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Visual art has long been a big part of Roadburn, though with the 2021 festival not going ahead as planned, we seized the opportunity of an unfamiliar format and were inspired to push the artwork into new territory too. Instead of the illustrative poster art we have had for the last several editions we opted for visceral photography that really resonated with us.  These photographs highlight the talent found in the cutting edge Roadburn community, but at the same time bears the hallmarks of these traumatic and disorienting times as well. Therefore it felt like a natural step to embrace renowned tattoo and multidisciplinary artist Lucile Lejoly‘s extraordinary images as our official poster artwork for Roadburn Redux.

Hailing from Tours, France, Lucile’s disturbing yet poetic – and sometimes even romantic – works of art address issues related to climate, psychology, body and emotions, captured perfectly by her immediate visual style. Lucile‘s distinctive and life-affirming self-portraits that are at the heart of Roadburn Redux (and part of her revered Dendrites series), capture both the imagery of the underground, but also allows a redefinition of – or adjustment to –  today’s ongoing limitations, through her contemporary photography.

Lucile’s evocative observations of the world at large are a testimony to her feelings as well as a tool to contemplate and question ours as well. Welcome to Roadburn Redux, Lucile. We’re extremely proud to have you as our official artist in these unprecedented times; your contemplative aesthetic is helping us to go beyond the boundaries of our own troubled psyche. The true nature of challenging art.

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Is it just us or does this feel like the first big week for album releases of 2021? If so, and if this is an indicator of what’s in store for the rest of the year, then we’re about to be truly spoiled… musically at least. The likes of Divide & Dissolve, Tribulation, Portrayal of Guilt etc whose albums we’ve eagerly been anticipating are finally out in the world. There’s plenty to get stuck into for your weekend listening, and maybe this playlist will point you in the direction of something new!

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Chelsea Wolfe x Emma Ruth Rundle – Anhedonia (Sargent House)

Lost Horizons x Marissa Nadler – Marie (Bella Union)

Alcest – Protection (Acoustic Instrumental Version) (Nuclear Blast)

Allison Lorenzen x Midwife – VALE (Self-Release)

Silver Godling – Parallell You (Gilead Media)

Årabrot – The Lie (Pelagic Records)

Divide and Dissolve – It’s Really Complicated (Invada Records)

Timelost – Alone, Clean and Slow (Church Road Records)

Jeromes Dream – Keep Those Bristles Clean and Closed II (Microspy)

The Body – The Handle/The Blade (Beast and Man / Armed with Weapons)

Tribulation – Daughter of the Djinn (Century Media)

Portrayal Of Guilt – My Immolation (Closed Casket Activities)

Wowod – Proshchenie (Church Road Records)

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Don’t let the current state of affairs keep you from discovering new music. Please consider this week’s playlist a guiding light – a beacon of creativity and hope!

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Ulver & Carpenter Brut – Machine Guns and Peacock Feathers (House Of Mythology)

Spill Gold – Highway Hypnosis (Knekelhuis) (header pic)

Ghost Funk Orchestra – King of Misdirection (Karma Chief Records)

Mourning [A] BLKstar – If I Can If I May (Don Giovanni Records)

Moor Mother & Billy Woods – Furies(Backwoodz Studioz)

Exhalants – Bang</strong> (Hex Records)

Gulch – Lie, Deny, Sanctify (Closed Casket Activities)

Terminal Bliss – March of the Grieving Droid (Relapse Records)

Pupil Slicer – Wounds Upon My Skin (Prosthetic Records)

Autarkh – Turbulence (Season of Mist)

Wesenwille – The Descent (LADLO)

Emptiness – Vide, incomplet (Season of Mist)

Kira McSpice – Daylight (Self-Release)

Ece Canli – Umayuma (Lovers & Lollypops)

Future Museums – Side 2 (Aural Canyon)

Prairie WWWW – Shells (Self Release)

Aurat – Wada (Self Release)

Gaye Su Akyol – Isyan Manifestosu (Glitterbeat Records)

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Alright – now we’re talking! This year is really starting to churn out some future classics. Dive in to a selection of tracks that have been keeping us hooked up to our headphones this week.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Gatecreeper – Sick of Being Sober (Close Casket Activities)

The Body – Tied Up and Locked In (Beast and Man SESAC)

Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou – Crone Dance (Sacred Bones Records)

Alkerdeel – Zop (Consouling Sounds / Babylon Doom Cult)

EyeHateGod – Fake What’s Yours (Century Media)

Tribulation – Funeral Pyre (Century Media)

The Lion’s Daughter – Neon Teeth (Season of Mist)

Here Lies Man – Collector of Vanities (RidingEasy Records)

Perfume Genius x Boy Harsher – Your Body Changes Everything (Matador Records)

Blanck Mass – Starstuff (Sacred Bones Records)

Alice Glass – Suffer and Swallow (Eating Glass Records)

Grayceon – The Lucky Ones (We Can Records)

Wardruna – Skugge (Fimbulljod Productions / Sony Music)

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We’re only a week into a new year and it feels like longer! Fortunately there’s been some new tunes released already to help keep us sane… plus, we’re still (re)discovering and uncovering gems from 2020!

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Sven Wunder – Snowdrops (Piano Piano Records)

Planning For Burial – When Summer Turns To Fall (The Flenser)

Zola Jesus – Krunk (Sacred Bones)

PÅGÅ – Water Strider (Svart Records)

Patriarchy x Drab Majesty – Burn The Witch (DERO Arcade)

Divide and Dissolve – Denial (Invada Records)

Folterkammer – Das Magnificat (Gilead Media)

The Ruins Of Beverast – Anchoress in Furs (Ván Records)

Portrayal Of Guilt – Garden of Despair (Closed Casket Activities)

Culted – Black Bird (Season of Mist)

Akhlys – Somniloquy (Eitrin)

Knoll – Lambent Urn (Self-Release)

MF DOOM – Doomsday (Self-Release)

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We’re aware that many people have been speculating about the practicalities around hosting Roadburn 2021 as we originally planned – with everything simply carried over from 2020. Despite encouraging news about vaccines we are just not in a position to assume that will be possible in four months from now.

We are currently planning a very much scaled down, COVID-proof version of Roadburn for April 2021, which will be accessible whether you’re in Tilburg or somewhere else around the globe. We’ll have more information on that in the new year…

We’re so grateful that back in March/April you decided to roll over your tickets to 2021, but we understand that you might not be in a position to roll over again to 2022, so we will be offering refunds to those who would like to claim them. Holding on to your ticket is a huge help to us, and it guarantees your access to Roadburn in 2022 (set for April 21-24) – at 2020 prices!

Your options are as follows:

ROLLOVER – you’ve done it once, if you’d like to do it again and secure your ticket for Roadburn 2022 (set for April 21-24) then you don’t need to do anything and your ticket will automatically rollover.

REFUNDS – if you would like a refund you can request one via Ticketmaster – CLICK HERE.
You will have until February 10, 2021 to decide what you would like to do (if you do nothing, your ticket converts to a 2022 Roadburn ticket). Refunds – including those requested earlier this year – will take place on February 19, 2021.

If you booked a camping ticket of any sort or the night bus this will be refunded at the same time in February, regardless of whether you roll over your festival ticket or not. We will make plans for the 2022 Roadburn campsite in due course, but felt that it was fair to free up your money now so you can revisit your accommodation choices closer to the time.

Like many festivals, we are still facing tough decisions about how to progress in the face of an unpredictable, unprecedented pandemic. We have decided that we will not be rolling over the entire line up to 2022; it would be a huge risk and for many reasons it’s not practical to do so. However, we are in communication with bands, booking agents, labels etc to work out the best way to move forward. We have so many once-in-a-lifetime sets at Roadburn, and for some we’re going to have to wait a bit longer for those unique performances. Whilst we cannot tell you our 2022 plans now – we promise to deliver the high-level, special shows that you’ve become accustomed to.

Thank you for your understanding and patience. Despite the silver lining of being able to connect with the Roadburn community this coming April – more news on that in the new year – it is still with a sense of disbelief that we tackle each and every part of this endeavour. We hope you’re safe, well and finding solace in music, as we are.

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We might not have, for the moment, the instant, up-close fix of Roadburn spirit that are the many live shows where our wonderful community gathers as one, but we can keep sharing great music with each other in other ways. So let’s venture forth together through sun-drenched farmlands, breezy woods darkening under cloudy skies and even the odd decadent urban scenario with our new communal playlist on Spotify, Roadburn: No Harvest!

