Emma Gatrill
‘Listening to Björk and Emilíana Torrini always reminds me of how many sonic possibilities there are out there.’ It’s no wonder Emma Gatrill covered their songs in this session for The Influences. ‘I have ...
Fiskur & Ryan Joseph Burns cover The Milk Carton Kids
In late May this year, we organized mini festival Caledonia. Like A New International, fellow Glaswegians Ryan Joseph Burns and Fiskur got on a plane to play. As they already ...
Siv Jakobsen
”Jolene’ is such a stunning piece of music – the lyric is incredible and really draws me into the atmosphere of the song. It makes me feel like I’m singing ...
Ron Gallo
Every now and then I get asked the question: ‘You only record acoustic singer songwriters, don’t you?’ My answer: No, I don’t. There have been full band sessions since the ...
Frontier Ruckus
Up until a couple of years ago, Frontier Ruckus was just a band that I had heard of. Without stopping to take a moment and really give them a listen. ...
Helge
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 ...
GFJF
I remember seeing Tenement Kids perform live on Dutch television some years ago and playing their self-titled record the morning after. I remember liking it and listening to it a ...
Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra
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 a way bigger version ...
Hiss Golden Messenger
One of my more recent musical addictions, has been the music of Hiss Golden Messenger. Having released a lot of albums since 2008, it wasn’t until February this year that ...
Jason Falkner
The first time I heard of Jason Falkner was when I was talking to Anne Soldaat about five years ago. Soldaat was flying to Los Angeles to record what would ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live, Sessions
Keaton Henson
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, but I’m afraid I’ve ...
Tessa Rose Jackson
She studied at the BRIT School where Adele and Kate Nash went, moved back to The Netherlands and kept writing songs until she found her sound. Her debut album was ...
Kim Janssen – Willow Tree
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 ...
Kim Janssen – Drift
This weekend, Kim Janssen played his last Dutch shows of this year. We had the pleasure of having him and his band play the Onder Invloed night at De Spot ...
Ro Halfhide – Rather Be A Sinner Than A Priest (Davie Lawson)
Every now and then, I’ll have a look back in the ever growing archives of Onder Invloed. There are a lot of tapes and external harddrives that contain not only ...
Kim Janssen
It feels like ages since I recorded sessions for Onder Invloed. There’ve been a lot of live videos, but there haven’t been so many real sessions lately. There’s a good ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live, Sessions
Ro Halfhide (GWO11)
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 Scottish bands. But that’s ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live, Sessions
Kim Janssen (GWO11)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nat Jenkins, The Cosmic Carnival & Ro Halfhide – ‘The Weight’
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Go Back To The Zoo – Hallelujah (Lucky Fonz III)
Just a week ago, I travelled to Deventer to see Go Back To The Zoo play in my favourite local pub ‘De Heks’. Due to some train problems and the ...
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 ...
Furlong
Their heads turned, when Michiel Flamman walked into the room. Furlong had just played one take of his ‘Come Back To Me’.
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.
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 ...