Chima
Kohei Kondo describes Chima’s music as something out of a fairy tale; soft-spoken yet layered with emotion. Watching them perform together, it’s clear how their crafts complement each other: Chima’s ...
The Influences in 2020
Well, that was interesting, wasn’t it? I think the last thing anyone needs right now is another long story about the pandemic or personal reflections. So, while the world was ...
Christopher Paul Stelling
Christopher Paul Stelling has quickly become one of my very favourite folk singers from the last decade. The American already recorded a session for The Influences some years ago and ...
Courtney Marie Andrews
I’ve been fascinated by Courtney Marie Andrews’ talent as a songwriter and a singer since the instant classic ‘Honest Life’. Now, with her equally daring and striking new record ‘May ...
Onder Invloed sessions in 2016
As almost every year since the start of Onder Invloed (The Influences) in 2008, last year has often managed to surprise me. After many sessions I found myself listening to ...
Onder Invloed viert 5-jarig jubileum
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 ...
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 ...
Boekpresentatie in EKKO
In januari verschijnt het eerste boek van Matthijs van der Ven, getiteld ‘Onder Invloed’ bij uitgeverij L.J. Veen. In het boek verhalen Nederlandse ...
Ryan Joseph Burns
It would seem you don’t need an introduction to Ryan Joseph Burns anymore on this website. He’s been featured a lot of times, not without reason though. In March this ...
Read it and feel the fear…
Just a quick update on what I’m doing. I’ve been busy writing, deleting words, rewriting chapters and all those sorts of things involving the book Onder Invloed. It’s a hell ...
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 ...
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 ...
Best Of, Grasnapolsky, Live, News, Scotland
Best of Onder Invloed in 2010
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 ...
Anne Soldaat – ‘Born To Perform’
I had the honour to direct a music video to the wonderful song ‘Born To Perform’ by Anne Soldaat. I have been working on this film for a while, recording ...
No Windows Without Walls
Last April, we premiered the documentary ‘No Windows Without Walls’ on the Welsh musician Davie Lawson. The documentary by Onder Invloed founder Matthijs van der Ven follows Lawson on one ...
Awkward I (Festival aan de Werf)
This May, Onder Invloed had a live showcase at the wonderful Festival aan de Werf at De Neude in Utrecht. With hundreds of people in the crowd, The Cosmic Carnival, ...
Three Blind Wolves – ‘Helpless’
Ross Clark from the Glasgow-based band Three Blind Wolves played the Onder Invloed Afterparty at UROCK Cafe in Utrecht last week. Completely unplugged and absolutely brilliant. Here’s a video of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Best of Onder Invloed in 2009
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 ...
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 ...
Marien Dorleijn (Moss) live
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bertolf (live)
On the same day we recorded the session with Bertolf, he played the Onder Invloed Live show at UROCK Cafe, Utrecht. Once again he showed his guitar skills, playing ‘Back ...
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 ...
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 ...
Most Unpleasant Men (live)
In March, Most Unpleasant Men played the Onder Invloed live show at U ROCK Café in Utrecht. They played songs of their wonderful debut album ‘Nothing Moves Slower’ and covers ...
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. ...
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 ...
Ro Halfhide & M-JO (live)
In March, the third Onder Invloed Live night was opened by an unique double show by Ro Halfhide and M-JO. Back then, I just got back from filming sessions in ...
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 ...
Anne Soldaat – Come On Baby Let’s Go Downtown
Last month, I filmed the Anne Soldaat concert at Paradiso in Amsterdam. Parts of the show will be featured on the documentary on this Dutch musician, which I’ve been working ...
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 – Mr Randalph (music video)
I had the honour of making a videoclip for the Anne Soldaat song Mr. Randalph. The clip is made out of footage from a weekend on Terschelling with Soldaat and ...
Bertolf & Marien Dorleijn (live – photos)
This Wednesday, the fourth monthly Onder Invloed Live night, was a night of great music. Bertolf, Marien Dorleijn and bonus-act Solo (Michiel Flamman) The videos will follow soon, here are ...
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 ...
Davie Lawson (live)
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 ...
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 ...
Onder Invloed visits Glasgow, Scotland
This week, the Dutch music journalist Matthijs van der Ven is bringing his project ‘Onder Invloed’, which means ‘Under The Influence’ to Glasgow, Scotland. For ‘Onder Invloed in the City’ ...
Most Unpleasant Men – If I Ain’t Got You (Alicia Keys) live
After some months, no, years of writing, rewriting, looking for a label, looking for another label and finally just releasing it by themselves; Most Unpleasant Men presented their debut album ...
‘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 ...
The Cosmic Carnival (live)
As I wrote earlier; 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 ...
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 ...
De Staat feat. Kyteman (live)
Last Friday, I recorded a session with De Staat in Aalten, which is going to be great. For that, you’ll have to be a little patient, but to compensate for ...
Interview on Radio 1
Last Monday, I was invited to the studio by BNN Today on Radio 1. They interviewed me about Onder Invloed and played some parts of songs from sessions. You can ...
Maurits Westerik (live)
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Download: Perfect OnderInvloed.com
‘Perfect’ is een initiatief van Niels ‘Eerste Hulp Bij Plaatopnamen‘ Aalberts en Wilbert ‘Het Zesde Vlak‘ Leering. Een reeks verzamelalbums met de beste vloervullers, Joni Mitchell-liedjes, liedjes uit 2008 en ...
Big plans for 2009
Making documentaries abroad, writing a book, organise live shows: 2009 promises to become an interesting year for Onder Invloed. I booked plane tickets to Glasgow for a special, the first ...
Bettie Serveert (live)
A couple of hours after recording the session with Bettie Serveert, they played a live set at EKKO, Utrecht. All songs by Velvet Underground, and the band asked me to ...
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 ...
Oldseed – 25 Minutes To Go (Johnny Cash)
Craig is probably the most bearded man I know, next to Santa. Santa’s flown back hown and so has Craig. For the first time in a long time, he’s back ...
3voor12/Utrecht interview on 2008
The leading local music magazine 3VOOR12/Utrecht asked me about my music year. I told them about some personal highlights like the show Anne Soldaat played at my graduation party and ...
Perfect Joni, by Charlie Dée
The Dutch singer Charlie Dée composed a ‘Perfect Joni’ in addition to her Joni Mitchell-tribute. ‘Perfect’ is an series of music collections, initiated by Niels Aalberts from Eerste Hulp Bij ...
A year of Onder Invloed #2
March started out in Amsterdam, with the guys of Nobody Beats The Drum. They finally released their brilliant debut album ‘Beats Work’ and started touring from Amsterdam to Utrecht to ...
A year of Onder Invloed #1
Well, here it is. The first year of Onder Invloed is almost done. At the end of the year you’re somehow supposed to be looking back on the highlights, so ...
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 ...
Tim Knol – live at EKKO
I got a couple of old videos for you. Shot in EKKO in spring this year. This guy is going places he never dared dreaming of a year ago. He’s ...
Davie Lawson – Moonshiner (live)
During the last week of September, I followed Davie Lawson around The Netherlands and recorded a live version of ‘Moonshiner’.
Marten de Paepe (live)
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, ...
Lukas Batteau (live)
Lukas Batteau had to play in Limburg, Germany, and I decided to come along, 50 minutes before departure to film this U2 cover live.
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 ...
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. ...
Closer To Curtis – live at EKKO
Earlier on there was Lukas Batteau ‘Onder Invloed’ live in Germany, now here is Closer To Curtis ‘Onder Invloed’ live at the EKKO, Utrecht. Three songs from the last concert ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...