Hey, it's Harry Merry with a band, he calls them the Must and they call themselves happy to play the unique musical creations of Harry, full of energy, originality, vision and fun. Rock and roll freakshow.

Harry Merry, singer/ songwriter extra ordinary first performed in 1996, after more then 5 years of experimenting on his keyboard in his attic. Harry started taking piano lessons when he was only 8 years old, but it took him a long time before he was satisfied enough about his music to take it to the stage.
Harry is influenced by both sixties beat as well as seventies glam rock, rock ‘n roll, rhythm and blues, schlagers, Latin, French chansons, classic and modern music, Slovenian pop and Serbian turbo folk.
Harry likes to experiment with discords and strange registers, making music not everyone can follow let alone appreciate. Hey; love it or hate it!!

After Harry’s first first performance in Ro-Town Rotterdam back in 2001 a lot of gigs followed in about every club and bar in Holland that would book him After his initial performances Harry toured throughout Europe. Countries like Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, France, and England. After that it was America’s turn. In 2004 Harry played in California, Texas end Louisiana on his first tour in America.

Tocado-Records spotted Harry wile he was playing in Waterfront Rotterdam. Backmin those days Tocado-Records was a pure punk label, but Tocado changed their style only to accomodate this performer! Harry was approached to release an album with Tocado-Records. The cd that was called: “Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve got me into” was released in October 2004. Harry got a lot of revues from many local and international magazines and webzines. The reactions where either extremely enthusiastic or totally rejecting, as was expected….
Harry released his second album called The Shunt in 2006. Harry’s first cd was a cd with old and new songs that reflected Harry’s unique sound and where it came from, but on the second album Harry has made a clearer choice about his direction. The new songs are really catchy and more comprehensible for the general listener. Harry has big successes with his new set list; his fans already recognized the songs even though the cd hasn’t even been released. The new sound of Harry is that catchy.

Harry’s third album was filled with older tunes Harry recorded before he ever played live. He recorded the songs of ‘First Contact’ on his attic in a homerecording style but still these songs are awesome. Olé records released the LP which was soon sold out, all the more since the pressingplant where the album was produced went bankrupt before giving Olé all the records they ordered. The album is still available on CDR though.
THE MUST

In the mean time Harry put together a band that’s called “the Must”. The must consists of Wouter van Wijk and Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva from Stoma/ DooDoo’s Coffee on the drums and bass and Martin Ruiten from Cheech Wizard/Firetime on the guitars.
Harry solo may be somewhat difficult to comprehend by the unsuspected listener, but with the Must as his back up band Harry’s Music reaches new hights. Gone are the cassio sounds and with that the genius of Harry’s songwriting is revealed in it’s full extent. This is glamrock, mixed with pop, has obvious seventies influences but it sounds like now and the future at the same time in any which way.
The first shows The Must performed in their hometown Rotterdam have instantly gotten them a legendary status. The Must started performing all over the Netherlands and Germany from December 2007 on.


The band has recorded 4 songs under supervision of the London producer Tony mc Adam way back in 2004 but a ful length album will be released in june 2008. The album is called Veronika is was recorded at the Feed The Whole studio in Rotterdam under supervision of Fonckeltoff; Tocado-records’home producer.
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