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[Win] 3 x 2 tickets for Dynamo Outdoor

roel — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:42:52 +0000

Next Sunday Eindhoven will turn into a headbanger’s playground again: it’s time for Dynamo Outdoor! Check out some of the hottest newcomers and biggest names in metal, hardcore and punk at the Begijnhof all day long and enjoy the festival BBQ or some special Belgian beers. Here’s this year’s line-up:

13:00u Doors open
13:20u-13:50u MAKE BELIEVE
14:00u-14:30u BURN THE IRIS
14:40u-15:10u VOLBEER
15:20u-15:50u CAMPUS
16:00u-16:40u ELECTRIC EEL SHOCK
16:50u-17:30u CARACH ANGREN
17:40u-18:40u ONSLAUGHT
19:00u-19:40u GEWAPEND BETON
19:50u-20:50u MADBALL
21:00u-21:40u NOYALTY
22:10u-00:00u KORPIKLAANI
00:00u-02:00u OFFICIAL OUTDOOR AFTERPARTY @ CAFE ALOYS: with ao PUNSHABLE ACT

Because we know you love your metal just as much as we do, we’ll give away 3 x 2 tickets to the fastest mailers. All you have to do is send an email to WIN[AT]INCUBATE[DOT]ORG. Better hurry!

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The Ex Files: Come see them at Incubate!

roel — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:27:32 +0000

All good things must come to an end, and thus also The Ex Files end. We’ve illustrated the first two decennia of The Ex‘ impressive music career, and by now you should have gotten a pretty good idea of The Ex’ legendary status and their importance to contemporary music. That is, if you didn’t have that idea already. Might you still not be convinced, then there’s only one thing left to do: come see ‘em at Incubate and let them convince you theirselves! Do it…

We’ll end this series now with some footage of their very impressive performance at the Holland Festival in 2000. Watch The Ex perform Dutch versions of their songs together with a 20-piece big band and Jan Mulder, who wrote the translations. Below that, some recent footage of The Ex playing with Ehtiopian jazz saxophonist Gétatchèw Mèkurya in 2009. Have fun, see you later, and don’t miss The Ex at Incubate!

The Ex will perform and curate an evening at Incubate 2010 on Monday September 13th.

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[Participate] In Gewapend Beton’s new video

Sebastiaan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:30:54 +0000

Zaterdag 24 juli neemt Gewapend Beton de video voor de titel track van hun nieuwe plaat “Big Dumb Kids” op. Voor deze clip hebben ze veel mensen nodig als publiek. De opnames vinden plaats in Galerie Schijnheilig, Passeerdersgracht 23, Amsterdam. Dus kom allemaal de mosh brengen; om 17:00 uur moet je er zijn want om 17:30 begint de shoot! Laat via Facebook weten of je deel wil uitmaken van deze legendarische clip! ‘Aanwezig’ a.u.b. alleen als je echt komt! Bier/fris/drolworst is aanwezig! Be there or be not oi!/crust/on television!

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The Ex Files: The next decennium (1999)

roel — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:05:48 +0000

The year 1999 sees The Ex touring all over Europe and the U.S. In February, The Ex play New York and Houston, and then tour the U.S. West together with Fugazi. Back in Europe they tour Germany, followed by the release of the joint Tortoise/The Ex collaboration for the In The Fishtank series, a special studio & recording project of music-company Konkurrent, who are The Ex’ distributors.

At the end of May The Ex celebrate their 20th anniversary at a sold-out Paradiso (The Netherlands’ number one club stage) in Amsterdam, where they invite artists such as Steve Albini’s Shellac (check out his comment on The Ex below), De Kift, Kamagurka & Herr Seele, and Eritrean vocal legend Tsehaytu Beraki. The week after, they tour Scandinavia together with Shellac. In October they tour Italy for the first time in 12 years, followed by Hungary and three shows in a row (with special guests) at Instant Chavirés in Paris, France. In December The Ex head back to the U.S. to tour the East coast, once again with Fugazi.

