Usually recording a session after a live show isn’t the best idea. Musicians are tired, happy the job’s done and either want to enjoy a great experience or forget it ...
Tim Easton
About ten years ago, Dutch drummer Kees Schaper (from Tim Knol’s band) toured with American songwriter Tim Easton. A perfect chance for me to film with Easton I thought. We ...
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 ...
Tift Merritt
Stitch Of The World is her sixth album and it’s everything you could ever want. Tift Merritt’s voice is stunning as always, her songwriting more urgent than ever. In short: ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Tim Knol
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 ...
Tessa Rose Jackson
She studied at the BRIT School where Adele and Kate Nash went, moved back to The Netherlands and kept writing songs until she found her sound. Her debut album was ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tim Knol – ‘John The Revelator’
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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, ...