You can’t win them just yet, you’ll have to wait for the blogpost later this month. So keep an eye on our Twitter, Facebook or this site!

We’ve just announced one of UK’s hottest indie bands right now, Let’s Wrestle, to play at Incubate in September. You can read an interview with vocalist/guitarist Wesley Patrick Gonzalez, done by Done Waiting, here on their website. You can also view the recent video of their song ‘In Dreams Part II’, the first single from their debut album Nursing Home below here.

‘Frisse Oren’, the free new years party for culture-lovers, was a fun day filled with an interesting variety of music, performance and modern dance.

We treated our audience to two great performers:  Tilburgs tribute-musician Peer van Dun and ‘the 5th Beatle’ Klaus Beyer.

Photo’s are now online for your enjoyment!

Dreaming away on Dustin O’Halloran’s subtle pianosongs, rocking out to Dÿse’s excellent mathrock and spacing out on Mater Suspiria Vision… Incubated #04 was a great success! We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did, pictures made by Steph Byrne are now online.

See you next month for Incubated #05; an evening with an interesting mix of Psychedelic drones (Ignatz), guitar-folk (Cam Deas) and dubstep (shackleton)!

Yesterday, Incubate went to visit Peer van Dun. This extraordinary tribute-musician from Tilburg will be performing at Frisse Oren, the free new years party for culture lovers held next Sunday in the 013.

Together with our photographer, we visited him in his humble home, a place full of music. Peer can play over 300.000 classic songs on guitar, keyboard and he sings a lot of them too. A man that lives for the music, Peer has been performing around the world for ages, sometimes playing 250 shows a year!

This hidden musical gem is an absolute must see! So join us on Sunday in the 013 for a great show with classics from The Shadows, Eagles, Elvis… You name it, he’ll play it!

You can enjoy the pictures here.

Incubated #02 was a great success!

We started of with some sweet instore gigs by Les Shelleys and Gregory and the Hawk, we proceeded in the Paradox with the beautiful experimental pianowork of Hauschka and the night ended with a big bang by a great intense performance by Knut

We all hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, see you next month!

Innovation is a keyword at Incubate. Therefore Incubate and BKKC will organize the Incubate Innovation Lecture 2010, which will take place in De NWE Vorst on September 12. We’re very honored that Charles Leadbeater will hold this year’s lecture.

Charles Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and creativity. He is Tony Blair’s favorite corporate thinker. He has advised companies, cities and governments on innovation strategy and drew on that experience in writing his latest book We-think: the power of mass creativity. This book charts the rise of mass, participative approaches to innovation from science and open source software, to computer games and political campaigning.

In 2005 Charles was ranked by management consultancy Accenture as one of the top management thinkers in the world. He advised a wide range of organizations including the BBC, Vodafone, Microsoft, Ericsson, Channel Four Television and the Royal Shakespeare Company. As an associate editor of the Independent he helped Helen Fielding devise Bridget Jones’s Diary. He wrote the first British report on the rise of social entrepreneurship, which has since become a global movement. His report on the potential for the web to generate social change led to the creation of the Social Innovation Camp movement.

Brabant Stad has the ambition to become cultural capital in 2018. To become cultural capital, cities also have to invest in innovation. Whereas, for instance, the Eindhoven region emphasizes technological innovations, Tilburg wants to invest more in social innovation as part of this ambition.

The web is creating a more open, participative and collaborative approach to culture. In his keynote, Mr. Leadbeater will focus on the role the arts can play in this social innovation process. What’s the role of a changing arts practice in a changing society?

After Charles’ keynote lecture, a panel of experts from the fields of arts, economy and politics will take place. The panelists in the discussion are Wim van de Donk, Dick Rijken, Bas van Heur and Wout Withagen.

Professor Wim van de Donk is the Queen’s Commissioner for the Province of Noord-Brabant. He has been Chairman of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) since September 2004 and has been Professor of Public Administration at Tilburg University since 2002. From 2001 to 2003 he was a member of the Council for Public Administration.

Dick Rijken is director of STEIM and professor at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. He also works as an independent consultant in the field of digital culture and new media and is a policy advisor for the Dutch government and for the EU. His primary interest is the changing role of culture in western society. He looks at information systems as cultural products and investigates how traditional cultural players, such as broadcasters and museums, can redefine their role in our emerging network society.

Bas van Heur is a post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University. His main research interest is in the politics of urban development and the role of research in engaging with and analyzing urban development strategies and their effects.