The Ex will perform and curate an evening at Incubate 2010 on Monday September 13th.

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The Ex Files: The next decennium (1996-1998)

roel — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:10:10 +0000

In 1996 Terrie goes on a year long round-trip through Africa. Although The Ex are supposed to have a sabbatical this year, it’s members are not idle. Singer Sok tours with the troubadouresque punk-folk posse De Kift, bass-player Luc can be heard on the album The Untraceable Cigar of melancholic free-jazz quartet Roof (featuring a.o. Tom Cora, check a clip above), and Andy plays with the energetic klezmer-noise outfit Kletka Red who release the CD Hijacking on John Zorn’s Tzadik label.

The next year G.W. Sok publishes Ex-rated, a collection of 69 used and unused lyrics he wrote during the first 17 Ex-years. The Ex are offered the “Jazz Compositie Opdracht” by the Dutch broadcasting company NPS: they are commissioned to compose an hour of music, and invite the Instant Composers Pool (ICP) to join them for the performance of it. Then the five-piece go back on the road, first in Holland, together with the Malian kora player Djibril Diabate, followed by the American East coast and Chicago.

In June 1998 they record their new CD in Chicago (USA), recorded and produced by Steve Albini, an old fan, in his recently built studio. The new album, released in October 1998, on Touch & Go USA and Ex Records Holland, is called Starters Alternators. The well-received album is dedicated to Tom Cora, who died earlier that year. After the Summer The Ex tour Holland, together with Lanaya, a trio from Mali, with a.o. Djibril Diabate.

The Ex will perform and curate an evening at Incubate 2010 on Monday September 13th.

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[inQ&A] Antillectual

Sebastiaan — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:00:24 +0000

Only two more months until Incubate 2010. For the past few months we’ve been announcing new artists every week. But with 200 + artists coming up in September we can imagine you losing your hold. That’s why we compiled the Incubate 2010 Spotify playlist (http://incu.at/spotify). Subscribing to this playlist will get you acquainted with most of the Incubate 2010 bands.

Apart from their music, part of the getting-to-know-them-better-proces will also be us asking some of the artists a few questions in the upcoming months. The thirty-ninth edition in a series:

Antillectual

1.Can you please introduce yourself?
We are Antillectual, a punkrock three piece from Nijmegen, North Carolina. We are around for almost 10 years now, released and toured all over the world and will be releasing our third full length album around the Incubate festival.

2.Where are you at the moment?
At the back of our van, driving through Milano, Italy. We are on a 3 week tour, crossing Germany, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Belgium and Holland. I’m wearing shorts and a band shirt since the weather is very nice over here.

3.Have you played in the Netherlands before and if so, what’s your view on or experience with the scene you’re operating in in The Netherlands?
We have played in Holland before and have had good experiences so far. I think the Dutch scene is very, very vibrant. There are a lot of good bands and sometimes even too many shows that compete with each other for an audience. But those are welfare problems I guess. It’s good to see there are a lot of young bands starting and keeping the scene alive. That’s the only way you continue to create new interesting music.

4.What can we expect of your gig at the Incubate Festival?
Endless speeches about the corruptible state of the national and international political system, mixed with short musical intermissions in the form of punkrock songs. A lot of energy, melody and socially engaged passion.

5.What are your plans for the (near) future?
We recorded a new album in March of this year and will be releasing it fall 2010. It’s titled “Start From Scratch!”. In the mean time we will be playing several club shows and summer festivals throughout Europe. After the release we will be touring our asses off again to promote the new album. Hope to see you then!

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The Ex Files: The next decennium (1992-1995)

roel — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:19:28 +0000

In March 1992 The Ex finish their 7″ singles series with a 12″ single that doesn’t fit into the compilation-box. The next period sees The Ex slowly but surely moving more and more towards the jazz and improviational scene. Most of the year The Ex tour extensively with Tom Cora in the U.S. and Western Europe. In May they release the Live at the Bimhuis video, recordings from a special improvised concert they gave a year earlier.

