Roadburn adds new venue for curated jazz & avant-garde programme
Roadburn has announced a new venue for the 2022 edition of the festival, which takes place April 21-24 this year. The renowned and respected jazz club Paradox will host a programme of artists across the four days of the festival, which highlights the more experimental and avant-garde artists in the Roadburn realm.
Bartho van Straaten, artistic director of Paradox comments:
“As a venue for innovating and adventurous improvised music, Paradox is thrilled to start this new collaboration with Roadburn, a festival that approached music with the same open-minded attitude. The program of Paradox and Roadburn definitely has an overlap, so it will be interesting to present common grounds by curating the Paradox stage together, and share our musical thoughts in redefining heaviness.”
With just a few more bands, art exhibitions and the side programme still to announce for Roadburn 2022, the jam-packed line up will have something for every visitor with a curiosity for heavy music.
Some names for the Paradox programme may be familiar to Roadburners already… We have invited Dirk Serries to be an Artist in Residence across all four days of the festival. He will perform in a different incarnation each day (Kristoffer Lo & Dirk Serries, TONUS, YODOK III, Martina Verhoeven Quintet) – showcasing his versatility and limitless imagination for jazz and its adjacent genres.
Autarkh III – the experimental-based off-shoot of Autarkh – performed at Roadburn Redux and will now return to the Roadburn stage to do it all again in front of a live audience.
ZAÄAR was born as an offshoot of neo-psychedelic cosmos-dwellers Neptunian Maximalism, which combines tribal rhythms, prog rock, ambient soundscapes and much more.
Red Kite were due to join Roadburn in 2020, and we’re delighted to have found a fitting space for them in the 2022 line up where they can conjure their white hot prog-psych-jazz blitz into reality.
Het Concreet feature the recently crowned City Composer of Tilburg, Mathijs Leeuwis among their ranks. The title gives a clue to the important creative work he and his fellow bandmates are capable of. Their combined talents will create a compelling electro-acoustic experiment featuring tape loops, deep vocals and sizzling percussion.
Dans Dans combine cerebral pop compositions with the impulsive, adventurous nature of jazz to great critical acclaim, despite being difficult to categorise as they straddle genres and seek to reinterpret the parameters of their art.
Pulled By Magnets will be making the trek over from London to bring their jazz-metal-ambient-classical hybrid to us at Roadburn. They create music so rife with possibility, and on such a cinematic scale, that it feels almost impossible for a three-piece unit to create, and yet…
PoiL Ueda combine Francophile prog rock with traditional Japanese folk to thrilling effect. John Ghost will crowd the stage with their sweeping, propulsive grooves, whilst Albatre will bring their freejazz/noise/metal stylings to Paradox. And closing out the festival will be Schnellertollermeier – a Swiss experimental rock trio that has immense attention to detail and avant-garde quirks.
Jo Quail shares first snippet of commissioned work, The Cartographer
Acclaimed cellist, Jo Quail, has today shared the first snippet of music from her upcoming Roadburn-commissioned project, The Cartographer – as well as announcing that she has signed to record label By Norse.
Back in 2019 we commissioned Jo to create a piece of music to perform at Roadburn 2020. We were drawn to Jo for her incredible talent to combine classical composition with contemporary heavy music and had absolute belief in her ability to create something stunning. The pandemic delayed the performance, which will now take place in a little under two months at the 2022 edition of the festival instead. The music will remain under lock and key until Jo and her ensemble of musicians step on stage at the 013 venue in Tilburg, but a small snippet can be heard in the video below where she talks about the origins of The Cartographer.
The delayed performance enabled Jo to commit The Cartographer to record, which will be released in May via By Norse – pre-orders are available now (click here for North America)
We’re already highly anticipating this special performance, and hope that Jo’s unique creativity, insight and abilities resonate with Roadburners too. You can read a little more about The Cartographer here. Don’t miss her performance on the main stage on Saturday, April 23 – but if you can’t join us, then mark May 6 on your calendars and prepare for The Cartographer to go global.
8 new names for Roadburn 2022
Roadburn has today confirmed a new group of names for the 2022 edition of the festival – including three performances for the regular Wednesday night pre-party, and a new edition to Milena Eva and Thomas Sciarone’s curated event.
Roadburn’s artistic director, Walter Hoeijmakers comments:
“Following the success of Roadburn Redux we’re very proud to have a number of special sets and collaborations from Dutch artists at Roadburn this year – further emphasising Roadburn 2022’s artistic scope. With Europe opening up even further, things are looking really good for Roadburn this year, and we’re so looking forward to welcoming everyone to Tilburg in two months from now. Before then, we still have several more announcements up our sleeve, so stay tuned!”
