ffo: Cocteau Twins meets Pink Floyd, Trauma Ray, Slowdive and Whirr

We would like to invite you to celebrate the release of **[Inner_basement](https://www.instagram.com/inner_basement/)** V-A Cassette featuring bands from the Rotterdam Underground on June 27th, 2025. 

Inner_basement will produce the cassettes, a Rotterdam-based diy label run by Loveth Besamoh. This event will be in collaboration with hiddenbehindmist an event promoter and visual artist from the Rotterdam underground scene. This night will be showcasing the new signings to Innerbasement presented with a split cassette.

**[Daze in Bed](https://www.instagram.com/bedtheband/)**: Daze in Bed is a Rotterdam based band with shoegaze psychedelic sounds. Influenced by a lot of 80's 90's and current dream pop bands such as Cocteau Twins and Beach House. BED makes a beautiful mix of melancholic, dreamy and contrasting abrasive textures, leaving you in a soothing trance.

**[THRILLED](https://www.instagram.com/thrilledband/)**: Thrilled is a Rotterdam-based shoegaze band founded in April 2022 by Edward Smith and Devon van Wijngaarden. The band initially started as a way for van Wijngaarden and Smith to bring their solo music to life with a full band. After a period of rotating through different members, they now have a permanent lineup consisting of: Edward Smith on vocals/guitar, Devon van Wijngaarden on vocals/guitar, Minne Davids on drums, and Ana Hernandez Barrera on bass. Thrilled’s sound is heavily inspired by shoegaze, a genre where the guitar sound takes center stage and is often so heavily processed that it’s barely recognizable as a guitar. By layering many different effects on top of each other, they create a dreamy, melancholic soundscape.

Time: 20:30 - 01:00
Price: €12

Shane Koppers

Roodkapje

Inner_Basement Labelnight #3: Daze in Bed & Thrilled

**Graduation performance**

ffo: Sevdaliza / FKA Twigs / Judeline

SYNTHESIS is a unique concert experience  (and also WDKA-graduation project) with performances by electronic pop duo ZINNA where we explore the uncanny space between human and machine creativity. On July 11th at Roodkapje you can be part of this journey asking the question that director [Julie Chirtes](https://www.instagram.com/cchirty/) has been asking herself throughout the graduation process: ‘How can we use algorithms to highlight the artist’s creativity?’

**ZINNA**
This powerhouse duo consisting of Serbian vocalist Marina Spralja and Dutch producer Sander Wiersma was born from a wish to experiment with various genres. Now they create a unique sound that shifts from pop to alternative electronic to evoke deep emotions. [ZINNA](https://www.instagram.com/officialzinna/) pulls you in with a unique live experience by combining the art of music along with dance, visual and other arts where every show is different from the last.

‼️There will be flashing images, lights and strobe lights during this event.

**Ticket info**
Concert ticket: €7 
or a combiticket (concert + afterparty) for €10!

**Post-graduation afterparty**

ffo: CCL / Mad Miran / Objekt / YoungWoman / Sukubratz / Toccororo

⤳ post-graduation afterparty
⤳ dj b3b³ by epiphany (chirty, lis, prekeris)
⤳ 5€ presale / doorsale

for those who stayed too long in wijnhaven.
for the ones who never left the stations.
you know who you are.

BYO smokes & soft obsessions

dj b3b³ by 3 heavy hitter from epiphany's roster, chirty, lis and prekeris:

**chirty**
Deep crates, sharper instincts. A frequency manipulator raised on bass weight and hiss. Expect razor blends and low-end ritualism. 

**lis**
lis melts genres like plastic in heat. Deconstructed elegance meets rhythmic manipulation.

**prekeris**
prekeris is like a hybrid entity drawing from chaos and club lineage alike. 

Together in b3b: Improvised, precise, unrepeatable.