Wout Withagen is the CEO of Freshheads. In 2009 Microsoft named Freshheads one of the top 10 Dutch web developers. Freshheads is a partner in the digital development of Incubate. They support the arts because it gives them an inspiring environment to work in. The arts on their hand benefit from the climate of the city they work in.

Presale for the Incubate festival and for this event has begun. Day tickets for Charles Leadbeater are 10 euros. Passepartout tickets for the festival also give access to this event. Tickets are for sale through the Incubate website.

The Incubate Innovation Lecture is organized in cooperation with BKKC, and is part of the ambition of Brabant to become European Capital of Culture in 2018.

Incubate is the annual celebration of independent culture in Tilburg, The Netherlands. It is a festival exhibiting a diverse view on indie culture as a whole, including music, contemporary dance, film and visual arts. It brings more than 200 cutting edge artists in an intimate context to an international audience. Black metal next to free jazz. Refreshing art next to inspiring debate.

BKKC (Brabants Kenniscentrum Kunst en Cultuur) has been the provincial support institution for contemporary art in Brabant for 25 years. The foundation aims to stimulate the interest for and the development of professional arts. It functions as a mediator between artists, art institutions, governments, companies and the public.

If you can’t make it to Pécs this Saturday, Vatican Analog has a good alternative for you.

This saturday the 8th of may sees another edition of the Vatican Analog presents night. This time with an all international drone line-up:

Btong (CH)
dark soundscapes

Tamagawa (F)
guitarist drones

Origami Galaktika (N)
organic drones

As always the show starts around 21:00 hrs at Perron 58 / Zwijssenpand (Gasthuisring 58, Tilburg), entry donation will be 5 euro and the beers change hands for only a euro.

B°tong – Fragile Package

After a few listens I’ve really come to love this new sound, it makes it so much easier for these songs to stick in your head. And they sure do! Dont worry there is still more then enough idiotic sonic abuse on this record to keep everyone satisfied but at the same time this feels like the most melodic record so far from APHG. Queen, yacht rock, 70′s funk, Miami Vice-soundtracks, freaky folk and lo-fi pop are just some of the things that come to mind during the span of Before Today. And everything seems to fit right in, no genre or style can’t be mastered or abstracted by the genuis we call Ariel Pink.

I’ve only spent a few days so far with Before Today but so far we can conclude that it’s another weird, catchy and ofcourse trippy rollercoaster through the demented brain of Ariel Pink. I’m not sure how this will stack up against the demented pop songs from before but this first impression is for sure a good one. With the right promotion and ofcourse the total overkill of blogposts about this it might expose APHG to a much bigger audience then before. Before Today sure deserves it.

Malcolm McLaren, the former manager of the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls, died yesterday from cancer, aged 64.

From The Independent: “He died in hospital in Switzerland with his partner, 37-year-old Korean American Young Kim by his bedside, along with his son Joe Corre. Ms Kim told The Independent: “We were there with him when he passed away. He was diagnosed with cancer in October. He was very active until the end of February when his tumour became very aggressive. He just went very quickly. He said he wanted to be buried at Highgate cemetery. We are now taking steps to try to make that happen.”

“Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.”—Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren – Something’s Jumping In Your Shirt:

1. Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice, VanWinkle, R.
2. You Dropped a Bomb on Me – Wilson/Simmons/Taylor
3. Fight the Power – Vanilla Ice, Boxley, J.
4. Jump Around – Vanilla Ice, Schrody, E.
5. Baby Got Back – Vanilla Ice, Ray, A.
6. You Gots to Chill – Vanilla Ice, Sermon, E.
7. I Got It Made – Vanilla Ice, Taylor, D.
8. Buffalo Soldier – Vanilla Ice, Williams, N.
9. Treat ‘Em Right – Vanilla Ice, Simpson, R.
10. Insane in the Brain – Vanilla Ice, Freese, L.
11. Ice Ice Baby [Rock Hero Mix] – Vanilla Ice, VanWinkle, R.
12. Ice Ice Baby [Club Crasher Mix] – Vanilla Ice, VanWinkle, R.
13. Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice, VanWinkle, R.

Fight the power Vanilla! Robert VanWinkle aka Vanilla aka as the Elvis Peter Koelewijn of Hiphop is a true innovator. He brought you silly hairstyles, a great movie and some sitcom fun. Now he’s back, covering the hiphop classics to show you where he comes from. What will be next, Vanilla Ice doing a Jacques Brel cover album?  Yo VIP, let’s kick it!