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Bloeiende muziek voor 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,


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Rob Berends writes:
A Means to an End
The week of January 19 was a very special week for me! One of the most intense bands that I've ever seen live, and many times for that matter, called it quits.
The band is called de brassers.
They started in the late '70s, inspired by bands like The Clash, The Damned, and PIL, in a rural area in the NE of Belgium.
They were notorious (and still are obnoxious), and people called them 'heretics from the Flemish countryside'.
Their intense and dark music and lyrics soon got the attention of new-music-lovers in The Netherlands too, and one of de brassers' favourite venues in that country was Doornroosje in my hometown Nijmegen. At that time, I was a volunteer at that venue, and the team I was a member of booked many punk, post-punk, new wave, no wave, and reggae acts, including de brassers of course, several times.
Their performance turned out to be as intense as their music and lyrics.
My activities in Doornroosje made me start Paperclip Agency in 1981, but that's another story.
Not only did I see the band play at Doornroosje, but also at several other Dutch venues. Many of the Doornroosje team I was a member of followed the band around.
Many years later, in 2017, I travelled down south, to de brassers' home turf: Hamont-Achel, to see them play at the local venue, together with two other excellent Belgian wave-bands. de brassers were as intense and relevant as I remembered them.
Now, it has all come to an end. The bass player has MS, and the disease makes playing live more and more impossible.
The final live farewell was on January 19, at the famous Ancienne Belgique venue in Brussels/Belgium. The place was packed.
And it was an intense night, and the end of an era.
 
Hilde Spille writes:
Resistance
"Freedom doesn't exist unless you fight for it every day." That's one of the last sentences in the book "Riot Days" from Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina. The book describes her experience with Pussy Riot, from the start until the night before her release from the Russian prison camp. The book is the basis for the show Pussy Riot: Riot Days.
In April I have them playing four shows in The Netherlands plus one show in Belgium. They are more outspoken than ever against Putin. Somehow having them playing here, brings the death of Navalny, the main figure of the Russian opposition against Putin, very close. He died in a Russian prison camp. Something Alyokhina described in her book.
It all shows to me again, that art and politics are connected, that you can't separate them. Both are very personal and very global at the same time. Every decision in politics has impact on the personal life of people. Everything we do, has a political impact. For art it seems natural that it is personal. The artist is expressing him/herself in art. And all pieces of art have their impact on a wider scale. The show Pussy Riot: Riot Days shows the world, how Putin treated them for a song in a church. The new clip "Swan Lake" shows, how he is indoctrinating the whole nation, especially children.
Last month I ordered a T-shirt with a pencil, a paintbrush and a guitar crossed, with the text "These weapons slay tyrants". Let's use these weapons against all tyrants!

10cc extra show
10cc have added a second show in TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht this year; the April 10 show is completely sold out, and for the extra show (April 09) only a handful of tickets are still available.

10cc's Graham Gouldman & Heart Full of Songs confirmed
10cc's Graham Gouldman & Heart Full of Songs, Graham Gouldman's semi-acoustic four-piece playing older and fresher songs written or co-written by him in his 60-odd years career as a song smith, will play a Dutch festival on Sat. July 06, this year, as well as an indoor theatre show on July 05.
Additional shows are welcome.
See further down below for details.

Crash Test Dummies will celebrate 30th anniversary "God Shuffled His Feet"
After a great tour in May 2022, Crash Test Dummies will come to The Netherlands again to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their hit-selling album "God Shuffled His Feet". Especially their hit singles "Superman Song" and "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" will ring a bell.

new signing:
Excited to add a new name to our roster for all of Europe!
Down North a.k.a. DoWn NOrtH, from Seattle/USA.
They're a psych-infused soul punk band that is sometimes described as Red Hot Chili Peppers covering Prince with an early James Brown frontman.
These creatives pick and choose just-right bits and flavors drawn from the whole of modern western music like painters with unlimited palates.
Check out their exciting danceable sounds/clips: for instance, the songs Heartbreaker , She's Living In My Radio , To Hell With Love .
Or this 30 minutes live-stream from 2021, when we had to stay indoors (remember that?).
Current album ‘No Restraint, Vol. 2’ (2023).