It’s Thursday again, the day that we announce all things happening during the run-up of this year’s Incubate. As an independent festival we love to involve others. New persons participating alongside our point of view yields new ideas, critical notes and a lot of energy. On the other hand it prevents tunnel vision and slumber. This Incu Thursday emphasizes on that what is important to us; collaboration and participation!

Louder than War and Incendiary Magazine curate V39
The two webzines join forces for the curatorship of V39.  The two of them also got something to celebrate as well. Louder than War celebrates its label launch and Incendiarymag celebrates their 10th anniversary. John Robb (photo), editor in chief of Louder than War, was a guest at Incubate 2011. He then performed with his band Goldblade and interviewed Steve Ignorant at the DIY Conference.

As collaborations yields new ideas they’ve come up with their own theme for their curatorship: “Cultural Cringe”. Cultural Cringe will host a number of bands that don’t fit – bands who are old, ugly, uncool and un-rock, ignored acts, nobodies, bands singing in strange languages, and bands who are strangers in their own lands.  These bands are:

Gnod Friday, 14 September - A Manchester based collective dealing with cosmic jams and urban stoner grooves
Ravage! Ravage! Friday, 14 September - A glossy Gothicke pop band of the highest tradition
The Membranes Friday, 14 September - Post-punk band playing for the first time in 20 years in The Netherlands
Nouveau Vélo Saturday, 15 September - Provincial lads making a tremendous racket that brings the Undertones to mind
Plant Duw Saturday 15, September - Playing burning and psychotic Welsh language rock
Paranoid Visions Saturday, 15 September - 30 years of fierce DIY punk rock, recently found sudden success with 2 top 10 hits in Ireland
Fawn Spots Sunday, 16 September - Two piece that managed to translate the rush, imagination and energy of underground rock into pop
Gul Night Out Sunday, 16 September - Truly out there experimental non-pop pop music, possibly one of the most enigmatic noise acts around
Boutros Bubba  Sunday, 16 September - Wild, weird and absurd, cocking a snook at Beefheart and Slayer

New Jacks 4.0 selected artists

For the fourth time we invited young artists to create new work for our festival. Since last year we collaborate together with bkkc on a shared exhibition by artists that graduated not yet, or less than 5 years ago at a Brabant art academy. For the first time we invited artists to submit themselves for New Jacks 4.0. All the selected artist will work with the theme: “You are Incubate”, the selected artists are Jordy Koevoets, Petra van Noort, Angela de Weijer, Robert Lombarts and Erik van Liere.

Open Source Poetry

In addition to earlier Open Source Arts projects there is now an Open Source Poetry. The design is the same as the other projects: we offer the stage to everyone that wants to participate. This happens through several ways:

- All entries are published on this blog.
- One poem from each contributor will be chosen and recited during the festival week (10-16 September 2012) in a special program on Incubate radio.
- Some selected contributors will be invited to recite own poems during the Incubate Poetry-nights. Prior to this they will get a workshop from a professional poet, who will recite during the same night.

Do you want to be in the spotlights with your poetry? Send your entry before August 13 (including your name, e-mail and telephone number) to poetry@incubate.org.

Conditions:
- Only own work
- Maximum of 5 poems
- Because of the available time we prefer poems that aren’t that long

Everybody who contributes will participate. There are no further cost. We don’t ask any commission for publications or assignments as a result of participating at Open Source Poetry.

Incase you missed the announcement of last Tuesday, Fields of the Nephilim, Darkwood, Consumer Electronics and Drum Eyes are all confirmed for Incu12.

Want to know more about the artists? Check the artist profiles on the Incubate website. Tickets for Incubate 2012 are on sale now. You might want to get your hands on a limited edition early-bird ticket which are still available for only €60,- until they run out. There are also Daytickets available. You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2012 on incubate.org or via the store below.

Attending Incubate 2012? Go to Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2012 news! Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist to listen to the confirmed artists.

Our friends from INDIE INDIE are organizing the last time a lot of cool evenings at Meneer Malasch. The first edition was with Ceremony and the second one was with the French guys from The Feeling of Love.

For next week, the 2nd of June, they arranged the Swedish punkband Holograms. They’re releasing there long-awaited seftitled debutalbum on Captured Tracks. This record label from Brooklyn is known for releasing albums from bands like Beach Fossils, The Soft Moon & Mac DeMarco. Other bands they are playing that evening are the New XY from Amsterdam and CROWDS from Rotterdam.

The guys from INDIE INDIE were so nice to give us again tickets. And because we’re in a generous mood, we’re gonna give away two tickets. Looking forward to have a nice time next week? Than make sure you’ll send an email to win@incubate.org with as subject INDIE INDIE before next Monday. On the first day of next week the winner will receive a nice message from us. Good luck!

Usually we announce new confirmations on Thursday, but because it’s World Goth Day we’re sharing some new confirmations for Incubate ’12 today. We reached a total of 95 confirmed artist with these four new additions:

We are very proud to present the exclusive performance by the legendary English goth rock band Fields of the Nephilim. By incorporating elements from heavy metal and Carl McCoy’s trademark growled vocals they have been setting the standard in the gothic scene since 1984. They haven’t performed  in the Netherlands since 1988! For World Goth Day (today!), the band has been awarded with ‘Best 90′s goth band’ and ‘Best 2000′s goth band’ of 2012. For an interview with Carl McCoy, head over to thequietus.com.
Friday, 14 September - Gothic rock, eighties, rock noir

Yes, we managed to get the rarely performing Darkwood to play Incubate 2012! Darkwood is the neofolk unity of many different elements. From traditional themes and acoustic instruments with experimental soundscapes and samples and mixing English and German lyrics. They only performed live 16 times and their last performance was in 2007, which makes this occasion extra special.
Friday, 14 September - Neofolk, dark folk, apocalyptic folk

Renowned extreme noise act Consumer Electronics will definitely make some ears bleed during Incubate. Vast walls of noise are coming your way with power electronics interspersed with industrial sound. Walls that will vaporize every eardrum that comes unprepared.
Saturday, 15 September - Noise, industrial, power electronics

The collective Drum Eyes led by Shigeru Ishihara aka DJ Scotch Egg, notorious from his Game Boy act.  With this collective he and his fellow musicians explore different facets of electronic music. As you can see from the numerous of different genre-tags used, this band is mixing more elements than your average blender.
Date TBA – Drone, kraut, electronic, post-rock, dub, psychedelic

Want to know more about the artists? Check the artist profiles on the Incubate website. Tickets for Incubate 2012 are on sale now. You might want to get your hands on a limited edition early-bird ticket which are still available for only €60,- until they run out. There are also Daytickets available. You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2012 on incubate.org or via the store below.

