The biggest compliment any musician can give me, is to come back for another session. Truly. So, when Robert Ellis reached out to record a third session, it was a ...
People often ask me how I get musicians to record a session. The answer is simple: either I invite them nicely, or they contact me. Ian Ruhala of the Detroit, ...
Happy 80th birthday, Bob Dylan! Your autobiography Chronicles volume one once was the spark that started this website, and it’s no wonder that a lot of musicians have covered your ...
The summer of 2018 would soon be coming to an end, and Rachel and I had just seen two of our favourite bands – Hiss Golden Messenger and Courtney Marie ...
Some time in the Spring of 2017 I flew to Glasgow Scotland to film Ryan Joseph Burns’ album launch. That night in Saint Luke’s, I single-handedly filmed with six cameras. ...
When Anaïs Mitchell recorded this session for The Influences in 2017, she toured as Josh Ritter’s support. She recorded covers of Bob Dylan and Rachel Ries (Her Crooked Heart) and ...
About a year ago, I met up with The Mastersons in my hometown Utrecht. They were about to release their strong new album Transient Lullaby and were touring Europe with ...
Helge Slikker has been pretty busy over the past few years, composing for theater and film. I still have fond memories of the session we filmed in the early days ...
I remember seeing Tangarine play in the finals of the Grote Prijs van Nederland in 2010, along with Case Mayfield. I remember thinking the wrong person won, but most of ...
Aaron Livingston can hear the different places he’s lived in his songs and he doesn’t shy away from political topics, although written from his personal perspective. The LP has very ...
This session was set up rather last minute, and early on a weekend morning, but nonetheless very nice to film. Steve Wynn didn’t really seem to mind the early hours, ...
My bubba is another one of those acts that I’ve seen and read about for a couple of years, and when I heard their latest records Goes Abroader, it was ...
Three Blind Wolves were the final band on the bill of our The Influences night at the wonderful The Glad Cafe in Glasgow. The Wolves and me go back a ...
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 ...
On the same day I filmed Parker Ainsworth‘s session at the old Tivoli Spiegelbar in Utrecht, Hanna Leess – who was touring with him – also played a session. Lucky ...
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. ...
Back in 2010 I filmed a session with three American songwriters; Joey Ryan, Jeff Klein and Jay Nash. In September 2013 Nash was touring again in The Netherlands and we ...
If I’m completely honest, I didn’t know Alabama duo Dead Fingers for long when I heard they were going to be touring in The Netherlands this Spring. I knew enough ...
I liked the Top 10 of Best Of Onder Invloed in 2011 I published earlier this week. But there was more to 2011 than those ten videos. A lot more. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In December, all the musicians who’d performed at the Onder Invloed live show in Amsterdam joined forces at the end of Nat Jenkins‘ set and played ‘The Weight’ by The ...
It’s been an incredible year for OnderInvloed.com. The second year of our existence, we recorded sessions with wonderful and talented musicians. Live shows in Utrecht and Amsterdam, OI-recordings on the ...
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 ...
The first Onder Invloed Live showcase in Amsterdam was one of promises. Both Awkward I and Marien Dorleijn (Moss) had albums coming out the weeks after. Both got raving reviews ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I’ve just spent a week in Glasgow, with Ro Halfhide, Paul Tasker, Iona MacDonald and Davie Lawson. Only two weeks before, Davie played at Onder Invloed Live in Cafe U ...
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 ...
On Wednesday the 28th of January, the first edition of Onder Invloed Live took place at Cafe U ROCK in Utrecht. The Cosmic Carnival and GEM-singer Maurits Westerik were the ...
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 ...
The Redwalls from Chicago brought their colorful revolution to The Influences, with covers of Velvet Underground, The Beatles and Bob Dylan.
I didn’t even have to argue with Marten de Paepe when I asked him to play a cover live. “When do you want me to?”, he asked. At Theater Kikker, ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...