The Gathering - Travel (TG25: Live at Doornroosje - unofficial video) 

Melodic stanzas Are symphonizing their way Through your weary head To feed your distrust And fill it's mouth with the desire To soulfully be one with your creation Not a subject to control You call upon a higer power For help and inspiration The crowd waits And turns their faces Towards you expectantly You give them what they need But their useless criticism Makes you die A bit more inside Not a subject to control You call upon a higer power For help and inspiration Oh, I swoon While loudspeakers play soft music Leaning Over your fourtieth masterpiece You must have loved The colour of these violins I wish I knew you Your fit of insanity makes me sad I wish you knew Your music was to stay forever And I hope... I have no clue If you know how much it matters And i hope...

Nothing compares to Anneke...

The last 4 minutes of this particular performance will forever be one of my favorites in the history of music.

One of the best moments of my life

I wish she knew HER music was to stay forever

I love this performance so much. Anneke's voice has healing properties for our hurting world. I wish she knew how much her performances mean to me and how much it matters. And this band...just magical cohesion. They captured lightning in a bottle with this performance .

Whoever is responsible for ads appearing in the middle of this should be ashamed of themselves. The song is not that long. Put one at the beginning or end, fine, but to have one right in the middle to break up the big build-up of this masterpiece is a crime against humanity.

Years and years go by and I am listening to a lot of various music every day, among others The Gathering live at Paradiso, Amsterdam (2006) and the TG25 concert. I always highlight this gem. Always touched by the musicianship of the band and Anneke's voice that touches my soul.

When I listened to this piece more than 20 years ago, I passed it almost imperceptibly. Today, after so many years, when I accidentally came back to it, I can't stop listening to it. It crushes, even tears from the inside of emotions. It's an amazing feeling.

This song has everything, emotion, composition, atmosphere, a great performance. One of the best songs ever released!

How To Measure A Planet was truly ahead of it’s time. Brilliant album!

why do we have to suffer so much crap music on the radio when this is so good.

anneke will always be the best female singer in metal

One of the best songs ever written. The buildup is incredible.

5:55 Onwards is Anneke on overdrive...pure chills...

Such a voice, such elegance when she moves, such everything! An angel to me...

One of my fav songs i keep on listening since How to measure a planet. So beautiful and honest. This live version is the best...❤

That guitar single note build up at the end combined with Anneke's vocals is chilling to the bone. Perfect example of 'less = more'.

It's hard for me to explain what this song does to me. A nostalgic woman who I don't know where she comes from, I always end up with my eyes full of tears, she couldn't understand why

She's better live than studio. This is a more mature Annie doing a wonderful rendition of this song, putting everything into it.

I don't think any performance has ever given me chills the way this one does from 4:30 onwards: up and down my back, down to my ankles, from the back of my head around to the front. Every single time. Phenomenal.

I have never heard this song once where tears didn't form in my eyes. It's absolutely hypnotic. I've seen concerts by Nightwish, Within Temptation, Epica etc but my one regret is that I never got to see The Gathering live.

Anneke, your music has such great importance, in my world and in the world of many, thank you!

Annie has such a wonderful blend of power and softness.

There are only 2 sounds in the world that can put tears in my eyes when I witness them live: Anneke's voice and David Gilmour's lead guitar. I'm so gutted that this concert went under my radar... I only found out shortly after.

So stunning ! I cannot believe that The Gathering is virtually unknown in America . I found one of their songs on some college indie radio station. and I have been hooked ever since..

In 2023 'Strange Machines' ended up in the all time top 2000 most popular songs of The Netherlands. In 2024 dutchies could honour this exceptional band and singer by voting another one of their exquisite tracks into that top 2000. I suggest y'all vote for 'Travel', from the then 25 yo brilliant album HtMaP. :)

Nobody would ever have any idea how much this song means to me. 💜

...Bloody hell, you are a Goddess of a singer Anneke 😘

This song makes me cry my eyes out

I listened this song over and over when my brother died way to young. His music......

wow... those last 2 minutes were something special. i don't know why but i almost cried

This is one of my favourite performances of anything ever.

Another wonderful discovery for me. Anneke is beautiful and amazing. Thanks to the Areon project where she stood tall singing next to Floor Jansen in "Vally of The Queens".

7:02 ... that part sends shivers down my spine. this whole song is a masterpiece without compare. The Gathering is perfect.

This song is so beautiful, it haunts me. I cannot get enough of Anneke. No belting, no wild runs, just an exquisite performance every time.

You can drown in this song! Nostalgia... Favorite band!

Years and years go by and this one is still my favourite piece of music ever written. It's like floating in space with your feet on the ground. I always cry, but tears of joy and gratitude for the music. :')

I was there. Magical evening!

I saw her here in Doornrosje the first time live with the Gathering, it must have been 1996 and I instantly fell in love with her and bought all of her Albums. And I have to say, I still love her. For me the best female singer in this universe!

