Christof van der Ven originates from a small town in The Netherlands, but now resides in London. He toured as the support of the likes of The Staves and Bear’s ...
Early in 2015 I met The Young Folk from Dublin and filmed a session with them in Amsterdam. Later in the year we got to hang out a couple more ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
In November 2010, I flew to Glasgow to film the album release show of Doghouse Roses. Occasionally, Paul Tasker and Iona MacDonald are now backed by a band. Their drummer ...
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 ...
In October we had the first Onder Invloed live show at Hedon in Zwolle. We managed to get a line up I personally was very proud of. Three of my ...
Last October, Woost headlined the first Onder Invloed live show at Hedon in Zwolle. And how. They were amazing. They’re usually good, but that night… Next week I’ll publish some ...
In the fall of 2009, Onder Invloed’s good friends Paul Tasker and Iona MacDonald of Doghouse Roses were touring Europe as support and bandmembers of Willard Grant Conspiracy. In September ...
If I wanted to come to a town called Best, near Eindhoven in the South of The Netherlands to record a session with Woost, that’s what Marike Jager asked me ...
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 ...
When I first saw the poster for the temporary band The Group, formed around the release of the book ‘Vreeland’ by Jerry Goossens, I was most of all wondering why ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...