The next year sees the release of And The Weathermen Shrug Their Shoulders, their second release in collaboration with cellist Tom Cora. Concerts with Cora take the band to prestigious jazz-festivals such as Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, Mimi and Moers. After another U.S. tour in 1994 with Tom Cora, The Ex work together with musician/performer Joop van Brakel (a.o. ex-Nasmak) and DansWerkplaats Amsterdam, a dance group led by choreographer Wim Kannekens. The project under the name of It’s All Too Beautiful consists of performances in which music and modern dance confront each other and is presented thoughout 1994 and 1995.

After another album release Terrie and Andy team up for a series of improvised guitar-concerts. Shortly after this, an even more intense collaboration follows with heavy-weights from the Dutch improv-scene such as Han Bennink, Ab Baars and Wolter Wierbos. This results in the instrumental improvisation double-CD Instant. An extended version of The Ex tours through Europe under the moniker The Ex & Guests. Later that year, three of The Ex’ members join Katie Duck’s dance company Magpie for a series of improvised dance performances. Also, a collaborative live session with Dutch rock ‘n’ roll icon extraordinaire Herman Brood was recorded. Check out a clip of those recordings here below.

The Ex will perform and curate an evening at Incubate 2010 on Monday September 13th.

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The Ex Files: The next decennium (1990-1991)

roel — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:56:53 +0000

In 1990 The Ex release a split live-cassette with the Dog Faced Hermans called Treat. When Dog Faced Hermans take a year off their guitarist Andy Moor joins The Ex. More releases follow that year, including the first ever Ex release on cd.

In January 1991 The Ex and New York cellist Tom Cora go into the studio to record 12 songs. At the same time the group start their singles project “6″: every two months subscribers receive a 7″ single with extras, such as posters and pamphlets. Every issue has a special theme, and the music goes from rock and folk to jazz and rap, either on their own or together with Kurdish saz-player Brader, Dutch improvisers or the Belgian comedians Kamagurka and Herr Seele. During the summer The Ex tour for four weeks through Canada with NoMeansNo, in November they tour Britain and Ireland with Dog Faced Hermans. On top of this The Ex and Tom Cora release the album Scrabbling At The Lock in which The Ex add a new musical dimension to their expanding oeuvre. On this album the urge to experiment and the search for sounds that don’t fall under the specific rock music category come to full growth. Scrabbling At The Lock is the best selling record in their history so far. Listen to the classic track State Of Shock taken from the Scrabbling album here below.

The Ex will perform and curate an evening at Incubate 2010 on Monday September 13th.

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The Ex Files: The early years (1989)

roel — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:00:36 +0000

During the summer of 1989 The Ex record another double-LP, Joggers & Smoggers, at Amsterdam’s squatted ADM-complex, an old shipyard. The Ex are supported by a whole slew of guest musicians, such as Ab Baars (who will also perform at Incubate 2010), Wolter Wierbos, Wilf Plum from Dog Faced Hermans, and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore. The album is slightly reminiscent of 1984’s Blueprints For A Blackout, but the musical palette is even more extreme, jazzy and experimental.

In October they tour the US East coast for the first time, and the three week tour is filmed by Jan-Karel Lameer and broadcast on Dutch television later that year. Back in Holland they perform the Joggers & Smoggers album live on stage with guests, as The Ex Colossus Big Band at the Dissonanten festival in Rotterdam.

Listen to the superb track Gentlemen with guest musician Thurston Moore taken from Joggers & Smoggers here below or download the track at The Ex’ site here.

The Ex will perform and curate an evening at Incubate 2010 on Monday September 13th.

