The Baseballs in Concert!

This week I went to a gig of the The Baseballs in Amsterdam with my friend. For the ones that don’t know the band, it’s basically a German three-man band that cover popular hits in a rock’n'roll fashion. Their most well-known song so far is their edition of Rihanna’s Umbrella, which was also the song that got me interested in them.

I was a tiny bit sceptical before going to the concert, wondering if they could pull of those vocals live too, but there was definitely no need. The three guys sing AWESOME live, they have a great band and there was a lot of humour in the show as well. For example with one of the songs they threw bottles of bubble blowers into the audience, telling them not to put it in their pockets but to make bubbles, and said, with a horrible pun: “don’t stop blowing until I say so.” They also invited a few girls up on stage to sing one line in Katy Perry’s Hot’n'Cold. Unfortunately a large part of the audience surrounding us seemed rather dead for most of the gig. Actually I think it’s a quite a feat to stay still on their music!

Anyway, here’s some music for my friend Cynthia who has no idea who they are, maybe the US has something against German copy-cats of ‘their’ music?

First is Chasing Cars, original by Snow Patrol (original here) and the second one is a live clip from their rendition of the song Torn, it’s one of their gentlest songs. I know it mostly as a song by Natalie Imbruglia but I just discovered that her version is a cover too, so here‘s a link to the original-original.

Conclusion: next time they come near I’ll definitely go and see The Baseballs live again!