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K3 Kaput

June 29th, 2009

And so it’s farewell. Sunday in Rotterdam, Holland, Kathleen Aerts appeared with Karen Damen and Kristel Verbeke for the last time. K3 — in my opinion one of the very best Pop music girl groups ever assembled — is no more. I’m using these candid photos in the video preview frame so you can see how hard these ladies have worked for the past ten years.

Watching the video, to me it appears the farewell performance had little energy and excitement. A replacement for Kathleen will soon be selected, but K3 won’t be the same. I had the same feeling when David Duchovney left “The X-Files.”

(The link to this video on YouTube is at this link. As you can see, the shape is wrong, so I downloaded it and have set the correct dimensions.)

More videos from last weekend’s Summer Festival have appeared. I’ve collected most of them into a customized YouTube player.

Some photos from the show are on Flickr, and in a few of them you can see how upset the ladies really were:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/levindenboer/sets/72157620761295929/with/3684670662/

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  • 1. Joachim Mairböck  |  June 30th, 2009 at 4:30 am

    Yes, it is indeed sad that they have split up. But at least there is something which continues. Have you already seen the new single of Kathleen? See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puxo5HByUy4

    I like that one as well.

  • 2. DOuG pRATt  |  June 30th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    Joachim — I’ve seen Kathleen’s video on YouTube, and it’s OK. I don’t know what all of the comments say, but I can guess that some of them should be removed.

    I’m very fatalistic about changes/defections such as Kathleen’s departure. For example, I feel that nothing Janis Joplin did solo matched her stint with Big Brother and the Holding Company.

    I’m also very big on the concept of “the sum being more than the parts,” which was as true of the Beatles, and the Stones, and Simon & Garfunkel, and the Monkees, as it is for K3. Success depends on chemistry, but it isn’t a formula.

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