During SPEELDRANG, young local makers get the opportunity to present new work, play a try-out show, or perform in front of an audience for the first time. This edition was organized with Femxle Frontier, a collective that works for a more equal gender distribution in the music industry.

Female Frontier hosts triple bill events in Overijssel and Gelderland, among others.

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Housemaid

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Housemaid is a four-piece indie rock band bursting with raw energy and hypnotic grooves. With a sound that balances between dreamy and confrontational — steeped in shoegaze, krautrock and post-punk — they effortlessly drag you into their world. Expect sharp observations, vulnerable texts and a good dose of feminist power. This is not background music, but a frontal attack on apathy that will reverberate for a long time. Danceable, but with teeth.

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Then pick

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Pluk dan brings together existential lyrics and an experimental synth sound in an overwhelming Dutch-language pop act. Each show is an interdisciplinary experiment with music that is philosophical and danceable, alienating and recognisable, with the band guided by their motto: “Only one day is your last, let it rot and pick the rest.”

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Torrence

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Energy, sensuality and an escape from headaches. Torrence grabs the audience with alternative psychedelic rock, Radiohead instrumental touches, and Jeff Buckley's vocal traits, and doesn't let go of them until all three guitars' last vibrations are extinguished.

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Stories about crazy characters and events are told in both fervent and euphoric ways. Whooping ears and wobbly legs are what remains. And then? A sweaty longing for more.

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