Dutch music is a strange beast. These days there aren't that many artists from the Netherlands that I enjoy, but back in the Eighties th...

Last month my brother passed away and it was one of those things you expect to happen, except you just don't know when exactly. He wasn...

After Rubberen Robbie discovered chart success with ' De Nederlandse sterre die strale overal ', the band decided to make a sequel. ...

When Dutch producer Jaap Eggermont achieved international success with his series of 'Stars on 45' singles, the group Rubberen Robbi...

In 1980, squatters were dominating the news in the Netherlands. During the crowning of Queen Beatrix they used the occasion to protest again...

Although it was released in 1982, 'Het slurvenlied' was a parody of Father Abraham's 1978 single 'The Smurf song'. If th...

The British and the Irish have a strange relationship with alcohol: for some reason they always seem to have to overdo it. And then there...

Although I realise the joke is lost on foreign readers, I have committed myself to putting my record collection online and that includes a h...

'Zuipen' ('Booze') could have been a typical product of the early Eighties, a time when youth unemployment was the highest i...

'De vuile zeeballade' ('The ballad of the dirty sea') is a parody of the Dutch song 'De zuiderzeeballade' ('The ...