Magneet Festival lays claim to being ‘the first crowdsourced festival of its kind in Europe’. Inspired by Burning Man – the annual self-reliance experiment, whose 2013 edition commences in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert from Monday, 26 August – and seeking to add to such established endeavours with a specific focus on contemporary trends and technologies, Magneet developed out of an idea which the artist Jesse Limmen put into practice several years ago at the Landjuweel Festival in nearby Ruigoord. As part of the festival, Limmen asked members of the audience for some physical contribution – be it a song, a poetry recital, an improvised dance, any spontaneous creative performance – in return for a free beer.
Extending across four weekends from August to September, Magneet Festival aims to advance this concept of audience participation. Indeed, the ‘Magneet Philosophy’ is summarised as ‘No Spectators, Only Participators’: the festival’s potential audience members are encouraged to become the festival itself. People can sign up to the Magneet website via their social media accounts, then pitch initiatives for performances, stalls and workshops. Provided the idea is achievable, visitors to the site are then able to vote for their favourite initiatives, with the festival’s organisers helping to make them a reality.
So Magneet Festival features a diversity of musical artists and musical sets, dance, outdoor theatre, performance art, and art installations; a range of stalls selling everything from vintage food, smoothies and churros to jewellery and feathers; and practitioners offering a shave and a beer, a new life for old clothing, and how-to lessons in graffiti. While this variety is a characteristic of the festival, each day is given a broad theme, with focuses on jazz, hip hop and R&B, techno and electronic music; a day devoted to the colour pink; and one day set aside for walking barefoot on the festival’s artificial sand.
Magneet Festival is located on the eastern tip of Amsterdam’s Zeeburg island. As is the case with Burning Man, the festival has a ‘leave no trace’ policy, meaning everything constructed over its course must be dismantled and the area left as clean as – if not cleaner than – it was prior to its use. Visitors can set up tents at the nearby Zeeburg camping site. The festival’s grand opening is this evening; and the festival will continue across every Friday, Saturday and Sunday until Sunday, 15 September. Tickets cost €12.50 a day; or €75 for unfettered access.
http://www.magneetfestival.nl/
Prince and his band 3rdEyeGirl – which comprises the musicians Donna Grantis, Hannah Ford, and Ida Neilsen; and whose typographical arrangement is uncertain – are to play two shows this Sunday evening at Paradiso. The first will commence from 7.30 pm, and the second from midnight; with the doors to Paradiso’s Great Hall opening an hour and a half prior to each performance.
Tickets for the two performances have gone on sale within the last thirty minutes, from Ticketmaster, at: http://www.ticketmaster.nl/artist/prince-tickets/7825. The site is operating a queue system, with tickets costing €100, and purchases limited to four per person.
Update: After going on sale at 6 pm, all tickets for the two concerts had sold out by around 7.30 pm (a definite time being difficult to determine, since the Ticketmaster site seemed inclined to portray the concert as a sell-out prematurely, still allowing occasional sales). Tickets have begun to appear on resale sites like viagogo, for approaching €400 apiece.
The return of one of the internet’s most cherished guides after almost one month’s absence owing to holiday and so on.
Friday
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Paradiso: The B-52s + Jett Rebel – 7.30 pm (Great Hall); Balloon – from midnight
Melkweg: Dropout – from 11 pm (Old Hall)
Sugar Factory: Jeff Moore & Friends – from 11.55 pm
Winston: Fucked Up – 8 pm; Electrorated – from 11 pm
Concertgebouw: Maarten Hogenhuis Quartet – 7.30 & 9.30 pm (Choir Room); Isabelle van Keulen plays Piazzollo’s Tango Nuevo – 8 pm (Small Hall)
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Saturday
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Paradiso: Bassline x Appelsap Special – from midnight
Melkweg: Black Flag – 7.30 pm (The Max); Encore – from 11.59 pm (The Max & Old Hall)
Sloterpark: Loveland Festival – all day from 11 am
Sugar Factory: Joey Daniel All Night Long – from 11.55 pm
Winston: Payback – from 11.30 pm
Concertgebouw: Steve Reich: Ligconcert Drumming – 8 pm (Great Hall)
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Sunday
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Paradiso: Prince & 3rdEyeGirl – 7.30 pm & midnight (Great Hall); Café Paradiso – from 8 pm
Sugar Factory: Wicked Jazz Sounds Club Night – from 11 pm
Winston: Sneeky Sunday – from 10 pm
Concertgebouw: Maria Juncal: ¡Celebración! – 8 pm (Great Hall)
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Note: Many venues – including De Nieuwe Anita, Trouw, OT301, OCCII, Muziekgebouw, Bimhuis, and North Sea Jazz Club – take a break for a month during the summer, from late July until mid-late August.
The return of one of the internet’s most cherished guides after a few weeks’ absence owing to holiday and so on.
