Just a quick update on what I’m doing. I’ve been busy writing, deleting words, rewriting chapters and all those sorts of things involving the book Onder Invloed. It’s a hell ...
Doghouse Roses
It doesn’t happen often, but last week I’ve recorded a second session with Doghouse Roses. They were touring in The Netherlands for the third time in twelve months and we ...
Onder Invloed at Hedon: photos
Photographer Tom Roelofs, who’s also responsible for all photos in the upcoming book, was present at Onder Invloed at Hedon in Zwolle last week. I don’t think Roelofs needs another ...
Paulusma live at Festival aan de Werf
In May this year, Paulusma headlined the Onder Invloed night at Festival aan de Werf in Utrecht. I can’t describe how good this set was. Luckily I’ve got some amazing ...
Solo live at U ROCK Cafe
In the first three years of Onder Invloed I’ve filmed a lot. I mean… A LOT. Seen as I also have to sleep sometimes, I didn’t have the time to ...
Larry Guild
Whenever I go to Glasgow, I get to stay at Paul Tasker and Iona MacDonald’s flat, right on the edge of the city centre. Paul and Iona (Doghouse Roses) had ...
Download ‘Traditionals’ for free
The Traditionals album we’ve recorded in collaboration with In A Cabin With can now be downloaded for free. Of course, you could still go to a shop or website and ...
‘Bert Jansch changed my life’, an essay by Paul Tasker
Last night, Bert Jansch died. He was a guitarist who inspired many musicians, amongst them Doghouse Roses guitarist Paul Tasker. This morning, I sent him a text, asking him to ...
About last night
Last night was amazing. Thank you Tim Knol, Peter Visser and Carol van Dyk (Bettie Serveert), The Kik, Norbert Pek, EKKO and audience. I’ll do my best to get the ...
A tribute to Woost
For the non Dutch viewers; you might not have known this band. You should have. The Dutch band Woost decided to split this Summer, after releasing four albums in almost ...
GWO11: photos
Photographer Bart Schalkwijk joined us on our trip to the Into The Great Wide Open festival on Vlieland and captured the two days in beautiful photos. Soon, I’ll continue to ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live
Case Mayfield (GWO11)
The last time I posted a blog on Case Mayfield, the servers started smoking and I had to pay a lot of money to get the website up and running ...
Live, Into The Great Wide Open
Bettie Serveert (GWO11)
We journalists always like to have some sort of scoop. Onder Invloed had one at the Into The Great Wide Open festival. Carol van Dyk, lead singer of the band ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live
The Kik (GWO11)
Every day of this week, I’ll publish videos of the Onder Invloed stage at festival Into The Great Wide Open on Vlieland. In the order in which they performed on ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live
Rebecca Sier (GWO11)
Last Friday, I’ve started to publish the footage we shot at the Onder Invloed stage at the Into The Great Wide Open festival. I’m very excited about every single video ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live
Roy Santiago (GWO11)
The organisation of festival Into The Great Wide Open invited Onder Invloed to host a stage in the mornings of the festival weekend. To keep it short, it was brilliant. ...
Lenzie Moss
It was supposed to be a holiday, the two weeks I spent in Glasgow and other parts of the UK this summer. But, if you’re bringing your brand new camera ...
Bettie Serveert completes the line up for Onder Invloed at EKKO
On Saturday the 1st of October, the Onder Invloed night at EKKO will be the kickoff of the 25 Year’s Anniversary Month of the finest small venue of The Netherlands. ...
Festival, Into The Great Wide Open
Back from Vlieland
This weekend has been a lot of fun. The Into The Great Wide Open festival has been even more impressive than the previous two editions. The Onder Invloed public interviews ...
Line up Onder Invloed at Into The Great Wide Open
I’m very glad to announce an amazing line up for the Onder Invloed sessions at the Into The Great Wide Open festival at Vlieland this weekend. We’ve got a morning ...
Three Blind Wolves
Here’s the second episode of the series we’ve named The Mailmen Sessions. First up were The Seventeenth Century, on that same day in May 2010, we filmed Three Blind Wolves ...
