Artemisia, our second album has been released in Europe on March 23rd 2007 and in Japan in May. Reviews until now have been great and we thank everybody for the enormous support !
We hope to see you all during our upcoming gigs (see the Concerts section at this website).
"Unravel", the second full length album by Roel Van Helden's other band Delphian has also been released by Lion Music.

We have T-shirts available. On the front it shows the Sun Caged logo and Artemisia letters with an image, and on the back the famous "Engelbert". We have all sizes (S to XXL) and girlie shirts.
More info on how to order them, send an email to Sun Caged: suncaged@suncaged.com.

NEW BASSPLAYER FOR SUN CAGED

Last sunday we found our new bassplayer.
His name is Roel Vink, he is a young bassplayer with a lot of good musical ambitions, and we will start to work hard on learning him all the songs.
Rob Van Der Loo will play the last time with Sun Caged on April the 27th in Tilburg (013, Batcave). Free entrance. Our drummer Roel Van Helden also has his conservatorium examn this evening.
Roel Vink will play live with us for the first time at the Elsrock festival in Rijssen, The Netherlands on August 26th.
We welcome Roel in the Sun Caged camp !
CD RECORDINGS IN PROGRESS

We are currently recording our second album.
All drums have been recorded, and now Marcel and Rene are recording their tracks.
Barend Tromp (ex Lemur Voice) will play bass on a few songs, and also will play a sitar solo in one of our songs. It will be great for the fans of Lemur Voice to see Marcel work with Barend again, since Lemur Voice splitted up in 2000.
ROB VAN DER LOO QUITS SUN CAGED

After almost 7 years of being a member of Sun Caged bass player Rob Van Der Loo decided to leave Sun Caged. Read his official statement below. Of course we regret his decision, but despite that we respect his reasons. Rob is going into a totally new musical direction, and he was not happy anymore playing the music of Sun Caged. Rob will stay close to the band, regarding the friendship we have with him, and we truly wish him the best in his musical career and his new direction.

Here his statement:

"I've been a member of Sun Caged for almost seven years which is quite a while.
Playing in Sun Caged convinced me that I wanted to be a full-time professional musician.
But seven years is quite a long time and in this period a lot of things like personal interests and musical taste can change . As a musician I need to be challenged and through the last 18 months I started to realise that Sun Caged wasn't longer the challenge for which I was looking.
When I'm a member of a band I need to support the music for 200% and not for 100% or less.
Making decisions like this can be very hard but I took a lot of time to think about it and I'm sure that this is the right choice for as well me as the band. The fact that I'm leaving the band doesn't mean that it's the end of my musical career. In fact I think it will give me much more new fresh ideas and possibilities to work on. And there's always a big chance that we will work together again in the near future.
I would like to thank all the (ex-)Sun Caged members for the awesome years we've played together and for their friendship. Of course I'd also like to thank all the Sun Caged fans all over the world for their great support: you guys rule! And last but not least I wish the band good luck with the upcoming line-up and the new album.

All the best,

Rob"

Of course we also thank Rob for his amazing presence in the band and friendship throughout the years.

This also means that Sun Caged is looking for a new bass player.

If you are interested to join Sun Caged as the new bass player, then send an email with a sound file of your playing to marcel.coenen@gmail.com.
It is obvious that we are looking for a good replacement, auditions start soon and we already have a lot of options.

For the people who might fear that this affects Sun Caged in a bad way: No worries ! The band is very strong, and we are convinced that we will find a replacement soon. The recordings of our new album won't be postponed, we will enter the studio in April 2006, as planned.

Rob will play with us for the last time at Thursday April 27th in 013 in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Sun Caged drummer Roel Van Helden will play his Conservatorium graduation concert this day and afterwards we will play a set with Sun Caged.