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Backwater

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About Me


Ambition, Professionalism, Progress, a compelling live-show and excellent musicians: Just a few words that do Backwater justice.

Over the past 5 years, Backwater has grown into a successful rock act. Backwater’s music is best described as energetic rock with electronic elements, attractive to a wide audience. With their strong live shows and compelling songs, the band has gained more than 10.000 (!) Myspace members in 2007 alone. Combined with 2500 mailing list members, Backwater reaches more than 12.500 fans all over the world.


Besides playing the regular club venues in the Netherlands (a.o. Tivoli (Utrecht), Het Paard (Den Haag), 013 (Tilburg), Stairway to Heaven (Utrecht) and Unitas (Wageningen), Backwater made many appearances on Dutch festivals like Appelpop, Huntenpop, Geinbeat, Babypop, het Utrecht Uitfeest, Bevrijdingsfestival Wageningen and de Valkhof Affaire. In Germany, Backwater did two extensive tours, during which they rocked the legendary Kaiser Keller in Hamburg, the place where the Beatles played their first German gig!


In 2007 Backwater even headlined the German Rock am Turm festival in front of more than 2500 screaming Germans! Backwater has gained a lot of experience and an excellent live reputation. They have shared the stage with renowned Dutch acts like Di-rect, Within Temptation, Osdorp Posse, After Forever and even the Presidents of the USA among others!


Backwater is constantly evolving. Their latest EP ‘Feel/Show’ was received very well both in and outside of the Netherlands, resulting in a collaboration with the English producer George Shilling (Blur, Primal Scream, James Brown, Lisa Stansfield, New radicals, Porcupine Tree etc). Under the guidance of George, Backwater will return to the studio early 2008.


An evening with Backwater guarantees you a fantastic live show!
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Backwater Live @ Rock am turm 2007
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Member Since: 3/22/2006
Band Website: backwater.nl
Band Members: Menno Fink - Vocals, Rhythm Guitars and programming
Martijn Peters - Drums & Percussion
Kees Ligtelijn - Bass & backing vocals
Jan-Willem Ligtelijn - Lead Guitars

For bookings worldwide:
RnR Agency: +31(0)64385463
[email protected]

For bookings in Germany:
Underground Booking: (+49) 17 73 80 62 21

Jan-Willem uses Egnater pre-amps and ISP Pro Rack G decimators provided by Gtrgear and
Kool & Elfring custom speakercabs exclusively

All photo material (c) Jens van der Velde
www.jens.com
Influences: too diverse to mention
Sounds Like: You tell us.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Help Backwater perform on the "zwarte cross" festival!

Backwater joined a contest to perform on the zwarte cross festival in the Netherlands, but we need your vote for it! If you'd like to help us, please follow this link and look for our song "Catch" and...
Posted by Backwater on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:06:00 PST

Demand it!

Hey Guys and girls! Introducing a new feature on our myspace page! If you would like to have Backwater do a gig in your town, city or country, simply DEMAND IT! Click on our DEMAND IT! widget on our m...
Posted by Backwater on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:43:00 PST

Backwater goes GPNL!

Backwater has been chosen by a jury from the prestigious Dutch band-contest "De grote prijs van Nederland"  to perform on a showcase! This showcase will be held in Amsterdam on july 10th. For mor...
Posted by Backwater on Thu, 29 May 2008 06:32:00 PST

New songs online!

Finally, Backwater is proud to present three brand new songs! In collaboration with George Shilling as a producer we introduce to you the new Backwater! Have fun listening, and please leave us a comme...
Posted by Backwater on Tue, 27 May 2008 12:08:00 PST

Recordings almost finished!

Hi all! A little update from the Backwater crew: Recordings of our new songs are almost finished! 2 tracks are already spot on, and we are currently working on the final vocal recordings for the last ...
Posted by Backwater on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:05:00 PST

Backwater signs up with RnR Live

Backwater has left Macano booking agency and has signed up with RnR Live. RnR has a great network and an enthousiastic crew that really helps us get the show on road again. This strategic move already...
Posted by Backwater on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:09:00 PST

Studio report

Here's a little studio report for ya'll! We invited the UK producer George Shilling to our studio in Lunteren based in the Netherlands to work with us on song arrangements and production issues. It wa...
Posted by Backwater on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:05:00 PST

New review from FRET magazine. Read it here!

This month, our latest recording Feel/Show was reviewed by the Dutch magazine FRET. It's in Dutch but we managed to translate it, so here it is in English and Dutch: Backwater (Dutch/Nederlands)Feel/S...
Posted by Backwater on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:30:00 PST

New songs online! Check em out!

Dear readers and subscribers, We've just put three hot new songs online.. Well... they are teasers anyway, just to give you something to listen to untill our new cd is finished. Hope you like them! Po...
Posted by Backwater on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:53:00 PST

Backwater almost ready to record new stuff!

Hi all! Time for an update. The band has taken its fair share of time to work with the new ideas that came after our little masterclass songwriting at the Bank Cottage studio's in the UK, under guidan...
Posted by Backwater on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 04:44:00 PST