Into The Great Wide Open
The first weekend of September, Onder Invloed will be present and active at the wonderful festival Into The Great Wide Open on the island of Vlieland. It’ll be the third ...
Writing in August
I’ve just come home from 2,5 weeks driving around the UK. I’ve visited my friends in Glasgow, saw Lenzie Moss, The Seventeenth Century and Doghouse Roses perform live, witnessed Alan ...
More live videos from Onder Invloed at Hedon
Earlier this week, we published live videos of Marien Dorleijn (Moss) and Arthur Adam playing the Onder Invloed show at Hedon in Zwolle in March. Also on the line-up that ...
Marien Dorleijn (Moss) live at Hedon
During the Onder Invloed live show at Hedon in Zwolle last March, Moss-singer Marien Dorleijn played a lot of new songs from Moss and his side-project TIKA, and a couple ...
Three Blind Wolves at T in the Park
Last Saturday was a good one for Three Blind Wolves. A little over a month after their Festival aan de Werf show in Utrecht, they played the T In The ...
Arthur Adam live at Hedon
During the Onder Invloed live show at Hedon in Zwolle last March, Arthur Adam opened the night with a very dynamic set, that began with two Joe Jackson covers. I ...
Anne Soldaat – ‘Mr Randalph’
In the first three years of Onder Invloed we’ve filmed a lot. I mean… A LOT. Seen as we also have to sleep sometimes, we didn’t have the time to ...
The Seventeenth Century live at EKKO
During the March edition of Onder Invloed at EKKO, The Seventeenth Century performed. This band from Glasgow has just released the first two EP’s in a couple of months time ...
Maurits Westerik – ‘Man Of Constant Sorrow’
The Traditionals album is doing really well. So well, that Onder Invloed and In A Cabin With have been recording a second album last week! We recorded at the same ...
Anne Soldaat – ‘Sloop John B’
The Traditionals album is doing really well. So well, that Onder Invloed and In A Cabin With have been recording a second album last week! We recorded at the same ...
Marien Dorleijn – ‘Peggy-O’
The Traditionals album is doing really well. So well, that Onder Invloed and In A Cabin With have been recording a second album last week! We recorded at the same ...
Tim Knol – ‘John The Revelator’
The Traditionals album is doing really well. So well, that Onder Invloed and In A Cabin With have been recording a second album last week! We recorded at the same ...
Davie Lawson – ‘Moonshiner’
The Traditionals album is doing really well. So well, that Onder Invloed and In A Cabin With have been recording a second album last week! We recorded at the same ...
Festival aan de Werf: photos
Photographer Tom Roelofs attended the Onder Invloed night at Festival aan de Werf and took photos of Paulusma and Three Blind Wolves. There are also some photos of the Glaswegian ...
Case Mayfield bonus videos
Remember that session with Case Mayfield, that caused the smoke coming out of our servers? I know, it was amazing. Well, those videos weren’t the only ones recorded with Mayfield ...
The Traditionals
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. I edited all footage shot during the recordings. Almost 40 hours of film, including some of the best Dutch musicians ever. Watch all ...
The Wellgreen
In November 2010, I flew to Glasgow to film the album release show of Doghouse Roses. Occasionally, Paul Tasker and Iona MacDonald are now backed by a band. Their drummer ...
Rue Royale live at EKKO
On Thursday the 17th of March, the London based duo Rue Royale played at the Onder Invloed night at EKKO in Utrecht. They played songs of their debut album, covers ...
The Seventeenth Century on tour: photos
From the 16th till the 26th, The Seventeenth Century from Glasgow was touring in The Netherlands. They played shows in Deventer, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Nijmegen, Haarlem and Zwolle. Onder Invloed went ...
Ryan Joseph Burns live at EKKO
Last Thursday, Ryan Joseph Burns played an unplugged aftershow at the Onder Invloed night in EKKO, Utrecht. Due to the large amount of people waiting around to see his show, ...