Dead Neanderthals will make a triumphant return to Roadburn as they team up with Solar Temple for a special collaborative project titled Embers Beget The Divine. Dead Neanderthals will be a familiar name for Roadburners: they’ve spent the past decade-plus putting together an eclectic and envious back catalogue that spans multiple genres – from free-jazz to grindcore by way of psychedelia – and continuously defies expectations. No strangers to collaborations, they have now teamed up with Solar Temple – a more stage-shy ensemble but no less of an enticing prospect.
Radar Men From The Moon will perform three times – once at the pre-party (more of which in a moment), once under, once with an electronic set, and once with a specially commissioned collaborative set that will see them team up with Twin Sister (Dead Neanderthals, Sex Swing) – titled Mirrors For Discharge.
Mandy, Indiana are the final addition to Milena Eva and Thomas Sciarone’s curated event. Their fusion of hypnotic beats and discordant noise come together to create something that’s both fascinating and immersive.
With the unmistakable vocals of Farida Lemouchi at the helm, Gott have also been added to the line up. Also featuring members of Soulburn, Severe Torture, Ggu:ll, Dodecahedron and Radar Men From The Moon, Gott are a veritable who’s who of the Dutch music scene. Elsewhere we’ve added Supersonic Blues to bring some 70’s rock vibes to Roadburn, and The Ballet Bombs who will be making their long overdue Roadburn debut as well as releasing their brand new live record titled Mutations at the festival.
The aforementioned pre-show party, now happening under the name The Spark, will serve as a welcome party for Roadburners old and new and will take place on Wednesday, 20 April. Joining Radar Men From The Moon will be Berlin’s Maggot Heart bringing their raucous take on noise rock ‘n’ roll to Tilburg, and Bad Breeding who will be letting off steam with their blistering anarcho-punk-hardcore.
These artists will join the already announced Roadburn 2022 line up that includes Ulver, Lingua Ignota, 40 Watt Sun, Emma Ruth Rundle, Liturgy, SLIFT, Full of Hell, Die Wilde Jagd, Cloud Rat and many more. Uniform and Pinkish Black will no longer perform at Roadburn 2022 due to their European tour being cancelled.
Weekend tickets, and Thursday, Friday and Saturday day tickets are sold out. Only Sunday day tickets remain in limited numbers. Tickets and accommodation options are available to view via ticketmaster.nl
PREMIERE: Sum of R - DAFT sessions
Having morphed into a three piece, SUM OF R are currently making the necessary preparations for Roadburn 2022, where they’ll perform their new album, Lahbryce, in full. They already released one single titled Crown of Diseased from Lahbryce, but now we are thrilled to bring you a further glimpse into what you can expect from the album as we premiere a live performance video of three tracks from the album, filmed at the DAFT studios last year. We’ll hand over to Sum of R mainman, Reto Mäder to explain more about the session:
“The new Sum Of R trio line-up saw not only a transformation from an instrumental project to a band with vocals, but also an international expansion from Switzerland to Finland. Therefore it was clear to us that we wanted to use the few meetings all the more constructively, intensively and gratefully.With this in mind, we booked a live recording day at the DAFT studios in Malmedy in early October 2021, directly following our first ever live shows with the new line-up around last year’s 24 Hours Of Deep Listening festival by Consouling Sounds in Belgium.We chose the DAFT studios mainly because of the large live room, where we could set up generously in the middle of the room, but also build an intimate playing atmosphere by facing each other in a circle. This spacious recording room with its large windows gave us the perfect setting to perform Hymn For The Formless, Sink As I and Borderline from the upcoming album Lahbryce as live versions.Playing these songs with lyrical themes of delusion, depersonalisation and trauma in pure daylight on a beautiful autumn afternoon gave a liberating acceptance and meaningfulness to these heavy topics.Special thanks go to Jeroen Mylle (camera, video edit) and Luuk Schelvis (live sound), who became part of this experience and captured it perfectly, so as to make the experience shareable in the most authentic way.Now we are gratefully looking forward to our next reunion where we will bring Lahbryce in full length to the Roadburn Festival and hope to share with this live session an extended insight into our upcoming album.”
More information about international travel to The Netherlands
We promised to keep you up to date with any possible restrictions or measures that may impact on Roadburn, so this is our first such update regarding this. Please note that the situation may change before April, and you must take responsibility for meeting necessary travel requirements for yourself – the information we’re providing is a guide.
Whilst it is possible that international travel restrictions may change before your trip to Roadburn, if you are planning on attending from outside The Netherlands, then this advice may serve as a guideline for what is likely to be required in April.
