Fuzz You!
After three years, Amsterdam’s Indiestad festival is still searching for its true identity. In its first year, terribly overpriced, the festival was aiming to promote local talent in the days surrounding of London Calling weekend. Last year was a bargain, with an enormous and totally unconnected line-up, spread over one-and-a-half week at numerous venues around [...]
Concert review Perfume Genius, De Duif, Amsterdam, May 17th 2012. I’m not a big fan of Metallica, but I thoroughly enjoyed their 2004 documentary Some kind of Monster. The reason I like it, is because it shows that if you take a long hard look at male group dynamics, no matter how tough and hard [...]
Concert review Marques Toliver, Amstelkerk, Amsterdam May 16th 2012. The last truly great song recorded by Swindon’s cult heroes XTC is called River of Orchids, opening track to the orchestral album Apple Venus pt. 1. The uniqueness of this grand eco-anthem of a song lies in the tensive build up of layer after layer of [...]