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DESTINE

Download EP for free at www.destine.nl

About Me


FACTS
• Live on national tv channel TMF
• Succesful UK tour in august 2007
• Wellknown from a tv commercial on Comedy Central
• National radio airplay on Kink FM and more
• The first 30 shows were done in 25 weeks
• Band of the month at Europunk & poprock.nl webzines
• Band of the week at Ongekendtalent webzine
BIOGRAPHY
Deliberate powerpop songs, a modern American rocksound and a punkrock twist. Destine songs consist of straight-from-the-heart melodies, multi-layered vocals, but most of all some really powerful hooks.
The band Destine consists of five young but experienced musicians from The Netherlands. They all have earned their merits in former bands operating from the punkrockscene. Beating heart of Destine is 21-year-old multi-instrumentalist Robin van Loenen, who initially started the band as a solo project, but saw it grow into a steady and powerful liveband.
The first half of 2006 is spent writing songs and results in the ‘A Dozen Dreams EP’. All instruments and the production are taken care of by van Loenen himself. The EP is mastered by Martijn Groeneveld, well-known of Dutch top-notch acts. Destine tries to bend the benefits of the ever-evolving music industry its way: in order to get as many listeners as possible, the entire EP is downloadable for free on the website www.destine.nl.
In spring 2007 Destine’s live band kicks off and plays its first 10 shows in 7 weeks, some of them in the most well-known venues in the country. On stage Destine combines the feelgoodvibe of powerpop with the intensity of punkrock and shows that the songs sound maybe even better than on cd. The rest of the year Destine will be touring extensively in the The Netherlands, the UK, Italy, Germany and Belgium.
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Destine
Robin van Loenen
5017 BE Tilburg
The Netherlands
+ 31 (0) 640562675 (robin)
+ 31 (0) 642207100 (laurens)
[email protected]
www.destine.nl
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Member Since: 9/23/2006
Band Website: destine.nl
Band Members: Robin van Loenen
Leadvocals, guitar & songwriting

Hubrecht Eversdijk
Guitar & vocals

Laurens Troost
Keys, percussion & vocals

Tom Vorstius Kruijff
Bass & vocals

Robin Faas
Drums & vocals

Sounds Like: • If you like Waking Ashland and Sherwood, you're going to love Holland's Destine. Five excellent tracks which, it could be said, are better than their US peers. Highly impressive stuff.
(Punktastic.com)

• This is so good it’s sick. If this shit doesn’t blow up very soon, I don’t know what will.
(Europunk.net)

• Destine has everything what it takes to make the break to a bigger audience. Catchy enough for the radio, alternative enough for the serious listener.
(Rockportaal.nl)

• The ‘A Dozen Dreams EP’ features five honest, light-hearted and catchy songs. Van Loenen turns out to have a fine sense for the perfect song.
(Feeding The Fire webzine)

• Last Scene Of A Plane Crash maybe is even the best feelgood song that I have lately heard.
(3voor12 webzine)

• I’m yearning for more Destine. Magnificent!
(Poprock.nl)

• Destine’s songs are timeless.
(Up Magazine)

Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

To all our UK friends - february UK tour - booking now

To all our UK friends,DESTINE from The Netherlands will do its second UK tour in the period from February 1st till February 10th 2008 and is available for bookings now. Please be quick as a couple of ...
Posted by DESTINE on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:55:00 PST

Destine live unplugged on national television (TMF)

Hey dear friends,How's it going? Please check out our first-ever performance on national television. We got the chance to play the song Last Scene Of A Plane Crash unplugged live on Dutch music channe...
Posted by DESTINE on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:13:00 PST

UK tour next August

UK TOUR NEXT AUGUSTNext august we will be doing our first summertour in the UK! The first dates are confirmed, check them out in our tourschedule. We are still looking for some UK shows between A...
Posted by DESTINE on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:56:00 PST

Win tickets for Destine in 013 Tilburg, may 9th 2007

In Dutch: Aanstaande woensdag speelt Destine voor het eerst in hometown Tilburg, en wel in de 013 (batcave), met de band Cloudmachine. We delen kaarten uit aan iedereen die minimaal drie men...
Posted by DESTINE on Sat, 05 May 2007 01:49:00 PST

A Dozen Dreams EP - Out now!

It's on!! After months of writing, recording, getting the EP designed and mastered, and getting a site on the web; A Dozen Dreams EP is online now! I can say I'm really excited by the results and Mart...
Posted by DESTINE on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:08:00 PST