NS 16 - Førtifem & David Fitt
Just across the street from the Koepelhal venues is the NS16 which this year will be hosting exhibitions from our official festival artist, David Fitt, as well as his fellow French creatives, Fortifem. This little oasis of creativity will highlight exactly why David’s work caught our eye and why he has been a go-to collaborator for an ever growing number of musicians (including Dool, and Grave Pleasures to name just two out of the more than a hundred he’s worked with). His emotional and feelings-first approach to photography and filmmaking makes his distinctive style really stand out.
Of his participation in Roadburn 2024, he says the following: “Being asked to create the visual artwork of this year’s edition is like receiving a stamp of approval to what I’ve been doing over the last decade. Roadburn has always been a festival I looked up to for the exigence of its lineup & curation. Therefore, I’m planning to have the biggest showcase of my work to date, including screenings of my videos & photo exhibitions. How I feel right now is beyond excitement.”
The exhibition is titled Empty Hamptons and shows the vulnerable side of its creator. Shot in early 2022 in the Hamptons, Long Island, the images give a confronting and sometimes bleak look into David’s emotional state at the time. For the first time, David himself was the focal point of his work, creating an autobiographical collection of images that centre on the theme of healing.
David’s video work for Roadburn this year featured two familiar faces – those of Adrien and Jesse aka Fortifem. The pair will offer up their own exhibit at the NS16 during Roadburn, showcasing their own distinctive talents. Their style draws as much from the strength of tattoo lines as from the meticulousness of old engravings, always trying to shine a warm light into the darkest ink.
As they explain:
“We’ve always been amazed by Roadburn’s power to gather and elevate hearts through its always-evolving yet always-on-point curation. We’ve seen many dear friends deeply moved by the festival, whether experiencing it from the crowd or from the stage. The unexpected inclusion of the two of us as David Fitt’s models on the poster announcement has led to an invitation to showcase a decade of our work as artists. It’s our first Roadburn, and we are humbled, incredibly grateful, and still can’t quite believe it. We hope you find in our creations some fond memories or echoes of the bands that have accompanied you, as they have for us.”
Please join us to officially open the NS16 exhibitions at 1pm on Thursday, 18 Apri
Introducing: The Workshop
A new space for 2024 will host a clutch of talented and influential artists who will be showcasing and selling their work for eager Roadburners throughout the four days of the festival. This is your opportunity to meet the wonderful folk behind some stunning artworks.
Fortifem will be exhibiting their work in this new area – demonstrating exactly why they caught the eye of bands such as Alcest, Amenra, Ulver, Igorrr and more. Having both worked as graphic designers previously, Jesse and Adrien now unite under the banner of Fortifem, where their striking illustrations and evocative artworks conjure up an ever expanding world of artistic possibilities.
Nona Limmen will also have her work on display at The Workshop as she explores ideas of mythology, symbolism, the occult, psychology and shadow work. Her lens serves as a liminal space that lures you in and makes the world around you fall away as you’re drawn through a portal of her own creation.
Marald van Haasteren is a fine artist based in Leiden, here in the Netherlands. His bold, distinctive and often incredibly delicate compositions explore ideas of elegance and beauty in nature. His work has caught the eye of the likes of High on Fire, Converge, Metallica, Ghost, Baroness and more. He has previously exhibited his work at Roadburn and of his return comments: “The direct contact with people (fellow artists, musicians, Roadburners) is something I dearly missed. I’m grateful to be back at the best festival to present my art.”
Another artist whose style will be familiar to repeat Roadburners is that of Vince Trommel. His illustrations adorned the beloved Weirdo Canyon Dispatch – Roadburn’s now defunct daily zine, as well as creeping into various other elements of the festival. His work is reminiscent of a modern day Jheronimus Bosch, reaching beyond the realms of reality and into the surreal.
Maarten Donders’ talents have seen his artwork lauded around the globe by such internationally recognised names as Brant Bjork, Billy Strings, and SUNN. We’ve long been champions of his otherworldly ability to capture the mystical and the magical in pen and ink. We’re delighted to be exhibiting a selection of his work once again at Roadburn.
Live premiere: Focus Defocus from JeGong
You are cordially invited to join the live debut of JeGong as they celebrate their continuing creative union as it comes full circle at this year’s edition of Roadburn. We’re thrilled to debut a live video of ‘Focus Defocus’, taken from JeGong’s album ‘The Complex Inbetween’.
