It’s over. Tilburg’s best week of the year has come to an end again. We’re more dead then alive but we are smiling. Incubate festival has shown again that smallness can be greater then great. Over 200 acts, a few thousand visitors from all over the world in a small and compact city like ours are the ideal ingredients for an intimate, one of a kind atmosphere. Thank you Incubate.
Our higlights? Here we go:
Sunday:
Seeing my friend and employee Wout Withagen next to Charles Leadbeater in a panel discussion. We help Incubate, Incubate helps us. Thanks guys.
Monday:
Zola Jesus. Support act of Fever Ray. You know when you see a band that will soon come above ground. This was one of them.
Tuesday:
Neon Indian. Same story. What a band.
Wednesday:
Rest…
Thursday:
- Deejaying old school hip hop at the Incubate opening.
- Heavy Metal Bowling (although I’m going to skip that one next year, hangover wise).
Friday:
- Pirate conference with keynote speaker and bestseller Matt Mason and famous Dutch artist Rob Scholte, both very inspiring lectures.
- Frank Fairfield. Bought his record.
- Going around town with Matt Mason and my friends.
- Pounding beats from Hank Shocklee from Bomsquad.
Saturday:
- Bikes, German surfpunk band.
- Cirkle, crazy Finnish band combining opera and metal.
- Bram Stadhouders, Sidsel Endresen & Jim Black. Great improv music.
- Gunslingers. Insane garage rock.
- Having a funny moment with old Tresor hero Neil Landstrumm.
Sunday:
- De grote Kiki Show. Always room for the bizarre.
- Full Blast, Peter Brötzmann. Pure and blasting free jazz.
- Imaad Wasif. Psychadelic rock.
- Going home to my wife.
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