Onder Invloed at EKKO: photos
Last Thursday, the second edition of Onder Invloed at EKKO in Utrecht almost sold out. It resulted in a wonderful night with great shows with a very nice audience. An ...
The Seventeenth Century
Today is a good day. We as Onder Invloed launch a new series within the project. Producer Martijn Groeneveld has a studio in Utrecht called Mailmen Studio. Every now and ...
Live at Onder Invloed this month
I think it’s about time to start introducing the musicians that will play live at the Onder Invloed shows in Utrecht and Zwolle. This month we have live shows on ...
Ben Weaver
In Middelburg, in the far South West of The Netherlands, there’s this guy called Tonnie Dieleman, who organises intimite live shows called ‘Avonduren‘. One day he called to ask if ...
Live at Onder Invloed this month (1)
I think it’s about time to start introducing the musicians that will play live at the Onder Invloed shows in Utrecht and Zwolle. This month we have live shows on ...
Order your Onder Invloed t-shirt
There’s been some demand for Onder Invloed t-shirts over the past months. But, since I’m not the world’s best designer, I decided to ask someone else to make a design. ...
Onder Invloed at the festivals
In May 2011, Onder Invloed will be part of two great Dutch festivals. On May 5th, we are presenting Case Mayfield at Bevrijdingsfestival Overijssel in Zwolle. Also, for the second ...
Three Blind Wolves on tour: photos
Dutch photographer Tom Roelofs attended the Onder Invloed night at EKKO in January and joined Three Blind Wolves on tour for one day. These are some of his amazing photos. ...
Traditionals album coming soon
We are proud to present a first official Onder Invloed album. In cooperation with the recording project In A Cabin With we’ve recorded this album in the summer of 2009. ...
Three Blind Wolves at the liquor store
During their tour in The Netherlands last month, Three Blind Wolves were pretty impressed by the entrance to my house. To enter my house, you have to go through a ...
Line up for Onder Invloed at EKKO in March
Here is the line up for the Onder Invloed night at EKKO on Thursday the 17th of March 2011. Headliner of the night is Moss-frontman Marien Dorleijn, also The Seventeenth ...
Onder Invloed at EKKO: photos
Okay, so the first Onder Invloed night at EKKO in Utrecht was a great succes. I’m not the only one telling you. Go read reviews at 3VOOR12/Utrecht, Podiuminfo or Staplab ...
Case Mayfield
This guy is something special. Everytime he picks up his guitar and starts singing, all things around you tend to stop happening. He released an amazing EP last year and ...
Alamo Race Track – ‘After Hours’
In October we had the first Onder Invloed live show at Hedon in Zwolle. We managed to get a line up I personally was very proud of. Three of my ...
Woost live in Zwolle
In October we had the first Onder Invloed live show at Hedon in Zwolle. We managed to get a line up I personally was very proud of. Three of my ...
Three Blind Wolves play an unplugged encore live at EKKO
Wow. The first Onder Invloed night at EKKO in Utrecht was already one to remember forever. Amazing sets by even more amazing musicians and an ideal crowd who knew when ...
Top 5: Lilian Hak
Onder Invloed is celebrating it’s 2,5 years anniversary. One part of the celebrations is this new section in which musicians will give you their Top 5 of best songs. Including ...
Top 5: Damien Jurado
Onder Invloed is celebrating it’s 2,5 years anniversary. One part of the celebrations is this new section in which musicians will give you their Top 5 of best songs. Including ...
Woost – ‘Trivia’ (live)
Last October, Woost headlined the first Onder Invloed live show at Hedon in Zwolle. And how. They were amazing. They’re usually good, but that night… Next week I’ll publish some ...
Top 5: Jelle Paulusma
Onder Invloed is celebrating it’s 2,5 years anniversary. One part of the celebrations is this new section in which musicians will give you their Top 5 of best songs. Including ...
Top 5: Biff Smith (The Starlets)
Onder Invloed is celebrating it’s 2,5 years anniversary. One part of the celebrations is this new section in which musicians will give you their Top 5 of best songs. Including ...
