14th edition of the annual, fiercely independent showcase festival The Sound of Young Holland on Thu. 18 + Fri. 19 of January 2024. First initiated by Subroutine Records and Lepel Concerts. Joining hands this year with the like-minded indie labels Zeevonk Records & Tiny Room Records
The latest incarnation of longstanding local psychedelic pop collective, known for their upbeat and dreamy songs, made a long-awaited return to live stages this year.
On Thursday, 'local indie label and musicians collective Zeevonk (*Sea sparkle) hosts the pub's upstairs lounge, curating psychedelic weeping pop project Waterbolk around songwriter Eva Waterbolk.
The second Zeevonk act in the lounge upstairs is garage pop trio Caw Caw, consisting of three familiar faces from the local scene, making straightforward, catchy and intelligent guitar songs.
Collaborative project sparking from an ongoing musical chain-letter between Alicia Breton Ferrer and Doortje Hiddema, who aspire a future of staying indoors and reading books under covers, accompanied by dogs.
Beloved local DIY no-nonsense post punk quartet makes infectious and energetic songs, that are soon to be released on a heavily anticipated debut album.
On Friday the O'ceallaigh upstairs lounge is hosted by indie label Tiny Room, who curated wh ^ rl - the solo moniker of versatile songwriter Jurgen Veenstra making 'morose musings in a lo-fi setting'.
Besides holding the trophy for best band name of the century, this trio consisting of Freek, Jochem & Keje made the intriguing 'Group Theory' EP, which will see a vinyl release on Subroutine in 2024.
Second act curated by Tiny Room Records is singer/songwriter Immen, moniker of Clasine Haringsma, known for her intriguing voice and her ability to evoke a dreamy and dark atmosphere.
On their latest album 'TRUMP YN MAKKUM", this legendary Frisian avant-punk trio continue to report on that ghostly universe full of dead and undead Frisians that continues to beam in on them after almost forty years.
Amsterdam collective The Klittens mixes the catchiness of pop and fuzz with a hint of dark post punk, crafting a sound that's truly and twistedly their own.