Attending Incubate 2012? Go to Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2012 news! Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist to listen to the confirmed artists.

Photo by Daniela Vorndran

Another 17 new artists are added to the bill of this year’s Incubate. And as you already knew, versatility is one of the things we love the most. From experimental neo hippie folk to the blackest kvlt metal purists. That’s the way we like it! We’re now on 91 confirmed artists, hitting the 100-confirmations-milestone really soon… Without further ado; these are the new additions in random order:

Want to know more about the artists? Check the artist profiles on the Incubate website. Tickets for Incubate 2012 are on sale now. You might want to get your hands on a limited edition early-bird ticket which are only €60,- until they run out. There are also Daytickets available. You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2012 on incubate.org or via the store below.

Attending Incubate 2012? Go to Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2012 news! Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist to listen to the confirmed artists.

Frank Kimenai, one of the founding fathers of Incubate and our colleague who made sure our financial and productional worries were taken care of, will leave Incubate on June 1st.

We’ve had wonderful times with Frank (as you can see on these pictures), and wish him all the best.

The Incubate head honchos at the Incubate afterparty

In his own words:

I would like to inform you that as of june 1st 2012, I will be parting ways with Incubate. After a long period of thinking and balancing out my thoughts and ideas, I have made my decision. It wasn’t an easy one, especially since it concerns one of the things that I hold dearest. It feels like letting go of a child that I have nourished for seven years, that has cost me blood, sweat and tears, but above all gained me a lot of positive energy and ideas. However, I felt the time was here to make this decision, because I strongly felt the need to explore new paths, to face new challenges. This notion of looking for new experiences grew stronger and stronger throughout the last few months, and therefor I have decided to go for it. It is with pain in my heart that I am leaving Incubate. I am sincerely proud of what we have achieved over the last seven years, and I look back with a great sense of satisfaction and gratitude. It is a comforting thought that I will be leaving Incubate in the capable hands of the best team possible for this job. Incubate is built on a solid base, upon which the festival can grow to the next level in the next few years. I’m proud to be able to say that I have helped create that base, and that I have been part of shaping all these wonderful ideas.

Concerning my work duties, you can check the contact page on incubate.org to see who is now the guy or girl to talk to.

I would like to thank you for everything you meant for me and Incubate, both professionally and personally, the last few years, and I hope to see you in september on that festival in Tilburg!

All the best,

Frank Kimenai

He was on the Incu11 poster.

Frank with Rummelsnuff

In front of the new office in 2009

We are very proud to announce that for the project “Glocal 2012”, Incubate offer you an opportunity to win a residency at organic farm ‘t Schop in Hilvarenbeek, a small village just outside of Tilburg.  A professional jury, comprised of representatives from Incubate, ‘t Schop, LIB (the agricultural organization for the Brabant province) and the town of Hilvarenbeek, will choose the best idea, which will be rewarded with the possibility to work and live on the farm for two weeks in September 2012, and perform at the annual Incubate festival in Tilburg, September 10-16, 2012. SEND US YOUR APPLICATIONS BEFORE JUNE 4^th!

To apply, you have to meet up a number of criteria:
- You are not from the Netherlands or Belgium (the Global part of things).
- You are a musician, or music is the main discipline of your art-practice (multi-disciplinary artists are welcome).
- You are a solo artist, a duo or a trio.
- You live in a city.
- You are ready, willing and able to produce a new work / artistic product based upon your experiences during your stay on the farm.
Your proposal needs to be focused on the following ideas / parameters:
- The project aims on generating dynamics between urban and rural communities, in this case those of Tilburg and Hilvarenbeek.
- The idea has both global and local aspects.
- Your project uses the farm as a gateway towards the town of Hilvarenbeek and its people, cultural life and communities (for a list of organizations and other information, please check the appendix of this document). We encourage activities together with the local communities during your stay.
- Your project creates awareness about the agricultural function of the farm and its products.

We offer you:
- A residency of minimum 10 days, maximum two weeks at biological farm ‘t Schop in Hilvarenbeek.
- This residency will be in the period of Sept 5 – Sept 16^th, 2012, right before the Incubate Festival.
- Travel expenses to and from Hilvarenbeek & Tilburg for the residency and the shows.
- Hospitality of the van den Broek family for two weeks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, and of course a bed.
- A unique possibility to join the farmer in his daily routine on the farm, and work with the farm animals and crops.
- The possibility to work in a relaxing and inspiring environment.
- The possibility to connect to a lot of new interesting people and ideas.
- Two slots at the annual Incubate festival in Tilburg, in the weekend of September 14, 15 or 16, 2012, to present your project. These slots consist of:

o    One show at ‘t Schop, with complimentary lunch / diner for the attendants – Sept 16^th
o    One show at one of the festival venues in the city of Tilburg – Sept 14, 15 or 16th.

Furthermore, we will offer you productional backing and documentation:
- A basic sound studio (speakers, microphones, (digital) recording materials, and special equipment  and devices you might require for your artistic work. (Everything within reason of course).
- Other work materials, again within realistic boundaries.
- A calm and quiet workspace at ‘t Schop.
- You get the opportunity to write about your experiences, and get it published on the Inlog.org blog of Incubate (1000 unique visitors per day). Furthermore, we make a small documentary on the project, which we will launch on the Incubate Vimeo channel. Of course, you can use this documentary for your own promotional purposes as well.

SEND IN YOUR PROPOSAL BEFORE MONDAY JUNE 4^th TO: GLOCAL2012@INCUBATE.ORG
- Include your resume
- Links to audio
- Project proposal (max 500 words)
- NEVER send us mp3’s

Watch the following short documentary of last [Incu Thursday] confirmed artist King Midas Sound. We hope you’re looking forward to their show, we do!

Part 1

Part 2

Submit your art
Incubate wants as many people as possible to participate in the festival. We invite everyone to exhibit their art at the Open Source Expo during Incubate. You can now send in your work for the Expo via this link.

For more info click here.

Submit your film
Are you an independent filmmaker, animator, documentary maker or video artist and would you like to have your film screened as part of the Incubate 2012 official film program? Submit your film, and maybe you’ll win the Incubate Film Award!
Films may not be longer than 40 minutes. All genres are welcome. Submission deadline is June 1st 2012.

