charlesbourg, just north of Quebec City. Henri Boure' was captain of the Charlesbourg militia on Montcalm's right at the Plains of Abraham. The militia fought a fierce fighting retreat at the St. Charles River. A cousin, Joseph Bourret, was Montreal's second mayor, serving during a virulent outbreak of cholera that killed more than 10,000 people. His mother's family, the Gilmans, were prominent politicians, writers and educators in New England. Bourrie holds a BA in History (Waterloo), a diploma in Public Policy and Administration (Guelph), a Master's in Journalism (Carleton) and is working (in 2005) on a doctorate in History at the university of Ottawa. He began his journlaism career at the Hamilton Spectator as a summer student, worked as a student reporter at the Globe and Mail, and spent a summer on the staff of the London Free Press. In 1979-80, he was assistant business editor at the Toronto Sun. From 1981 to 1989, he was a freelance correspondent for the Globe and Mail and from 1989-1999 wrote for the Toronto Star. His work has appeared in every major Canadian newspaper, in newspapers in the U.S., and, through the InterPress news service operated by the United Nations, in major newspapers throughout the world, translated into a dozen languages. He is also a frequent contributor to legal publications. Bourrie has been a member of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery since 1994.Bourrie is contributing editor of Ottawa magazine and has written for other major Canadian periodicals. He has won a Canadian National Magazine Award, was nominated three times, and was nominated in 2004 for a Canadian Association of Journalists award in magazine writing. He was also awarded a National Newspaper Award certificate of merit in 1979, for a first-person account of a close encounter with an F5 tornado. His first book, Ninety Fathoms Down, a collection of Great Lakes ship stories, was published by Dundurn/Hounslow in 1995. He has also witten The Parliament Buildings (1996), By Reason of Insanity (1997), Flim Flam (1998), The Parliament Buildings (with Malak Karsh photos, 1999), Hemp (2003), True Canadian Stories of the Great Lakes (1994), and Many a Midnight Ship (1995). Bourrie is also a world-recognized amateur expert in Ordovician invertebrate paleontology. He has dicovered several new important fossil localities and a number of new species of trilobites, crinoids, and other examples of early life. His wife Marion van de Wetering is the author of An Ottawa Album (1996) and A Kingston Album (1997). links http://www.ottawawatch.blogspot.com