You having a night off, this Friday? Well, maybe this one’s for you then. And for those who didn’t win the tickets to Elbipolis in Theaters Tilburg earlier, here’s another chance to see Elbipolis!

We can give away 3×2 tickets for Hauschka and Elbipolis Barockorchester with DJ Brezel Göring at De Effenaar, Eindhoven! This event is part of the Club Cross-Linx.

Those who follow Incubate already know Hauschka. He performed his neo-classical/post modern piano songs on the second edition of Incubated (oh, the early days!), and the man was kind enough to grant us permission to stream that entire liveshow.
Elbipolis Barockorchester lounge their classical baroque style up with beats and bleeps from no other than Stereo Total’s Brezel Göring!

What you have to do to win these tickets? Simple. Mail us to win@incubate.org and we randomly pick 3 winners. Two rules: One, make sure to mail us your first and last name and two, put ‘hauschka’ in the subject line.

Good luck!

Barock Lounge: Outer Space from RADIALSYSTEM V on Vimeo.

What do you get when you combine the filthy 60s sound of The Sonics with the punk sound from The Ramones? The band Black Lips. You can win the latest Black Lips album ‘Arabia Mountain‘ which is a great album full of garage rock and rattling pop sounds from the 60s. All you have to do is send an e-mail to win@incubate.org, put ‘Black Lips‘ in the subject box and maybe you’ll be the lucky winner of ‘Arabia Mountain’!

If you want to see a live performance of Black Lips, you better go to Eindhoven at the 16th of December. They are performing in the biggest indoor skatepark of Europe, Area51. A concert that is an collaboration with the Effenaar who wants to host intimate concerts throughout Eindhoven. So who doesn’t want to see the garage punkpop band Black Lips in a massive skatepark? This is a once in a lifetime experience, you can get your tickets here.

Effenaar exists for 40 years now (if you haven’t noticed yet). That’s pretty damn long, so you should congratulate them for it. And you can. We have already given away tickets for D.A.F. and Shaking Godspeed amongst others, and now we give away 3×2 tickets for Low Yo Yo Stuff on December 7th!

After the huge succes in Theater De Machinefabriek in Groningen, Noord-Nederlands Toneel (Northern Dutch Theater) brings the Captain Beefheart-inspired Low Yo Yo Stuff (LYYS) to De Effenaar.
In this play, Frank Lammers plays Rikkie Black, a fan of Captain Beefheart who thinks he’s born in the head of the Captain. The idea behind LYYS  is retrieving the artistic and social freedom. LYYS is a search to the ‘Lost Record’, the album that was recorded by Beefheart in 73, but never released. It’s a hallucinating trip through life and the world of Captain Beefheart. Don van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart), just recently deceased, formed the group Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band in the sixties. Their album ‘Trout Mask Replica’ was produced by Frank Zappa and sent out a shockwave through the pop-, rock and bluesculture. His music contains elements of blues, acid-rock and free-jazz.

If you want to win two of these six tickets, just mail us to win@incubate.org, put ‘Low Yo Yo Stuff’ in the subjectline and answer the next question: Where is the name of the play ‘Low Yo Yo Stuff’ taking from?

Good luck!

Now for our next show: a rockshow with some of the best bands from our tiny country at this moment: Shaking Godspeed and Traumahelikopter in De Effenaar on November 18th!

If you love hardrock music and if you visit shows regularly, you know what to expect of Shaking Godpeed. For those who don’t:
They played hundreds of shows already and it made them a smoking rockmachine. Their sound lies somewhere between The Stooges, Deep Purple, garage and hardrock. Their album ‘Awe’ got virtually only positive reviews.
Support-act is Traumahelikopter. And yes, we love Traumahelikopter. We like them so much that they’re performing on the next edition of Incubated this week (in collaboration with Popronde). So if you can’t make it out this Thursday (but you should. It’s FREE!) in Paradox for Incubated 11, make sure you’ll arrive early for this garagapunk outfit from Groningen!

