“Sure Tias!” was Nicole Atkins’ response when I suggested we would film another session at Down by the River festival where we would both be, in Spring of 2019. ...
During Take Root festival 2018, Los Angeles-based songwriter Gold Star recorded two songs from his latest record ‘Uppers & Downers’ and a raving cover of The Velvet Underground’s ‘I Found ...
Usually recording a session after a live show isn’t the best idea. Musicians are tired, happy the job’s done and either want to enjoy a great experience or forget it ...
There aren’t many surprises and secrets left in life. Not of the good kind anyway. Remember when you’d read about an artist in some magazine, or just found an unknown ...
The first time I heard Caroline Spence’s single ‘Sit Here And Love Me’, was in a plane – somewhere in between Amsterdam and Glasgow. When Ryan Joseph Burns picked me ...
Caleb Elliott and I spoke about staying hungry for music, discovering fairly late there’s more than just classical music and the important people in his development; his high school orchestra ...
New York City-based songwriter Anthony D’Amato has been on a streak in the past seven years and released three full-length records and two ep’s. And now also two sessions for ...
It was Anthony D’Amato who introduced me to American Aquarium. The singer from New York – who’s releasing a new EP soon – said I had to check them out ...
TakeRoot just announced its first names for 2019, featuring Brandi Carlile, Nikki Lane, Erin Rae, Caroline Spence and many others. In november 2018 I got to work with the lovely ...
In December 2018 we hosted our third live show at the always lovely The Glad Cafe in Glasgow. Five local acts performed a couple of covers and originals in front ...
On Friday December 14th, I’m bringing this project to The Glad Cafe in Glasgow for the third time, with live performances by Fiskur, Michael Cassidy, Emme Woods, Lenzie Moss and ...
Jerry Leger’s records stand side by side to John Lennon’s in my living room. It’s only fitting because Lennon’s the first association I got from ‘Coat On The Rack’, the ...
There is positively no way Onder Invloed’s sold out 10-year-anniversary yesterday could’ve been any more special. We even heard some brand new Moss and Bettie Serveert songs!
In juni bestaat Onder Invloed tien jaar. Om dit jubileum te vieren, is er op zondagmiddag 24 juni een speciale editie van Onder Invloed in het Utrechtse Café de Stad, ...
Sometimes a voice simply forces me to keep listening. Luckily, combined with Michaela Anne’s songwriting that’s hardly an ordeal. Anthony D’Amato told me to check out her most recent record ...
If you’d asked Laura and Lydia Rogers some time ago, they’d have told you that there might never be a third The Secret Sisters album. They really didn’t know if ...
Op zondagmiddag 19 februari is de derde editie van ‘Onder Invloed presenteert’ in Café de Stad in Utrecht, met optredens van Awkward I en Helge. De twee gelauwerde muzikanten én ...
Until about a year ago, my life was a little worse than it is now, if only because I had not yet gotten acquainted with folk singer Alistair Ogilvy’s music. ...
The first video I saw of the Scottish band Pronto Mama was a perfect cover of Franz Ferdinand’s Take Me Out at the BBC. That, ...
Back in 2010 Onder Invloed hosted a stage at the first ever edition of the Grasnapolsky festival in Bunnik. Since then, the festival has exploded into ...
Onder Invloed, the video project from The Netherlands for which musicians from all over the world cover their influences, is coming back to Glasgow. On Saturday 21 November, six Scottish ...
Nana Adjoa is a young musician who’s played bass in quite an impressive collection of bands already, one of the latest being Janne ...
When I was talking to Grasnapolsky promoter Jelte Heringa about filming sessions during the festival, the first act ...
When Elke De Mey confirmed to record a session for Onder Invloed at Grasnapolsky, I was really pleased. The Love Like Birds’ ...
Back in 2010 Onder Invloed hosted a stage at the first ever edition of the Grasnapolsky festival in Bunnik. Since then, the festival has exploded into ...
Back in 2010 Onder Invloed hosted a stage at the first ever edition of the Grasnapolsky festival in Bunnik. Since then, the festival has exploded into ...
Last night at Paradiso in Amsterdam, I saw Ryan Adams play live for the first time. Somehow I never got to see him before, although I’m a big fan of ...
Those of you who have visited this website more often, have probably heard of A New International before. If not, then certainly you’ve heard of The Starlets, which was the ...
He formed BMX Bandits with Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) back in 1986, saw Kurt Cobain wear a ‘Bandits’ ...
Last Sunday he ran the London marathon (well done!), but even more than his feet, Paul Tasker knows how to ...
On November 28th 2013, a dream came true for me. Really. Ever since the start of Onder Invloed in 2008 I knew I wanted to organize an event abroad sometime. ...
The first time I heard Meindert Talma‘s music, was when his album ‘Nu Geloof Ik Wat Er In De Bijbel Staat’ (trans: ‘I Now Believe What’s Written In The Bible’) ...
During the Onder Invloed shows at festival Into The Great Wide Open in September, Broeder Dieleman made a surprise appearance. At the end of the interview ...
