Finn Andrews
There would be weeks where I didn’t listen to much else than The Veils. Their records formed an often welcome escape from reality. At times the songs brought comfort, distraction ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live, Sessions
Meindert Talma
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’) ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live, Sessions
Broeder Dieleman
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 with Meindert Talma – ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live, Sessions
Theo Sieben
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 ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live, Sessions
Leine
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 ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live, Sessions
Tangarine
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 ...
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 ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live
Into The Great Wide Open 2013 (update)
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 ...
Onder Invloed Magazine
This June, Onder Invloed will exist for five years. I think that’s an achievement. For me it is anyway. You already know there’ll be a live event at EKKO in ...
Here comes the Summer
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 ...
The best of Zonder Invloed in 2012
In 2012, I decided these extra songs recorded during sessions could use their own posts and category. The name ‘Zonder Invloed‘ was quickly thought of and www.zonderinvloed.com was bought. The ...
Onder Invloed sessions in 2012
It was a strange year, 2012. I didn’t record as many sessions as I would have liked, but the ones I did, made up for it. This post is above ...
Janne Schra
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 ...
Ryan Joseph Burns at the beach
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, ...
Davie Lawson at the beach
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, ...
Ryan Joseph Burns on the boat and in the sea
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 Into The Great Wide ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live
Davie Lawson
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 songs. Lawson, a Welshman ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Scotland
Ryan Joseph Burns
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 ...
Into The Great Wide Open: the photos
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 ...
Into The Great Wide Open, News
Onder Invloed at Into The Great Wide Open 2012
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 nice location and performances ...
The ones that almost made the cut
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. ...
Best of Onder Invloed in 2011
It’s one of the more difficult tasks in between eating three Christmas dinners in a row and having to answer for not going to any overexpensive party at New Year’s ...
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 ...
Into The Great Wide Open, Live, Sessions
Alamo Race Track (GWO11)
I already published Alamo Race Track’s cover of ‘Breaking The Law’ at Into The Great Wide Open on YouTube last month, after lead singer Ralph Mulder sang 20 seconds of ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...