See you in Hall of Fame on Sunday at 20.00
You are cordially invited to join the live debut of JeGong as they celebrate their continuing creative union as it comes full circle at this year’s edition of Roadburn. We’re thrilled to debut a live video of ‘Focus Defocus’, taken from JeGong’s album ‘The Complex Inbetween’.
See you in Hall of Fame on Sunday at 20.00
013 Exhibition: Nona Limmen
As always, Roadburn shows the works of talented visual artists throughout the festival site. The thrilling exhibition “Where Shadows Grow” by Nona Limmen will be hung throughout the 013 venue, highlighting her dreamlike and thought-provoking images that explore ideas of mythology, symbolism, the occult, psychology, and shadow work.
Nona tells us:
‘’An homage to the twilight hour, a time of growing darkness where shadows slowly cover what once was a bright world. In the dark, everything is as your mind makes it. Anything could be on the other side, but don’t worry, you won’t get lost in this dark.
” This exhibition explores how nostalgia, the collective unconscious and dark escapism can faultlessly entangle with each other, to create an immersive journey that projects precisely that. These themes drive my work. They represent the hidden elements of human nature, the unconscious parts of our personality we all carry with us but try to actively keep in check. All artworks showcased at Roadburn will serve as an invitation to connect with that macabre feature that lurks within all of us.’’
The Walter - a drinkable ode to Walter
Introducing... ONEIROPOREIA
As is well documented, Roadburn seeks to champion up-and-coming artists, and last year we took this further than ever before. We teamed up with Metal Factory, an international music education institute in Eindhoven to present a brand new band, Alkahest, formed of students studying there. We were so pleased with the results of this collaboration to ‘rejuvenate heaviness’ that we’re doing it all over again this year.
So, without further ado we’d like to introduce you to ONEIROPOREIA. The six piece band has been hard at work over the last few months, finding their feet as a group and crafting what will become their debut performance at Roadburn 2024. Drawing influence from the heavier end of psychedelia such as Kairon; IRSE! And Oranssi Pazuzu, ONEIROPOREIA combine this with progressive elements inspired by the likes of Focus and Camel, all delivered with a distinctive post-rock twist.
The band’s name is taken from the Greek term for “a journey through dreams” – a central theme of the music they’ve written together. Taking their own dreams as the foundation from which they have built their songs, they explore the nature of nocturnal healing and otherworldly experiences.
Whilst ONEIROPOREIA were fine tuning their set, Roadburn’s artistic director, Walter Hoeijmakers was able to catch a glimpse of what’s coming our way. “I was completely overwhelmed,” he said, “it’s incredible how much they have taken this project to heart and thrown themselves into the music. They very clearly want to learn from each other and as a consequence have propelled each other to great heights. This is much more than an educational project – they have created something special in their own vision and I cannot wait to see it come to fruition.”
Join us on Saturday afternoon as we help usher this new and exciting project into the spotlight.
ONEIROPOREIA is:
Lenthe Peters – vocals
Nina Grimm – keys, backing vocals
Bas Groenendaal – bass, backing vocals
Ilya Kern – guitars
Ivo Druijf – guitars
Abe Stadhouders – drums
The timetables are here
The Roadburn 2024 timetables are finally here. Thank you for your patience as we put the finishing touches to these.
Premiere: Iron Jinn - Live at Roadburn 2023
It was a completion of their first cycle, a coming back home kind of step in their journey and also a mature coming of age, at the same time. Founded initially by Oeds Beydals (The Devil’s Blood, Molassess, Death Alley) and Wout Kemkens (Shaking Godspeed) for a Roadburn collaboration back in 2018, Iron Jinn inevitably grew over time into a proper four-piece with the addition of Bob Holgenelst (Birth of Joy/Molassess) and Gerben Bielderman (Pauw) and put together a fantastically elusive, mysterious self-titled debut album whose premiere couldn’t really have taken place anywhere else.
While fitting vaguely into the catch-all “rock” category, you might think music this sinister, this layered and this subtly, almost esoterically atmospheric could be difficult to retain all its power in a live setting. Well, Iron Jinn, enriched by keyboardist Jarno van Es, sure laid all those doubts to rest with a staggering full-album performance that turned out to be one of the major highlights of Roadburn 2023. Now, they are releasing that memorable, mind-bendingly psychedelic show as both a double album and a concert film, and the good news is that you can watch the latter while you wait for the former to arrive, right now. It’s not quite the same as having been there, but the vibe we felt is so well captured that it’s close to a time machine as we can get.
