Hoi ,


Wat een mooiere gelegenheid om het leven te vieren dan om het samen te doen, met de juiste muziek, op festivals :-)

Hier de maart selectie van bijzondere buitenlandse artiesten die voor festivals beschikbaar zijn.
Een overzicht van al onze bands kun je op onze website vinden.

Paperclip Agency is officieel partner in de Keychange campagne, voor een betere gender-balans op podia.

We geven graag meer informatie, als je nog vragen hebt.
De rest van deze mailing is in het Engels.


Vriendelijke groet,

Paperclip Agency
van den Havestraat 6 A, 6521 JS  Nijmegen, the Netherlands
T +31 24 323 9322
Website, Bluesky, LinkedIn
participant in Keychange
talent buyer for Conincx Pop Festival

 

Away from Big Tech even more - goodbye Facebook!
Here at Paperclip Agency we try to work with Open Source, Indie, Sustainable products and services as much as possible.
That's why, for example, we run Linux on our second-hand PC's (not Windows, not Apple), use EGroupware for emails and file-server, and have FairPhone smartphones with operating system /e/OS.
Using the so-called 'social' media is a challenge. To help with publicity for our artists and their shows, and also to find colleagues, we need 'social' media with a wide reach. But the big ones abuse their users and cannot really be called 'social'.
Still, we did use Facebook. However, enough is enough. Meta is now clearly siding with the orange clown and his racist sidekick, both supported by the fascists in America. The threat is real.
So we're now moving away from Meta/Facebook (we've never used Threads, Instagram, or WhatsApp). One of us was on Twitter, but left when Musk took over.
We will now focus on Bluesky and have just opened accounts there. Find us, follow us: @hildespille, @roboberends, and @paperclip.agency . Bluesky is growing fast, and is built on the open-source AT Protocol.

The Nomads
The Nomads, Swedish godfathers of the Scandinavian guitar-/garage-scene, will play an exclusive BeNeLux show on Sat. April 26, 2025 near Brussels, at venue Nijdrop in the town of Opwijk.
The well-known foursome will be accompanied by Swedish musician Måns Månsson on the keyboards.
The event is called "BACK! From The Grave Vol. 2". Other acts are The Spanks, Thee Andrews Surfers, and the Jenkinses. Tickets are available here (official outlet, of course).

10cc did not celebrate Valentine's Day
"I'm Not In Love", 10cc sings. But do we believe them?
Also, the single "I'm Not In Love" was not re-released in the U.K. on Valentine's Day 2025 (Feb. 14). But do we believe this?
British daily The Guardian did not publish an interview, based on questions by readers, with 10cc's Graham Gouldman, three weeks ago. Best to verify this here , I'd say.
10cc co-founder Kevin Godley did not team up with Graham Gouldman to write their first new song in 20 years, "Don't Want To Go To Heaven", and they did not perform the song on BBC Radio 2's Piano Room Session on Feb. 13, accompanied by Iain Hornal as well as the BBC Concert Orchestra (check if the sneak-video exists; also check if there is any audio here or here ).
For Dutch theatre shows by 10cc in November 2025, if any: please check further down below.

Sachal Vasandani celebrates Valentines Day with new album
Sachal Vasandani did celebrate Valentines Day. On February 14, he published his brand new album "Best Life Now" at Universal Masters. On this album, he presents himself vulnerable, yet full of courage and love. The majority of songs are original, a mixture of jazz and soul. Nate Smith produced the album, plays drums, and helped writing some of the songs. Guest-singers on the album are Gretchen Parlato and Shayna Steele.
"I’ve always respected Sachal’s skill and courage as a singer and his cleverness as a lyricist. It takes great conviction to stand and deliver lyrics sincerely and vulnerably, and Sachal demonstrates that every time he steps to the microphone." (Nate Smith)
Sachal Vasandani is available for European festivals all summer through, and for a club tour in Europe in November/December.

Russian protest group Pussy Riot will be back in June with an update of their breath-taking performance Riot Days
End of June, the Russian protest group Pussy Riot will be back to confront all of us with their breath-taking performance Riot Days. This performance is a combination of live concert, electronic music, projections and theater. In February the rehearsals started for the brand-new concept of the show.
Maria Alyokhina and Alexander Cheparukhin are crafting a bold new version of "Riot Days". This iteration delves into Maria's personal journey post-liberation from Russian prison in 2022: Pussy Riot protests, including their clash with Cossacks during the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Attacks by pro-Kremlin groups. The heroic story of Alexey Navalny, his arrest, imprisonment, and murder in prison. Maria's multiple arrests. Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
The Dutch shows are during the NATO-top in Den Haag in June.

 

Rob Berends writes:
Remembering Jan-Martin Jensen (Radar Booking Norway, Inferno Metal Festival, Inferno Music Conference)
Jan-Martin Jensen passed away on Feb. 10 this year.
It's impossible not to remember him as the modest, friendly but persistent, hard-working, committed live-music professional that he was.
Not only was he crucial to the Norwegian music scene, but he also contributed to the international live-music scene with the Inferno Festival and Conference, and by his enthousiastic participation in The Network / Network Europe, a meeting place for exchange and cooperation that existed for over 25 years since the mid eighties, with various independently minded live-music bookers.
The cooperation between Paperclip Agency and Jan-Martin has been a long and good one. Also on a personal level, the click was there, and whenever possible, we shared a meal, in a restaurant or at home.
It's also impossible not to shed a few tears. Jan-Martin will be sadly missed, also by us here at Paperclip Agency.

Hilde Spille writes:
The Political is Personal
Politics repeats itself, it seems. In more and more countries we see macho right-wing leaders, female and male, like Meloni in Italy, Weidel in Germany, Wilders in The Netherlands, Trump in the USA, Putin in Russia, Orban in Hungary, Milei in Argentina, Netanyahu in Israel, etc. They all believe in a free market, where money dominates and the super-rich get a lot richer. They try to tell us, that we all get better by it. But this 'trickle-down' myth is proven not to work.
The money of the super-rich has to come from somewhere. Usually it means exploitation of nature and of everyone who does not belong to that white, rich elite. We see already that rules of inclusion and diversity are abolished by the big tech companies. The result of this politics will be more discrimination, more exclusion, more homeless people, more poverty for the masses. When you loose your job and/or your home, politics suddenly becomes very personal.
In the mid '80s, when I was studying in Frankfurt a.M. in Germany, I did voluntary work at a tea-room close to the station. We provided a warm room with very cheap tea, coffee and sandwiches for homeless people and prostitutes. That kind of caring actions is needed again. I don't believe that humans only think of themselves, we are social beings. I decided to start voluntary work at the soup-kitchen here in Nijmegen. This personal action is a very political statement from me. Let's reuse the full slogan of the 70's feminists 'the political is personal and the personal is political', to get active!