For more info click here

Read a review about the 2011 Open source expo here

It’s Thursday again, the Incubate office worked at full speed for all the confirmations for todays Incu Thursday. The line-up for Incubate 2012  already has 70 artists confirmed. Today we can add another four to the bill for the festival in September:

Want to know more about the artists? Check the artist profiles on the Incubate website. Tickets for Incubate 2012 are on sale now. You might want to get your hands on a limited edition early-bird ticket which are only €60,- until they run out. There are also Daytickets available. You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2012 on incubate.org or via the store below.

Attending Incubate 2012? Go to Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2012 news! Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist to listen to the confirmed artists.

It is really hard to capture all that what happens during Incubate festival, with more  than 200 cutting edge artists, from black metal,free jazz,art projects, expo’s, debates and more. We asked Jef Monté from Dieper beeld to do so and somehow he managed. We asked you, our festival visitor, to send in own-made videos, which we have put in this video. Watch the compilation video of all what happened at the last edition of Incubate. Some nostalgia as we are working hard for the following edition of Incubate.

Good memories of good times.

Join the largest art project in the world. Together we are going to create the largest version of the Inside Out project ever at Incubate 2012. All residents of Tilburg can participate. The project transforms personal portraits into art and then makes them visible in the city. To make this all possible we need your help.

Anonymous artist, citizens of Tilburg in the spotlight
People make art and the streets are the largest gallery in the world. JR is an anonymous French artist. He is the driving force behind this project and consciously chooses for a place in the background. He uses streets worldwide as exhibition spaces which he attracts the attention of everyone, including people who are not museum visitors. The portraits are exhibited in various places, in front of windows of houses, at offices or on special columns. Old women become models and children become artist. With Inside Out, JR won the TED award in 2011, which is also won by Bono, Jamie Oliver and Bill Clinton. With those proceeds, the project is partially funded. There is also an international movie made about this project, which will have a prominent place in Tilburg. So let’s all get together and show Tilburg from its best side.

Mothers central
The theme of the Tilburg edition of Inside Out is mothers. So we all together let them know we appreciate them. Joyous young mothers till grandmothers full of wisdom and experience. These mothers have made a significant contribution to Tilburg, we think that all mothers deserve the attention to show them in all the beauty and diversity.

Getting started
At www.insideouttilburg.nl you can upload your portrait. For €10,-, the picture will be transformed into a great work of art in New York. You can write down that what makes the mother on the photo special. Through a special app it will be possible to scan each poster and see the text on your smartphone. Therefore the text will not be printed on the poster.

All info can be found on www.insideouttilburg.nl.

Yesterday evening we made this project, the follow-up to the successful Play Me, I’m Yours-project, public in the theatre of Tilburg. The whole audience was psyched make this project to a success. Go see the photos of last night here and click here for the newspaper article that Brabants Dagblad published today. We are really looking forward start Inside Out & maybe it’s a good idea to end with the creator of this phenomenon JR:

“I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we’ll turn the world.. INSIDE OUT”

Hurray, another Incu Thursday! Today we got six new names for you to announce for Incubate 2012, which happens on 10 to 16 September in Tilburg, NL.

We are glad to confirm the following artists for this year’s festival: Black Dice, Silver Apples, Mozes and the Firstborn, Paul Collins’ Beat, Die Jungen and The KVB.

Here’s some more info and audio previews of the artists:

Want to know more about the artists? Check the artist profiles on the Incubate website.

Attending Incubate 2012? Go to Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2011 news! You can check out the whole line-up on the last.fm page as well. Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist (also embedded above) to listen to the confirmed artists.

You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2012 here or via the store below. You might want to get your hands on a limited edition early-bird ticket which are only €60,- until they run out.

(Black Dice photo by Aylin Gungor)

In 2011 we did a call for films for the Open Source Film program. There was a tremendous response to this call. The films varied from hilarious animation films to independent documentaries to visual experiments. The result was an open source film program with independent and original films that fit very well in the diverse program of Incubate.

The first Incubate Film Award
This year we want the festival audience to be actively involved as well, by asking for their opinion about the films screened in the Open Film blocks. All visitors of the Open Film program will get the chance to vote for the films. The film that the audience deems best will receive the very first Incubate Film Award!  Everyone can submit their film. With these entries, Incubate programs interesting blocks of film and then the audience gets the chance to ‘like’ the films screening in the Open Film Program. The film with the most likes wins the Incubate Film Award!

Participate

Are you an independent filmmaker, animator, documentary maker or video artist and would you like to have your film screened as part of the Incubate 2012 official film program? Submit your film, and maybe you’ll win the Incubate Film Award!

Films may not be longer than 40 minutes. All genres are welcome. Submission deadline is June 1st 2012. For more info contact our film curator Jantien Borsboom at jantien@incubate.org

Incubate Open Film 10 – 16 september 2012

Maker = Jury = Audience
Why are we doing this? We want to involve the Incubate audience actively in our festival. With social media like Twitter and Facebook we got the possibility to directly voice our opinion about everything, all the time. The casting of maker, curator, jury and audience is already history. With the development of the internet and social media, we all get the chance to play the part that fits us best.

We can play the part of the maker and upload our video’s to YouTube or Vimeo, or play the part of curator by selecting video’s and creating a blog or channel. We can play the part of the jury by ‘liking’ a video, which may result in the video to go ‘viral’ and to be seen by a great amount of people.

With the Incubate Open Film program, we create a similar situation within the festival.

Film Entry Form

Hurray, another Incu Thursday! Today we got a few hands full of new names for you to announce for Incubate 2012, which happens on 10 to 16 September in Tilburg, NL.

Incubate is elated to present an extensive Sacred Bones in Residence program. On Saturday September 15th and Sunday 16th, the record label will host a stage in the 013 venue. Currently confirmed artists are The Men, Iceage, War, Amen Dunes, Lower and Lust For Youth. More names will be added to this program soon.
Also confirmed for the music program are Luke Roberts, Killed By 9V Batteries, RM Hubbert and Pretty Lightning.

But wait, there’s more! Just like previous year, Incubate presents the DIY Conference. The first speakers and panels are now confirmed: - Keynote: Simon Reynolds on DIY Pop Culture - The Guerilla Filmmakers Guide with Chris Jones - British Sea Power, bird watching and fell walking: an interview with Roy Wilkinson - Q&A with Damo Suzuki (ex-Can)

Here are some audio previews of the confirmed music-artists:

Want to know more about the artists? Check the artist profiles on the Incubate website.

Attending Incubate 2012? Go to Facebook and Last.fm so you can see who of your friends are going as well and stay up to date on the Incubate 2011 news! You can check out the whole line-up on the last.fm page as well. Tune in on our weekly updated Spotify Playlist (also embedded above) to listen to the confirmed artists.

