The first time I heard Caroline Spence’s single ‘Sit Here And Love Me’, was in a plane – somewhere in between Amsterdam and Glasgow. When Ryan Joseph Burns picked me ...
Back when traveling and going to shows were still things people did, I met up with Kentuckian artist Senora May in Utrecht. Her self-released debut ‘Lainhart’ has been a very ...
Sofie Winterson and I only film in musea it seems. Last year we had the honor of filming at Panorama Mesdag in The Hague – find her Unknown Mortal Orchestra ...
Learning and development are recurring themes in my conversation with Sofie Winterson. As a songwriter she continously seeks new methods and inspiration. That is probably what makes her music so ...
After spending most of his childhood years living in Zimbabwe, Nicaragua and Ghana, Sam van Ommen moved to Amsterdam, where he attended a local jam session and met singer Julia ...
Last week I told someone to simply listen to everything that came out on the Austin-based record label Keeled Scales. She would like everything she could find, I promised. I ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
”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 ...
Back in 2013, Small Houses covered ‘I Buried You So Deep’ in his first session for this website; a song by his fellow Americans of Frontier Ruckus. That band recorded ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
After stumbling upon a video on YouTube of Christopher Paul Stelling playing one of his songs live, I was rather impressed by the vigour and drive the Brooklyn-based songwriter radiated. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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‘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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...