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The Ex Files: The early years (1987-1988)

roel — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:19:20 +0000

More releases follow after the 1936 single and 1987 sees the band touring all over Europe in an original fire engine. Later that year they form a band called Antidote together with British punkers Chumbawamba and record the 7″ Destroy Fascism!. Also an Antidote bootleg 7″ appears carrying the title One Does Not Sell The Earth Upon Which The People Walk with recordings made in the rehearsal space.

Up until then every album or single was released on The Ex’ own label, which changed names with every new release. In 1988 they officially name the label Ex Records and stick with it. The same year The Ex cause a stir in the Netherlands by releasing Rara Rap, an anti-apartheid single released for the benefit of RaRa, which was a Dutch extreme left wing activist group fighting for retrieval of western companies from South Africa. Later that year they record two songs for Intifada, a compilation-album about the Palestinian uprising.

The Ex will perform and curate an evening at Incubate 2010 on Monday September 13th.

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The Ex Files: The early years (1984-1986)

roel — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:00:05 +0000

In collaboration with the anarchist quarterly Gramschap (Anger), The Ex release a split 7″ with the Iraqi Kurdish group Awara in 1984, their first encounter with non-western musicians. Non-western music will prove to be of great importance for The Ex in their later developments. In the same year they do a benefit tour with Morzelpronk and Zowiso for the striking British miners and release a benefit live album of the tour called Support the Miners’ Strike. More politically engaged tours and releases follow in the years after.

In 1985 they go on a benefit tour with BGK and the Wandas for the anti-militarist Onkruit organization. A year later they release the double single 1936 dedicated to the Spanish revolution. The release is accompanied by a 144 page photo book and partly consists of arrangements and adaptations of Spanish folksongs.

The Ex will perform and curate an evening at Incubate 2010 on Monday September 13th.

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[Watch] Störung Ost (documentary about punk in the GDR)

Sebastiaan — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:10:36 +0000

Punk is not the first word to spring to mind when talking about the GDR is it? But also in the communist dictatorship of the GDR there was quite a scene. Some bands were allowed by the government, others weren’t. There are some very interesting articles (and here) on this matter. Apart from the documentary above, make sure also to check out the documentary Ostpunk! -Too Much Future. Afterwards, as an exam question, you might be able to tell us in which famous band one of the guys of the GDR punk scene is playing today?

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The Ex Files: The early years (1980-1984)

roel — Mon, 31 May 2010 12:10:50 +0000

In June 1980 The Ex make their recording debut: the 7″ EP All Corpses Smell The Same. Two more releases follow that same month: a 7″ flexi-disc for the anarchist punk magazine Raket from Rotterdam, and a contribution to Utregpunx, a 7″ vinyl compilation. In October they release their first LP Disturbing Domestic Peace.

In August 1981, The Ex squats the Villa Zuid in Wormer together with members of punk bands Svätsox and De Groeten. To save the villa from being demolished, they spread a free flexi-disc with a brochure around the village to explain why the monumental Villa Zuid, a.k.a. the White Villa, must stay. Members of The Ex keep living in the squat for years to come.

From 1981 on The Ex starts touring abroad and releases more LP’s and singles. Their 1984 album Blueprints for a Blackout marks a musical turning point for the band. Much of it is produced while improvising in the studio and contains experiments with more complex song structures. The combinations of unlikely instruments such as violin, oil drums, accordion, oboe and marimba give a new twist to the Ex-sound. Check out the video of Jack Frost is Innocent taken from the Blueprints for a Blackout album here below.

The Ex will perform and curate an evening at Incubate 2010 on Monday September 13th.

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The Ex Files: The early years (formation, 1979)

roel — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:21:03 +0000

The Ex has been a highly influential band in punk, experimental and avant-garde scenes for over three decades now. In 1979 the band formed out of the squat scene of Amsterdam and Wormer and has since then developed into a prominent musical force covering such diverse styles as punk, noise, rock, jazz, improvisation, and ethnic music.