Roadburners traveling from within the EU are required to show a negative test result upon entry. It is not currently mandatory for you to be fully vaccinated. If you are traveling from a ´safe country´ outside the EU, you also don´t have to quarantine. You can find the list of safe countries here.
Outside of the EU (i.e UK, USA) if you are fully vaccinated, and received your booster vaccination at least 7 days before travelling to the Netherlands, as well as having a negative test result, then you may enter The Netherlands without quarantine. If you are not fully vaccinated, then you would be required to quarantine upon arrival (which we suspect is not likely very practical for most of you!). You would also need proof of your return journey, a quarantine declaration form, and a visa where applicable.
To be fully vaccinated means to have had at least two doses of an EU recognised vaccine at least 14 days prior to travel (28 days for the one-shot J&J vaccine) and for travellers from many countries, you are now required to have the booster too.
You can check which vaccines are accepted by the EU here.
You can read the overall guidance here.
You can do a step by step checklist here.
We recommend bookmarking these links for easy reference as your trip gets closer so you are always up to date with the latest travel advice.
This may be the first time you’ve traveled abroad since the start of the pandemic and we know that makes it feel quite daunting. Get up to speed with the requirements now and stay informed, that way your travel plans should run smoothly and you’ll be able to relax once you’re in The Netherlands for Roadburn.
We’ll keep you posted with any further updates.
New additions to Roadburn 2022 including second Artist In Residence and label showcase
Roadburn has today announced another 17 artists for the 2022 edition of the festival, which will take place between April 21-24 in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Artistic Director, Walter Hoeijmakers, comments:
“With our last announcement before the end of 2021, we are super proud to have Pelagic involved again in Roadburn after their virtual Redux showcase earlier this year. And we know SLIFT will broaden our psychedelic horizons with three shows as artist-in-residence. Further, we offer this announcement in hope that 2022 will see a full return to international touring for festivals and club shows and we can all be together and celebrate in April. We wish you the happiest of seasons and hope you’re looking forward to Roadburn Festival 2022 as much as we are. Thank you for your continued support, faith and trust.”
French psych trio, SLIFT, have been announced as the second Artist in Residence for the 2022 edition (joining Full of Hell who were announced earlier this year). The band will perform three times over the course of the festival, including a collaborative performance with pioneering French musician, Etienne Jaumet (Zombie Zombie).
Pelagic Records will host a label showcase at the festival highlighting the diverse array of talent found on their roster. The showcase will climax with three interconnected performances courtesy of Lustmord, Lustmord and Karin Park performing cuts including from their collaborative album, Alter, and finishing off with Årabrot. The showcase will also feature Year Of No Light, LLNN performing Unmaker, new signings Bruit ≤, Oslo Tapes and a solo set from Karin Park.
Psych-heads rejoice – Die Wilde Jagd will perform at Roadburn, following two awe inspiring live performances at Roadburn Redux earlier this year. TAU & the Drones of Praise will also reprise their Redux appearance and make their way to Tilburg for an in-person performance.
Hangman’s Chair will complement their already-announced album set with a collaboration with Regarde Les Hommes Tomber. Originally commissioned by Red Bull and performed only once to date; the two bands have written additional material to extend the performance further into the reaches of their collective imaginations.
Originally scheduled to perform in 2020 Warhorse will finally perform at Roadburn 2022. Huntsmen will kick off their first trip to Europe with a special performance at Roadburn where they’ll play their 2018 album, American Scrap, in full.
London’s Five The Hierophant will make their Roadburn debut, as well as performing a collaborative piece with Wyatt E. and MC Slice titled Atonia.
These artists are added to a line up that already features Ulver, Lingua Ignota, Liturgy, Emma Ruth Rundle, Russian Circles, 40 Watt Sun, Backwash and many more. Click here to view the full line up and below to read more on these newly announced artists.
Weekend tickets, and Friday and Saturday day tickets are sold out. Thursday and Sunday day tickets remain in limited numbers. Tickets and accommodation options are available to view via ticketmaster.nl
New additions to Roadburn 2022
The second group of artists to be added to the Roadburn 2022 line up has today been announced.
Artistic director, Walter Hoeijmakers, comments:
“Roadburn 2022 will be a festival of hope; a celebration of underground music by Roadburn alumni and young and upcoming bands alike. It feels so great to offer them a platform and it’s equally great to offer our community their much missed home away from home. Despite the difficult circumstances with live music we remain optimistic and move forward with caution. It’s not easy but we’re really hopeful to be able to welcome you to Roadburn 2022. The idea of celebrating together makes everything worthwhile.”