Back to the show in De Effenaar. What you have to do for these tickets? Simple: mail us to win@incubate.org and put ‘Ticket Bonanza: Shaking Godspeed’ in the subject line. And if we mail you back, that means you’ve won!

Good luck!

Who releases us?

But first: De Effenaar is celebrating their 40th birthday! Congratulations guys! And thanks for the 2 x 2 tickets for Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft exclusive Benelux show on 28-10!
This legendary collective doesn’t need any introduction. Their ’81 releases ‘Alles Ist Gut’ and ‘Gold Und Liebe’, full of Elektronische Köpermusic, stood beside the cradle that brought forth genres as techno, house and popmusic in general.
Now after 30 years, the duo (Gabi Delgado-López and Robert Görl) return to the Effenaar.

So, in short: that means you can finally experience tracks such as ‘Der Rauber und der Prinz’, ‘El Que’, ’Der Sherrif’ en ‘Du Bist DAF’ live! Geil!

The only thing you have to do is mail us to win@incubate.org, put ‘Ticket Bonanza: D.A.F.’ in the subject line and maybe you’ll be dancing to ‘Der Mussolini’ on October 28th!

…And stop the time. Tickets for Israel Nash Gripka and Exhumed/Cephalic Carnage are gone. Better luck next time.

And now for some pure fucking rock ‘n roll action: MOTORPSYCHO in De Effenaar on October 15th!
Or should we call them a pointy rock band? Or a pop rock band? Psychedelic rock? Motorpsycho have had many faces in 20 years. Although most (if not all) of their albums are cool, we don’t know what to expect of them in 2011. But they have always been absolutely awesome live. Even after all these years.

Ah, well, anyway, you’re reading this, so you already know who they are. You just want to know what you have to do get these tickets!

We have 2 x 2 tickets for the first 2 to respond. So make sure to mail to win@incubate.org! Don’t forget to put ‘Ticket Bonanza: Motorpsycho’ in the subject line!

Ah! We love it! Our Incubate’s Outrageous Ticket Give-Away Bonanza gets more outrageous everyday!

First of all, 013 gave us yet another (!!) show with Kellermensch on Oktober 27th bringing their total to 7 (!!) shows to our ticket extravaganza! Make sure to congratulate them on their (0)13th birthday here!

And another popstage has something to celebrate! De Effenaar turned 40 this year! And you can congratulate and drink a beer with the lovely people on their 4o-year-anniversary party with D.A.F.! Yes, we can give tickets away to the exclusive Benelux-show of the legendary Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft on October 28th!
And if that’s not enough: We can add Motorpsycho (15 October) and Shaking Godspeed + Traumahelikopter (18 November) to our Bonanza as well!  Thank you, Effenaar!

Absolutely awesome! And keep an eye on this site, our Twitter or Facebook, because later today, we will give away our first tickets!

We’ve got 2 x 2 tickets to give away for the Neurosis show in the Effenaar on Friday the 29th of July. Want to go? Check out how you can win free tickets below!

What to do?

Since recently Inlog.org owns a Facebook page which you can find by clicking this link. This page auto generates al our blogposts we post on here, so this post is also up there by the time you’re reading this. All you have to do is like our page and tell us in the comment section of this post that YOU want these tickets!

New York residents A Place to Bury Strangers are playing in the Effenaar in Eindhoven next week. We’ve got 2×2 tickets to give away for this cool evening. Support act will be Dutch outfit Nikooo, which played at one of our Incubated events last year. Want to go?

What to do?

All you have to do is e-mail us with a good reason why we should give YOU these tickets, alongside your full name. Send a good reason to win ATT incubate DOT org, with APTBS in the subject line.

This friday Effenaar has lined up the third edition of ‘Vlammende Vlamingen’, where young Belgian bands will take the stage. Three bands on the bill for tonight! From the post-metal (think Isis) of Steak Number Eight to the sunny pop music of Garcia Goodbye and the blues rock of Charlie Jones’ Big Band, it’s all about diversity this evening. We can give away free tickets for the show!

