The Cats

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Alternatively Geelong Football Club.

The Cats was a rock band from Volendam, The Netherlands, together with BZN notable for the so-called Palingsound. The band consisted of singer-guitar players Cees Veerman (born 6-10-1943) and Piet Veerman (born 1-3-1943), Jaap Schilder on guitar and piano (born 9-1-1943), bassplayer Arnold Muhren (born 28-1-1944) and drummer Theo Klouwer (born 30-6-1947, died 8-2-2001).

At first The Cats were called The Blue Cats. Due to a loan by Jan Buys they could get started. The band had their greatest success between 1968 - 1972. They were popular in The Netherlands and in Germany.

In the '80's Piet Veerman left the group. He had a solo-hit with the song Sailing Home.

On March 23, 2006 The Cats were made part of the Order of Orange-Nassau. The same year the group made a final reunion to record a single.

During the 1974 World Cup in West Germany, the Dutch national football team listened to a tape of The Cats on the team bus while travelling to their matches. They won five of their six matches in the group stages, drawing the other match 0-0 and conceding only a single own goal in all six games. Before the final against hosts West Germany, the tape mysteriously disappeared, and they travelled to the match in silence. Holland conceded a disputed penalty and a soft Gerd Muller shot to lose 2-1.