Top 5: Simon Akkermans (C-Mon & Kypski)
Onder Invloed is celebrating it’s 2,5 years anniversary. One part of the celebrations is this new section in which musicians will give you their Top 5 of best songs. Including ...
Top 5: Alasdair Roberts
Onder Invloed is celebrating its 2,5 years anniversary. One part of the celebrations is this new section in which musicians will give you their Top 5 of best songs. Including ...
Top 5: Carol van Dyk (Bettie Serveert)
Onder Invloed is celebrating it’s 2,5 years anniversary. One part of the celebrations is this new section in which musicians will give you their Top 5 of best songs. Including ...
Moss (live in Glasgow)
I spent another week in Glasgow early November. In that week, I filmed the album launch of Doghouse Roses at Stereo, drank some beers with Ross Clark from Three Blind ...
Top 5: Ross Clark (Three Blind Wolves)
Onder Invloed is celebrating it’s 2,5 years anniversary. One part of the celebrations is this new section in which musicians will give you their Top 5 of best songs. Including ...
Top 5: Koen-Willem Toering (Woost)
Onder Invloed is celebrating it’s 2,5 years anniversary. One part of the celebrations is this new section in which musicians will give you their Top 5 of best songs. Including ...
Grasnapolsky, Live, Scotland, Sessions
Grasnapolsky (3): Ryan Joseph Burns, feat. Joast
The first edition of the Grasnapolsky festival in Bunnik near Utrecht was a huge success. After selling out on the day of the event, there wasn’t one sad face walking ...
Top 5: Peter Katz
Onder Invloed is celebrating it’s 2,5 years anniversary in the month January. One part of the celebrations is this new section in which musicians will give you their Top 5 ...
Top 5: Jacco (This Leo Sunrise)
Onder Invloed is celebrating it’s 2,5 years anniversary in the month January. One part of the celebrations is this new section in which musicians will give you their Top 5 ...
Top 5: Bertolf
Onder Invloed is celebrating it’s 2,5 years anniversary in the month January. One part of the celebrations is this new section in which musicians will give you their Top 5 ...
A month of celebration
Last December, it was the 2,5 years anniversary of Onder Invloed. Since the launch at 16-06-08, 62 sessions and more live videos have been published. January will be our month ...
Best Of, Grasnapolsky, Live, News, Scotland
Best of Onder Invloed in 2010
I can’t do it. The idea was to make a Top 12, just like in 2009. I just can’t do it, I’m sorry. These thirteen videos all make me want ...
Grasnapolsky (2): photos
Onder Invloed asked the promising Utrecht-based photographer Inge Kattemølle to join us at the Grasnapolsky festival and to capture the Onder Invloed stage with her camera. She succeeded gracefully. You ...
Grasnapolsky (1): Ryan Joseph Burns, feat. Novack
The first edition of the Grasnapolsky festival in Bunnik near Utrecht was a huge success. After selling out on the day of the event, there wasn’t one sad face walking ...
Lori Lieberman
Once upon a night, Lori Lieberman saw Don McLean play live and wrote the poem ‘Killing Me Softly’. The rest is history. But if you think that’s all to it, ...
Ryan Joseph Burns – live on Radio 1
This week we have the talented Scottish singer songwriter Ryan Joseph Burns (also guitarist in The Seventeenth Century) on tour in The Netherlands. He’ll play a show in Zwolle tonight ...
Saint Jude
Earlier this year we had the honour of having Lynne Jackaman and Adam Green of Saint Jude play an acoustic showcase during the Onder Invloed night at UROCK Cafe in ...
Onder Invloed at Hedon, Zwolle
|Dutch, sorry.| Onder Invloed is terug. Na een zeer positief ontvangen eerste editie in oktober 2010, vindt op zaterdag 29 januari 2011 de tweede avond in Hedon plaats. In de ...
Damien Jurado
In 2009 I filmed a session with the amazing Damien Jurado for another project called The Canal Sessions. It was a boat ride to remember, so when he returned to ...
