Kevin Verwijmeren smiles at me in the hall of the Dordrechts Museum, where he has just played a concert with ambient music. That is also allowed: I paid twenty euros for his first album, which was released on vinyl. But when I proudly tell him that I recently started my own music label and that … Read more
For three days we were able to enjoy sun, sense and thrilling shows. Pinkpop 2022 has flown by and we can look back on several musical highlights. We asked many Pinkpop visitors what those are. And that makes for a very nice list. We asked various Pinkpop 2022 visitors to the festival site and via … Read more
UpdateThat’s what makes a festival so much fun: one moment singer Maan moves the audience with an emotional tribute to her father on Father’s Day, a few hours later the audience goes crazy to the hypnotic beats of De Staat in the same place and a few hours later Megaland one big disco. The State … Read more
Whoops! There, singer Billie Eilish is launched in strobe light like a jack-of-all-trades. Her black hair in two stubborn pigtails, an oversized shirt, the shins under her cycling shorts taped preventively for a lot of jumping work and radiant eyes that indicate that it is all right in her head. So don’t worry, even if … Read more
UpdateIt is a fragment that we will see recurring in historical Pinkpop overviews for years to come. Singer Damiano David van Måneskin closed the performance on Saturday in only his slip, surrounded by female fans. After an hour of playing, Damiano David addresses the heated Pinkpop audience. ,,I made a promise during an interview today”, … Read more
Floor Jansen’s solo show that we see on the IBA Parkstad Stage on Friday afternoon is one of the many fulfilled promises of the Pinkpop line-up of 2020. A completely understandable booking that year, of course. Jansen’s popularity in her home country had suddenly shot into the stratosphere in 2019 due to her participation in … Read more
The scorching sun, after all the biggest protagonist of the 51st edition of Pinkpop, managed to thaw even the coolest frog of the festival on Friday afternoon: Joe Talbot, the blunt, monotonously roaring pit bull of British post-punk pride Idles has just declared war on all the fascists and homophobes in the world. Because he … Read more
Paul McCartney will celebrate his eightieth birthday on Saturday and despite his advanced age, he is still fully active in the music world. Right after The Beatles broke up, it looked for a while that he wouldn’t build a solo career at all. The musician had to deal with a depression from which his then … Read more
“Scream for me, Graspop!” Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson knows how to get his audience’s throats screaming. His band played the first Graspop Metal Meeting in 1996, albeit without him, and Maiden will be back again on this anniversary edition for the 25th anniversary of the festival. The British play as early as 9 p.m., … Read more
WINTELRE – For two years in June it was quiet on the grounds behind Hoeve de Nachtegaal. But on 17, 18 and 19 June, the rest is over. Where the cows normally graze, the 22nd edition of Welons will take place. In 2000, Welons was still a one-day festival where starting bands were given the … Read more