**Ticket info**
Afterparty tickets: €5 
or a combiticket (concert + afterparty) for €10!


SYNTHESIS concert + afterparty 

[Tickets afterparty](https://roodkapje.stager.co/shop/roodkapje-live-events/events/111537679)
[Combitickets concert + afterparty](https://roodkapje.stager.co/shop/roodkapje-live-events/events/111542283)

ffo: CCL / Mad Miran / Objekt / YoungWoman / Sukubratz / Toccororo

⤳ post-graduation afterparty
⤳ dj b3b³ by epiphany (chirty, lis, prekeris)
⤳ 5€ presale / doorsale

for those who stayed too long in wijnhaven.
for the ones who never left the stations.
you know who you are.

BYO smokes & soft obsessions

dj b3b³ by 3 heavy hitter from [epiphany](epiphany.records)'s roster, [chirty](https://www.instagram.com/cchirty/), lis and prekeris:

**chirty**
Deep crates, sharper instincts. A frequency manipulator raised on bass weight and hiss. Expect razor blends and low-end ritualism. 

**lis**
[lis](https://www.instagram.com/lisvanhorssen/) melts genres like plastic in heat. Deconstructed elegance meets rhythmic manipulation.

**prekeris**
[prekeris](https://www.instagram.com/prekeris___/) is like a hybrid entity drawing from chaos and club lineage alike. 

Together in b3b: Improvised, precise, unrepeatable.



POST-SYNTHESIS | afterparty

WASTELAND x HAMBURGER COMMUNITY
What’s Happening?!

**Thursday 24 July**
Happening by the Hamburger Community 
***Time and Location TBC***

Get excited for the first Happening by Roodkapje’s new round of the Hamburger Community residents as they join forces with Collective Wasteland! We can’t wait for you to get to know the amazing artists who will be developing another series of Happenings together.

The Hamburger Community are five artists in residence that collaborate for ten months. Roodkapje is interested in the intersections of art, activism, and wonder. We see the Happening as an art form full of playful, disruptive and subversive potential. In light of today’s dire social, ecological and political circumstances, we ask the Hamburger Community: how would you as contemporary artists reimagine, reshape, and organize a Happening?

This year, [Collective Wasteland](https://www.collectivewasteland.nl/) holds a mentorship position for the Hamburger Community. Together they take a deep dive into the themes of the festival. Expect to be surprised, immersed and challenged. Stay tuned for more details..

**WASTELAND Festival 2025: OUT OF SIGHT**
WASTELAND ‘25  invites wide audiences to examine our relationship with waste and possible ways out of the current waste crisis. The festival offers a platform for critical reflection on the complexity of waste ecologies and aims to understand waste as a heritage. As such, it influences us individually and collectively through its local and geopolitical implications and impacts more-than-human life in a time of unprecedented global pollution. 
Taking a site-specific approach, WASTELAND’S 2025 program explores the (infra)structures of waste in and beyond the Anthropocene. This era is defined by humanity's profound impact on the planet and geologically marked by the emergence of new types of waste. Key sites of the waste management infrastructure in the city and the port of Rotterdam are Wasteland’s starting points; they are operational, yet hidden and forgotten. Together, we dive into what practices and systems enable and disturb the illusion of a utopian city, from landfills and recycling centres to waste collectors, statiegeld mafia, pigeons and rats. 

**collective.wasteland**
collective.wasteland (Katya Borisova, Yannik Güldner, Leon Lapa Pereira, Erik Peters and Anne Vera Veen) is an interdisciplinary art collective dedicated to artistic research and collaborative experiments that address the complexities of waste ecologies. Recognising the pervasive nature of the ongoing waste crisis, we believe that building alternatives for current troubled times requires a collective effort. Through research projects and public programs such as Wasteland Festival we aim to stimulate collaborative projects and forge connections amongst (inter)national partners in fields of art, activism, industry, and academia.



