IDLES – live in VERA – Photo: Obed Brinkman

VERA MAINSTAGE

1. IDLES (UK)
2. Oh Sees (USA)
3. Prettiest Eyes (USA)

And a thank you by Idles on Instagram:

4. Amenra (BEL)
5. A Giant Dog (USA)
6. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (AUS)
7. Die Nerven (DUI)
8. Oblivians (USA)
9. Altın Gün (NL)
10. Car Seat Headrest (USA)
11. Parquet Courts (USA)
12. Protomartyr (USA)
13. Sleaford Mods (UK)
14. Prong (USA)
15. Ancient Shapes (CAN)
16. Nothing (USA)
17. Chad VanGaalen (CAN)
18. Uranium Club (USA)
19. Monster Magnet (USA)
20. Tamikrest (MALI)
21. Emma Ruth Rundle (USA)
22. Wiegedood (BEL)
23. Big Thief (USA)
24. Bad Breeding (UK)
25. Het O.M./l’Orchestre Mécanicien (NL)
26. Radioactivity (USA)
27. Nine Pound Hammer (USA)
28. The Cosmic Dead (UK)
29. Moving Targets (USA)
30. Beechwood (USA)
31. Monophonics (USA)
32. Minami Deutsch (JAP)
33. Togo All Stars (TOGO)
34. Wand (USA)
35. Triptides (USA)
36. Kadavar (DUI)
37. Melvins (USA)
38. Samsara Blues Experiment (DUI)
39. The Blank Tapes (USA)
40. Saintseneca (USA)
41. Canshaker Pi (NL)
42. The Ex (NL)
43. Yamantaka // Sonic Titan (CAN)
44. Derya Yilderim & Grup Simsek (TUR)
45. Big Ups (USA)
46. CHRCH (USA)
47. The BellRays (USA)
48. David Nance (USA)
49. Still Corners (UK)
50. Amyl and the Sniffers (AUS)
51. The Posies (USA)
52. The Hackensaw Boys (USA)
53. Great Lake Swimmers (CAN)
54. Carlton Melton (USA)
55. Romperayo (COL)
56. EF (ZWE)
57. SLÆGT (DEN)
58. Male Gaze (USA)
59. Human Tetris (RUS)
60. Mint Field (MEX)
61. Mudhoney (USA)
62. Skating Polly (USA)
63. La Luz (USA)
64. Claw Boys Claw (NL)
65. Thomas Azier (NL)
66. Town of Saints (GRO)
67. Dead Bronco (USA)
68. Orgel Vreten (NL)
69. Veer (POR)
70. The Pack A.D. (CAN)
71. Frigs (CAN)
72. Drones (UK)
73. Marc O’Reilly (IER)
74. Fister (USA)
75. Bob Wayne (USA)
76. Birth Of Joy (NL)
77. Karma to Burn (USA)
78. Las Robertas (COR)
79. Belphegor (OOS)
80. Charlie Parr (USA)
81. Moaning (USA)
82. Kim Janssen (NL)
83. Sheesham, Lotus & Son (CAN)
84. Millionaire (BEL)
85. Mr Scruff (UK)
86. Amsterdam Klezmer Band (NL)
87. Mattiel (USA)
88. Dommengang (USA)
89. ayke Orvis (USA)
90. Eefje de Visser (NL)
91. Amusement Parks On Fire (UK)
92. Planet Orange (GRO)
93. I Am Oak (NL)
94. unhappybirthday (DUI)
95. Will Varley (UK)
96. De Kift (NL)
97. Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar (DUI)
98. Aura Noir (NOR)
99. Guy One (GHA)
100. Golden Void (USA)
101. BaBa ZuLa (TUR)
102. Ben Rogers & The Bloodred Yonder (CAN)
103. Loney Dear (ZWE)
104. Motorama (RUS)
105. Snail Mail (USA)
106. Magic Wands (USA)
107. Venenum (DUI)
108. Melechesh (ISR)
109. Vacations (AUS)
110. Superorganism (UK)
111. The Franklys (UK)2
112. Skegss (AUS)
113. Winter (USA)
114. Jacqueline Govaert (NL)
115. Chris Brokaw (USA)
116. Peter Kernel (ZWI)
117. 47SOUL (PAL)
118. Hater (ZWE)
119. Zhaoze (CHINA)
120. Chemtrails (UK)
121. Voodoo Healers (GRI)
122. Sisters Of Suffocation (NL)
123. Staches (DUI)
124. Olden Yolk (USA)
125. The Dutch (NL)
126. Lassie (DUI)
127. Dermot Kennedy (IER)
128. Hangover Paradise (NL)

