Walk the Line festival May 11th & 12th 2012 – Preview

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Dennis

Last weekend it was time again for a trip to The Hague (Den Haag) to see the third edition of the Walk the Line festival, one of my favorite festivals in the Netherlands. To cut a long story short: I had a blast and whilst the full report on the festival will have to wait until I get time to work on all the photos, I just can’t resist giving you a preview of some of them…

Craziness from Japan: Trippple Nippples…

Underground pop with a bite from Basel: Anna Aaron…

And a girl who was supposedly born in Transylvania to a pack of albino wolves who raised her on chewing tobacco and stuffed clams: Beth Jeans Houghton…

All in all another amazing edition of this amazing festival. Stay tuned for more words and above all loads more photos!

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André Kuijpers and Band, promo shoot @ Breda April 28th 2012

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Dennis

This is André Kuijpers and like myself he is a regular contributor to the File Under music webzine. But whereas I can hardly play a guitar chord to save my life, André is quite an established musician. As he had recently assembled a band consisting of Erik van der Heijden, Berrie Koot, Freek Imbens and Niels van den Heuvel, André was looking for someone to take some promo photos of them. I was honored to be asked to do that job.

On what started out as a rainy day, Jeroen Trispel (thanks for your help mate!) and myself made the trip over from Arnhem to Breda, where I had chosen the square behind the Chassé theater as location for the shoot. We were lucky that it didn’t rain anymore during the shoot, but apart from that conditions were far from ideal. It was very hazy without any ‘structure’ in the sky, which made it very difficult to create some drama in the shots. In the end I made the decision not to try and create something that basically wasn’t there, so I used the sky as a white canvas to paint the picture. Think it worked out quite well…

If you’re in a band and in need of some promo photos too, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me. I’d be happy to help you out.

Full photo gallery after the break…

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Black Box Revelation & Black Bottle Riot @ Luxor Live April 27th 2012

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Dennis

It felt good to be back at my local venue Luxor Live in Arnhem for a double headliner of two bands who’s acronyms were both BBR: bluesrockers Black Bottle Riot from nearby Nijmegen and Flemish psychedelic blues and rock duo Black Box Revelation.

Black Box Revelation’s Jan Paternoster (on guitar and vocals) and Dries Van Dijck (on drums) were just back from a trip to Russia, where they played in Moscow. A photo I took of them at the de-Affaire festival way back in 2008 was used on a poster to promote their Russian gig. I have to admit being pretty proud of that…

2008 was also the last time I saw them live, so I was curious to hear how their sound had evolved since, and it sure has! It’s still as energetic, raunchy and down and dirty as ever, but the diversity of their songs has become much bigger, making it even more fun to watch them perform.

I had not seen the Black Bottle Riot perform live before (shame on me, hehe) but I had already heard of their live reputation. And they sure managed to deliver on the night!

Really cool to see the energy of this band on stage and not just that, it’s also really clear that these guys are out there to enjoy themselves, despite playing some serious bluesrock. Glad that I finally made up for missing them so many times before…

Two full photo galleries after the break…

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