How to win
We can give away 2×2 tickets for this show. All you have to do is send an email to win ATT incubate DOTTT org with your full name. We won’t make it hard for you this time so just a mention of your name would do! Please mention “Vlammende Vlamingen” in the subject line. We will pick two lucky bastards on thursday. Good luck!

Tomorrow The Black Atlantic (ZXZW 2007) will play together with Alamo Race Track in De Effenaar in Eindhoven. Check out all the info via this link. We’ve got 2×2 tickets to give away. Want to go? Send an e-mail to winnen@effenaar.nl with the subject: The Black Atlantic.

With the Roadburn 2011 festival just around the corner, we have selected some of the wisest men in the music business to recommend you their favorites! This is the second part in a five part series. In this part, Tijs Heesterbeek has recommended his favorites! Does his name sound familiar to you? He was our marketing chief at Incubate and now for Effenaar in Eindhoven!

Quest for Fire: All the hip, new bands embracing the shoegaze craze (there: I just created a new word: the shoecraze!) have listened closely to bands like My Bloody Valentine, Ride and The Jesus & Mary Chain. That’s OK. They’re great bands. But a lot of those hipsters forget one defining band: The English psychedelic rockers of Spacemen 3. All but one: Quest for Fire is a fourpiece from Canada who have just released their second album Lights From Paradise. It consists of eight songs heavily inspired by sixties psychedelic nuggets, seventies krautrock and eighties shoegaze. Like the mighty fuzz of Spacemen 3. Their release on TeePee already is one of my personal favorites of 2011.

Dragontears: Lorenzo Woodrose and I started off on the wrong foot. I saw his former band Baby Woodrose a couple of times, but I always thought he was just a cheap knockoff of Monster Magnet and Dave Wyndorf. But while Dave Wyndorf wasn’t the rockgod he pretended to be (Dave Wyndorf having an overdose and not dying is like Charlie Sheen having an overdose and… well… dying), Lorenzo recorded another album with his other band Dragontears. The result came out through the mighty Bad Afro Records at the end of 2010 and was called Turn On Tune In Fuck Off!! (another drug-metaphor, did Lorenzo try to make something clear to his master?). The result is pretty astonishing: It’s a rollercoaster ride between Led Zep, 13th Floor Elevators and… Monster Magnet. But the kind of Monster Magnet that was scary. Not the Monster Magnet who has videos made by Hype Williams.

Weedeater: Just one word: filth! More words? Pure filth! Like playing a Reo Speedealer record (does anybody remember that band?) on 33,33 RPM.

After their current tour with White Lies, Crocodiles will play a few headline shows as well! This lo-fi/shoegaze two piece has risen from the ashes of The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower back in 2008. They have quickly built a steady following by creating music somewhere in between The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Jesus and the Mary Chain. We can give away 3×2 tickets for the show at Effenaar on March 25th!

How to win
ll you have to do is send an email to win ATT incubate DOTTT org with your full name and the answer to the question “Which well known Icelandic festival did Crocodiles play last year?” Please mention “Crocodiles” in the subject line. Good luck!

Check out this cool video of playmobil dolls performing Joy Division‘s classic ‘Transmission’

And talking about Joy Division, bass player Peter Hook is set to perform the whole classic Joy Division album ‘Unknown Pleasures’ on a tour together with his band The Light. They are performing at Effenaar (Eindhoven) on May 29 and Paard van Troje (Den Haag) on May 28.

You MUST be there! ASIWYFA is probably the greatest post-rock band on earth. And they’re playing at Effenaar tomorrow!

If you want to be there, just drop us an e-mail with a photo of a beautiful thing on a very long distance….. Send it, together with your full name, to win AT incubate DOT org.

Good luck!

You missed The Ex at Incubate 2010? That’s a shame! The anarchist band from Amsterdam played a fantastic show during the 2nd day of the festival.

Well, they’re touring now and will play at Effenaar Eindhoven on the 2nd of december and we’re giving away two sets of tickets. Also playing is Nikoo, who cancelled their show at Incubate 2010. And yes, that’s the same evening as Incubated 03 so you might have that one marked in your agenda!