What. A. Night. I’ve had the idea to only post those three words, because I have been having difficulties finding words to describe our ‘The Influences‘ night at ...
There’s nothing better than listening to musicians who are really outstanding instrumentalists and sing their songs with every bit of heart and passion they have in them. Theo Sieben is ...
Earlier this year I published a session by Leine that was recorded in Amsterdam in 2012. In September this year, she played a live session for us at Into The ...
All right folks, listen up. I’m very proud to be announcing this. On Thursday 28th of November, Onder Invloed will host a night called ‘The Influences’ at ...
Tangarine were the first to play a session on the Sunday of our Into The Great Wide Open show. Twin brothers Sander and Arnout Brinks are known for their delicate ...
I’ve had two weeks to think of a sufficient way to describe the weekend we had at the Into The Great Wide Open festival on Vlieland, ...
UPDATE 3 SEPTEMBER 2013: Meindert Talma, Keaton Henson & Leine bevestigd
Onder Invloed is het project van journalist Matthijs van der Ven. Sinds 2008 filmt hij een groot aantal internationale en ...
Last night was really good. The musicians played well, the audience listened. That’s the way it should be. In between filming, I managed to take a few photos, that you ...
Last week, Onder Invloed was at Here Comes The Summer, the Spring version of the Into The Great Wide Open festival. At our stage, Gijsbert Kamer (de Volkskrant) interviewed a ...
Op 16 juni 2008 ging de website onderinvloed.com online en dus heeft het muziekproject Onder Invloed dit jaar zijn 5-jarig jubileum te vieren. Dat gebeurt in het Utrechtse EKKO op ...
In April last year, there was an Onder Invloed show at De Spot in Middelburg. Line up: Davie Lawson, Kim Janssen and Lucky Fonz III. I filmed a song here ...
She is featured in the Onder Invloed book and on the second Traditionals record, but we have yet to find a time and place to record a session. However, this ...
This morning I woke up to see the speech of Barack Obama and thought this day couldn’t start any better. But, to keep a great day on the right track, ...
It’s almost two months ago already, but I still have some unpublished footage shot at Into The Great Wide Open lying around, gathering dust. So before I start to sneeze, ...
Aside from the shows on the stage in the woods, we filmed a couple of extra songs on different locations on the isle of Vlieland during ...
On the first day of Onder Invloed at Into The Great Wide Open 2012, Davie Lawson performed a full set, as many covers as his own ...
Words can hardly describe how much fun we’ve had at the fourth edition of Into The Great Wide Open. Ryan Joseph Burns played on the ferry on the way over ...
The footage of the Onder Invloed shows at Into The Great Wide Open 2012 is being edited, but the photos are already finished. As there’s no reason to keep you ...
Last year, the Onder Invloed stage at festival Into The Great Wide Open at Vlieland was considered a big success. We had a good crowd, a ...
During the April editions of the Onder Invloed shows, Davie Lawson and his band featured on all three of the line ups. Having recently released his ...
Earlier this year I posted videos of Chop Wood, Marien Dorleijn (Moss) and Bertolf performing at the book ...
Last Monday, it was the third Onder Invloed night at the Festival aan de Werf in Utrecht. After previous editions in 2010 (with Awkward I and The Seventeenth Century) and ...
Last week, The Band-drummer Levon Helm died. It made me think not only of all the great songs he’s responsible for, or ‘The Last Waltz’ which is one of my ...
I’m still a bit too tired to write a lot, but I promise I’ll look back at the three Onder Invloed nights soon. Luckily, there are some photos to do ...
Next week there’ll be three Onder Invloed shows in a row. Davie Lawson and his Dutch band will play at all shows, accompanied by Dazzled Kid and Rebecca Sier at ...
I made the final corrections on the book in the middle of the nights of a week when I was in the South of France, in November 2011. I was ...
Second on the line up of the book release party was Moss singer Marien Dorleijn. It’s not the first time he played an Onder Invloed night, and hopefully it won’t ...
The book release night at EKKO was amazing. I won’t tell you that twice, so take note. Norbert Pek hosted the night, the musicians from the book played great shows, ...
Sometimes I search through external hard drives, without a specific purpose. Most times I’ll find some old recordings of live shows or sessions from previous years. Maybe it shows that ...
I was filming on a boat on the sea of Terschelling. Around me, the band members of Johan were playing some songs, enjoying the sun and watching the view. It ...
El Pino and The Volunteers was one of the first Dutch bands I really got into, years back. I’ve been buying their albums and going to ...
Every now and then, I’ll hear a song or album or voice that stops everything around me, and makes me want to cancel all appointments, lock myself in a room ...
There are no words to describe how much Ro Halfhide has done for this project, he even flew with me to Glasgow in 2009 to record ...
For those of you who didn’t know that Kim Janssen is not only a band member of The Black Atlantic, but also a singer songwriter; you should’ve known better. Janssen ...
I already published Alamo Race Track’s cover of ‘Breaking The Law’ at Into The Great Wide Open on YouTube last month, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...