Dazzled Kid, Jacqueline Govaert, A Silent Express and Levellers @ Dauwpop 2/4

As the afternoon started of, the festival terrain started to fill. The weather was still fantastic and the Dauwpop festival was well under-way. Bring on the second batch of bands!

After I shot the photos at Tony Ebben’s gig and watched a bit there, I again made my way tot he Surprise Stage to see a bit of Tjeerd Bomhof’s new project Dazzled Kid (in his spare time Tjeerd also writes and produces for a variety of other Dutch artists).  Said to be more accessible then his regular work with band Voict, popular on the radio and with a large audience, Dazzled Kid certainly did well here. Filling out the set with humour, a few long stretched covers and a great band on stage, I loved it.

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However, as it is with festivals, the next band on the Main Stage was eagerly awaiting my arrival, so I had to run to make it in time there. Actually I missed the first song filling up my caffeine supply in a much needed coffee break. Jacquelline Govaert -mostly still known as the lead singer of Dutch band Krezip- has a new band, performs under her own name and though there are subtle differences it still sounds a lot like Krezip (then again, Jacqueline was the voice of…). Good show, but not really my cup of tea.

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So it was good that back at the “Enge Bos” stage yet another Dutch band was about to kick off. Hailing from the northern provinces of the Netherlands A Silent Express bring a mix of Indie, Alternative Rock and 80s New Wave and they started the gig with -I kid you not- Crocket’s Theme by Jan Hammer. Absolutely brilliant and setting the mood for the rest of the gig. Really really nice and I felt very bad to have to leave them during the set, but I did have to to catch the last bit of the next band.

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I’ve only seen the folk rockers of the Levellers once and back then I wasn’t really prepared for what I was about to see. Now I was and as I wasn’t on photo assignment there, I could just watch if roll on for a bit. Of course I did take a few shots, but mainly I just enjoyed the gig for what it was: fantastic!

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