What's Happening?!

ffo: Ratos de Parão, Lobotomia, Acidez

**Agrotóxico**
When it comes to Brazilian hardcore punk, you can draw a blood-red thread from 80s pioneers Ratos de Parão and Lobotomia to Agrotoxico. Since 1993, this four-piece from São Poalo has been going crazy in their native language. With a dozen releases under their belt, you can expect a barrage of sonic violence, with their latest smash ‘Era Do Caos’ doing just as much as anything before it.

**Night Templars**
The Night Templars create a wall of sound that makes you want to drink like a Templar; an addictive brew of punk and metal with vocals that reverberate as if the roof of a cathedral is about to be blown off. Who knows, they might turn Little Red Riding Hood into a gerse dungeon.

**Stachel**
“Not a Dutch punk band from Germany, not a German punk band from Holland.” That’s pretty clear, Stachel… Let’s just call it fierce German punk that often leaves from Utrecht. Their teepees are already sold out, damn it. Make some new ones then!

Het is inmiddels geen nieuws meer dat het oude pand Baroeg is gesloopt en wordt herbouwd. Lees meer over de nieuwbouw op: https://baroeg.nl/nieuwbouw.

In de tussentijd gaat Baroeg op tour:
➡ Bekijk onze komende concerten hier: www.baroeg.nl/agenda
➡ Koop je ticket(s) hier: www.baroeg.nl/tickets
➡ Meer info over de Baroeg On Tour locaties vind je hier: https://baroeg.nl/baroeg-on-tour

Baroeg On Tour @Roodkapje: TFTP presents: Agrotóxico + Night Templars + Stachel

Roodkapje x Rotown presents: The Gotobeds
for fans of: Protomartyr, Sonic Youth, Parquet Courts, Dinosaur Jr.

The Gotobeds, hailing from Pittsburgh, deliver a raucous blend of punk, noise, and art rock—equal parts chaos, sarcasm, and unexpected melody. Channeling the spirit of bands like Wire, Sonic Youth, and The Fall, they carve out their own niche of melodic disobedience and jagged charm. With releases on Sub Pop and 12XU, their discography is a fierce and funny pushback against rock conventions. Their latest album, Masterclass, written in the shadow of the pandemic, captures the band at their most urgent, inventive, and raw. Live, The Gotobeds are a thrilling mess—wild, sharp, and never predictable.

tickets: €14 (incl. servicefee)
doors: 20.00 
start: 20.30 

The Gotobeds

[**Tickets!**](https://roodkapje.stager.co/shop/roodkapje-live-events/events/111507126)

🔥 Devoted to Drone #15🔥
The darkest of the brightest weekend 
A night to celebrate Black Earth, all Artists and friends sharing paths, new music explorations and the ever burning creative forces of the underground.

**[Dalila Kayros](https://dalilakayros.bandcamp.com/album/khthonie)** - Hypnotic powerfull voices featuring energetic distored rhythms. Kayros' haunting melodies and ritualistic vocals lead to a visceral experience, weaving together raw, earthly tones with ethereal and otherwordly sounds. Their music transcends the constraints of genres constantly pushing the bounderies into diverse music terrains.

**[Mirusi Mergina](https://mirusimergina.bandcamp.com/)** -  Enter the enigmatic realms of Mirusi Mergina (= Lithuanian for dead girl), where unpredictability, darkness, and eclecticism converge to a haunting musical journey .Through raw synth and voice-based soundscapes, accompanied by haunting drones, captivating noise, and entrancing mantric rhythms, Mirusi Mergina guides her listeners into an altered state of consciousness. Brace yourself for an intense experience as her cosmic horror unveils the enigmatic depths of the inner self. 

**[Tacet Tacet Tacet](https://tacetacetacet.bandcamp.com/album/fickle)** - Solo project of Fra Zedde. The project takes its name from John Cage's composition, 4.33, as a reference to the exploration of concrete sounds within his musical landscape. The style spans across genres, with elements of glitch, neo-folk, IDM, noise, drone, and ambient. For live performances, the sound is complemented with dynamic, real-time visuals.