Friday
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Paradiso: Rickie Lee Jones – 8.30 (Great Hall); Jonathan Wilson – 9 pm (Bitterzoet); Bixiga 70 – 10.30 pm (Small Hall); Dirty in Demand – from midnight
Melkweg: The Black Seeds – 8 pm (Old Hall); Balans @ klinch – from 11 pm (Old Hall)
De Nieuwe Anita: Amsterdam Beatclub – from 8 pm
Trouw: SWTBOX (The Persuader, Psycatron, etc.) – from 11 pm
OT301: aciiiiiid!! – from 11 pm
OCCII: MKM! (Chastity Potatoe, Human Heads, Acrid Lactations, DJ Stront) – 9 pm
Sugar Factory: Extravert feat. Luis Leon – 11.30 pm
Winston: Mundo Park, velvvet & Try Acrobatics – 8.30 pm
Concertgebouw: The Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet – 7.30 pm (Choir Room); Masaaki Suzuki: With Mendelssohn to Scotland – 8 pm (Great Hall); The Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet – 9.30 pm (Choir Room)
Muziekgebouw: Tangomarathon – 9 pm
Bimhuis: Lee Konitz Quartet – 8.30 pm
North Sea Jazz Club: Tillery (feat. Rebecca Martin, Gretchen Parlato, Becca Stevens) – 9 pm; Late Night Live – 11.30 pm
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Saturday
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Paradiso: George Thorogood & The Destroyers – 7.30 pm (Great Hall); RVLVR – from midnight
Melkweg: Encore – from 11.59 pm (The Max & Old Hall)
De Nieuwe Anita: Warm Soda – 9 pm
Trouw: Trouw Loves Nachtdigital – from 11 pm
OT301: Persephone (with Sandrien, Mirella Kroes, and Mattikk) – from 6 pm
OCCII: Beyond the Realms of Doom III (Mater Suspiria Vision, Fifth Era, Tonal Verges, etc.) – from 10 pm
Amsterdamse Bos: A Day at the Park 2013 – from midday
Sugar Factory: I hear U – from 11.55 pm
Winston: Archetype + Momma Knows Best + Barren Grounds + 2 Years To Apocalypse – 8.30 pm
Concertgebouw: Isabelle Faust and Pictures at an Exhibition – 8 pm (Great Hall)
Muziekgebouw: Tangomarathon – 7 pm
Bimhuis: Brazilian Summer Sessions – 8.30 & 10.30 pm
North Sea Jazz Club: Gregory Porter – 9 pm; Late Night Live – 11.30 pm
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Sunday
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Paradiso: Café Paradiso – from 8 pm; Moon Duo – 8 pm (Small Hall)
Trouw: Trouw On Sunday – from 9 pm
Sugar Factory: Wicked Jazz Sounds Club Night – 11 pm
Winston: Sneeky Sunday – 10 pm
Concertgebouw: Farewell Radio Kamer Filharmonie: Mendelssohn – 2.15 pm (Great Hall); Boddé and Van Vleuten – 8 pm (Small Hall)
Muziekgebouw: Tangomarathon – 7 pm
After headlining last Friday at the Cognac Blues Passions Festival, in Cognac, in the Poitou-Charentes region of France, Erykah Badu will perform at the Melkweg in Amsterdam from 9 pm tonight. She will be succeeded by Nas, who will appear at the same venue at the same time tomorrow evening. Following last year’s acclaimed Life Is Good, Nas has reportedly been working on a new album. He suggested back in April via Twitter that he was set to unveil the project’s title, but has thus far remained wordless. In the meantime, he has announced a new clothing line, called HSTRY Clothing – in collaboration with Grungy Gentleman, debuting this autumn, and utilising ‘buttery leather, flannel, fleece, wool and neoprene in innovative ways’ – and features on Jay-Z’s Magna Carta…Holy Grail, released across the last week.
Nas has been performing a series of concerts in Germany and at festivals across Europe; after Amsterdam, he will make his way on to Les Ardentes in Liège, Belgium, and to the Wireless Festival, which has moved this year to London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Nas will be supported at the Melkweg by Coely, the Antwerp-based, Belgian-Congolese rapper, who recently released her EP Raah The Soulful Yeah.
Elsewhere, tomorrow evening over at Paradiso, Blondie will perform. The group announced a new album in March; to be entitled Ghosts of Download, they have been debuting songs from it in concerts over the past couple of months. Blondie will appear on stage at Paradiso from 8 pm.
An interesting event will take place this evening at the Concertgebouw, as part of the venue’s Robeco SummerNights: a diverse series of concerts endeavouring to extend the boundaries of classical music performance, to entwine other musical genres, and to encourage wider audience participation, running nightly until 31 August. Members of the public, and potential audience members, have been asked to submit to uploadklassiek.nl YouTube videos relating to classical music: be these videos comic or otherwise inspired, of the concert hall or recorded at home. A selection of these videos will be shown, presented by Dagan Cohen, and accompanied by Daria van den Bercken on piano, in a concert called ‘Upload Klassiek: Youtube in Het Concertgebouw’. The concert will commence in the Concertgebouw’s Small Hall from 8 pm.
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