How to win
Just send us a video or photo (link) of your nightmare ex-girl/boyfriend.

Send your video/photo + your full name to win ATT incubate DOTTT org. Please mention “The Ex” in the subject line. Good luck!

Like Black Mountain? You’ll love Sleepy Sun as well. Go check them out at De Effenaar in Eindhoven this Sunday! It will definitely not be a Sleepy Sunday!

Therapy? is the North-Irish band established in 198… Fuck it! Therapy? does NOT need an introduction.

We give away 2×2 tickets for the Therapy? concert in Effenaar (Eindhoven) on November 15th.

How to win
Just send us a video or photo of the worst therapy you can imagine.

Send your video/photo + your full name to win ATT incubate DOTTT org. Please mention “Therapy?” in the subject line. Good luck!

You still remember? Back in 2007, Crippled Black Phoenix played at ZXZW festival, now known as Incubate. They were great.

You still remember Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat? They also played at ZXZW 2007, and of course on the very first Incubated, 3 weeks ago (photos here!!).

Both bands are playing at Effenaar Eindhoven tonight! And you can be there since we give away 2×2 tickets for the show. Just give the correct answer on this easy question:

How many anuses are in both bandnames?

Quickly send your answer + your full name to win ATT incubate DOTTT org. Please mention “Anus Phoenix” in the subject line. Good luck!

On Sunday November 7 the awesome 65daysofstatic will play at the Effenaar in Eindhoven and YOU can win tickets to go see them! All you have to do is answer this simple question: in what year did 65daysofstatic play our (then named ZXZW) festival? Send your answer to WIN[AT]INCUBATE[DOT]ORG.

Wildbirds & Peacedrums are a contemporary experimental two piece hailing from Sweden consisting of singer Mariam Wallentin and drummer Andreas Werliin. Their ‘instruments’ consist of her powerful vocals and his unorthodox percussion/drumming, resulting in a powerful, innovative sound. Their music is a hybrid of folk, blues and various other types of music.

On Wednesday October 13th, the Swedish duo will play at the Effenaar in Eindhoven. Inlog.org can give away 2×2 tickets for this concert!

How to win
Just send us a video (link) with one or more very wild birds on it.

Send your video + your full name to win ATT incubate DOTTT org. Please mention “Wildbirds & Peacedrums” in the subject line. Good luck!

Incubate and Effenaar give away 2×2 tickets for DAAU (Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung). They’re playing in Effenaar 10 June. To win tickets, tell us what’s the name of their new album (WIN[AT]INCUBATE[DOT]ORG) before Tuesday 8 June 11.00 a.m.

DAAU
Effenaar, Eindhoven
10 June
Doors: 20.30
Start: 21.00

Effenaar programmeurs Robert Schaeffer en Tom Ketelaar bloggen traditioneel vanaf The Great Escape showcase festival in Brighton, Engeland. Vorige jaren zagen ze onder andere The Temper Trap en The Ting Tings voordat ze in Nederland doorbraken.

Jawel hoor, we zijn weer in Brighton. Wat een heerlijk gevoel geeft dit bescheiden kuststadje toch. Met zo’n 250.000 inwoners net iets groter dan ons eigen Eindhoven. De levendigheid in deze stad is echter niet te vergelijken met Eindhoven. Waar Brighton vroeger vooral een kustplaats was waar Britse bejaarden graag naartoe kwamen, is het tegenwoordig een hippe en unieke plek waar jonge creatieven zich verzameld hebben en er vooral veel muziek gemaakt wordt (o.a. Blood Red Shoes, Pulled Apart By Horses, Fatboy Slim en The Kooks komen er vandaan, en Nick Cave woont er). Bedenk je dat London op zo’n 45 minuten treinen van Brighton ligt. Veel creatieven trekken uit de grote stad weg naar het relatief rustige en gezellige kustplaatsje Brighton..

