Andre Rieu

[minestrone]

Is this kind of tulip still big in Europe?

I'm watching it on SKY at the moment, seems to be a guy dressed up like the demon from ghostbusters 2 belting out cheesy popular classics to a massive and exclusively white audience.

[Zippy]

He;s popular here too. The mother-out-law has a couple of his CDs, as do some of her friends (I've managed to avoid listening to them, thankfully).

[Troll]

Is this kind of tulip still big in Europe?

I'm watching it on SKY at the moment, seems to be a guy dressed up like the demon from ghostbusters 2 belting out cheesy popular classics to a massive and exclusively white audience.

Not really a fan but occasionally catch it when flipping through the channels and find myself thinking impure thoughts after some of the girlies dressed up in their best party frocks

But is your complaint about the dress code of the owner or that the audience is predominately white - I'm pretty sure any tickets available will not contain a "whites only" statement so I guess it may be down to price or possibly taste to explain the lack of diversity in the audience

Pondering some more ... I'm struggling to recall any dark faces in The Last Night of the Proms audience ...surprised the BBC still show it!

[minestrone]

The white thing was just an observation after me and the missus played 'spot the black man' for 20 minutes. It was a no score draw.

I was aware of his existence as he seems to be in all the time but I seen him in the side of a Sky van this week so I thought that I would have a look at his next show. I get the picture that sky think this is prime time entertainment and obviously think they have one up on the other broadcasters if he is on the side of vans.

I just don't think I expected pure cheese on that level, it was frighteningly dated.

[darmstadt]

Yes he is big, I don't know. Hans Liberg, an extremely talented and funny Dutchman (like Andre Rieu, the Dutch bit, not the funny bit), really takes the piss out of him:

[DirtyDog]

My aunt and uncle travelled from America to Europe three times to see him because they loved him so much.

Last year, his Christmas concert was broadcast live to various cinemas around the world, so there must be a market for it.

[xoggoth]

Quite liked it in the past but it does tend to be a bit samey. The "Spot the" game me and missus liked playing was to see how many musicians or spectators we could see who resembled famous people. We'd sit there with our vodka/whisky going, look there's Bill Murray/Peter Sissons/Jimmy Carr etc, etc. She always won, darn it.

[minestrone]

Searched on sky there using his name, 36 programs on in the next week and currently on on demand.

It is really obvious how sky pack the basic channels with absolute tulipe to try and get you to buy the only slightly better packages.

[VectraMan]

Last year Sky renamed Sky Arts 2 as Sky Arts Rieu for a whole month.

But I see he's on right now.

[xoggoth]

He's always on.