Best support Act:

Ortega (live in VERA, photo: Peer)

1. Ortega (GRO)
2. JOHN (UK)
3. Say Sue Me (ZKOR)
4. Stella Donnelley (AUS)
5. Joost Dijkema (GRO)
6. Monolord (ZWE)
7. YĪN YĪN (NL)
8. WOLVON (GRO)
9. HOWRAH (NL)
10. das bisschen Totschlag (DUI)
11. Levi Noah (NL)
12. Bad Sports (USA)
13. OOO (GRO)
14. Obliteration (NOR)
15. Reiz (DUI)
16. Naked Giants (USA)
17. Super Besse (WRUS)
18. Lewsberg (NL)
19. Equal Idiots (BEL)
20. Strange Bones (UK)
21. Bull (UK)
22. The Heck (NL)
23. Ian Clement (BEL)
24. SUSTO (USA)
25. Seewolf (NL)
26. Misty Coast (NOO)
27. Jaye Jayle (USA)
28. Mother’s Cake (OOS)
29. Solitary Zebra (GRO)
30. 1921 (ZWE)
31. Commander (DUI)
32. Dia del Mercado (GRO)
33. Pi Ja Ma (FRA)
34. Cirrus Minor (GRO)
35. Esther de Jong (NL)
36. Hanba! (POL)
37. The Kill Mondays (GRO)
38. Los Obamas (GRO)
39. Fuz (NL)
40. Matthew Crosby (USA)
41. Dew-Scented (DUI)
42. I Took Your Name (GRO)
43. TH’ F’KK’N G’DD’MN LUCKIES (BEL)
44. Please the Trees (TSJ)
45. Dolltones (NL)
46. Peggy Sue (USA)
47. The Mighty Breaks (NL)
48. Seán McGowan (UK)
49. JP (UK)
50. Geoff Berner (CAN)
51. Table Scraps (UK)
52. Great Profile (NL)
53. Bleeding Gods (NL)
54. The Monroes (GRO)
55. G.O.D. (NL)
56. Fumes Of Decay (GRO)
57. ¡PENDEJO! (NL)
58. Torrential (NL)
59. Jewish Monkeys (ISR)
60. Echotape (UK)
61. Vorbid (NOR)
62. Flatbilly De Ville (USA)
63. Jack Vallier (UK)
64. Shitkid (ZWE)

Eurosonic in VERA

Iceage

1. Iceage (DEN)
2. Zeal & Ardor (ZWI)
3. Housewives (UK)
4. Astroid Boys (UK)
5. Warmduscher (UK)

Album presentations:

1. Rat Patrol (GRO)
2. Sexton Creeps (GRO)
3. Meadowlake (GRO)
4. Chief Of Smoke (GRO)
5. Ten Years Today (GRO)

Concerts Downstage:

Paul Jacobs

1. Paul Jacobs (CAN)
2. Suffering Quota (GRO)
3. YOUFF (BEL)
4. Onhou (GRO)
5. Combo Koedijk (NL)
6. Deaf Kids (BRA)
7. Howrah (NL)
8. Price (GRO)
9. Tommy & The Commies (CAN)
10. Project Nefast (NL)
11. Honey Bucket (USA)
12. Moon King (CAN)
13. Urochromes (USA)
14. Fisscher Price (GRO)
15. The Woolen Men (USA)
16. WOLVON (GRO)
17. My Friend Television (GRO)
18. E.T. Explore Me (NL)
19. Naive Set (NL)
20. Robbing Banks (NL)
21. das bisschen Totschlag (DUI)
22. The Number Ones (IER)
23. OOO (GRO)
24. Bonne Aparte (NL)
25. Pig Frenzy (NL)
26. The Black Cult (GRO)
27. SONNDR (NL)
28. Allöchtöön (BEL)
29. Paint Fumes (USA)
30. HACHE (GRO)

Concerts Downstage Extra:

