‘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 ...
If you’re a regular visitor of Onder Invloed, you might remember the solo session Maurits Westerik recorded in a church all the way back in 2008. Since then, his band ...
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. ...
The first person to introduce me to the Irish band The Young Folk was Davie Lawson, who you might know of one of his hundred sessions for Onder Invloed. Not ...
‘When I die, I wanna be sent back to try, try again.’ (From: Neon Tombstone) It’s one of many beautiful sentences in the lyrics by Nashville-based group The Wood Brothers, ...
Every week a lot of musicians get in touch asking for a session. Although I have to turn down most of them, I do like getting these emails and listening ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On the promotion tour for her third record Tall Tall Shadow, out now on Secret City Records, Canadian songwriter Basia Bulat made some time to record a session in Amsterdam. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The first time I met Ben Caplan, I was seated about two meters from his piano and obviously wasn’t acquainted with the volume of his voice yet. It was Record ...
I met this guy at a local radio station where he played some songs. It was his voice I liked. And so, a couple of weeks later Lukas Batteau recorded ...
It was in May 2008 that I saw Tim Knol perform live for the very first time. It was at EKKO in Utrecht, where I talked to him earlier that ...
A little over a month ago, I published the session that Broeder Dieleman recorded in March. Since then, I’ve waited impatiently for a good time to post the extra song ...
After his session in the autumn of 2012, Peter Katz also played one of his own songs, called ‘Dear’. When you’ve watched this video, make sure you check his covers ...
It’s taken a while, but after almost exactly a year, I now give you this session with Leine. This Amsterdam based musician, who’s real name is Marjoleine Reitsma, recorded her ...
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 ...
A couple of years ago I saw Port Of Call play as support act with Paulusma at EKKO in Utrecht. I couldn’t help but think of Neil Young somehow, even ...
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 ...
Over the last few years, I’ve attended every official Onder Invloed show there ever was, except for one in Amsterdam. I was sick as a dog and I was supposed ...
Awkward I has been one of the most frequent acts at Onder Invloed shows over the last years. It was a great pleasure every time. From the first time at ...
The first time I met Mathijs Leeuwis, he was as drunk as David Hasselhoff on an average Tuesday. Hours before, Leeuwis won the public’s prize at ‘De Grote Prijs van ...
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 ...
In Middelburg, in the far South West of The Netherlands, there’s this guy called Tonnie Dieleman, who organises intimite live shows called ‘Avonduren‘. One day he called to ask if ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...