Starting out as a pure anarcho-punk band, Terrie (guitar), G.W. Sok (vocals), Geurt (drums), and René (bass) choose their instruments by drawing straws to decide on who plays what. For the first half year the group concentrates mainly on a hit-and-run graffiti publicity campaign (the name being chosen based on the fact that it could be sprayed on a wall in two seconds flat!). They play their first gig on August 31 at De Bakkerij, Castricum. From then on the band begins to play regularly, mainly in Dutch squats and youth clubs. Check out this classic footage of their second gig ever in Wormerveer, September 22, 1979.

The Ex will perform and curate an evening at Incubate 2010 on Monday September 13th.

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The Ex Files: Beautiful Frenzy

roel — Mon, 17 May 2010 10:09:13 +0000

Watch this trailer of Christina Hallström and Mandra Wabäck’s Beautiful Frenzy, a documentary on legendary Dutch anarcho punk/noise/avant garde collective The Ex.

The Ex will perform and curate an evening at Incubate 2010 on Monday September 13th.

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Punk in Africa

roel — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:36:14 +0000

National Wake

Punk in Africa is a feature length documentary currently in the making by a team of African and Czech documentary makers. The film will focus on the role of punk music, style and subcultures in the political and social upheavals in Africa at the end of the 20th century. Punk in general has often been politically engaged. In Africa this might be even more so than anywhere else. Not only does the film contain rare footage of the first South African mixed-race anti-apartheid band National Wake and African 70’s punk bands Wild Youth and Asylum Kids, it also covers Africa’s contemporary punk scene with bands like Swivel Foot and Hog Hoggidy Hog. Focussing not only on punk music and subcultures but also on the social and political backgrounds from which these musicians get their drive, this documentary promises to offer a very interesting and different take on punk music and culture. The film is expected to be released within several months so keep an eye out for it and in the meanwhile watch this trailer below.

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New Pirate Love songs

peter — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:00:34 +0000

Remember the excellent young Norwegian garage band Pirate Love from last year’s Incubate? The band posted some new songs on their Myspace page. They call their new single “a sonic journey through the vicious hallucinations of psychotropic drug use, mixed with finnish vodka…and ice cream”, sounds good!

Our beloved pirates are heading over to the USA next month to play at SXSW and do a short US tour with Thee Vicars, a great new english garage band.

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Don’t date punkrockers

tijsheesterbeek — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:10:41 +0000

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Cold War Embryos – Kanker (1981)

Joost — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:54:01 +0000

Classic nederpunk band from IJsselstein, somewhere in the early eighties.

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X – See How We Are

Joost — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:58:20 +0000

X is a legendary punk band. They achieved only limited mainstream success, they were widely considered one of the most revered of Los Angeles’ many punk bands. Check this classic one.

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Do something for the kids

metaljelle — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:23:44 +0000

Click here, and then click Area 51, fill in an e-mailadress, and be of great help to the greatest skatepark in The Netherlands. Cool punk/hiphop/soul concerts take place there, and one of the guys of The Risque helps to run this place.

Great! Awesome! Thank you!

There will also be a skate competition during Incubate organized by Kingdom Skateshop.
- 12:30h – 18:00h @ Willemsplein.

See you next week! At the Incubate Skatepark!

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Sing Along Monday

metaljelle — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:51:38 +0000

In a reaction on Sing Along Friday post of last week, we got this awesome video recomended by @merchandise via twitter.

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Wobble trouble: GG Allin doll

metaljelle — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:26:00 +0000

GG Allin

“This ghoulish effigy is a striking representation of GG ALLIN circa 1991. The figure, limited to 2000 numbered units, stands at 7 inches tall and is made of a lightweight polyresin. Displayed in a tri-windowed box, here GG is accurately sculpted right down to the tattoos, blood, and filth.”

Tesco Vee

“Is there anyone in punk rock that deserves to be so offensively animated, than Tesco Vee of the Meatmen, in this limited edition Throbblehead? This rockin’ figure is limited to 1000 numbered units, stands at 7 inches tall, and is made of a lightweight polyresin. Displayed in a tri-windowed box, here Tesco is accurately sculpted right down to the ABBA pants and clogs.”