You can buy your tickets for Incubate 2012 here or via the store below. You might want to get your hands on a limited edition early-bird ticket which are only €60,- until they run out.

Incubate wants as many people as possible to participate in the festival. We invite everyone to exhibit their art at the Open Source Expo during Incubate. You can now send in your work for the Expo via http://incubate.org/expo/

All forms of art are permitted. From traditional oil-painting to conceptual sculptural art, from surrealist photos to light-installation and the size of an aircraft to that of a postage stamp. Everything is welcome and everything gets the attention it deserves.

Our curator arranges the exhibition and will fit everything together, regardless of the origin of the work. Works in content and form or method and style are put together. In 2011 this resulted in a expo with a great diversity and a high quality of work.

This year the Open Source Expo will take place in the beautiful Koepelhal in the center of Tilburg. This is a former railway workshop that is being converted into exhibition space. That is why; in 2012 there is room for even more art than in 2011. Last year, the Open Source Expo showed 113 works from professional artists to benevolent enthusiasts.

Check all photos of last edition here

Participate
Register before 10 June 2012 through the form. You can find the link below.
Submit pictures of at least two and up to five works of art. The curator chooses one piece for the exhibition. There are no exclusions: everyone who applies joins in. To participate there are no additional costs

Sign-up
Before you start filling in the form, make sure you’ve got the following info prepared:

- contact info
- description of your work of max. 100 words.
- photo’s of your work. At least 2 and max. 5 artworks. 1 photo per work, jpg, gif of png max. 1.5 MB

- choose a date for delivery of the work:

• monday, september 3, 15:00 – 21:00 hrs
• tuesday, september 4, 15:00 – 21:00 hrs
• wednesday, september 5, 15:00 – 21:00 hrs

- choose a date for pickup of the work:

• monday, september 17, 15:00 – 21:00 hrs
• tuesday, september 18, 12:00 – 21:00 hrs
• wednesday, september 19, 12:00 – 21:00 hrs

Click here for the application-form

Incubate  launched the Incubate API to make all festival-data available for use in apps, websites or even art created by Incubate-minded developers. The Incubate API is an Ally API, a REST oriented JSON Web Service Interface to communicate with the Ally database. Information about artists, time schedules, venues or the latest festival news can be easily collected using the API.

Contest
Everyone who thinks he has a good idea and makes an app or a website for it using the Incubate API, gets the chance to win 500,- euros. You can participate on your own, with a team or with your business. All apps are welcome, iOS/Android/BlackBerry apps, (mobile) websites, mashups with other apps like FourSquare and Spotify; whatever you want! And if you got multiple awesome ideas, you can even submit more than one application.

There are three prizes 
1st prize: 500 euros
2nd prize: 2x Incubate festival passepartouts
3rd prize: 2x Incubate festival daytickets for a day of your choice

If you want to participate in the contest, you can submit your finished application before May 10th, 2012 12:00 PM via api@incubate.org. Please include the following info:
- Application name + description about the app and the idea
- Platform information
- URL (if website/online mashup), or installfile (if possible) for app. We’d like to test the app.
- A video of the app is a plus, but not required.
- Screenshots of your application + descriptions
- Full names of all people who created the app

All submitted apps will be published on the Incubate website on a special app page, including all necessary information and links to the app or app store. Of course you do not transfer any intellectual right to Incubate when you submit your Incubate API app. You will be responsible for submitting the app to the app store of your choice if needed, you can make your app free or charge for it.

Judging
After May 10th, 2012, a jury of employees from the Incubate and Freshheads organizations will judge the submitted apps and pick the winners. Submissions will be judged on the following criteria:
1. Quality of the idea (originality, creativity)
2. Implementation of the idea
3. Potential of your website/app; is it a good addition for Incubate fans?

How do I enter the contest?
1. Register for your personal API key on http://incubate.org/2012/api/register. We only need your name and e-mail address
2. Save your API key
3. Check the API documentation on  http://api.incubate.org/docs/
4. Create your awesome app
5. Submit your app before May 10th, 2012 12:00 PM via api@incubate.org. If you got any questions, please leave your feedback on http://incubate.org/2012/api/feedback or, if confidential, e-mail api@incubate.org.

Registration: http://incubate.org/2012/api/register
Documentation: http://api.incubate.org/docs/
Incubate festival information: http://incubate.org
Contact: http://incubate.org/2012/api/feedback or api@incubate.org

Please note, we’re updating the API regularly the upcoming months, adding new features. Think about geo-tags for eat/sleep/travel-addresses, news, etc..

Last edition of Incubate we had Academy-award winning songwriter Glen Hansard playing a very special show in the Natuurtheater venue in Oisterwijk.

We asked Dieperbeeld to capture the show and here is the result, enjoy!

Here’s an video album:

See the individual videos here!

Photo by Tom Roelofs

Groningen is the biggest city in the north of the Netherlands. It’s also a very lively, creative and interesting place with a strong underground scene.

VENUES

The music scene in this city is diverse. There is De Oosterpoort, which has cabaret, dance, theatre, classical music and some shows from bigger artists. Vera  (photo) is a real music venue. It is located in one of the oldest buildings in the city and has had some artist play before their breakthrough, i.e. U2, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr. and loads more. Vera is probably the most interesting music venue in Groningen and when you call your self the ‘Club for the International Pop Underground’ you better have something to back it up, and they do. By having three to four concerts a week, booking international artists as well as a lot of national bands, organising dance-nights and every Saturday night they have downstage concerts. These downstairs concerts are mostly free and have a lot of focus on smaller bands. A fun read is the story about the legendary Hives afterparty, which makes me jealous to not have been there.

There also is Simplon, a smaller venue that has both smaller international and national artists playing. Some bars and café’s that have music and art are Kult and O’Ceallaigh. ORKZ is a bar/cinema/old-squat, which once was the biggest squat place in the whole of The Netherlands. Nowadays they host music events, art expositions, play movies and there are also people living in the building. Viadukt is a rehearsal space that is also used for concerts.

Self proclaimed ‘housetemple’ Pand48 provides Groningen with free Techno, Minimal, Techhouse, Progressive and Disco party’s every Wednesday till Saturday. Remarkable fact is that they let the audience decide when close. Club Paradigm, located somewherein an old grain storage at the edge of an industrial site, is also involved in the house and techno scene.  The young organisation established in 2011 but is already a major player in Groningen’s club culture with innovative concepts like ‘Sunday Afternoon Collective’ and Technootjes festival.