Lingua Ignota will return to Roadburn in 2022, following two explosive performances at the 2019 edition of the festival. Having released SINNER GET READY earlier this year to widespread critical acclaim, the return to Roadburn is well timed to showcase her new material.
Emma Ruth Rundle will take to the main stage to present her groundbreaking new album, Engine of Hell. Due to be our curator in 2020, we’re delighted to welcome Emma back to Roadburn and to have her step into an even bigger spotlight this time around.
Following on from the recent announcement of a new album, Perfect Light, 40 Watt Sun will also perform on the main stage in April. Mizmor will return to perform Cairn in full, as was originally intended as part of Rundle’s curated event, which due to the pandemic didn’t come to fruition.
After performing alongside Dylan Carlson and as part of Zonal in previous years, The Bug will return – this time with MCs Flowdan and Logan to accompany him. Milena Eva & Thomas Sciarone’s curated event gains a new name: Sordide will be performing their most recent album Les idées blanches in full.
A rejuvenated Sum Of R will perform their upcoming new album, Lahbryce, in full on the main stagfe. Messa’s recently announced album, Close, will be performed, as will A Loner – the new album from Hangman’s Chair.
Cloud Rat will perform two sets, including a special Do Not Let Me Off The Cliff electronic-based performance. Uniform will perform their album Shame in full. HEALTH, Kaelan Mikla and KANGA will provide some end-of-the-world dance party vibes. Meanwhile, Smote will perform their new album, Drommon in full.
Also announced is Fågelle, Kanaan, Kollaps, Kungens Män, Pinkish Black, and Wyatt E.
For full details of the new additions to the line up, please see the links below, or view the full line up HERE.
These names join previously announced artists including Ulver, Sólstafir, Alcest, Backxwash, Russian Circles, artist in residence – Full of Hell and many others. Roadburn Festival will take place between April 21-24 in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
Tickets for Roadburn 2022 are on sale now. Friday and Saturday day tickets are sold out. Thursday and Sunday day tickets, 3-day and 4-day tickets remain in limited numbers. Tickets and accommodation options are available to view via ticketmaster.nl
First line-up announcement for Roadburn 2022
October 26, 2021
Roadburn Festival has today made its first line up announcement for the 2022 edition, which will take place between April 21-24 in Tilburg, The Netherlands. The majority of tickets to the festival have already been sold, but a limited number will go on sale today (October 26) at 7pm (CEST) via Ticketmaster.nl.
Roadburn’s artistic director, Walter Hoeijmakers comments:
“After two years of not being able to host a physical festival, we’re extremely excited to actually return in 2022. Given the circumstances, everything about this has been a real challenge, but we wanted to make sure that next year’s Roadburn will be a stronghold for the forward-thinking artists we all love so much – whether genre-defining established acts or young, up-and-coming artists. We really want to reconnect them with our international community – artistically, musically and physically – and to see them do what they do best: be on stage. We want to give them a platform in front of a live audience again, as it’s time to celebrate the music they’ve written over the past two years, or the much acclaimed albums that helped us through these strange, unprecedented times.
It’s equally exciting to have Milena Eva and Thomas Sciarone as our 2022 curators; their commissioned music project for Roadburn Redux, ‘This Shame Should Not Be Mine’, elevated GGGOLDDD to a whole new level, as it made such a huge impact – musically, emotionally, and spiritually. The intimate connection felt by everyone online will be greatly amplified at Roadburn 2022, and we could think of no one better than Milena and Thomas to get us all reconnected”
ULVER will be a special set to celebrate their 25 years as a band. Focussing on their most recent release, Flowers of Evil, the performance will mark their return to the live stage as well as their quarter century milestone.
Roadburn’s 2022 curators are Milena Eva and Thomas Sciarone of the Dutch band GGGOLDDD; as well as hand-picking elements of the festival line up, they will join the rest of the band to perform the commissioned music they wrote for this year’s Roadburn Redux event – a piece entitled This Shame Should Not Be Mine.
As part of the curated element of Roadburn, LITURGY – the avant-garde black metal band – will be performing their 2019 album H.A.Q.Q in full, as well as bringing to life their 2020 album Origin of the Alimonies, performing it as an opera on the main stage in sync with a film created by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, accompanied by a chamber orchestra. Milena and Thomas will also present the European debut of BACKXWASH – the celebrated artist fuses rap and metal, and will perform two special sets at Roadburn – and performances from DIVIDE AND DISSOLVE, and MIDWIFE.
