MATHIJS LEEUWIS
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 Nederland’, the biggest Dutch band competition. The 1.000 euros he won, might well have been spent on booze the same day, we’ll never know. Over...
RATHER BE A SINNER THAN A PRIEST
Every now and then, I’ll have a look back in the ever growing archives of Onder Invloed. There are a lot of tapes and external harddrives that contain not only edited and published footage, because a lot of it is unseen and untouched. The main reason is that I haven’t had enough time to process...
RYAN JOSEPH BURNS IN GLASGOW
Last Month, I took a two-week-holiday and flew to Glasgow, one of my favourite cities. I brought along a camera, just for the sake of it. For most of the holiday, the camera stayed in the bag I brought it in. But meeting up with a couple of the musicians there, I soon knew it...
REBECCA SIER
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 the festival’s website, a couple of songs on her Bandcamp convinced me to book her for the live sessions we got to organise. She didn’t...