Onder Invloed at Grasnapolsky festival
Grasnapolsky, a brand new Dutch festival, asked Onder Invloed to become a partner for their first edition and to come and do something special. We’re always up for something special, ...
Making of Biff Smith’s video message
The Starlets toured The Netherlands in October and with success. Got a lot of people enthousiastic and sold even more cd’s. One of the funniest things we did when lead ...
Case Mayfield live in Utrecht
The first person to get me hooked to Ray LaMontagne was mister Davie Lawson who told about a live show he attended. I’ve been addicted ever since and have got ...
Tonight: Onder Invloed at UROCK
Tonight, The Starlets (UK) and Furlong will perform at the last Onder Invloed live show at UROCK Cafe in Utrecht. Together with Starlets singer Biff Smith, we came up with ...
The Starlets live in Amsterdam
In October 2009, The Starlets from Glasgow made their Dutch debut at Onder Invloed. Supporting Anne Soldaat on that night, they entertained from beginning to end and got the same ...
The Starlets, free download
I’ve got a surprise for you. One you’ll like a lot. Stuart Murdoch (Belle And Sebastian-singer) once said: “Check out The Starlets, they’ve got soul!”. And he was right. In ...
Onder Invloed at Hedon, Zwolle
Starting in October, there will be four Onder Invloed nights each year at the wonderfull Hedon venue in Zwolle. To start of in style, we present a brilliant line up, ...
The Seventeenth Century live in Utrecht
Last May, the Scottish band The Seventeenth Century played their very first show in The Netherlands, during the Onder Invloed night at Festival aan de Werf in Utrecht. And they ...
Willard Grant Conspiracy
In the fall of 2009, Onder Invloed’s good friends Paul Tasker and Iona MacDonald of Doghouse Roses were touring Europe as support and bandmembers of Willard Grant Conspiracy. In September ...
The Secret Love Parade – ‘After Hours’
Every now and again we keep an extra song from a session to ourselves for a little while, before surprising you with it. It’s nice to have a surprise, especcially ...
Alasdair Roberts
The last session we recorded in Glasgow in March 2009, made producer Ro Halfhide smile for more than the week to come. Alasdair Roberts was the man who played some ...
Anne Soldaat – ‘Born To Perform’
I had the honour to direct a music video to the wonderful song ‘Born To Perform’ by Anne Soldaat. I have been working on this film for a while, recording ...
Davie Lawson – ‘One Too Many Mornings’
I went to beautiful Loch Lomond in Scotland today, together with Iona MacDonald from Doghouse Roses. Something we also did in March 2009, when Davie Lawson joined us, bringing along ...
Three Blind Wolves – afterparty
I’m back in Glasgow again. The city of great music, beers, rain and overloads of live shows. Also the city of Three Blind Wolves-singer Ross Clark, who played an unplugged ...
Jay Nash, Joey Ryan & Jeff Klein
Last Wednesday, Dutch booking agency Friendly Fire organised a showcase at UROCK Cafe in Utrecht. At the same place where the Onder Invloed nights took place for the last 1,5 ...
The Seventeenth Century & Three Blind Wolves live on Amsterdam FM
In the last week of May, two Scottish bands were touring in The Netherlands by invitation of OnderInvloed.com. The Seventeenth Century played the Onder Invloed night at Festival aan de ...
Case Mayfield & Nat Jenkins photos
This Wednesday, both Case Mayfield and Nat Jenkins played wonderful shows during the last Onder Invloed live show of this season. At UROCK Cafe, they kept the audience quiet and ...
No Windows Without Walls
Last April, we premiered the documentary ‘No Windows Without Walls’ on the Welsh musician Davie Lawson. The documentary by Onder Invloed founder Matthijs van der Ven follows Lawson on one ...
Awkward I (Festival aan de Werf)
This May, Onder Invloed had a live showcase at the wonderful Festival aan de Werf at De Neude in Utrecht. With hundreds of people in the crowd, The Cosmic Carnival, ...