THE LAST DETAIL

The Last Detail biography
The Last Detail were one of those major bands of the first - later - Dutch Neo-Prog wave, together with bands like For Absent Friends, Egdon Heath, Light and some others. They are the missing link between Ywis and Timelock and were active between 1987 and 1992. After the demise of Ywis, Julian Driessen (keyboards) teamed up with Ruud Stoker (vocals) and Bart Feis (guitar, bass, e-bow) to form The Last Detail. They released a first cassette album, The Silhouette. Peter de Bruijne (bass) joined the band for the second cassette album Waterford. In 1988, for the re-recording of two tracks for the compilation album Exposure 88, they were joined by drummer Ren� Kerst. De Bruijne and Kerst were soon replaced by Peter Stoker (bass) and Andy de Zeeuw (drums) and this line-up recorded their first CD album in the studios of Rinus Hollenberg, with whom Driessen had played before in Ywis.

At Last... The Tale was released on CD in 1990 which garnered them a decent following in prog circles as a live act and led to support Saga when this band played a gig in the Netherlands that year. The relative success and the mounting pressure meant the end of The Last Detail, but not after the release of an EP for which some tracks were re-recorded and the release of a track on the SI Magazine compilation disc.

The complete discography of the band appeared on a two-CD compilation album in 2019.

The music of The Last Detail is caracterised by a more compact song oriented approach of music, hoovering between Neo-Prog and melodic rock, just like Ywis before and Timelock after and comparable to some of the British Neo-Prog bands of that time as well as to Saga