Alex Agnew

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Alex Agnew 2007
Alex Agnew 2007
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Legend Ends
  BE F 63 04/01/2014 (14 weeks)
Unfinished business
  BE F 78 December 17, 2016 (8 weeks)

Alexander John Anthony Agnew (born December 22, 1972 in Antwerp ) is a Belgian cabaret artist , stand-up comedian and singer .

Career

Agnew is the son of the English footballer John Agnew and a Limburg mother. In 2003 he was the first Belgian to win both the audience and the jury award at the Leiden Cabaret Festival in the Netherlands. After touring with several other cabaret artists, Agnew later embarked on a successful solo career. He published seven DVDs , which were sold over 150,000 times in the Benelux countries. In 2013 Agnew ended his career as a cabaret artist. During his farewell tour he was able to sell out the Antwerp Sports Palace on four consecutive days.

In 2005 Agnew founded the metal / hard rock band Diablo Blvd together with guitarist Dave Hubrechts , in which Agnew took the post of singer. So far the band has released four studio albums, of which the third work Follow the Deadlights reached number five on the Belgian-Flemish album charts.

Publications

as a solo artist

  • 2006: Ka boom
  • 2008: Morimos Solamente
  • 2010: More Human than Human
  • 2011: Larger than Life
  • 2013; Interesting Times
  • 2013: The Legend Ends
  • 2016: Unfinished Business

with Diablo Blvd

see Diablo Blvd # discography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Agnew in the Belgian charts (Flanders)
  2. ↑ thenorthernecho.co.uk: Belgian comedian traces his Darlington connection (July 13, 2007) ( Memento of 4 March 2016 Internet Archive ), accessed on October 7, 2018
  3. ↑ Alex Agnew: Ka-Boom! (2006) , themoviedb.org
  4. ↑ Jörg Staude: Now or never . In: Classic Rock , January / February 2015, page 38
  5. ↑ Diablo Blvd in the Belgian-Flemish charts. Ultratop.be, accessed December 13, 2014 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Agnew, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agnew, Alexander John Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian cabaret artist, stand-up comedian and singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp