So Monday we posted the complete live show by Gary War on Incubated 12, yesterday R. Stevie Moore at Incubated 12 and today another new show. The fun doesn’t seem to end

“I hope you’re all feeling festive and happy. So I can destroy it and make you feel miserable and depressed”. Enter Malcolm Middleton. The self-confessed arch-miserablist. And with song titles such as ‘We’re All Going To Die’, ‘The Whole World Has Gone To Fuck’ and ‘The Loneliest Night Of My Life Came Calling’ you know what you can expect. It’s a surprise then, that the music of this singer/songwriter and ex-member of Arab Strap is actually kinda uptempo. And that he is, although a bit shy, a very funny guy.

Those that missed the show on Incubated in Paradox, Tilburg – or those that want to hear it again – can now listen to it, because we just released the entire live-show on our Soundcloud!

You can also listen to it below. Have fun!

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!

Last thursday there was another Incubated at Paradox. Our very own Steph Byrne made photos and posted them here on our Flickr page. Also check out these videos made by Koen Gijsbers.

Sleepingdog
Library Tapes
The Caretaker

We are already looking forward towards the next Incubated edition with Shining and Pterodactyl. Hope to see you there.

 Sleepingdog

Library Tapes

A sweaty ball of hair. That’s what Gary War looked like after finishing his show on the 12th edition Incubated. You can say what you want about him, but you can’t deny that he gave it all. His completely weirded-out feedback guitar strums, a programmed beat and completely blurred echo-y vocals made a psychedelic summer vibe on the winter day in Tilburg. This is music to close your eyes to and imagine you’re lying on a beach watching the sunset. Or maybe a summer day with a good spliff.

And we’re very happy that Gary War just confirmed that we’re allowed to release the audio for his show! So now you can eternally enjoy the psychedelic sounds of Gary War via our Soundcloud! You can find other artists there as well, such as that other Ariel Pink-protégé John Maus. And Dirty Beaches. And True Widow. And more.

But for now, enjoy the sounds and beats of Gary War!

Shining
There are more ‘Shining’ bands, so the bandname is mostly written as Shining (NO), since they’re from Norway. The purists say that you can’t call their music a combination of black-metal and jazz, although their last album is called ‘Blackjazz’. So we’ll say that their music is jazz-infected sexy industrial heavy metal at its most progressive.
The band debuted in 2005 with the wickedly titled ‘In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster’. After their 2007 release ‘Grindstone’, 2009’s release ‘Blackjazz’ meant their major break-through. They toured the world and the album hit the top 10 in the album charts in Norway.
Now we bring them back to The Netherlands for a one-off show in Paradox! A Benelux-exclusive!

So click this link to listen to their live-cd and we’ll see you on March 1^st in Paradox!

Incubated 14 is this coming Thursday (2nd of February) and it’s quite an amazing edition. We have three acts on the bill, who all performed on Incubate before, The Caretaker, Library Tapes and Sleepingdog. But this edition is even more special because you can win special customized Fatboys by Martijn van Dalen! It’s very easy to win a Fatboy, all you have to do is buy your ticket in the presale! If you win one, we will let you know on the evening itself and you can chill the rest of the evening on your own special Fatboy!

The Caretaker is all about lost memories, amnesia and nostalgia to old times. Creating a deep beautiful, but sometimes sinister atmosphere he tries to take you back in your personal history through electronic ambient music. Pleasant memories, bad dreams, being alone in the dark, all these emotions overtake the listener. If you’ve seen the Kubrick movie ‘The Shining’, you will get an idea of the beautiful but disturbing feelings The Caretaker tries to evoke.

But Leyland Kirby doesn’t sit still. Next to releasing 3 EP’s under his own name, and aforementioned ‘An Empty Bliss…’-album, he made the score for the movie Patience (After Sebald) which had its release last week. All the more reasons to be attending Incubated 14!

The Swedish David Wenngren is Library Tapes, pioneer of post-classical/neoclassical piano music. Library Tapes started in 2003 with David Wenngren and Per Jardsell. Wenngren hadn’t even touched a key of a piano, let alone played the piano! But he practised and listened to great artists like Sylvian Chaveau and Goldmund and he developed his own style. After the first album Per Jerdsell went his own way and David Wenngren became Library Tapes. The sounds that Wenngren produces are like subtile field recordings, with scratching and ticking noises of old 78-RPM record. Library Tapes performed at this years Incubate Festival but a lot of people missed his performance because Glen Hansard played at the same time in the Natuurtheater. Now they’ve got another chance to see him perform as Library Tapes.

Third band on the bill is Sleepingdog. The band has two members Chantal Acda (Chacda) and Adam Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid, A Winged Victory for the Sullen). Chantal Acda has been performing as Sleepingdog since 2006 and in that same year she played at the ZXZW Festival (former name of Incubate). She worked on her first two albums with Adam Wiltzie and he became such an essential part of her music, that he became a member of the band. Sleepingdog is based on the fairy-like atmosphere of Iceland and goes beyond the limits of New-Folk and Folktronica.

Bouwverlof mp3 by sleepingdog

You can let us know if you’re attending the event on Facebook and/or Last.fm. Tickets can be purchased below or on the Incubated website to be at this great show and maybe score one of the four special customized Fatboys! We hope to see you at the Paradox, Tilburg this Thursday!

Why we care? Because The Caretaker made the breathtaking soundtrack for the film. We don’t just say that because he perfoms on the next edition of Incubated (BUY TICKETS! BUY BUY!), it’s true. Pitchfork rates it with an 8.0 and Sputnikmusic gives it a 4/5. Here‘s another raving review. (His last official full-length ‘An Empty Bliss Beyond This World’ got even more reviewers screaming from the rooftops.) and you can stream the entire album below!

If you buy your tickets for the next edition of Incubated with Library Tapes, Sleepingdog and The Caretaker on February 2nd in Paradox, you can win one of these custom-made fanboys. Tickets are €9 excl. and are for sale right now.

Library Tapes is performing on the next edition of Incubated on February 2nd, in Paradox with Sleepingdog and The Caretaker. But in the mean-time David Wenngren isn’t chilling out. He is currently trying to make a crowdfunded album! The concept is simple: donate money and you get a piano-song (or just a part of it) named after you. Which is actually just really cool, isn’t it? We’ll let David explain the whole story:

“Okey, let’s try something new (?) here and see how it turns out. You can now buy your own piece of a long piano track that I will make. For 5 euro your piece will be named after you or someone you’d like to dedicate your piece to. You will also get to chose your own notes/chords that you would like me to play. Your piece will later be a part of a bigger composition. (or small if there’s just a few of you that thinks this is a funny idea…) You’ll get a download of your piece Your pieces will most likely be somewhere around 10-20 seconds each. Once i have all the finished notes/chords recorded i will arrange them into the longer finished composition anyou’ll also recive a download for that one.
All the individual pieces will be uploaded for streaming on bandcamp at www.librarytapes.bandcamp.com/album/i-made-it-for-you. You wil also be able to listen to the finished composition over there when it’s completed. 
[...]
If the composition later on is turned into a cd you’ll get a chance to buy the album for 5 euro plus shipping if you’ve contributed to the project already. Please send the money with paypal to librarytapesorders@hotmail.com and make sure to include the notes/chords that you’d like me to play.

There’s also a facebook event for the project here

http://www.facebook.com/events/215823255169447/

Thanks,
David”

You can buy tickets for the next edition of Incubated here:

We’re thrilled to announce to you that The Caretaker will perform on the next edition of Incubated, together with Library Tapes and Sleepingdog!

The Caretaker is all about lost memories, amnesia and nostalgia to old times. Creating a deep beautiful, but sometimes sinister atmosphere he tries to take you back in your personal history through electronic ambient music. Pleasant memories, bad dreams, being alone in the dark, all these emotions overtake the listener. If you’ve seen the Kubrick movie ‘The Shining’, you will get an idea of the beautiful but disturbing feelings The Caretaker tries to evoke.
His latest cd ‘An Empty Bliss Beyond This World’ sounds like an ode to 50′s ballroom music. Old pianos and trumpets are whispering its melodies from a distance, over an old crisping record-player. It sends you back in time, and takes you on a journey to the unknown.
But Leyland Kirby doesn’t sit still. Next to releasing 3 EP’s under his own name, and aforementioned ‘An Empty Bliss…’-album, the next The Caretaker-album is already set to be released this month! So do we know what to expect from The Caretaker? Not really. But we know that this will be one of the most unusual things you will see this year. And we know that the music will be gorgeous.

You can buy your tickets via Incubate or below and we hope to see you at this beautiful edition of Incubated on the 2nd of February in the Paradox, Tilburg!

Without a doubt the highlight of ZXZW 2008 (yes, before we were even called Incubate. That long ago.) was Sun Ra Arkestra, who did up to six shows that week.
Sun Ra was one of the main innovators in jazz. The Arkestra is his future dream and his ancient body. It never was as popular as jazz’s best-known big bands, but it did have a steady following and was highly regarded in jazz circles. It appeared on “Saturday Night Live”, played a Central Park concert with Sonic Youth and was named best big band in Down Beat magazine’s critics poll five times. Sun Ra influenced the whole contemporary music scene and was a true independent mind.

Now, while we were digging through our archive, we found the recording of the Tuesday show in Paradox. It’s such a great show that we couldn’t keep it to ourselves. So here it is. The complete show. One of the six and the only one we could find. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

A new year and that means a new edition of Incubated! The 13th edition has two great acts on the bill: Malcolm Middleton and LUIK. Malcolm Middleton will perform a solo acoustic show with a lot of black humor. The Dutch indie-slowcore band LUIK will open for him tonight. A real treat don’t you think? The doors open at 20:00 at the Paradox, Tilburg.

Get your tickets online via www.incubated.org

Before Malcolm Middleton began making great solo albums, he was one of the main members of Arab Strap, together with Aidan Moffat.  His first post-Arab Strap album was called ‘A Brighter Beat‘ which got very good reviews. While the music began to sound a bit more optimistic, his lyrics were still very depressing, thus generating a schizophrenic record.  Malcolm Middleton is Malcolm Middleton and will always be Malcolm Middleton. A unique artist in every way.

LUIK is a band from Rotterdam, Holland and started in the summer of 2010. Lukas Dikker is leading the band and presents an indie-slowcore sound that result in ‘softly picked guitars, a pressing bass and whistling vocals.’ Their EP ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’ came out last year, and their debut album OWLS is set to be released on the 13th of January, but you can purchase it at Incubated tomorrow night!

Everyday until Christmas at 12:00, one audiostream from a  show on Incubate 2010 uploaded to our site! With today: Two Pin Din & GW Sok!

Two Pin Din is the electric guitar duo Wilf Plum and Andy Kerr. No drums. No bass. No muss. No fuss. Plum also performed with Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp on Incubate 2010, but he’s also a member of Naifu, Lem and Amsterdam Beat Club. You may know Kerr from No Means No. GW Sok is ex-The Ex frontman. As Two Pin Din & GW Sok, their music is barren. Just guitar and rhythmical poetry. But it makes for an inspiring listen. We just uploaded the stream to our Soundcloud.

We are very proud to announce a new band to our Incubated nights. The Austin, Texas-based band The Strange Boys will perform at Incubated 16 on April 5th, 2012 in Paradox!

The Strange Boys
It isn’t the first time that The Strange Boys will play in Tilburg. In 2010 they performed in 013 to promote their album ‘Be Brave‘. They even had a small hit with the same-titled song. People who were there, saw a ramshackly garage band give a mindblowing performance, with frontman Ryan Sambol completely loosing himself in the songs.
We’re almost 2 years further since then, and they have their third CD out: ‘Live Music‘. (That’s not a live record by the way.) On that album, they reserve a permanent role for country-music within their garagerocking vibes. It makes their sound  less punk, but it still has that raw pub-feel to it, with a notable role for the piano. If their debut was their boozing record, and ‘Be Brave’ was their trappist beer record, than ‘Live Music’ is their American Whiskey record. This is a band of youngsters growing older, with their own state of mind, firmly rooted in Texas. It’s also a band that keep developing their sound into something that’s completely their own.

You can buy tickets for The Strange Boys @ Incubated 16 here or via the ticketshop below! You can also get tickets for the other upcoming editions:

Incubated 13: Malcolm Middleton (solo) & Luik on January 5th
Incubated 14: Library Tapes & Sleepingdog on February 2nd
Incubated 15: Pterodactyl on March 1st

Check out the events here on Facebook or visit the Last.FM event to see who of your friends is attending.
We’ll see you up front!

On the 5th of January Incubated 13 is taking place and we wanted to let you know that this is going to be an epic edition. The evening will host the great Malcolm Middleton, who is performing a solo acoustic show full of black humor and the dutch indie-slowcore band LUIK. We hope to see you at the Paradox, Tilburg on the 5th of January and have a toast with us to celebrate the beginning of a great year!

Before Malcolm Middleton began making great solo albums, he was one of the main members of Arab Strap, together with Aidan Moffat. The highly influential Scottish indie rock band called it a day in 2006. Middleton: ‘It was a good time to call it a day. Unless there’s a definite need and desire for us to play, I don’t think we should ever get back together.’ He already made 2 solo albums then: ‘5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine‘ and ‘Into The Woods‘ on which the songs still had a very sensible Arab Strap-feel.  Anyway, it was a logical step for Malcolm Middleton to start a solocareer from there on. His first post-Arab Strap album was called ‘A Brighter Beat‘ which got very good reviews. While the music began to sound a bit more optimistic, his lyrics were still very depressing, thus generating a schizofrenic record. 2008-follow-up ‘Sleight Of Heart‘ and ‘Waxing Gibbous’ (2009) continued on the set path: indierock with a wide range of instruments, full of self-loathing lyrics and black humor (his Christmas single was called ‘We’re All Going To Die’). Malcolm Middleton is Malcolm Middleton and will always be Malcolm Middleton. A unique artist in every way.

LUIK is a band from Rotterdam, Holland and started in the summer of 2010. Lukas Dikker is leading the band and presents an indie-slowcore sound that result in ‘softly picked guitars, a pressing bass and whistling vocals.’ The other band members are Simeon Poot, Gerrit van de Scheer and Keimpe Koldijk. LUIK is making a name for themselves by playing lively in the Dutch underground scene, with bands like Herrek, Eklin and Bebe Fang (Incubated 11). They have played numerous club shows and festivals in the Netherlands and Belgium and they will be performing at Eurosonic Noorderslag 2012. Their EP ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’ came out last year, and their debut album will be released in the beginning of 2012.

Malcolm Middleton released three new tracks in the past month and released an album with his darkest, negative and depressing songs of the years 1994 – 2001, called ‘A Quarter Past Shite‘. LUIK’s debut album will be released in the beginning of 2012! So be prepared to hear some brand new songs from both acts! You can buy your tickets via Incubated and you can let us know on Facebook if you’re attending Incubated 13. We hope to see you there!

Everyday until Christmas at 12:00, one audiostream from a  show on Incubate 2010 uploaded to our site! With today: Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp!

We like bands that are different. And Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (OTMD) are different, to say the least. The Swiss band use everything from double bass drums to marimba. From guitars to fiddle. The effect was surreal but catchy, as they played in Paradox on Friday. One of the most dedicated bands to perform on Incubate, and that says something.
You can listen to OTMD on our Soundcloud.

Over the past week we announced a whole bunch of names for the upcoming Incubated editions and now we can add two more to the list! Library Tapes and Sleepingdog will perform at Incubated 14 on the 2nd of February at the Paradox, Tilburg. We hope to see you there!

The Swedish David Wenngren is Library Tapes, pioneer of postclassical/neoclassical piano music. Library Tapes started in 2003 with David Wenngren and Per Jardsell. Wenngren hadn’t even touched a key of a piano, let alone played the piano! But he practised and listened to great artists like Sylvian Chaveau and Goldmund and he developed his own style. After the first album Per Jerdsell went his own way and David Wenngren became Library Tapes. The sounds that Wenngren produces are like subtile field recordings, with scratching and ticking noises of old 78-RPM record. Library Tapes performed at this years Incubate Festival but a lot of people missed his performance because Glen Hansard played at the same time in the Natuurtheater. Now they’ve got another chance to see him perform as Library Tapes.

Second band on the bill is Sleepingdog. The band has two members Chantal Acda (Chacda) and Adam Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid, A Winged Victory for the Sullen). Chantal Acda has been performing as Sleepingdog since 2006 and in that same year she played at the ZXZW Festival (former name of Incubate). She worked on her first two albums with Adam Wiltzie and he became such an essential part of her music, that he became a member of the band. Sleepingdog is based on the fairy-like atmospehere of Iceland and goes beyond the limits of New-Folk and Folktronica.

Two former Incubate bands are performing yet again on an Incubate stage, so don’t miss a night full of beautiful music that will give you goosebumps! You can buy your tickets via Incubate or below and we hope to see you at this beautiful edition of Incubated on the 2nd of February in the Paradox, Tilburg!

Library Tapes – Fragment VII from Studio Yogurt on Vimeo.

sleepingdog from Tim Broddin on Vimeo.

The Norwegian duo Humcrush and Norwegian vocalist Sidsel Endresen are coming to Tilburg on the 14th of December. Sidsel Endresen performed at Incubate 2010 and is now playing a show at the Paradox with Humcrush, existing of Thomas Stronen (drums/electronics) and Stale Storlokken (keyboards). The support act of that evening is SVER, a classical schooled band that is fascinated by Northern-Europe. SVER has three bandmembers, Bram Stadhouders (Altguitar/electronics), Aart Strootman(stereo baritoneguitar/samples) and Fons Toonen (Drums/percussion/dronetank). Bram Stadhouders and Aart Strootman both performed at the Incubate Festival.

This is a must see! A night full of Incubate artists at the Paradox, Tilburg on the 14th of December. Tickets are € 13,00 and it starts at 21:00, so be there!

LUIK is added to the line-up of Incubated 13! The Dutch band will be opening the night and celebrating a new year full of Incubate with us all. They will perform before the solo-acoustic show of Malcolm Middleton. Incubated 13 is on the 5th of January at the Paradox, Tilburg. A great way to celebrate a new year, don’t you think?

LUIK is a band from Rotterdam, Holland and started in the summer of 2010. Lukas Dikker is leading the band and presents an indie-slowcore sound that result in ‘softly picked guitars, a pressing bass and whistling vocals.’ The other band members are Simeon Poot, Gerrit van de Scheer and Keimpe Koldijk. Luik is making a name for themselves by playing lively in the Dutch underground scene, with bands like Herrek, Eklin and Bebe Fang (Incubated 11). They have played numerous club shows and festivals in the Netherlands and Belgium and they will be performing at Eurosonic Noorderslag 2012. Their EP ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’ came out last year, and their debut album will be released in the beginning of 2012.

The perfect band to accompany Malcolm Middleton at Incubated 13. This will be an epic edition and an absolute must see! You can buy your tickets via Incubate. We hope to see you all in the new year, to enjoy and toast on the 5th of January.

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?

The War on Drugs gave a great performance at this year’s Incubate Festival. Music venue Paradox reached it’s fullest capacity and we know why! Check this awesome live clip from the band’s performance at the Cameo Gallery in New York City that will explain it all. The song they perform is called Baby Missiles, enjoy!

The War on Drugs @ Cameo Gallery 8.19.2011 from Jessica Amaya on Vimeo.

We are very pleased we can announce a solo acoustic show of no one else but Malcolm Middleton for Incubated 13 on Thursday January 5 in Paradox! Middleton is the first officially confirmed act for the January edition of Incubated.

Before Malcolm Middleton began making great solo albums, he was one of the main members of Arab Strap, together with Aidan Moffat. The highly influential Scottish indierock band called it a day in 2006. Middleton: “It was a good time to call it a day. Unless there’s a definite need and desire for us to play, I don’t think we should ever get back together”. He already made 2 solo albums then: ‘5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine‘ and ‘Into The Woods‘ on which the songs still had a very sensible Arab Strap-feel.  Anyway, it was a logical step for Malcolm Middleton to start a solocareer from there on. His first post-Arab Strap album was called ‘A Brighter Beat‘ which got very good reviews. While the music began to sound a bit more optimistic, his lyrics were still very depressing, thus generating a schizofrenic record. 2008-follow-up ‘Sleight Of Heart‘ and ‘Waxing Gibbous’ (2009) continued on the set path: indierock with a wide range of instruments, full of self-loathing lyrics and black humor (his Christmas single was called ‘We’re All Going To Die’). Malcolm Middleton is Malcolm Middleton and will always be Malcolm Middleton. A unique artist in every way.
And this time, he’ll perform a unique solo acoustic show at Incubated!

So make sure you’re there in January on yet another edition of Incubated in Paradox and tell us you’re attending on Facebook! Or buy your your tickets right now by clicking here! And you can preorder his latest  split 10″ with River Of Slime via De-fence Records.

Malcolm Middleton – We’re All Going To Die

Malcolm Middleton – A Brighter Beat

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

Incubated 11 is coming and you better be there! Three bands are in the line-up, Bebe Fang, Traumahelikopter and Dirty Beaches. The evening will also involve Popronde Tilburg, a festival that travels around Holland in search for the newest bands. This means the entrance is free! The doors will open at 20.00 and the first band Bebe Fang will start at 20.30. Paradox is the venue were you’ll need to be! Mark this is in your calender, the third of November: Incubated 11! See you there.

Bebe Fang – 20:30 – 21:15

As you may well know, we’re suckers for the brooding music coming for the Eklin/Adept/Bonne Apart camp. Woud (a project by Wouter Venema and Kempe Koldijk) already gave act de présence on Incubate 2011. And now Koldijk is back with yet another project: Bebe Fang. Together with Berber Visser (Miss. Ippi), they bring dark ambient soundscapes, with on top of that the beautifully haunting voice of Visser. So people who enjoyed Woud, will definitely enjoy Bebe Fang, which is a bit more experimental. Dark muggy sounds. We just made your first choice for the Popronde easier.

Bebe Fang – Nature’s Cry (Live)

Bebe Fang – Walk

Traumahelikopter – 21:30 – 22:15

Met een rotgang dwars door de wolken.

The Dutch garagepunk band Traumahelikopter were formed in 2010 in Groningen Noord. Bandmembers Mark LADA and Daan Hendrik van Dalen met eachother whilst being students. Third member Knalbert is a friend from Mark LADA’s youth. Mark and Daan both dropped out of Art History and whilst living together they decided to write songs saying ‘with three chords and little talent, we could play music’.  No bassguitar, just two guitars and drums, which consist only of snare, floor tom and crash cymbals. They are in for a laugh, naming their influences from Ike Turner to exotic animals to leather. With their motto: ‘Don’t talk about it, be about it – Busta Rhymes’, they are going to blow your socks off at Incubated 11!

Traumahelikopter – Room Service

Traumahelikopter (Live)

Dirty Beaches – 22:45 – 23:30

The one-man project of Alex Zhang Hungtai, Dirty Beaches, is coming to Tilburg! The Taiwanese Canadian lived half his life wandering through the streets. He moved from Toronto to Montreal and even to Honolulu. ‘Badlands’, his debut album, shows us perfectly how he lived his life in so many different places, with songs like ‘A Hundred Highways’ and ‘Goodbye Honolulu.

Dirty Beaches’s sound is daunting and appealing at the same time. Alex Zhang Hungtai’s music is minimalistic and experimental. The audio looks like it’s been ripped from a cassette, giving it a raw sound. When you hear Dirty Beaches it’s easily to compare him to a fifties band, minimal, raw and old sound with the heavy, dark smoky voice of Alex Zhang Hungtai. Dirty Beaches is something to look out for, and he’s playing at Incubated 11. We hope you’re as entranced as we are and we hope to see you there!

Dirty Beaches – Lone Runner

Dirty Beaches – True Blue

Of course you all know that at the upcoming Incubated edition Dirty Beaches perfoms (you better!).  And together with Popronde, we made sure that Traumahelikopter and Bebe Fang are there as well. But Dirty Beaches has a new video for his track ‘Lone Runner’. You can watch it below. The EP with the same name arrives later this year.  More information about Incubated 11, can be found here.