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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Woost
If I wanted to come to a town called Best, near Eindhoven in the South of The Netherlands to record a session with Woost, that’s what Marike Jager asked me ...
Woost – ‘Trivia’
Next Monday, the 10th of May 2010, I’ll publish the session Woost recorded a couple of weeks ago. They played three songs by Sparklehorse. On that beautiful sunny day we ...
Nat Jenkins
Last November, Otto ‘Lucky Fonz III’ Wichers told me about this very talented singer from London, England. Two emails later, Nat Jenkins was confirmed to play the Onder Invloed live ...
Three Blind Wolves
In 2009 and 2010, I temporarily ran a side project called The Canal Sessions for which we filmed sessions with musicians on a boat on the canals of Utrecht, the ...
Davie Lawson
In 2009 and 2010, I temporarily ran a side project called The Canal Sessions for which we filmed sessions with musicians on a boat on the canals of Utrecht, the ...
Coparck
In 2009 and 2010, I temporarily ran a side project called The Canal Sessions for which we filmed sessions with musicians on a boat on the canals of Utrecht, the ...
Tim Easton
In November 2009, Tim Easton toured The Netherlands with Tim Knol-drummer Kees Schaper on drums. He played a support show for Anne Soldaat at Tivoli de Helling in Utrecht, when ...
Damien Jurado
In 2009 and 2010, I temporarily ran a side project called The Canal Sessions for which we filmed sessions with musicians on a boat on the canals of Utrecht, the ...
Seabear
In 2009 and 2010, I temporarily ran a side project called The Canal Sessions for which we filmed sessions with musicians on a boat on the canals of Utrecht, the ...
Oi Va Voi
In 2009 and 2010, I temporarily ran a side project called The Canal Sessions for which we filmed sessions with musicians on a boat on the canals of Utrecht, the ...
The Horse Company
The Horse Company is a Dutch band from Zwolle that’s spreading it’s name throughout the country. When their album ‘Olympus’ finally made it’s way to me last summer, it was ...
The Sleeptalkers
I love old photographs. Just a thought that came up last week, so I decided to try and make this session look like one. Because watching it brings up the ...
Norman Kapoyos and the Swinging Mood Orchestra
I didn’t know about Norman Kapoyos before Maarten Besseling from In A Cabin With handed me the album he and his Swinging Mood Orchestra – including GEM drummer Wouter Rentema ...
Rob Klerkx
You might have seen him on all the big stages around The Netherlands as drummer of Moke and Paulusma. This Spring, he released his debut album ‘Unleash’, on which also ...
Brett Dennen
This session was recorded almost six months ago, in the backstage of Rotown in Rotterdam. Good friend and UROCK Cafe-owner Pieter Pin had been telling me to record a session ...
The Secret Love Parade
About a year ago, OnderInvloed.com’s good friend Ro Halfhide started mentioning The Secret Love Parade almost every time we spoke. It worked, not only because his enthousiasm, but mostly because ...
Awkward I (live)
Awkward I played the first Onder Invloed live show in Amsterdam on Friday the 11th of September. He played songs from his recently released debut album I Really Should Whisper ...
The Dirt
Every once in a while, you enter a room to meet people you’ve never met and you have absolutely no clue what to expect from it. It happened to me ...
Ronald Visser
When I first saw the poster for the temporary band The Group, formed around the release of the book ‘Vreeland’ by Jerry Goossens, I was most of all wondering why ...
Les Johnson
It was an early Saturday morning when we went to a beer cellar to record two sessions in a row. Christine Bovill and Les Johnson eased us into the weekend, ...
Palloc
Palloc is a young Dutch indieband known to put together electronics, rare instruments and tension in compact popsongs. They create well-thought music, with – probably – Radiohead as their biggest ...
Le Reno Amps
What a day. We had already recorded Ross Clark and The Parsonage, when a black cab drove us to a building with rehearsal rooms somewhere in Glasgow, where Le Reno ...
Mr Love And The Stallions
When I first saw Mr Love and the Stallions play live in Utrecht, a couple of years ago, I hated it for the first 20 minutes. The last 30 minutes ...
