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Colligan
What do you do as a band when the members’
music tastes range from Jeff Buckley to
Switchfoot and from Luka Bloom to Arctic
Monkeys? Then you create your own sound.
Neat and tidy does it and you instantly make
a fresh impression. For that’s what this
Groningen band does, also thanks to lightvoiced
and playful singer Ayla Boonstoppel.
Dudettes
Dudettes
The four strings in this female band are assigned
to the only dude in the group. However, the
attention catchers in this Groningen quartet
are singer Zjoly Onrust, equipped with the
voice of the devil, and star guitarplayer Cynthia
Weiss, who both propel the energetic and a
little cheeky Dudettes rock to a higher level.
Long Way Down
Raging guitar riffs, relentless jumping around,
the energy of a particle accelerator gone wild,
pop hooks from the national gold reserves,
close-harmony singing as sweet as a kiss, pop
punk slash punk rock band Long Way Down
is doing everything by the book, but just that
little bit more. Or less, such as daring to step
off the gas in the quite brilliant ‘Wake Up’.
Since three years the Groningen five infest
town and country with it, following in the
skate tracks of examples such as Lagwagon,
Pulley and No Use For A Name.
Colligan
Cosmic Spring
These Groningen space dudes weave
hallucinatory trance carpets full of bleeps
and beeps and dreamy melodies to swing to,
weightless. On the basis of vintage analog
synthesizers, obscure sound fx, subliminal
bass lines, unflappable beats and hypnotic
guitar repetitions, the fivesome takes you
with them on a musical journey, discovering
unknown places in your inner universe.
Roos
If during Euro- and GrunnSonic it would be
freezing cold in the streets of Groningen,
just flee inside to witness ROOS. gets your
temperature back up again in no time. Not only
physically, but also between the ears, where it
then feels nicely sultry, thanks to their languid
springtime songs which sometimes provide
an endearingly light look on life. Songs with
a strong jazzy feel, here and there a lick of
Latin, a dash of soul or a funky groove and
the equally relaxed as perfectly timed vocals
of Roos Plaatsman, a Dutch Billie Holiday in
the making.
Spotrockers
A band calling themselves ‘the new Dutchlanguage
super band’ without batting an
eyelid is either arrogant or really the new
Dutch-language super band. Spotrockers
get every benefit of the doubt, ’cause the
dead funky hip hop of this almost three year
old band from Leeuwarden and Groningen
grooves like a mother and blows all the
skeptics upside down.
Sexton Creeps
Combine Sixteen Horsepower with Sonic Youth
and Nick Cave and what you get is something
like Sexton Creeps. This collective from
Groningen wallows in folk and psychedelia in
a dark and theatrical way. Its cast varies from
three to eleven members and is characterized
by divergent collaborations, which accordingly
lets a lost piano, scratching violin, swampy
organ, wailing harmonica, raging guitar storm,
black romantic accordion or possessed front
man J.C. dominate the sound palette.
MakeBelieve
A golden mix of emo, rock and powerpop with
which the stages of the Low Countries are
being stormed week after week. That work
ethic already helped the fivesome to secure
support slots for major bands like 30 Seconds
To Mars and Paramore, and also to numerous
band contests and radio stations, and of
course in the studio, from which already a
number of EPs saw the light of day.
MakeBelieve