Bambara

1. Bambara (USA)
2. Duds (UK)
3. Florist (USA)
4. Platinum Boys (USA)
5. Wild Pink (USA)

Zomervakantie:

1. Springveer (GRO)
2. Rutger Peereboom (GRO)
3. De Messen (GRO)
4. Santa Fé (GRO)
5. ¿mon3y (GRO)

VERA op Noorderzon – Container concerts:

1. Fenster (DUI)
2. TV Crime (UK)
3. De Messen (GRO)
4. Teen Creeps (BEL)
5. F.L.E.U.R.I. (GRO)

Other VERA events:

Jagersonic

1. Jagersonic
2. G.G.I. festivaL
3. City Trash Final Bash
4. Garage Sale (Koningsdag)
5. It’s OK – A Fred Cole Tribute

Best crews/ DJ’s on dance parties:

Rich Medina

1. Rich Medina (USA)
2. Ingo the Gringo (NL)
3. Black Dynamite Soundsystem (GRO)
4. Pushin Wood Soundsystem (GRO)
5. Irie (GRO)
6. Duke Hugh (GRO)
7. Ongehoord (GRO)
8. Dusty (DUI)
9. Bonnefooi (NL)
10. Dizzy (BEL)

Best movies at Vera Zienema:

Drive

1. Drive
2. Ghost in the Shell
3. Filmquiz Pt IX
4. Irreversible
5. A Hard Day’s Night
6. IFFR: Pan’s Labyrinth
7. Dogtooth
8. Tehran Taboo
9. The Autopsy of Jane Doe
10. Repo Man

Best movies 2018:

Bohemian Rapsody

1. Bohemian Rapsody
2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missou…
3. Isle of Dogs
4. Solo – A Star Wars Story
5. BlacKkKlansman
6. Call me by your name
7. Girl
8. The shape of water
9. A Star Is Born
10. You were never really here

Best records:

1. IDLES – Joy As An Act Of Resistance
2. Parquet Courts – Wide Awake
3. Shame – Song of Praise
4. Rolling Backouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs
5. Lewsberg – Idem
6. Howrah – Self preserving strategies
7. Die Nerven – Fake
8. Tropical Fuck Storm – A laughing death in meatspace
9. Car seat headrest – Twin Fantasy
10. Kurt Vile – Bottle It In
11. Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
12. Sleep – The Sciences
13. Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer
14. Oh Sees – Smote Reverser
15. Beach house – 7
16. Low – Double Negative
17. Ty Segall – Freedoms Goblin
18. Artctic Monkees. Tranquility base hotel casino
19. Avonden – Wat Een Cirkel Is
20. Bambara – a shadow on everything
21. Daughters – you won’t get what you want
22. ice age- beyondless
23. Canshaker Pi – Naughty Naughty Violence
24. Yob – Our Raw Heart
25. Cloud Nothings – Last Building Burning
26. Superorganism – Superorganism
27. Body – I have fought against it but I can’t any longer
28. Anna von hausswolff – Dead Magic
29. Beechwood – Inside the Flesh Hotel
30. Mr Airplane Man – Jacaranda Blue
31. Big Ups – Two Parts Together
32. Ex – 27 Passports
33. Limiñanas – Shadow People
34. Snail Mail – Lush
35. MGMT – Little Dark Age
36. Courtney Barnett – Tell me how you really feel
37. Thom Yorke – Suspiria
38. Lala Lala – the Lamb
39. beths – future me hates me
40. Brockhampton – Iridescence
41. Death Grips – Year of the Snitch
42. Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest
43. Shannon Shaw – in Nashville
44. La Luz – Floating Features
45. Wiegedood – De Doden Hebben Het Goed III
46. Emma Ruth Rubdle. On dark horses
47. Jon Hopkins – Singularity
48. Scram C Baby – Give Us A Kiss
49. GØGGS – Pre Strike Sweep
50. David Nance Group – Peaced and slightly pulverized

Best venues:

1. Tivoli Vredenburg – Utrecht
2. Ekko – Utrecht
3. Paradiso – Amsterdam
4. dB’s – Utrecht
5. 013 – Tilburg

Best Festivals:

1. Down the Rabbit Hole
2. Best Kept Secret Festival
3. Welkome to The village
4. Lowlands
5. Roadburn 013 Tilburg