Housequake.com saw the light of day on June 7th, 1997. On Prince’s birthday…. 12 years online to support a very prolific artist named Prince. I was the founder and designer of the Housequake Prince fan community, with at it’s peak more than 35.000 registered members. It contained the most extensive Prince discography online, interviews with related artists, exclusive photography and lot’s more.
After surviving a couple of legal threats from Prince (see my side project Prince Fans United as an example), I decided to pull the plug in February 2009. “Kill your darlings” as they say…
The Housequake website has already been too much changed (read crippled) by Prince’s efforts to gain control over our content. It’s the feeling you have, when a burglar robbed your house. It’s just not your house anymore. And the fact remains that I can’t afford to pay an army of lawyers to keep a decent non-profit community up and running the way I want to, even when I operate within international laws.
Nevertheless, I can look back and feel proud over what we accomplished. And we did that together, so now it’s time for some name dropping: Adele, Alan, Alexander, Anders, André, Andrea, Arjen, Ben, Bo, Brett, Camron, Cornelia, Craig, Dansa, Darryl, Davy, Dez, Dirk Jan, Erik, Eric, Franky, Gary, Gavin, Greg, Gregory, Gry, Hans, Harry, Hucky, Ian, Jeroen, Jimmy, Joe, Joeri, John, Joozt, José, Karyn, Kees, Kosta, Kostas, Lars, Marika, Marja, Mark, Marloes, Marthijn, Mathieu, Melissa, Michael, Michelle, Milly, Nigel, Nik, Nick, Patrick, Pat, Paul, Per, Phil, Pieter, Praveer, Rashid, Robbie, Sam, Sandra, Sarah, Stefan, Stijn, Susanna, Sym, Tammy, Tim, Timothy, Toby, Todd, Toto, Ucintats, Vicki, Yuri and everyone else I forgot. Thank you all!
Housequake Homepage
Housequake – In Funk We Trust
Housequake Poll Front Cover
Housequake Poll Back Cover
Housequake Prince Shoe
True Funk Soldiers
Flash Prince Symbol
Aaron in “De Wereld Draait Door”
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