Eurosonic – Manna and Cords

Our planning had us at Huize Maas for The Chapman Family, but as the band finished way too early, we only heard the dying sound of the last guitar stroke and found ourselves with a gap to fill. A quick look at the EuroSonic app on the iPhone (man those phones are handy at festivals, I really have got to get me one) we looked up the time-table, saw that Manna (from Finland) was playing in Vindicat and reading the bio they sounded interesting (tags: Punky, dreamy, somewhere between Polly Jean Harvey and Patti Smith), so we decided to check them out. And as I’m a huge succer for female bass players, entering the venue I immediately saw that everything was going to be very OK

Usually we avoid Dutch bands during EuroSonic, there’s enough chances to see those during the season, but exceptions can always be found. And Cords is one of them. A ‘Noiserock’ band, two John Peel sessions in a former life, great stage reputation and fronted by Simone Holsbeek the Cords sounded great and I can’t wait to see them in a full-on concert (with better lights too)

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