Dutch Festival News

Oh yes, some Dutch festival news here now! Straight up stuff, so if you don’t like actual news stuff move along. But just thought I would quickly update everyone on my personal favourite festival De Affaire (as in, walking distance, sleeping in my own bed, and free of charge) and on the Incubate Festival in Tilburg.

Lets start with the latter. Incubate has announced that one of the guests of the festival (that will kick off on the 11^th of September) will be Ted Nugent. In a BBQ “Meat and Greet” (which is limited to fifty people only) Nugent will present his book Kill it and Grill it, which was released in 2002. Some of the artists that have already been announced are Megafaun, Joan of Arc, Library Tapes, and some seventeen others. In a related festival on the 7^th of April (called Incubated) a trio of artists will perform at Paradox in Tilburg. These artists are Eklin, Sightings, and John Maus. The latter is known for his collaborations with Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti and Panda Bear.

As far as De Affaire goes, the festival as part of the 4-Daagse has announced its first names. There are seven of them, most notably Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and avant-garde duo The Books (who I personally can’t listen to on repeat, but an interesting booking it certainly is). Other names are Avi Buffalo,  The Black Atlantic, C.W. Stoneking, and Eskmo. Last year the festival had an eclectic and fun line-up with names like Pantha du Prince, Toro Y Moi, Dum Dum Girls, The Morning Benders, Los Campesinos!, FM Belfast, and The Hundred in the Hands, to name my personal favorites of the festival. And the weather was great (as opposed to the year before, OMG) and the atmosphere was amazing, so definitely looking forward to that again.