Magasin & Long Fling

In one evening, you will discover two new faces of the Dutch alternative scene - from playful, absurdist art pop to charming offbeat guitar anthems about socks, shoes and everyday life. Magasin and Long Fling show that quirkiness and musical adventure go hand in hand.

Magasin 

Magasin is a music group that bounces around on the playful side of no wave, post-punk and art pop. Multilingual lyrics and layers of musical notes are folded in half and stapled at the fold. Imagine Lizzy Mercier Descloux or The Raincoats accompanied by the rigid minimalist pulse of The Normal. Magasin’s music is quirky and fun in a tightly measured, slightly absurdist way.

Long Fling

Long Fling is Pip Blom and Willem Smit. Of Pip Blom and Personal Trainer fame, respectively. The two make charming, offbeat guitar-and-drum-computer anthems about socks, shoes and staying home. Duets, but only in the technical sense of the word, since they contain no converging cries of longing, no climactic payoffs and not even any vocal harmonies. Elusive and effortlessly cool in all the wrong ways, and raising more questions than they answer. Can we call a record DIY when the people who did it have clearly done this before? How should you pronounce the word “can’t”? And so on. The longer the fling, the songer they sing. On stage Pip and Willem are joined by Camiel Muiser, Darek Mercks and Tender Blom to form a five-piece rockband.