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Danceable punkjazz poetry
Kruidkoek & Joost Oomen is a unique blend of punkjazz, poetry and everything danceable you can imagine. The four members of Kruidkoek, all very skilled musicians who play in bands like DeWolff, De Niemanders and Broken Brass, form a strong backbone for Joost Oomen to hype up the audience with his loud, ironic poetry with influences from Dada, Ginsberg and John Cooper Clarke. The result? A dance party where people throw oranges at a gong, firing at each other with bananas and yelling ‘Saw, pudding, pudding, saw’ at the highest volume (but never louder than Joost). A Dutch spoken, weirder, jollier version of British counterparts Antony Szmierek and Kae Tempest.
The members of Kruidkoek started their band in 2012 at the conservatory in Zwolle. They did tours to Cairo and Berlin and joined the Popronde to play in almost every Dutch city. As a group but also as individual musicians they are familiar faces in the Dutch jazz scene.
Joost Oomen started his poetry career in Groningen, more precisely in VERA, and performed his poetry, with or without music, from Cape Town to Paris and at festivals as Lowlands, Into the Great Wide Open and Oerol. His most recent poetry collection sold over ten thousand copies.
As support, the friends from Mesofauna will be joining the bill. The electropunk band makes gritty tracks that sound somewhere between hardstyle remixes of D.A.F., a mix of gabber and hardcore punk, the early albums of Vive la Fête, and wonky techno bangers à la T. Raumschmiere. The three members of Mesofauna played years ago with Joost Oomen in the Dutch indie band De Messen. Could they be making a comeback tonight?
Joost Oomen | Official Website