Oeds Beydals told us that “the Iron Jinn 2023 Roadburn performance was the perfect opportunity for us to present our debut album in the flesh. Roadburn’s Walter Hoeijmakers made it possible for us to expand the band’s line-up for this release show so we could recreate the layered density the album has to offer. We were playing to an energetic and receptive audience at 013’s Next Stage around midnight. To most of the people present, it was probably the first introduction to the material and the group and still the band and the crowd moved as a unit. Jarno Van Es joined us on keys for what was to become the 5th live appearance of the band as a whole and the first with him added. We didn’t shy away from a new creative process to make the songs come out as vibrant as possible. Creating fresh counterparts to the more produced studio versions by adding spontaneous improvisation and new fire to the music. Although we hope to keep evolving, this show is a moment in time that we are thankful to have captured: a band getting into its own at a very early stage.”
On Friday 5 april, Iron Jinn is coming to EKKO to present a new live album recorded during Roadburn 2023. More info here
It was a completion of their first cycle, a coming back home kind of step in their journey and also a mature coming of age, at the same time. Founded initially by Oeds Beydals (The Devil’s Blood, Molassess, Death Alley) and Wout Kemkens (Shaking Godspeed) for a Roadburn collaboration back in 2018, Iron Jinn inevitably grew over time into a proper four-piece with the addition of Bob Holgenelst (Birth of Joy/Molassess) and Gerben Bielderman (Pauw) and put together a fantastically elusive, mysterious self-titled debut album whose premiere couldn’t really have taken place anywhere else.
While fitting vaguely into the catch-all “rock” category, you might think music this sinister, this layered and this subtly, almost esoterically atmospheric could be difficult to retain all its power in a live setting. Well, Iron Jinn, enriched by keyboardist Jarno van Es, sure laid all those doubts to rest with a staggering full-album performance that turned out to be one of the major highlights of Roadburn 2023. Now, they are releasing that memorable, mind-bendingly psychedelic show as both a double album and a concert film, and the good news is that you can watch the latter while you wait for the former to arrive, right now. It’s not quite the same as having been there, but the vibe we felt is so well captured that it’s close to a time machine as we can get.
Oeds Beydals told us that “the Iron Jinn 2023 Roadburn performance was the perfect opportunity for us to present our debut album in the flesh. Roadburn’s Walter Hoeijmakers made it possible for us to expand the band’s line-up for this release show so we could recreate the layered density the album has to offer. We were playing to an energetic and receptive audience at 013’s Next Stage around midnight. To most of the people present, it was probably the first introduction to the material and the group and still the band and the crowd moved as a unit. Jarno Van Es joined us on keys for what was to become the 5th live appearance of the band as a whole and the first with him added. We didn’t shy away from a new creative process to make the songs come out as vibrant as possible. Creating fresh counterparts to the more produced studio versions by adding spontaneous improvisation and new fire to the music. Although we hope to keep evolving, this show is a moment in time that we are thankful to have captured: a band getting into its own at a very early stage.”
On Friday 5 april, Iron Jinn is coming to EKKO to present a new live album recorded during Roadburn 2023. More info here
The Roadburn 2024 side programme with Khanate, Death Goals, Agriculture, clipping. and more
Roadburn’s side programme returns with a clutch of conversations to tickle curious minds! If you’re keen to dive into the inner workings of some of your favourite artists at Roadburn this year, then read on!
Both Khanate and Blood Incantation will be ‘in conversation’ – although not with each other! Heaviness as a concept will be explored through an experimental lens, with members of clipping and King Yosef contributing their tales of heavy music exploration. On a separate panel, members of Agriculture, Ragana and Death Goals will discuss the restorative power of heavy music, with a focus on queerness and healing.
Roadburn’s Artistic Director, Walter Hoeijmakers will sit down to spill the beans on everything to do with this year’s edition of the festival and beyond… And our resident vinyl guru, Andreas Kohl will lead a conversation about the sustainable future of vinyl.
7 names announced for Paradox
For the third year in a row, we’ve teamed up with Paradox Tilburg to bring you two days of experimental and avant-garde music in the intimate setting of this special, world-renowned jazz club. We’re thrilled to welcome to the line-up:
Deepsky
Drone Assembly
Echoes of Zoo
Hedvig Mollestad Trio
NI
OTTLA
Raw Fish’s Heavy Zazz Jam
Dive into all these performances at roadburn.com
Stay tuned for news on art exhibitions, the side programme – and yes, the time schedules – in the coming weeks. Tickets and info can be found over at Roadburn.com