I love this woman..such a beautiful voice

Brilliant. Beautiful. Stunning performance. This is my favorite song. Their music was to stay forever.

Best song ever. I love it! When i was younger this music wasn't available. Maybe after Anneke breaking i knew all the albums. Nowadays this song is my piece of heaven in a resting day.

The added guitar lead build up to the end is amazing.

Amazing song. She is the only one can sing it and gives us all the emotions in the entire song. I love her.

Anneke is in a class by herself. Absolutely stunning.

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! jesus what a song, and performance by Anneke. Brilliant. No words to say...

This was absolutely incredible. I think Anneke put so much power and emotion into this song. Her singing was stunning. The music was awesome, and, with the singing, it all built up into an immensely powerful finish. Watching it makes me emotional, that is how strong the performance is.

And after 20 years this song makes me cry

it just doesn't get any better then this...and anneke is sublime

I am literally travelled elsewhere listening to that piece of art

Afgelopen jaar was extreem zwaar, dit heeft me mede geholpen erdoor te komen 🙏

Heard this live in 2007 at Sibiu. I was waiting for the next band and this song came up. I was literally not prepared and it hit me like a bus. It was a trance, an extasy, something hard to describe but overly powerful almost to panic. Never a song hit me so hard and so deep. Her voice went to cosmic heights. I was not prepared..

a voice of an angel

holy shit, this is amazing...what a song and what emotion

The end of this when all of the singers from the band come out to cap off anneke's amazing performance. I don't usually get choked up but this one got me. This should have been the end of the show.

Top 5 Gathering Song for me! In no order - On Most Surfaces, Great Ocean Road, Liberty Bell, Travel, and Saturnine

I keep coming back to it. Brilliant.

My compliments for the editing of fan video's to a live music video with such great quality that it could pass for a professionaly shot and edited video :)

Wow Anneke what a voice amazing love her voice

Zo mooi te zien dat er nog steeds reacties komen, werkelijk een meesterwerk🙏

We're so lucky for this reunion. Better for me to have seen it on a screen instead of in real life because I would've probably died in a corner somewhere.

From 5:54 I cry a river every time.

Her voice is perfect. All of them are amazing musicians

Вершина творчества группы , просто нет слов...

It's simply amazing how Annie lives this song

one of the most beautiful songs ever. I saw them do this live about 6 times and the feelings I felt are undescribable. Fabulous

Me siento privilegiado Al escuchar esta canción, pocos somos los Afortunados de escuchar a esta gran banda.

One of those bands you KNOW you'll still like 30 years from now.

One of the most emotional song/video I've ever seen

Awesome! The ending blows you away! Love this song!

There are two songs that I can't help but get excited when listening to them, one is Cantiga de la memoria rota by Inti Illimani and the other is Travel, especially this version, it is a song that without a doubt will be the one with which I would like to be said goodbye to this world on the day of my funeral

Unique brilliance! Anneke is a Goddess! Best band ever!

Realmente esta canción me hace viajar, una interpretación increíble de Anneke, una banda increíble The Gathering!!

Epic! One of the best songs ever!👍💪🤟🎸

Took them a minute to get back in the groove during the song but halfway through it was like they never stopped playing together.

This song belongs to list of timeless and best songs ever together with Deep Purples Child in Time, LED Zeppelins Stairways to Heaven, Queens Bohemian Rhapsody, Goden Earings Radar love, Nightwish Greatest show on Earth

Kijk, we hebben Anneke en Sharon en Floor en Irene en Simone en Marjolein en Monique en Ilse en we sturen Joost Klein naar het songfestival. Nou, dan luister ik nog maar een keer hier naar.

A perfect storm. A massive, generous, powerful musical supernova. The guys enjoyed at max while invited us, the human kind, to this delightful cosmic performance that will remain during light years. Hope it touches some other astral beings just to testify the human kind path.. Thank you Gaths.

one of the best songs ever.

The character (or Anneke) in this song listening to Mozart and swooning over the melodies is me listening to The Gathering and has been thus for almost 20 years.

The Gathering... what can i say that hasnt say before... just the best song.

Oh my goodness!! Can exist something more marvelous!!💘

This "I whsh you knew" section... My god

I love the Gathering! Have for years. I don't know anyone else who even knows who they are. I've seen many versions of travel and I can see it's obvious that it has meaning for Anneke.

i was lucky to be there for TG25. In my memories forever! LOVE TG

How to measure a planet,what a masterpiece

Speechless!!!!

I love this woman ...

She's absolutely fabulous!

Wow!

I'm back here... Still trying to find the double like button.

this goes directly to mi Epic playlist, love this song, brilliant version

incredible performance............she is the best no question

Fabulosa su música gran vocalista, preciosa mujer 😘🇲🇽 🤟🏾

My favorite song of all time performed by my favorite band of all time.

best version of this brilliant song

This is beauty, in musical form.

Annie just kills it, lovely lady with a sublime voice, all she wants is a normal life and to be happy with her hubby and kid, leave them alone :)

that voice...