The Homesick returns to VERA with their new self-titled album!

Since their founding in 2013, the band, originally from the Frisian municipality of Dokkum, has released several EPs and two full-length albums and has toured many stages in Europe and beyond. Where previous releases mainly showed the dark-post-punk-with-sure-fire pop-earworms side of The Homesick. the dark-post-punk-with-audible-pop-influences, the Big Excercise left a hint of romanticism through the baroque elements such as piano, acoustic guitar, percussion and clarinet.

And then…. it was time for a new Homesick sound! Shortly after the release of The Big Exercise, the band members began exploring new musical territory individually. Guitar and bass vanished and Elias and Jaap started looking for other sounds through keyboards, sample boxes and other new rhythmic instruments. “We wanted to come up with something we could dance to,” says Jaap. “After these last two years, we felt very strongly that this is what we need now.”

The new songs are unmistakably The Homesick and at the same time like you’ve never heard them before. The Homesick’s third and self-titled album will be presented in VERA on September 8th.

Support Idiott Smith is one of the musical personae of Roy Veenstra, a Groningen-based singer and pop song composer. He had his first 4-track release “What’s Ur First Name?” in 2016 on Purple Noise Record Club and just recently he released the single “So Rocky”. Presenting himself visibly engaged with his songs and comfortably sentimental, Idiott Smith shares some common ground with pop artists such as Arthur Russell, Devon Welsh, George Michael and Chris Isaak, with as his most striking characteristic a very deep baritone type voice. Using almost no live instruments Idiott Smith fits into a movement of adventurous karaoke-like pop singers on the forefront of contemporary pop culture.