Frank Kimelai

With a long and active history in DIY music culture, be it playing in several bands or booking shows in every available space in Tilburg, I founded the Incubate festival, a large scale festival focusing on Independent culture. What started out as a hobby ended up as a full time job. Together with 2 colleagues, I now run the Incubate foundation, a foundation that has set its goals to promote and stage the independent culture through cutting edge and creative ways. Within the foundation, I am responsible for a big part of the music program, but besides that, I am in charge of the production department, and head of finances and internal procedures. One could say I am the backbone of the organization, and that I spend most of my time organizing the unorganized. As a professional organization, we maintain the ethics of underground and DIY culture; the culture our organization emerged from and that keeps on feeding us.