Ryan Joseph Burns couldn’t believe his eyes, when we entered the Soesterduinen, a stunning nature reserve just East of Utrecht. It’s a surreal sight at first. As you’ll know by ...
Twain
‘I tend to look up artists that are powerful without explanation or for mysterious reasons. And the kind that are able to speak truths that are commonly understood but never ...
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 ...
Jasper Schalks
‘John Prine is the finest lyricist I know, up there with Bob Dylan and Townes Van Zandt. Every sentence he writes hits the spot and it’s admirable how much Prine ...
The Secret Sisters
If you’d asked Laura and Lydia Rogers some time ago, they’d have told you that there might never be a third The Secret Sisters album. They really didn’t know if ...
Gregory Page
Gregory Page recently released his new record ‘So It Goes’ and it’s as charming as its creator. “Please make me look like Clooney”, was all he asked after recording covers ...
Tenfold
Tenfold is the moniker of Dutch singer songwriter Tineke Hussaarts. Last year she released her second EP ‘Before We Go Somewhere’, which she recorded at Alamo Race Track’s studio. The ...
Alasdair Roberts
Last November, I had a short visit in Glasgow to film with Doghouse Roses and asked Alasdair Roberts if we could meet up the following morning and film a couple ...
Brooke Sharkey
Last month Brooke Sharkey and I met in Amsterdam and filmed a couple of songs at the Backstage Hotel. She treated us to beautiful covers of Tom Waits and Lhasa ...
Tangarine
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 ...
Paul Tasker
There aren’t many better folk guitarists around than Paul Tasker, however subjective such a statement might be. He’s often compared to his great hero and influence Bert Jansch or named ...
Paul Tasker
Paul Tasker has been one of my favourite guitar players for a good amount of years and still manages to surprise me whenever I hear him play. Earlier this year ...
Three Blind Wolves
Earlier this year Three Blind Wolves’ singer Ross Clark jumped on a train to Utrecht on a day off from touring with a play in Luxembourg. In the short time ...
Cale Tyson
Born and raised in Texas, but now a resident of Nashville, it is no surprise Cale Tyson sings country songs. But, he does it very very well.
Son Little
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 ...
Small Houses
It’s a small crime that nowhere near enough people know Small Houses’ latest LP ‘Still Talk; Second City’ yet. Nowhere near enough people are enjoying this record by Jeremy Quentin ...
Yori Swart
About four or five years ago I was a judge for one of The Netherland’s biggest alternative music competition ‘De Grote Prijs van Nederland’, in the singer songwriter category. One ...
Three Blind Wolves – The Bridge
Song premieres do not happen often at Onder Invloed (The Influences). But, after hearing the upcoming EP by my Scottish friends Three Blind Wolves, I couldn’t help myself. The EP ...
Ryan O’Reilly
Ryan O’Reilly covered Lissie and Loudon Wainwright III for The Influences in this session, filmed before his show in Amsterdam.
Pronto Mama
The first video I saw of the Scottish band Pronto Mama was a perfect cover of Franz Ferdinand’s Take Me Out at the BBC. That, plus my persistent friend Jamie ...
Small Houses
Ever since Jeremy Quentin, aka Small Houses, recorded his session for Onder Invloed two years ago, I’ve become a frequent listener of his music. Just about anything he’s released is ...
Anne Soldaat
It was over six years ago when Anne Soldaat recorded his first session and although he’s performed at several of our live shows and was featured in the book Onder ...
Paulusma
It was still in the early stages of Onder Invloed’s existence, when Paulusma recorded his first session. Since then, he’s performed at multiple of our live events, including the book ...
Stephen Steinbrink
When I was talking to Grasnapolsky promoter Jelte Heringa about filming sessions during the festival, the first act on his line up he talked about was Stephen Steinbrink. I didn’t ...
The Staves
It started as a rather sucky day when I went to Amsterdam to film this session. It was the first really sunny day in a while, but my head was ...
Daniel Romano
The first time I heard a Daniel Romano song? I can’t remember exactly, but I do recall that by the time the last note was played, I had made up ...
Three Blind Wolves
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 ...
Alasdair Roberts
It’s taking me crazy long to edit all these wonderful sessions some of Glasgow’s finest musicians performed during our The Influences night at The Glad Cafe in November 2013. But ...
Duglas T. Stewart (BMX Bandits)
He formed BMX Bandits with Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) back in 1986, saw Kurt Cobain wear a ‘Bandits’ t-shirt, has released over ten records since – including hit single Serious ...
Paul Tasker
Last Sunday he ran the London marathon (well done!), but even more than his feet, Paul Tasker knows how to use his hands. On a guitar, that is. The (former) ...
William Tyler
If you don’t know the Dutch booking agency Belmont Bookings, you should check their roster, because it’s an overload of great acts to go and discover. One of them is ...
Port Of Call – Aoide Pt. II
Last year I published a session with the Dutch songwriter Port Of Call which has been watched very well and got a lot of good comments. I never published the ...
Small Houses
If I’m honest, I didn’t know anything about Jeremy Quentin, a.k.a. Small Houses, until I received an email and started listening to his songs. Usually I’ll have been following musicians ...
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
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
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 ...
Three Blind Wolves
Last Thursday, Three Blind Wolves played a truly great show at Tivoli in Utrecht. It was their first show in Utrecht that I had nothing to do with, which was ...