**[Dj Komodovaraan](https://soundcloud.com/komodovaraan)** - named after the heaviest of lizards, evokes an eclectic sound reminiscent of the old-school club culture. She embraces different styles of music, blending songs with fast rhythms and heavy bass lines alongside hedonistic synthesizers and distorted guitars. Music as catharsis, mixing sounds that express urges of rage, escapism, and nihilistic tendencies.
Growing up in an unconventional environment, she could find solace in a sonic world of wonders. Digging through her family's record collection, from rock-‘n-roll animals like Lou Reed to soulful dreamers like Sade, a new obsession has started. Followed by a love for electronic music instigated by classic video games, she found a sense of freedom through
fast-paced rhythms and uplifting melodies. A sense she aspires to share on the dance floor.

Door 8pm
Damage 10-13€
Graphics by [@popgunpirates](https://www.instagram.com/popgunpirates/) 💣

Black Earth: Dalila Kayros, Mirusi Mergina, Tacet Tacet Tacet, Komodovaraan DJ

ffo: Josylvio, Frenna, Kevin, Jonna Fraser

[Donson](https://www.instagram.com/donsonmusic?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==), born and raised in Vlissingen, is an artist with an undeniable passion for rap. While his roots lie in boombap, he feels just as at home in an urban afro sound. In October 2024, he made his comeback with a fresh new branding and the single *Laat Die Lies*. Since then, he’s been continuously refining his sound and working hard to make a name for himself nationwide. With over 9 million streams, he’s already making major moves. His music blends high energy with strong flows and continues to inspire his growing fanbase.



BIRD x Donson

*Is there an end to this wave of frenetic Australians turning the world upside down?* Let’s hope not. We also hope that you didn’t get too comfortable in our months of absence. In May you will get back to brushing up last nights bruises, because you’ve been spotted in the wild again. It’s time to get ready, time to get riled up, time to Go Hard! **We got just the thing for you on May 25: Arse and Robbie Thunder. A double trouble Australian bill.**

**ARSE**
ARSE is a punk band built for the times. The Sydney trio’s genre-blasting tunes nail the modern condition in a way that's universal yet undeniably Australian all at once, as evidenced on Kaputt, the band’s most unhinged offering to date.

In 16 minutes of raw power, Kaputt skewers everything from climate denialism to crooked law enforcement. “Shame Bomb” channels Diesel and Dust-era Midnight Oil with a protest song about the destruction of Australia’s dead heart. Elsewhere, “Night Shift Blues” sounds as if Flipper slapped the Stooges. Then there’s the title track; equally indebted to classic ’80s hardcore and the scorching psychedelia of Tropical Fuck Storm and King Gizzard. *Somehow, it all manages to sound like pure ARSE.*

The eccentric mash-up has put ARSE on bills with Aussie punk royalty Amyl and The Sniffers, Cosmic Psychos, Hard Ons, These New South Whales and Civic. It’s also further proof that Grupo Records, co-founded with drum/sax powerhouse Party Dozen, is one of the most exciting indie labels in Australia.
**
ROBBIE THUNDER**
Ramones were once called the smartest dumb band of all time. In which case, Newcastle based power-pop heartthrob Robbie Thunder is probably the second or third smartest dumb band (or artist) of all time. Rock n roll to ruin any nice occasion.

Nospray:  Arse + Robbie Thunder

TICKETS: https://roodkapje.stager.co/shop/roodkapje-live-events/events/111511814

Kneading dough is tricky – you should know how it’s supposed to feel. If you try too hard you could make it worse. It’s a beautiful practice – creation with a gentle touch, to work at something so it can be left alone. “If it’s too drawn out it’s awful. It’s easy to give too much.” Dance in the mirror. Contemplate your veiny hands. Who do they remind you of?