If you’re looking for another dance-oriented club you should check out Subsonic , located on Groningen’s Grote Markt. This club goes on ‘till early in the morning and offers techno, dubstep, drum ‘n bass and much, much more.

ORGANISATIONS

Even more interesting is probably all the activity and initiatives that are started by people all around the city. There seems to be a small group of people involved to represent almost every kind of music/art/community.

Wishfulmusic is an initiative by Wouter de Boer, Laurens Dijkstra and Ralph Rietveld. They organise intimate shows in living rooms and other cozy locations around Groningen. The organisation focuses on folk, singer-songwriter and acoustic music. Not too long ago they started the Groningen Songwriters Guild. Here songwriters from Groningen get together to share ideas and songs.

In Groningens ‘underground’ scene there is happening a lot happening. Owsum, for example, is a platform and art-collective by like-minded locals. Together they organise concerts, expositions and other events.

They organise a lot of interesting events in Vera, Vespro, Simplon and loads of other locations. In 2010 they organised Scenery (photo), a musical event in the Grand Theatre, where they created different ‘sceneries’ for every band to play in. This year they will bring this back. On the 22th of April with San Francisco drone artist Barn Owl and Teen Radiation, a project by Incubate’s very own Vincent Koreman.

Lepel Concerts is a project run by Ike de Zeeuw, Ruben Walraven and Marinke Kerkhoff. These youngsters put on shows almost every month, trying to give interesting bands a place to play and promote new and unknown music to a new audience. Ike and Ruben also play in Wolvon, our second band to play at Incubate Scene Report on April 26th. Lepel worked together with Subroutine Records to organise Subroutine & Lepel Care, an independent showcase festival that had a lot of bands from Groningen (and other places).

Betontegel is a festival for experimental art and music and is held in different locations throughout Groningen. They have a heavy focus on noise and really experimental/weird stuff. KopjeK  is a creative platform that gives techno-parties on unique locations and has a lot of focus on creativity. They combine art, visuals, and weird clothes with a dance party.

For more regular music programming Fifteen Minutes is a very interesting initiative. They host events in Groningen and Leeuwarden every month, where 6 to 8 bands get their fifteen minutes of fame. They register these shows on photos and film, so you have your own promotional package.

MUSIC

Surrounding Lepel, Subroutine and Vera there are some louder/garagerock/noisy bands. When I asked Marinke from Lepel what she thought was the ‘Groningen’ sound she answered: “I like to think that it’s a bit raw/garagerock/noisy, but to be honest, there are also a lot of (mediocre) popbands and singersongwriters. Typical ‘Groningen’ is a not-too-polished sound. Vera is probably the centre of the Groningen music scene and they always gave room to ramshackle/punkbands.”

Bands such as the previously named Wolvon  a three-piece who released the impressive EP ‘Comfort’ on Subroutine Records at the end of last year. Their sound is energetic, frantic, noisy and they’re sure to give an impressive live performance. Labelmates Vox Von Braun (Incubate 2008) make heavily ‘90’s inspired alternative rock. Svetkoff Lamps sound dissonant and noisy. It does sound a lot like Sonic Youth, but that doesn’t matter since the music itself still manages to impress and set them apart in the music scene.  Be sure to check out Sexton Creeps, a collective of musicians who create beautiful experimental songs.

Incubate 2010 artist Traumahelikopter is a real garage-rock band. That fits in nicely with recent upcoming bands as Ty Segall, Mikal Cronin, etc.

A lot of the underground scene is surrounding the art school/scene in Groningen. Like Duizend a solo-project by artist Gijs Deddens , who also works for Owsum and runs the Lekkerkut Platenmaatschappij. The sound is really ambient, but gets darker and more aggressive from time to time. Gijs also plays in Vakantie, improvisational electronic music, more up-tempo and techno. Earth Control, who are playing Incubate Scene Report this month, also released their material on Lekkerkut Platenmaatschappij. The duo has its own weird mix of garage-punk and electro and is often compared to Digital Leather. More interesting bands/projects from this scene are Loud Squirt (Incubate 2011) and Electriciteit is Onze Hobby. It seems to be a tightly knit network of people who know each other and work in different forms and projects. Interesting but also hard to dissect.

Earth Control by LEKKER KUT PLATENMAATSCHA

Also check out some of the other experimental stuff like Kasper van Hoek. He builds his own electronic instruments on which he makes songs and also collaborates with other artists, such as Sexton Creeps.

In the noise-genre you also have Obsolete Office Equipment and Under Milk Wood,who are more ambient-noise, with some sparse instrumentation and a minimalistic approach.

There is also a scene of bands and artist whom are more folk, acoustic and songwriter orientated. One example is Town of Saints a folk band who stand out thanks to their use of fiddle. Zwaar Licht is a band that stands out because their music sounds folk, but it’s mostly instrumental with a minimal use of vocals. Soothing pieces that are not afraid to take an unexpected turn.

Groningen has strong ties with the Academie voor Popcultuur in Leeuwarden. A lot of students come from, or live in Groningen. Bands as Eklin, Adept, Bonne Aparte, Woud, The Black Atlantic, Kim Janssen, all come from the music scene in Groningen.

Groningen seems to be a city that, because of it’s isolation, takes matters in it’s own hands. They set up amazing shows, create platforms and interesting projects that are unique and gain attention from the local scene. It’s a scene that is tightly connected and covers a large spectrum of musical genres. To best explain this I will quote Merlijn Poolman, owner of nightclub Subsonic, from some questions he answered me by e-mail: “The connection between people who go to parties and organise things in all different kinds of scenes, but still know each other somehow. There is a friendly vibe with a lot of cooperation to set-up beautiful initiatives together.”

Once again there is too much to put into one report. So please add any things you miss in the comments. We try to put together a list of active bands and musicians in the Dutch music scene; you can post recommendations here. I have put up the list I currently have for Groningen. So if you miss anything, feel free to add it.

Feel free to visit the next Incubate Scene Report, and if you do let us know on this event page.
26 April 2012 – Cul de Sac, Tilburg
With: Earth Control + Wolvon
Free entrance

Voor de vierde maal nodigt Incubate jonge kunstenaars uit nieuw werk te maken voor het succesvolle festivalonderdeel NEW JACKS. Sinds vorig jaar doet Incubate dit in samenwerking met bkkc, die naast een prachtige expositieruimte ook de mogelijkheid tot zakelijke begeleidingstrajecten en diverse cursussen bieden aan de deelnemers. NEW JACKS richt zich specifiek op kunstenaars die nog niet, of minder dan vijf jaar geleden, zijn afgestudeerd aan een Brabantse kunstacademie, of hun basis in Brabant hebben. Kunstenaars die afkomstig zijn uit Brabant, maar inmiddels elders studeren en gestudeerd hebben, worden dit jaar ook toegelaten.

