He’s the king of DIY. With more than 300 cassettes released since the 60′s, he never made it to the charts. It turned him into a prophet in the independent scene. We booked R. Stevie Moore for Incubated 12 in Paradox, together with Harry Merry and Gary War (stream his entire set here!). The show was… well… err… how shall we call it… unconventional? Inimitable? Authentic? Uncompromising? Let’s call it a bizarre clash between music, performance art, spoken word, absurdism, pop music and Ariel Pink.
And if, for some reason, you don’t know what we mean – you can now hear it for yourself! Because we’re streaming the entire show on our Soundcloud!

Listen to it below!

Witness the bloom of great Dutch bands!

This afternoon we posted a Storify about Incubated 12, with all of your tweets, thoughts, pictures and videos. Here is something extra for you, high quality pictures of Harry Merry, Gary War and R. Stevie Moore. These are just a few snippets, the rest can be seen on our Flickr account. We hope to see you at Incubated 13!

Check it out here. In Dutch.

Oh, and if you want to hear some of his albums: here’s a start.

A lot of people were surprised when we announced that Harry Merry will perform on Incubated 12 this Thursday. Because, you asked, who the hell is Harry Merry? Well, he’s one of a kind. Luckily Vice TV made an item about him. So here’s an acquaintance with the highly unusual Harry Merry (in Dutch).

You can buy tickets for Incubated 12 online already. Also performing are DIY-cult-hero R. Stevie Moore and Gary War. So we’ll see you there, this Thursday in Paradox?

On December 1th, the next official Incubated night hits the Paradox in Tilburg! With none other than cult hero R. Stevie Moore, Ariel Pink-affiliated Gary War and weirdest Dutch popstar Harry Merry!
And there’s more! You can now buy your tickets online for the upcoming editions via the Timoco website, Incubated.org and on our official Incubated Facebook page! Ticketprice is €9,- excluding a small fee of 0,80 euro. That’s not very expensive, is it? So what are you waiting for?

R. Stevie Moore
R. Stevie Moore is the uncrowned king of Do-It-Yourself. The cult hero of the underground. He started out as a ‘musical diarist’ and he released all those ideas in the 70’s on his own R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club. More than 400 titles have been released to date on cassette, LP or CD. With such an uncompromising approach, it’s no wonder he never made it to the big league. He doesn’t care about that either. R. Stevie does what he wants. Which is releasing suprising, weird, catchy poptunes alongside recordings he made on the toilet. To call this ‘pop’ is too narrow for the wide range of music he makes. Even calling it ‘avant-garde’ doesn’t fit the mold created by Moore.
Last year, he got the attention of the blogs with a hilarious clip on Kickstarter, where he tried to get $10.000 to make a new cd and ultimately raised more than $11.000. Now, he’s on tour in Europe and performs exclusively in The Netherlands on Incubated! So this is a unique chance to see this legend perform live!

Gary War
There’s not much information to be found on the Internet about Gary War. He’s from Brooklyn, NY and played with Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti between 2005-2008. We know that. And we know he delivers some psychedelic lo-fi weird pop. Echoes, backwards samples, distortion, 80’s drumcomputer beats, undecipherable vocals, soft guitars, distortion and other noises define his sound. He calls it ‘goosestep’. We call it awesome. Some call it pop for experimental music fans. It’s a blurry tribute to… to… we have no idea to what actually. You’ll have to see Gary War and figure it out for yourself. If you dig John Maus and Ariel Pink, this is an act for you!

Harry Merry
Harry Merry (Harry den Hartog) is a multi-instrumentalist from Rotterdam and is one of the few Dutch artists who can be placed in the genre of ‘Outsider Music’. Merry is a distinct figure with his 70s hairdo and sailor suit. After years of locking himself in his room, he finally got out of his room and got his first gig in 1996 at a singer-songwriterfestival in Rotown Rotterdam. This was a huge succes with lots of positive criticism.  Soon after the first performace he toured around Europe and even did tours in America! His first CD was released eight years after his first performence and it’s called ‘Well.. Here’s another mess you’ve got me into‘. It took him three years to complete the album and it’s about his immediate surroundings. After the CD-release he performed at Noorderslag, de Grote Prijs and Popronde receiving positive reviews as well. In 2007 he started performing with a backing band ‘The Must‘, they recorded another CD, ‘Veronika‘.

Harry Merry is added to the line-up of Incubated 12! The distinct Merry will open the night at the Paradox on Thursday, December 1st. Other acts that night are R. Stevie Moore and Gary War. This is going to be an awesome Incubated don’t you think?

Harry Merry (Harry den Hartog) is a multi-instrumentalist from Rotterdam and is one of the few Dutch artists who can be placed in the genre of ‘Outsider Music’. Merry is a distinct figure with his 70s hairdo and sailor suit. His music genes starting bubbling on the age of five when he got his first piano lessons. In his twenties he locked himself up in his attic room and starting playing the keyboard. In that time he started making long compositions with cryptic lyrics but he kept this to himself.

Finally he got out of his room an got his first gig in 1996 at a singer-songwriterfestival in Rotown Rotterdam. This was a huge succes with lots of positive criticism.  Soon after the first performace he toured around Europe and even did tours in America! His first CD was released eight years after his first performence and it’s called ‘Well.. Here’s another mess you’ve got me into‘. It took him three years to complete the album and it’s about his immediate surroundings. After the CD-release he performed at Noorderslag, de Grote Prijs and Popronde receiving positive criticism. In 2007 he started performing with a backing band ‘The Must‘, they recorded another CD called ‘Veronika‘. During Incubated 12 he will leave the backing band at home, and perform a solo show for us!

Harry Merry has an impressive resumé! And with Merry, Incubated 12 will be an epic night, with a killer line-up and fantastic music. We hope to see you all on the first of December!

Harry Merry – Stevie Storm

Zu in 013. Harry Merry& The Must in Paradox. On just a Wednesday! Both shows are cool. We don’t give away tickets.

You might know Harry Merry and Kania Tieffer from ZXZW. You might know spijkerpoepen from your youth. We’re giving away two tickets for Vatican Analog on friday the 15th in 013. All you have to tell us is what you can not get at the party:

a) ranja
b)crack
c) good music
d) fun

Please send your answer to contest<at>zxzw<dot>nl

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