You can get them here.

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Artist Exposed: ON

metaljelle — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:08:40 +0000

The series of Artist Exposed for the ZXZW 2009 fest, highlights the artists you definitely do not want to miss! Click the tag Artist Exposed for more posts!

ON will play Friday 18th of September.

ON is a hardcore band from Seattle, featuring members of Champion, Go It Alone and other well-known hardcore punk outfits. With their positive attitude these guys have something to say about Western society these days but without blaming everyone except themselves.

As they say in their song ‘Falling Apart’: “We have been living outside our means. Our ability to reason traded for greed. I know I’m at fault for playing the game. We’ve got to wake up and change.” These are very relevant, really self-conscious lyrics. And best of all: The lyrics are backed by very energetic hardcore, just the way it should be. These guys have something to say, and they bring their message across with appropriate anger, without losing melody out of sight.

More recent live videos of ON can be found through this link.

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Special: Cool cover versions: the Beatles (Part 5 of 5)

metaljelle — Fri, 15 May 2009 07:15:00 +0000

This week you can wake up to some cover versions to get you kickstarted!

And last but not least this week, why not do some Beatles covers.

the Beatles – A day in the life: covered by hardcore punk band Ramallah is to be seen above. For those of you that think that’s too loud or punk or something check out this instrumental Jeff Beck rendition.

And to top it off two ‘Helter Skelter‘ cover versions:

Helter Skelter by Mötley Crüe, (you notice the heavy metal Umlauts, right?).

Siouxsie and the Banshees, with The Cure’s Robert Smith on guitar, playing Helter Skelter:

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It's not easy being independent :)

metaljelle — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:27:20 +0000

Green Day is seriously in danger of being labeled themselves by their previous album title: American Idiots.

The wannabee-punk-band-turned-out-to-be-boy-band have signed a world exclusive deal with media dictator Murdoch’s Sun newspaper to stream 21st Century Breakdown, the Californian trio’s latest album aptly titled “21st Century Breakdown”.

The Guardian had this to say about it all:

In the title track (American Idiot, ed.) the band mocked the media parade, imploring listeners to “do the propaganda”, to “sing along to the age of paranoia”. But as Joe Strummer once said, he who fu…sorry, fraternises with nuns “will later join the church”. This certainly seems to be the case with Green Day.

Read the whole article here.

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He likes fishing. He likes punk. He likes womensclothing.

metaljelle — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:55:43 +0000

Frank, the guy that makes sure everything actually takes place at ZXZW, likes to go fishing to pass his spare time.

He also plays in one of the most infamous punk bands ever to come out of the Netherlands: The Spades. Apparantly he likes to dress in womensclothing as well. So now he has combined those last two hobbies for our enjoyment: in the Spades music video above. (He is the redhead (for the viewers) on the left side of the stage).

We love it, like we love him… Have a great weekend!

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Special: Oi! punk Weekendbreak with Blitz

Erik — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:00:19 +0000

All you great ZXZW Blog followers checked out the Oi! Special we had last five days, isn’t it? It was quite succesful and we were not able to give you all tips we’d like to give you, so we decided to release a weekendspecial on it.

This is the final blog in this special and we can’t stop without highlighting Blitz. Now we can finally celebrate the latest few hours of our weekend. Cheers!!!

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Special: Oi! punk Weekendbreak with The 4 Skins

Erik — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:45:10 +0000

The 4 Skins don’t really have a nice video, but the song ‘One Law For Them’ is a great one. Check it out!

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Special: Oi! punk Weekendbreak with The Business

Erik — Sat, 02 May 2009 11:33:46 +0000

On top, you can see a video of the great band The Business, recorded at the legendary CBGB club in New York, which closed in 2006. They’ll play in Europe in June and YOU should check them out!