We beginnen onze eerste Great Escape dag in Brighton dit jaar met een ontbijt in ons fantastische Royal Albion Hotel, ook wel het Royal Shabby Hotel. Mooi gelegen aan de kust, aan de kop van de ooit zo befaamde Brighton Pier en om de hoek bij het fantastische speeltje van koning George IV: The Royal Pavilion. De allure van de jaren 1920 wordt maar al te graag in stand gehouden, alleen is men de afgelopen 25 jaar vergeten om de boel af en toe een beetje op te knappen. Onze kamer is gelukkig aan de zeekant van het Hotel, dat beloofd een magistraal uitzicht. In alle helaasheid der dingen is hij echter gesitueerd in de kelder. We hebben dus een prachtig uitzicht op de onderkant van de stoep. Ook mooi.

Na het ontbijt gaan we inchecken voor het festival, alwaar we snel na het ophalen van de delegate passes op collegaprogrammeur Andre van Appelpop stuiten. Eerste Nederlander gespot dus. Later zal blijken dat Nederland ook dit jaar weer behoorlijk is vertegenwoordigd op The Great Escape (en ja, er spelen ook weer Nederlandse bands dit jaar!).

Na een magistrale platenjacht, een zonnig biertje aan zee,  en een goed bordje Oosters bij Wagamama beginnen we deze editie in The Revenge (normaal gezien de grootste gaydisco van Brighton) met de laatste twee nummers van An Emerald City. Een echte indruk krijgen is dus lastig, maar we houden het op een soort bangrha Mogwai, met viool en electrieke sitarspeler gehuld in korte broek en paisly vleermuisvleugels. Het is een (post)rock band die graag de randjes opzoekt zonder daarbij de song uit het oog te verliezen. Deze Nieuw-Zeelandse band resideert tegenwoordig in Berlijn blijkt later, nadat een van de bandleden later op de avond per ongeluk ons bier van tafel stoot en we aan de praat raken. Ze schijnen al eens met The Datsuns in Nederland getourd te hebben.

Op naar Jamaica! Die spelen in Horatio’s, een grote bruine kroeg die midden in het lunapark op het einde van de Brighton Pier is gelegen. De meningen zijn binnen onze delegatie verdeeld over leuk of niet, maar liefhebbers van Phoenix en vintage Soulwax moeten het zeker even checken. Gezien de publieksopkomst kan het nog best wat gaan worden met deze franse band.

We verwachten veel van Gabby Young, en waren daardoor zo vroeg in de kelder van The Queens Hotel, dat we bij wijze van verrassing nog een paar lekkere nummertjes van Citadels konden meepakken. Wat een leuke band zeg. The Chemical Song is een lekkere indie pop single, die hun steengoeie promo dame daarna in tweevoud aan ons wist te slijten. Op vinyl natuurlijk.

Dan Gabby Young. Op haar myspace klonk ze als een Florence Emerald of Caro & The Machine. Live heeft ze niet haar 8 koppige Other Animals meegenomen, maar treed ze op als duo. Maar met zijn tweeën en staat het ook als een huis. Florence, burleske, roaring twenties, een zeer interessante mix van stijlen. En wat een interessante verschijning is die Gabby met haar vuurrode 20′s kapsel en moderne variant van een Charlston jurkje. En wat een stem!! Van zuiver hoog piepend als een Theremin tot gepassioneerde, bijna balkaneske popzang. Een dame on in de gaten te houden!

Ook hoog op het verlanglijstje: Japandroids, maar dat viel nog niet mee. We staan in de kuil achterin The Revenge, en dus zien we niks. Dan maar goed luisteren, maar helaas: bij binnenkomst excuseert de gitarist zich al voor het feit dat twee van zijn drie gitaar versterkers stuk zijn gegaan tijdens de gig, en dat alleen diegene voor het meest crappy geluid het nog doet. We horen inderdaad een brij van geluid van het drum en gitaar duo en kunnen er dus geen kaas van maken. Hopelijk morgen een herkansing.