In het verleden werden er steevast vijf kunstenaars geselecteerd door diverse projectpartners, zoals Fontys,St Joost, WEI, TAC en Whatspace, maar dit jaar worden de rollen omgedraaid. Voor het eerst krijgen kunstenaars de mogelijkheid zich aan te melden voor New Jacks 4.0 met een plan voor een werk of project.

Heb jij interesse om deel te nemen aan dit onderdeel van het Incubate festival en heb je een goed idee voor een nieuw werk dat je wilt tonen bij bkkc tijdens Incubate? (Sept 10-16, 2012) En kun je uit de voeten met een productiebudget van 1000 euro ex btw? Stuur dan voor maandag 16 april een mailtje met:

-naam, adres, contactgegevens en CV
-projectplan/voorstel  in max 500 woorden + duidelijke schets (van het te maken werk), samen niet groter dan 1MB
-5 foto’s van werk van de afgelopen 2 jaar, samen niet groter dan 1MB
-inschatting verdeling productiebudget

Naar: newjacks@incubate.org

De expositieruimte bij bkkc is te bezichtigen van dinsdag t/m zondag van 13.00  – 17.00 uur.  De expositie tijdens Incubate opent op donderdag 6 september en duurt t/m 30 september.

Photo by Steph Byrne

NYC-based street artist Momo teamed up with Incubate in 2011 to fill our town with a little more colour. After working in New York, Barcelona, Toronto and Sao Paolo Momo he came to Tilburg and created a mural with Piet Dieleman and some other local artists.

Jef Monté, who created more films for Incubate, teamed up with Mark Thur for the audio recordings and they created the following video. A film that captures the atmosphere, process and result of one of the murals created.

Enjoy the following video, and you can check out our Vimeo page for more videos from Incubate.

This Thursday there will be another Incu Thurday, the day we announce the artists confirmed this week for Incubate 2012. But you can be the first to know one of the bands that will be announced! The hint is the beautiful picture above. This is all the information we give you for now.

So let your brain do it’s job and lets hope some of you get it right. Good luck! Take a long shot and leave your thoughts in the comments, or just wait ’till Thursday, 15:00h sharp Dutch time to know what the answer is..

Our colleague Frank Kimenai is in Austin, Texas right now where is visiting the SXSW festival. He is so kind to let us know what we are missing up there. Today: Report of his second day.

My day started, slightly hangover, with a trip to The Scoot Inn venue at the east side. Scoot In is a really cool shed with a roofed stage on the parking lot, and a huge-ass skateramp besides it. Thrasher Magazine and Converse a throwing a couple of free day parties there. My friend Steve Dolemancino, who used to work for TeePee records is marketing manager of Converse nowadays, and hand-picked a lot of cool bands for the show. Today’s line-up is insane: Cro-Mags, Saviours, Nachtmystium, but above all, legendary and notorious punk band FEAR are playing.

Bumped into a lot of friends at the venue, the guys from Saviours and Nachtmystium, and some other types I haven’t seen in quite a while. It was a really mixed crowed, young kids and old punks rocking out together. It’s heartwarming to see 10-year-old kids in Cro-Mags t-shirts on the shoulder of their heavily tattooed punk rock dad, singing along together or skating the ramp together. A lot of shows at SXSW are 21 up, but this is an all age show, and I think that’s a good thing. You see people like John Joseph, singer of the Cro-Mags, taking time to talk to these youngsters, explaining them what he stands for, giving them autographs and taking pictures, and the fathers of these young kids watching with a big smile on their face. Great initiative of Converse and Thrasher to throw a party like this.

Band wise, the quality of the program fluctuated from boring to insane, and from yawning to goosebumps. First band I saw was Whirr, a young stoner/shoegaze/metal band, reminding me a bit of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, but 10 times as heavy. Nice, but not great. Modern Life Is War is a kind of hardcore/metal band, but they bored the shit out of me. Too much of a forced image. Next up, Saviours. Always good, always delivering, and always in a good mood. Heavy, pounding riff rock with classic heavy metal (twin)guitar leads. Kick Ass. After Saviours, time for the legendary Cro-Mags. The all-star line-up of the band is already something special. Of course John Joseph on vocals, Graig Ahead (Sick Of It All) on bass, AJ Novello (Leeway) on guitar and Mackie (Fun Lovin’ Criminals) on drums. They kicked of with the Clockwork Orange intro, and just hearing it makes me shiver and gives me goosebumps. Then “We Gotta Know” kicked in, followed relentlessly with World Peace and Show You No Mercy. Crowd went insane. Headwalks, stagedives, skateboards in the moshpit. It was a madhouse. They played a short and tight set with some Bad Brains songs and Leeway songs aswell. Great!

Next up, and from a completely different musical tradition, was the psychedelic black metal band Nachtmystium. Just found out that a buddy of mine, Will Lindsay, who used to play in Wolves In The Throne Room, is playing bass with them. Always nice to see him, great guy. Nachtmystium played a kick-ass, but really noisy and harsh sounding set. What striked me was that the attendance wasn’t that high. The indoor room was filled to the roof during Saviours, but during Nachtmystium, there were maybe 70 people there. In Europe, this would definitely be the other way around.

“This song goes out to everybody that has ever the misfortune of being in New York City”. “All I want is MORE BEER!” ,“Aaaaaaaaaaaai Love Living in the City”. One two three four, One two three four, One two three four! Just a couple of FEAR intro’s. These old punk rockers were headlining the Thrasher party, and it was amazing. Notorious loudmouth Lee Ving looked like an old Chinese Restaurant owner, combined with a biker image, and he was funny as hell.  Rude, politically outspoken, and obnoxious. Just the way it should be. They played a short set of about 40 minutes, and all the hits were played. The crowd was rowdy, throwing beer, pogoing and seeing old punk rockers going mental is alway cool. Perfect way to end this afternoon.

