It’s saturday, two o’clock, and I just woke up. Let’s see what I can remember of yesterday. Yesterday was the day I was told about a promoter that was too drunk to get into his own hotel room and was sleeping on the floor with his back against his hotel room door. Which promoter and [...]
Incubate @ Eurosonic Noorderslag (#esns12) part 4: Friday-report by Jelle
January 14, 2012
[Win] Incubate’s Outrageous Ticket Give-Away Bonanza: 2×2 Shaking Godspeed!
October 31, 2011
Woah, many responses for the Shining/Dead Neanderthals show! Thanks everybody. Unfortunatly, we could only give away 2 x 2 tickets. Now for our next show: a rockshow with some of the best bands from our tiny country at this moment: Shaking Godspeed and Traumahelikopter in De Effenaar on November 18th! If you love hardrock music and if [...]
[WIN] More concerts confirmed for Incubate’s Outrageous Ticket Give-Away Bonanza!!
October 4, 2011
Ah! We love it! Our Incubate’s Outrageous Ticket Give-Away Bonanza gets more outrageous everyday! First of all, 013 gave us yet another (!!) show with Kellermensch on Oktober 27th bringing their total to 7 (!!) shows to our ticket extravaganza! Make sure to congratulate them on their (0)13th birthday here! And another popstage has something [...]
[Win] 2×2 tickets for Shaking Godspeed a/o @ 013 Tilburg
January 31, 2011
The three Dutchies of Shaking Godspeed are fine young men in the prime of their lives who bring you some real exciting music. The band has a love for putting a savvy twist on simplicity, this results in music where you can shake to, in many different shapes and forms that is. Last they released [...]
[Year list] Tijs’ Top 40 albums of 2010
December 23, 2010
A post in reaction to Erik elitist yearlist. Tijs likes year lists. Especially when they’re released way before the end of the year. Why wait ’till the end of the year to let the world know what great bands you’ve heard? Some (printed) media ask their writers to compose a list half October half November. [...]
The Incubate Gospel according to Robert Meijerink
September 4, 2010
The ‘Incubate gospel according to’ section gives you Incubate 2010 tips from insiders. Seventh one: Robert Meijerink. 1.Who are you? Robert Meijerink. Promotes and books shows in Doornroosje, Merleyn, Festival de-Affaire in Nijmegen and is booker of EuroSonic-Noorderslag Festival in Groningen. 2.What will you be doing during Incubate 2010 (Sept. 12-19)? Will visit Incubate probably [...]
Zwarte Cross alternative line-up
July 8, 2010
Here at the Incubate-office, almost everybody has its roots in some small rural town in either Limburg or Brabant. The biggest festival of The Netherlands, Zwarte Cross (Dutch for Black Cross) also has its roots in the province. It started as a motorcross race with one band in 1997, and developed into the biggest music [...]
Paaspop 2010: The (ex-)Incubate acts
March 29, 2010
The annual Paaspop festival (Easterpop festival) will take place next weekend during, of course, Eastern! Of course, we will be there, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus and drinking lots of beer. This year, many artists that have played Incubate/ZXZW in the past five years are playing at Paaspop. Look how big our little babies became! [...]
Shaking Godspeed @ Merleyn pictures by Mike Nicolaassen
February 18, 2010
Mike Nicolaassen made some awesome pictures of Shaking Godspeed in Merleyn. They will play at Incubate 2010. Check more pictures right here.
Incu Thursday: First names Incubate 2010
February 11, 2010
Hi there! This is Incu Thursday. On every Thursday, 2pm local time, we will announce the artists that are confirmed for Incubate 2010 the week before. Whether it’s one or twenty names. Here are the new names: Action Beat (UK) / Myspace Barn Burner (CAN) / Myspace Cheap Machines (UK) / Myspace / Website Cyaneed [...]
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[Art Monday] Review – Re:Rotterdam & RAW Rotterdam
February 13, 2012
Geeske Bijker Rotterdam was the visual art capital of the Netherlands this weekend. Besides the high art gathering of Art Rotterdam, there were many other initiatives like RAW, Re:Rotterdam, Paviljoen and Object. To much for one day, so I decided to narrow down to ‘Re:’ and ‘RAW’. Re: Rotterdam is held is in an empty [...]