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28 March 2025
Nagasaki Swim, Parisian Night Suit, Crooijmans & Zonen
20:30-23:00 | Tickets 14,50doors open 20:00
Roodkapje & Rotown present: Nagasaki Swim
Doors: 20:00
Tickets 14,00 (including 1,50 service fee)
Nagasaki Swim makes music that fills you with courage, whether you’re just walking to the supermarket or merging onto the highway after a long time away. Sometimes they’re a warm-hearted folk band, other times an euphoric, fearless rock outfit. One thing’s for sure: creativity is never in short supply. This indie-folk group isn’t afraid to let instruments like strings or lap steel take the spotlight alongside the more conventional ones. Nagasaki Swim confidently loosens the reins—eyes wide open, embracing everything that comes their way.
Firmly rooted in Rotterdam and with two albums under their belt, the band, led by Jasper Boogaard, is growing in many directions. Their sharp debut The Mirror (2021) and the lush follow-up Everything Grows (2023) have taken Nagasaki Swim on multiple tours throughout the Netherlands and the UK, with performances at festivals like SXSW, Best Kept Secret, and Motel Mozaïque. And now, as the grey autumn weather sets in, a new Nagasaki Swim album is blooming—we can’t wait for it to see the light of day!
Parisian Night Suit is Jeroen Reek’s vehicle for self-producing, songwriting and composing, exploring the outer realms of blue-eyed soul, yacht rock, vintage funk, exotica and electronic pop. The project sprung somewhat incidentally; Reek was noodling around with a Rhodes piano borrowed from a friend, with the intent of writing material for his longtime band Iguana Death Cult. But as he started to experiment with it further, it sparked a chain of musical ideas that didn’t necessarily fit within the songwriting lingo of Iguana. The songs he crafted in his home studio’s are adrift inside the untapped territories of Reek’s pet influences: the translucent soul of Allen Toussaint, the quirky city pop of Haruomi Hosono, the beguiling croon of Bryan Ferry. From sad sack soul ballads to funky floor fillers, As Parisian Night Suit, Reek tackles the familiar existential dread with a glint of fun. “I enjoy it whenever songs maintain a bit of ambiguity, something to keep things both light and mysterious. I’m not some tortured artist carrying the weight of the world. I feel everything as intensely as the next person, but I’m always trying to highlight the absurdity of it all.”
Doors: 20:00
Tickets 14,00 (including 1,50 service fee)
Nagasaki Swim makes music that fills you with courage, whether you’re just walking to the supermarket or merging onto the highway after a long time away. Sometimes they’re a warm-hearted folk band, other times an euphoric, fearless rock outfit. One thing’s for sure: creativity is never in short supply. This indie-folk group isn’t afraid to let instruments like strings or lap steel take the spotlight alongside the more conventional ones. Nagasaki Swim confidently loosens the reins—eyes wide open, embracing everything that comes their way.
Firmly rooted in Rotterdam and with two albums under their belt, the band, led by Jasper Boogaard, is growing in many directions. Their sharp debut The Mirror (2021) and the lush follow-up Everything Grows (2023) have taken Nagasaki Swim on multiple tours throughout the Netherlands and the UK, with performances at festivals like SXSW, Best Kept Secret, and Motel Mozaïque. And now, as the grey autumn weather sets in, a new Nagasaki Swim album is blooming—we can’t wait for it to see the light of day!
Parisian Night Suit is Jeroen Reek’s vehicle for self-producing, songwriting and composing, exploring the outer realms of blue-eyed soul, yacht rock, vintage funk, exotica and electronic pop. The project sprung somewhat incidentally; Reek was noodling around with a Rhodes piano borrowed from a friend, with the intent of writing material for his longtime band Iguana Death Cult. But as he started to experiment with it further, it sparked a chain of musical ideas that didn’t necessarily fit within the songwriting lingo of Iguana. The songs he crafted in his home studio’s are adrift inside the untapped territories of Reek’s pet influences: the translucent soul of Allen Toussaint, the quirky city pop of Haruomi Hosono, the beguiling croon of Bryan Ferry. From sad sack soul ballads to funky floor fillers, As Parisian Night Suit, Reek tackles the familiar existential dread with a glint of fun. “I enjoy it whenever songs maintain a bit of ambiguity, something to keep things both light and mysterious. I’m not some tortured artist carrying the weight of the world. I feel everything as intensely as the next person, but I’m always trying to highlight the absurdity of it all.”