Further commissioned projects – originally planned for 2020 – will finally see the light of day as JAMES KENT (PERTURBATOR) joins forces with JOHANNES PERSSON (CULT OF LUNA) to perform Final Light. Cellist JO QUAIL will perform her commissioned piece, entitled The Cartographer, and VILE CREATURE and BISMUTH will unite to perform A Hymn of Loss and Hope.
FULL OF HELL will be Artists In Residence for the festival performing four times over the course of the event, including a collaboration with NOTHING entitled Full of Nothing. ALCEST will perform their groundbreaking album Écailles de Lune, whilst SÓLSTAFIR will perform their expansive album, Svartir Sandar.
Elsewhere on the bill Roadburn welcomes back some familiar faces such as RUSSIAN CIRCLES and PRIMITIVE MAN, whilst also inviting some new and mysterious members to the Roadburn family, such as underground black metal bands LAMP OF MURMUUR and KOLDOVSTVO. For full details of what has been announced so far, please see the links below. Stay tuned for more line up announcements in the coming weeks.
The main poster artwork for Roadburn 2022 has been created by Valreza Collective, you can read more about them HERE.
Tickets will go on sale at 7pm CEST/ 6pm BST/ 1pm EDT/ 10am PDT via Ticketmaster.nl and roadburn.com
Roadburn is grateful for the support of Fonds Podiumkunsten, provincie Noord-Brabant, the City of Tilburg, and Brabant C.
Roadburn 2022 ticket & accommodation info
October 21, 2021
Our first 2022 lineup announcement will take place next week, and we wanted to get some practical information out to you in advance, so that when the bands get announced, you can focus solely on that. So, read on for information about ticketing and accommodation. If what you want to know is not covered here, click through to read our FAQs, and if you’re still lost or confused drop us a line – info@013.nl and we’ll do our best to help you!
So, firstly – TICKETS!
If you have a ticket for 2020 that you didn’t return, then it’s automatically rolled over. You don’t need to do anything else. If you want to buy a ticket for Roadburn 2022, then a limited number of these will be going on sale on October 26 at 7pm CEST (6pm BST, 1pm EDT, 11am PDT).
Click here for all the info.
You may notice that this is an increase on the 2020 price – there’s no getting away from the fact that costs of staging a festival have increased astronomically over the past two years, whilst the entire industry has suffered. Much of this is out of our hands, unfortunately.
ACCOMMODATION
We refunded everybody’s Stadscamping Tilburg accommodation tickets from 2020 once it became evident a 2021 edition was not possible. We now have information to share about the various accommodation options at the campsite in Tilburg – PLUS some new hotel options! Similar to the above, various price increases that have been passed on to us have made the Stadscamping Tilburg options more expensive. In order to offer the best range of choices at the best prices, Roadburn has teamed up with two hotels in Eindhoven (one with a swimming pool too!), to offer hotel packages. These packages also include bus back to Eindhoven, meaning you don’t need to worry about the last train.
Click here to see all the packages and options available to you, both in Tilburg and Eindhoven.
That’s all we’ve got so far in terms of practical information, but as more comes along we’ll share it with you. If you have questions about international travel and COVID protocols, we want to assure you that we’re keeping an eye on everything as it continues to evolve. We hope that by the time April rolls around things will be both easier and more clear in terms of travel and events. If there are any protocols mandated for Roadburn – be that mask wearing, vaccinations or anything else, we will let you know in good time so that you can make informed choices.
Set your alarms for tickets if you need to pick one up… and stay alert, band announcements are on their way!
Essential Sounds: 15.10.21
October 12, 2021
Some days the electrical charge we get from new music is all that’s holding us together, and some days it’s the soundtrack to glorious things. Whichever way your week is swinging, we hope you find something that gives you something to hold on to in this week’s playlist.
If you want to seek out the tracks elsewhere, here’s the info you’ll need:
Emma Ruth Rundle – Blooms of Oblivion
(Sargent House)
HTRK – Kiss Kiss and Rhinestones
(N & J Blueberries)
A.A. Williams – Control
(Bella Union)
Hangman’s Chair – Loner
(Nuclear Blast)
Zeal & Ardor – Götterdammerung
(Redacted)
Green Lung – Upon The Altar
(Svart Records)
Khemmis – House of Cadmus
(Nuclear Blast)
Kowloon Walled City – Piecework
(Neurot Recordings)
Kælan Mikla – Svört Augu
(Artoffact)
Planning For Burial – Boring Domesticated Life
(The Flenser)
Ciśnienie – Diet Choke
(Self-Release)
Roy Montgomery, Emma Johnston – Aspiratory
(Grapefruit Records)
Sangre de Muerdago, Judasz & Nahimana – Cantiga De Folhas E Agulhas
(Self-Release)