The Starlets
I remember the night in Glasgow as if it happened only yesterday. A pub called The Laurieston Bar locked us in together with The Starlets. Ro Halfhide and I already ...
Bertolf
Bertolf Lentink‘s solo career started off really well; his album ‘For Life’ was well received and big shows came. Before this all he was lead singer of The Junes and ...
BMX Bandits
In Glasgow, the national centre for architecture and design The Lighthouse was kind enough to close the sixth floor for us, to shoot the session with the legendary BMX Bandits. ...
Tududuh
Ronald Straetemans was the reason I almost became an alcoholist during the last year. He kept serving me beers until the sun came up, expecting nothing more than just this ...
Doghouse Roses
I met Paul Tasker while filming Davie Lawson on tour in The Netherlands in September 2008. Tasker joined Lawson on the second day to play guitar on the rest of ...
Lea Kliphuis
A couple of months ago, I recorded a session with Dutch singer songwriter Lea Kliphuis at ‘In De Blaauwe Hand’, the oldest bar of Nijmegen. Not long later, she phoned ...
The Undertones
Last Tuesday, I filmed an interview with The Undertones by mister Gijsbert Kamer at the Fine Fine Music night in Paradiso, Amsterdam. Thanks to Frank and Paul at Fine Fine ...
The Parsonage
In March, producer Ro Halfhide and I went to Glasgow to film a documentary and many sessions. On the first day, the choir The Parsonage was the second act to ...
Simon Angell
Halfway through the very first Onder Invloed Live night at UROCK CAFE in January, my friend Cat introduced me to this guy sitting at the bar. I remembered seeing him ...
De Staat
De Staat‘s first record Waiting For Evolution came as a shock to The Netherlands, a nice one. Something new and original, from the far east of the country. In Nijmegen, ...
Marien Dorleijn (Moss)
Marien Dorleijn is a songwriter and singer of the band Moss, one of Holland’s best kept secrets. I already loved the first album ‘The Long Way Back’ and from what ...
Anne Soldaat
Today is a great day. It’s the day that ‘In Another Life’ is released, the new Anne Soldaat album, which he recorded with Jason Falkner in the United States in ...
Lucky Fonz III
His new album ‘A Family Like Yours’ will be released next Monday, but while you wait for the new songs, watch Lucky Fonz III play old songs. Songs by artists ...
Ross Clark (Three Blind Wolves)
From the 16th till the 23rd of March, sound engineer Ro Halfhide and I visited Glasgow, Scotland, to film sessions and footage for a documentary about the city’s music scene ...
Ro Halfhide & M-JO (bonus videos)
In the very likely case you think just the songs from the session with Ro Halfhide and M-JO published yesterday weren’t enough, you’re very lucky. There are two more songs ...
Ro Halfhide & M-JO
You had to wait a couple of extra days, but here’s finally – most of – the session with Ro Halfhide and M-JO. We recorded the session in the little ...
Storybox
The very first thing I’ve ever filmed, besides my cats, parents or feet, was a concert by Storybox on ‘de Neude’ in Utrecht. Shaky hands, out of focus footage, but ...
‘Achtung Baby made me a grown man’
It was a beautiful summer day somewhere in August. I was strolling down the main street of old town Dubrovnik with my friends, when amongst the endless stream of tourists ...
Davie Lawson & Lea Kliphuis – Into My Arms (Nick Cave)
It was a great night, the Onder Invloed at Home in Nijmegen with Lea and Davie Lawson. Two nice performances, a lot of nice people and a bed to sleep ...
Joast
He’s a funny guy, Joost Oskamp. He’s got a joke or a smart comment ready before you know it. The same character trait is probably the reason why he’s able ...
Paulusma
‘Happy Traum’ and ‘Weeps’ are probably the two albums I bought the most times; I keep giving them away to friends. Two albums by Daryll-Ann, without any doubt my favourite ...
Skald Johansson
Skald Johansson is a nice guy. In person, but also in his music. You will not find a lot of angry words coming from his mouth. It makes him, his ...
Jasper Erkens
Belgium is the country where dEUS and Soulwax are on top of the music industry, at least in my mind. But there’s more. The newest sensation is said to be ...
Christmas special 2008: Joast
If someone would have told me a year ago, there’s going to be a Christmas song covered for Onder Invloed, I’d have laughed like a mad man. But, knowing Joost ...