Tessa Rose Jackson – Winter Night
If you haven’t listened to Tessa Rose Jackson‘s Songs From The Sandbox yet, you’re doing something wrong. If you do listen to it, you won’t find this song on it. ...
Rachel Sermanni
Rachel Sermanni‘s music has been in my favorites ever since a friend from Glasgow played me one of her songs. From that moment on, I’ve been meaning to organize a ...
Jack Savoretti
Every once in a while, I listen to songs I’ve never heard before and get that impressed that I have to listen to as many songs of that artist as ...
Thus Owls – Roots
When I organised the session with Thus Owls, I actually forgot to ask them to play one of their own songs as well. After recording three covers, Simon and Erika ...
Theo Sieben – Late Will I Know You
I’ve posted many times before about Theo Sieben and how good his songs are. He was one of the musicians on the second Traditionals album and both his session and ...
Thus Owls
Remember that session with Simon Angell? The one where he covered Daft Punk on just his guitar? It’s now four years later, and this month I’ve put Angell in front ...
Lucie Thorne
In November, Smoked Recordings – record label of Davie Lawson, run by Dan Tuffy of Big Low – hosted a label night, featuring not only Lawson and Jeroen Kant, but ...
Rebecca Sier – Wide
Last week, Rebecca Sier released a new EP, online. You can listen to it below and download it via Bandcamp. Earlier, I posted the session which we recorded at Cafe ...
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 ...
Theo Sieben
On the same day I recorded the session with Royal Parks in Amsterdam, earlier this year, I filmed this session with Theo Sieben and Judith Kolen. You might know Sieben ...
Royal Parks – Ask My Mother & Doing Overtime
Usually, musicians play one extra song of their own after recording the covers for their Onder Invloed session, but Diederik Nomden, aka Royal Parks was on a roll. So we ...
Theo Sieben – Dig A Hole
On the 23rd of November, Theo Sieben‘s second album ‘Invite To Dance’ will be released, and it’s as good as – if not better than – his first. A couple ...
Royal Parks
Diederik Nomden is one of the most mentioned musicians in my book, apart from the musicians who were interviewed of course. Nomden has played in some of my favourite Dutch ...
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 ...
Paulusma live at EKKO
Earlier this year I posted videos of Chop Wood, Marien Dorleijn (Moss) and Bertolf performing at the book release show at EKKO in January. Multiple reasons caused the videos of ...
Three Blind Wolves, Maarten Kooijman & Case Mayfield – The Weight (The Band)
Last week, The Band-drummer Levon Helm died. It made me think not only of all the great songs he’s responsible for, or ‘The Last Waltz’ which is one of my ...
Rebecca Sier
The first time I saw Rebecca Sier play live, was at our own stage at the Into The Great Wide Open festival in September 2011. After reading her name on ...
Paulusma live at Festival aan de Werf (2)
Sometimes I search through external hard drives, without a specific purpose. Most times I’ll find some old recordings of live shows or sessions from previous years. Maybe it shows that ...
David Pino live at Hedon
El Pino and The Volunteers was one of the first Dutch bands I really got into, years back. I’ve been buying their albums and going to their shows ever since. ...
Theo Sieben live at Hedon
Every now and then, I’ll hear a song or album or voice that stops everything around me, and makes me want to cancel all appointments, lock myself in a room ...
Paulusma live at Festival aan de Werf
In May this year, Paulusma headlined the Onder Invloed night at Festival aan de Werf in Utrecht. I can’t describe how good this set was. Luckily I’ve got some amazing ...
Solo live at U ROCK Cafe
In the first three years of Onder Invloed I’ve filmed a lot. I mean… A LOT. Seen as I also have to sleep sometimes, I didn’t have the time to ...
A tribute to Woost
For the non Dutch viewers; you might not have known this band. You should have. The Dutch band Woost decided to split this Summer, after releasing four albums in almost ...
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. ...
Three Blind Wolves
Here’s the second episode of the series we’ve named The Mailmen Sessions. First up were The Seventeenth Century, on that same day in May 2010, we filmed Three Blind Wolves ...
More live videos from Onder Invloed at Hedon
Earlier this week, we published live videos of Marien Dorleijn (Moss) and Arthur Adam playing the Onder Invloed show at Hedon in Zwolle in March. Also on the line-up that ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Traditionals
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. I edited all footage shot during the recordings. Almost 40 hours of film, including some of the best Dutch musicians ever. Watch all ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Starlets live in Amsterdam
In October 2009, The Starlets from Glasgow made their Dutch debut at Onder Invloed. Supporting Anne Soldaat on that night, they entertained from beginning to end and got the same ...
The Seventeenth Century live in Utrecht
Last May, the Scottish band The Seventeenth Century played their very first show in The Netherlands, during the Onder Invloed night at Festival aan de Werf in Utrecht. And they ...
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 ...
Three Blind Wolves – afterparty
I’m back in Glasgow again. The city of great music, beers, rain and overloads of live shows. Also the city of Three Blind Wolves-singer Ross Clark, who played an unplugged ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Steve Savage (live)
They don’t get any more American than Steve Savage from Nashville. Steve’s all about the show, but don’t let that fool you; he’s got a really good voice. Take a ...
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 ...
The Redwalls
The Redwalls from Chicago brought their colorful revolution to The Influences, with covers of Velvet Underground, The Beatles and Bob Dylan.
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, ...
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 ...