After a bite to eat and some coffee, the evening program was on. I had a big schedule of about 25 shows, so a busy night ahead. Met up with Frank Satink of Goomah/Ev’Hands early in the evening, we both wanted to see the Mirel Wagner show at Red 7, but there was a queue of about 50 meters, and apparently, it was a private party by Sony. This annoyed a lot of people. Just don’t put the show in the schedule if you are not allowed to get in, I’d say.. Next up was the Sacred Bones showcase at Elysium. They had six bands playing. First up was Wyland Miles, guitarist for The Fresh & Onlys, doing his own music. It was quite ok, sounded a bit British/romantic ‘80’s poppy, but I wasn’t that impressed. Thee Oh Sees were up at Red 7, but after queuing for another 15 minutes, I came into an almost empty venue (why the queue, people?) and saw a band called Static Jigs, which were boring. Red 7 has another stage as well, but no Thee Oh Sees there too, some band called Roll The Tanks played and they weren’t interesting at all. It’s a general thing that annoys me during SXSW. The total lack of information in the venues. No info about line-up changes, no schedules inside, no signing to the different rooms in a building. The service level is pretty low here. Not a good thing.

I went to Hotel Vegas, where the Hardly Art showcase was on, with great bands like Xray Eyeballs and Jacuzzi Boys. I went to see Shimmering Stars, but they were boring and totally uninspired. Decided to go to Barbarella to see Sleepover, but they haven’t even built up when they were supposed to start playing. My carefully prepared schedule was now definitely fucked. Not a great way to start the evening. I went back to Elysium for Amen Dunes, a psych pop trio on Sacred Bones records. The Elysium is quite a big venue, holds about 400 people and I think it was a bit too big for Sacred Bones. Attendance was quite good, about 200 people for the show, but I think I prefer a bit smaller room fort his. Another thing that popped to mind is that if you throw a showcase for your label, you should make a party out of it. Sacred Bones programmed 5 bands, but didn’t do much about the venue. No banners, bu an ugly venue-logo beamed behind the stage. Ideas like a presenter, an in between bands DJ, a nice info- and merchbooth, that would make the showcase much better. But, generally speaking, the bands were all good, and that’s the most important thing. Amen Dunes played a nice show, getting louder and more intense while the set progressed. And his vocals are really good.

Next up was Bleached at the Beauty Bar patio, which, after 10 minutes of queuing to get in the venue, was apparently full, so another 10 minutes to waste. Information, people. Inform your public! Decided to go back to Red 7, where Lee Fields & The Expressions were supposed to be on at 11. Came in just prior to 1, only to see that Thee Oh Sees were in the middle of their set. Schedule wise, this was of course another fuck-up, but I got the chance to see Thee Oh Sees which was the upside of it. They were great, energetically, two-drummer outfit, great stage presence. Enjoyed every minute of it, together with Willem van Zeeland of VPRO’s 3voor12, who had an amazing time as well.

We decided to wait for Lee Fields, and after a 30 minute change-over, they started. You know you are seeing a professional band, when the first note they hit, is already the right note. Everything was balanced, sound was amazing, and Lee’s stage entrance was highly anticipated. But, to be honest, after 3 or 4 songs, I did get a little bored. It sounded really retro and all, but I could’t pay attention much longer. I think that retro-soul wise, I really prefer Charles Bradly over Lee Fields.

I went to see Crocodiles after that, at The Stage on Sixth venue. A young, wavy pop punk band from England. They were ok, but they couldn’t capture my attention, so I decided to cycle to Hotel Vegas again, where K-Holes played. And boy, that was the right decision. K-Holes are a No Wave punk band, looking like a bunch of ‘80’s goth/pop musicians in black, with an excentric blond singer as frontwomen. They played an energetic set of loud No Wave with great saxophone leads, and awesome bass playing. Together with Thee Oh Sees, the best band of the evening.

Back to Elysium to see Psychic Ills, which were ok, but nothing special going on, so decided to go see High On Fire presenting some new songs from their upcoming album. Once again, they didn’t pay any attention to the schedule, so High On Fire started 45 minutes late. The sound was horrible, and I decided to leave after one song. High On Fire is absolutely one of my favorite bands ever, but this was just not good. I’ll give m another chance though. Oh, and Matt Pike was not looking healthy at all. He had a beer belly the size of a beachball. Hope he’s doing ok..

Time for the last two bands of today which were Night Beats at Buffalo Billiards (huge room for a noise/garage trio, attendance of 25 people in a room for 500, show was great, band amazing and awkward) and closing act was The Men at the Sacred Bones showcase again. I saw a rather uninspired show by them in Rotterdam a while back, but this was kick-ass. Their new album is more poppy, and the crowd was singing along, pogoing and stage diving. They even did an encore. Great way to end the evening.

Picture from Thee Oh Sees @ ATP Minehead by Erik Luyten

After School Avant Garde offered participation for kids in last year Incubate. Drumming lessons with and by Holland’s best jazz drummer Han Bennink, painting with Kati Heck, creating new sounds with Sylvain Chauveau, perform with Peter Fengler & Hans Zimmerman‘s magic show and an introduction to Felix Kubin’s personal universe.

Jef Monté filmed the project and edited it all together, Mark Thur recorded the audio. You can see the result below. Check out our Vimeo channel for 90 other Incubate videos.

Photo by Renate Engelen

Voor de vierde maal nodigt Incubate jonge kunstenaars uit nieuw werk te maken voor het succesvolle festivalonderdeel NEW JACKS. Sinds vorig jaar doet Incubate dit in samenwerking met bkkc, die naast een prachtige expositieruimte ook de mogelijkheid tot zakelijke begeleidingstrajecten en diverse cursussen bieden aan de deelnemers. NEW JACKS richt zich specifiek op kunstenaars die nog niet, of minder dan vijf jaar geleden, zijn afgestudeerd aan een Brabantse kunstacademie, of hun basis in Brabant hebben. Kunstenaars die afkomstig zijn uit Brabant, maar inmiddels elders studeren en gestudeerd hebben, worden dit jaar ook toegelaten.

In het verleden werden er steevast vijf kunstenaars geselecteerd door diverse projectpartners, zoals Fontys, St Joost, WEI, TAC en Whatspace, maar dit jaar worden de rollen omgedraaid. Voor het eerst krijgen kunstenaars de mogelijkheid zich aan te melden voor New Jacks 4.0 met een plan voor een werk of project.

Heb jij interesse om deel te nemen aan dit onderdeel van het Incubate festival en heb je een goed idee voor een nieuw werk dat je wilt tonen bij bkkc tijdens Incubate? (Sept 10-16, 2012) En kun je uit de voeten met een productiebudget van 1000 euro ex btw? Stuur dan voor maandag 16 april een mailtje met:

-naam, adres, contactgegevens en CV
-projectplan/voorstel  in max 500 woorden + duidelijke schets, samen niet groter dan 1MB
-5 foto’s van werk van de afgelopen 2 jaar, samen niet groter dan 1MB
-inschatting verdeling productiebudget

Naar: newjacks@incubate.org

De expositieruimte bij bkkc is te bezichtigen van dinsdag t/m zondag van 13.00  – 17.00 uur.  De expositie tijdens Incubate opent op donderdag 6 september en duurt t/m 30 september.