These days, perhaps more than ever before, we are constantly being amazed by artists, many of them far from widely known, that are simultaneously on the outskirts and also at the forefront of what it means to be “heavy.” From moody singer/songwriters to shadowy practitioners of dark folk, from purveyors of twisted and reimagined Americana to genuine country troubadours, they are redefining emotional and sonic heaviness every day.

So come on, pick up your metaphorical hoe, walk the endless fields with us and help us reap the (no) harvest, unearthing all the best contemporary artists and turning this into a true radio for the fringes, build by our community!

Please note: Roadburn: No Harvest is defined by dark folk, Americana, singer/songwriters and country balladiers only.

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Today marks the release of the debut album from A.A Williams – an artist that captivated us from the very first listen. To celebrate the release of Forever Blue we asked if she would put together a playlist for us, and she duly obliged.

She told us: “This playlist is a compilation of tracks that I’ve been listening to over the lockdown period. Some new releases, some old tracks and everything in between – I’ve been using music to calm me, inspire me and motivate me during this period of uncertainty.”

So, without further ado, we’ll hand over to the music, and indeed we too hope it inspires and motivates.

Forever Blue is out now via Bella Union.

If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:

Mono – After You Comes the Flood (Pelagic Records)

Holy Fawn – Candy (Tripple Crown Records)

Paradise Lost – Ghosts (Nuclear Blast)

Buzzov-en – Don’t Bring Me Down (DOC Music & Mayhem)

Melvins – A History of Bad Men (Ipecac Recordings)

Demonic Death Judge – Elevation (Suicide Records)

Elephant Tree – Sails (Holy Roar Records)

Green Lung – Let the Devil In (Self-Release)

Spell – Whipping Sigils (Bad Omen Records)

Type O Negative – My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend (Roadrunner Records)

Rage Against The Machine – Maggie’s Farm (Epic Records)

Saul Williams – List Of Demands (Reparations) (Fader)

Run The Jewels (feat. Mavis Staples & Josh Homme) – Pulling The Pin (BMG)

Perturbator – Future Club (Blood Music)

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Thank you for your patience in the past couple of weeks. We promised to let you know when Ticketmaster had activated the different options for tickets for Roadburn. This is a huge update that affects hundreds of events in The Netherlands – not just Roadburn – but we’re pleased to say that this is now in place.

These past few months brought about all kinds of challenges for so many of us; personal, professional, financial and more. Our thoughts are with every person impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. We have kept ourselves sane these past few weeks by starting to plan for Roadburn 2021. We sincerely hope that you can join us in Tilburg next April – and to do that, you just need to hang on to your ticket, no other action is required.

But we know that sadly not everybody is in a position to make the trip next year, so below you will find the full options available to you:

1. Keep your ticket. As mentioned above, if you want to show your support to Roadburn this is by far the best option! Roadburn is rescheduled to 15-18 April 2021.

2. You can request a ticket credit worth the full cost of your ticket including service fees before June 4, 2020. The request can be made HERE. The ticket credit is valid up to 24 months after it’s been issued and can be exchanged for Roadburn 2021 and 2022 as well as any event organised at the 013 venue. If you have not used this ticket credit (in full or partially) after 24 months, you will automatically be refunded the remaining amount.

When you apply for a voucher, Ticketmaster will mail you when the credit is ready for use. At the time of writing, this is approx. around the end of July. By converting your ticket into a credit to visit another event, you are helping us mitigate the economic impact of the measures on 013 venue and our festival. Claiming a voucher also benefits us greatly and if you opt to do this, we thank you for your support.

3. You can donate your ticket to Roadburn before June 4, 2020. We don’t have any expectation that this will be feasible for many of you. If you do opt for this then your generosity would be extremely welcome. The entirety of the donation will benefit Roadburn, and our artistic projects.  You can use this contact form. Select ‘Donate ticket’ as the topic.

4. It is also possible to request a refund via this contact form before June 4, 2020. Select ‘Apply refund’ as the topic. Your tickets will then be cancelled. If you choose to request a refund, the amount will be refunded within a month after the new Roadburn date at the latest. Since Roadburn will be on 15-18 April 2021, you will get a refund before May 15 2021. This is in accordance with the Ticket Value Scheme agreed upon by the cultural sector in collaboration with the Dutch government.