You begin by mixing flour and water. “What happens when your people die? Why’d they move the rock to the other side of Ulster Park?” Eliza Niemi asks two seemingly unrelated questions in a rising melody with guitar accompaniment, like fingers playing spider up to the nape of your neck. Gentle pressure. Strands of gluten form to bind the mix. A new question lingers in the binding. When she admits “but I don’t know how to tell if I’m feeling it or not,” that question surfaces through the text. It is reiterated throughout the album. When I’m working with dough I think the same thing to myself.

On Progress Bakery, her second album as a solo artist, [Eliza Niemi](https://www.instagram.com/eliza.niemi/) knows to leave some questions alone – to let juxtaposition and tension be the proof. It doesn’t have to be hard. The feelings and revelations they provoke rise in the heat. The smell is sweet. Crispy on the outside and soft all the way through. She playfully slip-slides through words and sounds and images, delighting in surprise, skimming ideas like stones cast across clear water, touching down briefly with uncommon grace.

The question provoked between those opening lines resurfaces in the strands between songs – “Do U FM” is fully formed and beautifully layered, while “Novelist Sad Face” is a short, acapella rendering of gentle curiosity. What is holding these ideas together? Some songs demand more, seem to carry a whole load - eventually the skipping stone will halt to sink and resume its idle duty – while others drift in and out of focus, the way thoughts and dreams become interwoven before the mind is sunk into true sleep. Music and words don’t always have to interact. Where she decides to keep them apart gives a new contour to where and how she puts them together. The kind of thing you’re supposed to take for granted with songs and their singers comes alive in Eliza’s hands – the little miracle of mixing, kneading, stretching, and stopping.

So often on Progress Bakery, Eliza teases out truth and meaning by asking questions. “Do I wanna be crying?” “Do you want me good or do you want me bad?” “Do I need an eye test?” “I’m writing songs in my head while you’re going over stuff with me — is that cruel??” In “Pocky” Eliza ends with a question

that feels to me like the actual biography, succinct and revealing:
I don’t wanna be made to see
I just wanna ask “what’s that?”

Grace that ought to be rare, but in its care and precision is offered humbly, with great generosity, and without announcing itself. Eliza’s simple, miraculous music is given further form and shape by a group of collaborators – invaluable guest musicians Jeremy Ray, Evan Cartwright, Steven McPhail, Kenny Boothby, Ed Squires, Carolina Chauffe, Dorothea Paas, Louie Short, and Avalon Tassonyi. Together with Louie Short, who recorded, mixed, and produced the album along with Jeremy Ray and Lukas Cheung, Eliza has cultivated a richness in sound and texture that prods and provokes the ticklish ear. Barely audible guitar tinkering, a brief lo-fi field recording of trumpets, the harmonic clicking of a looped synthesizer, a flourish of reeds, a child’s conversation, each uncanny sound perfectly placed, rippling out under a soft breeze.

Lay in bed alone at night and ask aloud to the stillness,
“What were you doing at the Albuquerque Airport?
What were you doing there??”

And hear your question answered by a dream of swelling, undulating cellos. Try to grasp at the melody and structure. It’s not an answer (if there could be one), but it moves deeper, closer to the weird layer of fleeting moments and disconnected images, barely perceptible at its core. Wait for the dream reel to click into place.

*"Eliza took me for a ride in Nicole (her beloved Dodge Grand Caravan) and told me she’d been thinking of the album as an embodiment of transition – and I think every transition, known or unknown, carries the weight of new meaning, skittering off the surface tension of life as you know it, creating ripples, sometimes bouncing off and sometimes breaking through. There is a trick you can use to tell if a dough is glutinous enough. You’re supposed to stretch it out as thin as you can without breaking it and hold it up to the light. If you can see through, even if it renders the world murky and uncertain, you should leave it alone. I love this trick. It’s one that Eliza seems to know intuitively: work gently and ask questions and don’t always expect answers, and when you can, take a glimpse at something new, and then leave."*
-Jordan Seccareccia

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