Photo by Steph Byrne

NYC-based street artist Momo made in collaboration with Incubate our town much better. After working in New York, Barcelona, Toronto and Sao Paolo Momo came to Tilburg and created a mural with Piet Dieleman and some other local artists.

This week Momo himself posted an article on his website and some photos how the creation is made including this short film below about the realization of this project.

Same text as before, just a reminder.

Incubate has launched the Incubate API to make all festival-data available for use in apps, websites or even art created by Incubate-minded developers. The Incubate API is an Ally API, a REST oriented JSON Web Service Interface to communicate with the Ally database. Information about artists, time schedules, venues or the latest festival news can be easily collected using the API.

Contest
Everyone who thinks he has a good idea and makes an app or a website for it using the Incubate API, gets the chance to win 500,- euros. You can participate on your own, with a team or with your business. All apps are welcome, iOS/Android/BlackBerry apps, (mobile) websites, mashups with other apps like FourSquare and Spotify; whatever you want! And if you got multiple awesome ideas, you can even submit more than one application.

There are three prizes 
1st prize: 500 euros
2nd prize: 2x Incubate festival passepartouts
3rd prize: 2x Incubate festival daytickets for a day of your choice

If you want to participate in the contest, you can submit your finished application before May 10th, 2012 12:00 PM via api@incubate.org. Please include the following info:
- Application name + description about the app and the idea
- Platform information
- URL (if website/online mashup), or installfile (if possible) for app. We’d like to test the app.
- A video of the app is a plus, but not required.
- Screenshots of your application + descriptions
- Full names of all people who created the app

All submitted apps will be published on the Incubate website on a special app page, including all necessary information and links to the app or app store. Of course you do not transfer any intellectual right to Incubate when you submit your Incubate API app. You will be responsible for submitting the app to the app store of your choice if needed, you can make your app free or charge for it.

Judging
After May 10th, 2012, a jury of employees from the Incubate and Freshheads organizations will judge the submitted apps and pick the winners. Submissions will be judged on the following criteria:
1. Quality of the idea (originality, creativity)
2. Implementation of the idea
3. Potential of your website/app; is it a good addition for Incubate fans?

How do I enter the contest?
1. Register for your personal API key on http://incubate.org/2012/api/register. We only need your name and e-mail address
2. Save your API key
3. Check the API documentation on  http://api.incubate.org/docs/
4. Create your awesome app
5. Submit your app before May 10th, 2012 12:00 PM via api@incubate.org. If you got any questions, please leave your feedback on http://incubate.org/2012/api/feedback or, if confidential, e-mail api@incubate.org.

Registration: http://incubate.org/2012/api/register
Documentation: http://api.incubate.org/docs/
Incubate festival information: http://incubate.org
Contact: http://incubate.org/2012/api/feedback or api@incubate.org

Please note, we’re updating the API regularly the upcoming months, adding new features. Think about geo-tags for eat/sleep/travel-addresses, news, etc..

Another live recording from Incubate ’11; this time it is the two piece Natural Snow Buildings. This French duo can be best described as experimental psychedelic folk. They rarely play live shows, and we $even got them to play in a church, the Pauluskerk. So these recordings are really rare in the already impressive oeuvre of NSB.

Enjoy!

Photo by Renate Engelen

The presale for this year’s Incubate festival will start on Thursday the March 1^st 2012, 10:00. The first artists performing at Incubate 2012 are announced during the Incubated concert series later that day. #incu12 takes place on 10 to 16 September 2012 in Tilburg, the Netherlands.

Just like previous editions, the line-up of Incubate offers music, performance, art, debate and film. There are day tickets as well as passe-partouts available for the seven-day festival. A limited amount of early bird passe-partout tickets is available for a 15-euro discount. Everyone who buys (early bird) passe-partout tickets at the record store Sounds in Tilburg or during one of the Incubated shows will receive a complimentary Incubate t-shirt or girlie as long as supplies last.

First names will be announced during the Incubated evening on Thursday March 1^st, 2012. The Norwegian band Shining and Pterodactyl from New York shall be performing that night. Tickets for Incubate 2012 can also be bought during the Incubated concert series. Tickets for Incubated on March 1^st are still available but running out quickly .

New confirmed acts will be announced every Thursday trough the diverse channels of Incubate, like the festival website, the blog www.inlog.org and social media channels.

Ticket prices for Incubate 2012:

Passe-partout: (valid 10 to 16 September)
Presale: €75,00
Early bird: €60,00 (until they run out)
At the Incubate Ticket & Info Center: €75,00

Incubate Premium:
This is a passe-partout for the full festival PLUS all nine Incubated concert series shows at Paradox between October 2012 and June 2013. If you buy tickets for all events separately, it will cost you €156,00. This one is for our die-hard fans.
Presale: €125,00

Day ticket for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday:
Presale: €15,00
At the Incubate Ticket & Info Center: €17,50

Day ticket for Friday, Saturday or Sunday:
Presale: €27,50
At the Incubate Ticket & Info Center: €30,00

Presale starts on Thursday March 1^st 2012, at 10:00 via www.incubate.org (€1,25 service fee) and in Tilburg at Sounds Music and the 013 Boxoffice (€2,00 service fee). There are also tickets available at Free Record Shop stores in Belgium and The Netherlands (€3,50 service fee). One Festival Guide (worth €1,00) is included in the ticket prices.

(Photo by Jan Rijk)

Finally it’s the end of the week, so again the highlights of our blog posts from this week.

We began this week with some art. Our art-specialist Merijn went to RE:Rotterdam & RAW and wrote a nice review about it. For other art go check out Julian Montague, Lisa Nilsson and the awesome tape roll-film from Johan Rijpma.

This week we also released live records from Felix Kubin live at Incubate. For other music go download this new free mini-album from our friend The Caretaker and go check out this new song from Torche. Oh.. and no official Spotifriday for today. At the office we are in a real carnaval-mode, so check out our carnaval-playlist instead!

By the way yesterday it was the first edition of Incubios. Two nice movies, free popcorn & a lot of people. Good news for the people who missed it, because we already announced a new edition of Incubios at the 15th of March. Talking about announcements; For our 16th edition of Incubated we  got a new name: Woody & Paul. Just so that you know; there are still some tickets left for our 15th edition about two weeks with Shining (NO) & Pterodactyl.

Hopefully you’re completely up to date right now & we wish you a nice weekend or carnaval!