Bettie Serveert
Back in 1998 the Dutch band Bettie Serveert released an album called Bettie Serveert Plays Venus in Furs and Other Velvet Underground Songs after playing the Marlboro Flashback Tour. Now, ...
Maurits Westerik (GEM)
A year after the original date, GEM-singer Maurits Westerik stood in front of the Onder Invloed cameras and did what we hoped for. He sang the songs better than the ...
Behind the scenes: Maurits Westerik
A look behind the scenes of the Onder Invloed session with GEM-singer Maurits Westerik, filmed in the St. Willibrord Church in Utrecht. Also featuring Ro Halfhide. The session with Maurits ...
Furlong
Their heads turned, when Michiel Flamman walked into the room. Furlong had just played one take of his ‘Come Back To Me’.
The Redwalls
The Redwalls from Chicago brought their colorful revolution to The Influences, with covers of Velvet Underground, The Beatles and Bob Dylan.
Go Back To The Zoo
There’s something to having two brothers in one band. Go Back To The Zoo covered The Strokes, Lucky Fonz III and Kings Of Leon.
Davie Lawson: ‘My friends are my books’
So outside in the dirt of night the wind bustles and howls and I’m inside writing about my forebears. The towers of my influence! The men who stole madness and ...
Tim Knol
Before Tim Knol even had a record, we filmed this session, with covers of Gram Parsons, The Rolling Stones, David Olney and Townes van Zandt.
Octoberman & Oldseed
“You should ask Octoberman to do a session”, a friend told me, more than once over the past six months. Some extra visits to his MySpace later, I sent him ...
Alamo Race Track
Alamo Race Track is one of the bands from The Netherlands that I just can’t get enough of. Every concert is an experience you don’t want to miss. So they ...
The Cosmic Carnival
“There’s a mp3 of a new song in your mail. What do you think?” There was a period I got messages like this one about every week. They came from ...
Charlie Dée
Dutch singer Charlie Dée played a tribute concert to Joni Mitchell at the travelling festival de Parade, in the Summer of 2008. It gave me the chance to film a ...
Steve Savage
It had been a long time since I was as much under influence as when I went to the Tivoli on last Friday night with Lukas Batteau and Steve Savage. ...
Marten de Paepe
The first session outside Utrecht or Amsterdam; Marten de Paepe was the reason to travel to Nijmegen. A beautiful city alongside the river the ‘Waal’. At the other side of ...
Davie Lawson
He’s got great songs, a beautiful voice and most importantly for now; interesting influences. Davie Lawson chose to play songs by The Handsome Family and Bob Dylan and a Scottish ...
This Leo Sunrise
What do Depeche Mode, The Gun Club and Bob Marley have in common? From now on, they’ve all been covered by This Leo Sunrise for Onder Invloed. For Onder Invloed, ...
Mia Silvas
Mia Silvas chose to record not three, but four songs for Onder Invloed. Together with her guitar player – and best friend Ryan Haberfield, she played songs from My Chemical ...
Most Unpleasant Men
Most Unpleasant Men kiest voor soulcovers. Tijdens het opnemen van hun debuutplaat waren er moeilijkheden met een bepaald liedje, maar op het moment dat de band probeerde iets meer richting ...
Lilian Hak
Lilian Hak brengt voor Onder Invloed iets totaal anders dan de electro die we van haar gewend zijn en toont aan ook met slechts toetsen en zang mooie muziek te ...
Nobody Beats The Drum
Jori, Sjam en Rogier van electrotrio Nobody Beats The Drum voegen voor Onder Invloed hun I-Tunes bibliotheken samen en vertellen over dansjes in de huiskamer op muziek van Michael Jackson. ...
Closer To Curtis
Singer Ernst Grevink (Erny Green) will be transforming into Ian Curtis. Together with his fellow band members – Joris van Grunsven, Joost Kuijer and Gerald Roerdinkveldboom – he’ll be touring ...
Lukas Batteau
Lukas Batteau is a singer songwriter from Utrecht with a liking towards grunge. Strongly influenced by the 90’s, he chose somewhat louder bands, although he always seems to like the ...