If Royksopp can get worldwide recognition, so can you! Turn your supposed disadvantage into a unique selling point and flaunt your language. Andrew Dubber (author of the renowned New Music Strategies blog) puts his dj-skills in motion and selects the best Dutch Language-acts from the batch, and dishes out a few helpful social media tips on the side.
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Our little Christmas present to you. One extra week to buy your early bird ticket for only 30 euros. After January 1st the ticket will be 35 euros.
Merry Christmas everyone and hope to see you at Un-convention in the new year!

We were really looking forward to having the folks from Tocado Records attend Un-convention Groningen 2010. They have an impressive array of acts (including The Monroes) and releases and are never lost for spicy comments and feedback. Unfortunately, their ATM card was ripped, and they lost all their money. Obviously, they have different things on their mind right now, so they had to cancel their trip to Un-convention Groningen 2010.
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Thanks to the ladies of the networkingfestival ‘YourSonic’, we were introduced to the Reactive Table: A table were you put on your demo and all of a sudden we can see your video, read your bio and listen to your music! Read more..

We already promised you a kick-ass party for the first night of Un-Convention Groningen. And of course no bands, no party. So we are very glad to be able to say that we’ve found a whole bunch of awesome bands to climb the stage:

Lars Ludvig Löfgren (SWE)
The Black Atlantic (NL)
Rue Royale (UK).
Audiotransparent (NL)
We Swim You Jump (NL)
Sexton Creeps (NL)

Location: Platform Theater, Groningen

Doors open: 20:00

Hope to see you there!

After talking about music all day n wednesday the 13th of January, we bet everyone is in for a kick ass party with awesome music. Everyone with an Un-Convention ticket can go to the Un-Convention Showcase by HamRadio for free. HamRadio is an indie-music project with the goal to present (less known) music and offer music online for free. Or as they describe themselves on Facebook:
Dutch concert collective, pop pirates, bridge builders, local space invaders, house show burglars, organizers, find-out-about-good-bands-before-you-do-ers

The show will be in the ‘Platform Theater‘
More info about the bands will follow a.s.a.p.