If you have any questions, please see our FAQ HERE. If you have problems on the Ticketmaster website, you can find lots of information and answers in their FAQ’s. If you cannot find your answer there, you can also contact Ticketmaster directly.

In addition, the website saveyourticket.nl contains information about the Ticket Value Scheme that has been drawn up by the cultural sector in collaboration with the Dutch government. These resources should be able to help with any enquiries specific to the Ticket Value Scheme and refunds but we are still here to answer your questions as best we can – we can be reached on info@013.nl if you need us.

Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. We really hope to see you all again on Roadburn 2021!

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Here are some of the most frequently asked questions related to the Ticket Value Scheme which is now in place.

What is the Ticket Value Scheme?
Guidelines have been agreed by the Dutch government that span the entirety of the events and entertainment industry in The Netherlands, detailing a way forward for all cultural and sporting events – of which Roadburn is of course a part. This scheme is known as the Ticket Value Scheme. These guidelines are set out to be fair to consumers and ticket buyers but also to protect the venues, events, and promoters and to ensure longevity for the entertainment sector in The Netherlands. Basically, we call on our visitors to keep their ticket for Roadburn 2021: Save your ticket, enjoy later.

How does the Ticket Value Scheme work?
We sincerely hope that you can join us in Tilburg next April – and to do that, you just need to hang on to your ticket, no other action is required.

If this isn’t an option for you, we ask you kindly to opt for a voucher. This is a ticket credit in your Ticketmaster account worth the full cost of your ticket including service fees. The request can be made here up until June 4, 2020. The ticket credit is valid up to 24 months after it’s been issued and can be exchanged for Roadburn 2021 and 2022 as well as any event organised at the 013 venue. If you have not used this ticket credit (in full or partly) after 24 months, you will automatically be refunded the remaining amount. By converting your ticket into a credit to visit another event, you are helping us mitigate the economic impact of the measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Claiming a voucher also benefits us greatly and if you opt to do this, we thank you for your support.

Can I make a donation instead?
We don’t have any expectation that this will be feasible for many of you. If you do opt for this then your generosity would be extremely welcome. The entirety of the donation will benefit Roadburn, and our artistic projects. You can use this contact form. Select ‘Donate ticket’ as the topic. Converting your ticket to a donation is possible until June 4, 2020.

Can I get a refund instead?
As a consumer you have the right to request a refund. According to the Ticket Value Scheme the amount (including service fees) will be refunded within a month after the new Roadburn date at the latest. Since Roadburn will be on 15-18 April 2021, you will get a refund before May 15 2021 at the latest. You can request your refund via this contact form until June 4, 2020. Select ‘Apply refund’ as the topic. Although we know that some people are suffering financially from the current global situation, we sincerely hope that you will still come to Roadburn in 2021 or 2022 and do not use this option.

What about my camping ticket?
Everything mentioned above is also applicable to your camping ticket. Please note: if camping tickets were purchased separately, you must request a separate voucher or refund.

What happens with day tickets?
Your day tickets remain valid for the same day in 2021. So if, for example, you’ve bought a ticket for Roadburn Saturday and you want to keep your ticket, your ticket will remain valid for Roadburn Saturday 2021. Of course, you can also opt for the voucher and buy new day tickets when they go on sale, but be aware that Roadburn day tickets can sell out quickly.

I bought hardcopy ticket(s) at the 013 box office, Sounds Record store or Primera, so I didn’t get an e-mail.
You can still hang on to your ticket for 2021. But if you prefer a voucher, donation or a refund, we ask you to come to the 013 box office with your hardcopy ticket(s) as soon as it is open again. Please keep an eye on the 013 website for the latest information.

What happens with my ticket after June 4, 2020?
Your ticket will be automatically converted to a ticket for Roadburn 2021. (You will not receive a new ticket.)

What should I do if I bought my ticket on Ticketswap?
You should contact TicketSwap directly. Buying via TicketSwap is always at your own risk: you have made a transaction with Ticketswap, not with Roadburn/013. So even though we would like to reach you, we simply can’t. We can only contact the original buyer.