Maar gelukkig kunnen we op ons gemak nog even blijven hangen om ons bier te laten omstoten door Emerald City en een intieme hometown gig van Blood Red Shoes mee te maken. Dat heeft toch wel een speciale gloed. De band begint met “ Getting Boring By the Sea” wat over Brighton gaat. Wij snappen echt niet hoe je zo’n nummer kunt schrijven over zo’n enerverende stad. Het was erg druk en zweterig in het bovenzaaltje, dus lieten we Laura en Steve voor wat het was en gingen we snel verder!

Yuck is een van de “most talked about bands” van het festival. Ze hebben het zelfde management als Franz Ferdinand en dat schijnt dan nogal wat te betekenen. Wij kunnen er echter niet over meepraten want omdat Tom Laura veel te graag nog even wilde spotten waren we te laat in The Corn Exchange. Wat een prachtige zaal trouwens!

Daar speelt ook Surfer Blood. Pitchfork lievelingen, geniaal t-shirt, maar deze vier college guys en Slash op de toetsen konden onze aandacht niet vasthouden. Leuke droge slacker humor tussendoor. Je kunt niet naar deze band luisteren zonder aan Vampire Weekend te denken of aan de presentatie van Pavement. De door Vampire Weekend geherintroduceerde Afrikaanse slag is niet van de lucht en dat is dan meteen de grote zwakte van de band. Platenmaatschappijen zijn blijkbaar op zoek naar een nieuwe Vampire Weekend, en met een goeie single (wij hoorden hem nog niet) kan het wel eens 3FM materiaal gaan worden.

Wij kiezen eieren voor ons geld, en gaan afbutsen bij Jaguar Love (bekend van de t-shirts van onze gewaardeerde collega Niels Guns). Jaguar Love is de nieuwe band van ex Blood Brothers blerkees … Hij heeft naast zijn laptop ook zijn gekke vrienden meegenomen op drums en gitaar. Aanstekelijke liedjes maar dan de opgefokte speedversie. Foo Fighters op 45 toeren. Letterlijk, dus met pitched-up piepstemmetje.

De naborrel was met in het Queens hotel met NL export held Ruud Berends, Robert van  Roosje en Friendly Fires. Het werd nog heel gezellig met de Letse en Finse delegatie. Tips uit Finland: De nieuwe Disco Ensemble en omdat ons land heel goed is in voetbal en schaatsen, moeten we toch echt die Finse volkssport eens gaan proberen die beide sporten combineert. Wij denken dan toch vooral aan lekke ballen.

You really want to check this out! The Icelandic Bedroom Community label is in the middle of The Whale Watching tour with it’s own bands. On November 9th, the tour hits Eindhoven. With Sam Amidon, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly, Valgeir Sigurðsson and guests.!

To make it even better; if you have tickets for this show, you have free access to the Confessions Tour where we told you about before. Even better better: you can win tix for the Confessions Tour on this blog tomorrow if you can’t make it the 9th! So there’s no reason you’ll miss one of these shows. Check it out

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Who are you?
Tom, promotor at Effenaar in Eindhoven

What will you be doing during Incubate 2009 (Sept. 13-20)?
Mainly drinking beer I suppose (experience from last years) and checking some cool new bands.
As there are always many friends around, who also like beer, it often happens that you don’t see the bands you planned to check (sounds familiar to many of you probably…)

Which three artists do you recommend to see at Incubate 2009?
Hmm, there are so many things to check out, way too many if you ask me. Probably all the bands I want to see play at the same time, though I know Incubate is one of the few festivals that actually HAVE a logical balance in their program.

I don’t wanna miss Pirate Love, a new signing on Voodoo Rhythm records. Psychedelic garage stuff from Oslo, like Beatman in the kitchen with The Horrors.

I am happy that the guys booked The Damned, a very relevant punkband ofcourse and fits well in the idea of the festival.

If I will manage to stay up till 04.00 on saterday I will go and see SchlachthofBronx. What a songs on their myspace, crazy German scheisse this!

Which band would you like to see on Incubate 2010?
pff, I can only think of big names right now, no obscure things come to mind…
For this year I miss Wavves, Vivian Girls, Frank Turner and White Denim. Great bands with a Incubate spririt.