Whipping Post Music

It’s always nice to work with friends. Especially the ones you got drunk with when you were in your early 20′s, who played in one of your favorite blues bands when you just learned to know the genre, who played in band you put up your first shows with, who found their ways in life and especially in music, and with a big circle that spans about 10 to 15 years, come circling right back at you.

The guys in Nijmegen’s (and Hollands) finest blues / rock ‘ n roll band, Black Bottle Riot are these kind of guys. I’ve had the privilege of knowing them for quite some time now, from their previous musical endeavors to what they are doing right now. And it feels only natural that I will be handling their bookings. So without much further adue, I present to you the newest addition to the ever expanding WPM roster: Black Bottle Riot.

The band will be generally available from now on. The band loves to play your festival, bar, biker meeting, venue, and especially your barbeque! We are planning some gigs in the summer and early fall, but more news on that soon. Feel free to contact me with ideas!

A couple of months ago we were glad to inform you that we had added Condor Gruppe to our roster. In the meanwhile their agenda is filled with several dates. Curious how the psychedelic western music sounds like live? Check their session at Studio Brussel.

Crazy week for us at Whipping Post Music. While the Roadburn Festival just has started and is making up for a brand new day, with tonight our own Syndrome and Amen Ra, are we already hyping our selves up for tomorrow’s Record Store Day. Cause our love for independent record stores and vinyl in particular is so big we decided to celebrate this with seven gigs at just day!

We will start tomorrow at 1 o’clock pm with traumahelikopter at De Waaghals (Arnhem) and we will finish the next night with traumahelikopter at Kliko Fest (Patronaat, Haarlem) around 3.30 am. In between you can see Man from the South at Blue Music (Kampen), Gingerpig at Tunesville (Breda) and traumahelikopter at Sounds (Tilburg). These instore gigs at the afternoon are all for free. At the evening we will continu with Gingerpig playing at Spot (Middelburg) and Traumahelikopter at Brogum (Zierikzee). This.. is gonna be hell of a day!

When traumahelikopter played at the Where The Wild Things Are Festival a month ago Vice’ new music platform Noisey thought it would be a great idea if Mark called his mother. Watch up here how that turned out. Talkin’ about Noisey, traumahelikopter will be playing at the Noisey Launch Party at Trouw next Thursday. You can sign up here for free tickets for this event, where they will joined by acts as Raketkanon, TDTMCM and Cairo Liberation Front.

More watchable material up at Cortonville. 3FM own Eric Corton seems to be really psyched about the new record by Gingerpig. Watch him here review Hidden From View. Curious to hear this one? It’s now on Spotify as well.

Not an usual weekposter this time, cause this week it’s finally time for the mighty Roadburn Festival! We’re extremely proud to present five different WPM-bands at this amazing festival. Roadburn will be openend this Thursday by our own Dirk Serries with his Microphonics set at the Stage01 at 14.15. At the same day you can also see The Black Heart Rebellion play (14.30-15.30, Het Patronaat) and Herder (23.45-00.45, Green Room) as well. The next day you can check out Syndrome who will be playing at the Cul de Sac around 19.30 and Amen Ra are planned to Het Patronaat at 00.30 -01.30. As always the festival tickets are completly sold-out. For those lucky bastards who has got a ticket, really hope to see you!

This week we’ve got four shows from two different bands. Herder is going to Germany to play at the VEB in Siegen, together with Godbreaker and Mindplague. The next day they will drive to Switzerland to play in Winterthur. The lads from traumahelikopter will stay in the Netherlands and can be seen playing live at the Supermarkt with Bullerslug (tickets can be bought here) and two days later at Den Bosch. At this place they will play at the Cortonville-evening from 3FM DJ Eric Corton together with Wallace Vanborn and John Coffey at the W2. Those tickets can be bought here. Have a nice week!

The new album of Gingerpig will be released tonight at Mezz Breda. Together with Tenement Kids as support and the main show will include guests appreances by people like Willen Verbuyst (from Vanderbuyst) and Frank Harthoorn (from Gorefest) so this will definitely something that you can’t miss. Curious to hear the new record? Lucky you, cause you can stream Hidden From View just right away at the 3voor12 Luisterpaal.

Erik Hoezen aka De Rooie Neger did an interview with newspaper Dagblad Van Het Noorden. In this article you can read how Hoezen started playing records, about Eurosonic and that he’s in love with the track Comment Ca Va. Make sure you’ll catch him live playing tomorrow from Slayer till schlager at the Apollo together with the lads from traumahelikopter.

A full program this week for our artists! You can start your weekend in already two days, cause Dirk Serries will play his Microphonics‘ set at the Muziekgebouw Frits Philip in Eindhoven. The entrance is for free, so we don’t see any reason not to come. At Friday traumahelikopter will be playing at the Apollo in Emmen. DJ De Rode Neger is playing some nice records as well, so get your tickets quick up here. Together with the Belgium acts Headphone and Vive Le Fête the boys from Groningen are playing at the Sonic Connections festival in Amsterdam. You can get your tickets at the presale right here, you can also spend two more Euro’s if you buy your tickets at the entrance. In Belgium you can catch Man from the South playing together with No Angry Young Man. Be aware that this gig is already sold out!

Easter weekend is coming! This weekend you can see traumahelikopter play twice during two different Easterfestivals. You can start your weekend by going to Paaspop. This festival can be seen as the tradional opening of the festival season with as always a killer line-up. Daytickets are €49 and a passepartout for the whole weekend are €95 and can be bought here. If you got limited money you can go to Hoorn, on Sunday, cause they will be playing for free at Eipop. Prefer a gig in Belgium? Man from the South will be playing in Bruxelles at Cellule 133a. He will be supporting No Angry Young Man, who are releasing their new record. Happy Easter!