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Le Club Suburbia

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LE CLUB SUBURBIA / OCCII
Amstelveenseweg 134 - Amsterdam
Tram 1 & 2 - South Side Vondelpark Exit
www.leclubsuburbia.org - www.occii.org
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We are Le Club Suburbia...
…a concert programming group in Amsterdam, organizing most of our events at a venue called OCCII, just southwest of our city’s centre. Our aim is to provide a stage and hospitality for non-commercially touring bands and to select the freshest sounds of the underground.
In all honesty, our concerts are set up quite far away from what might be called Suburbia, especially the one portrayed in Penelope Spheeris’s 1984 film, whose name we adopted for our activities. Suburbia, then, must be taken metaphorically: we organize shows for bands that just won’t make it (yet?) to the bigger commercial venues you’ll find closer to or within Amsterdam’s 'grachtengordel'.
Call us romantics or naïve; we focus on bands and music that, until a couple of years ago, could rightfully be filed under indie. Indeed, processes of gentrification are not only going on in real estate, but also in music: indie is now a genre, an aesthetic adopted by major labels (just like in cinema: what does the name Warner Independent Pictures even mean?). You’d almost forget that there are still truly independent and stimulating musicians out there!
At Le Club Suburbia, these are the artists you’ll find on the stage, those innovative musicians who, without the support of a lot of money, drive around the continent in a van, playing music ranging from dirty punk rock via psychedelic post-hardcore to danceable loops… We’ll combine them with a local act or two, let our resident DJ R-Nasty spin the wheels of steel and have ice cold Urquell beers in the fridge. Do come around sometime!
Facts:
- In even more honesty, our friends in Stockholm (Sweden) started booking shows under the moniker Le Club Suburbia since 2002, we started in 2005.
- We’ve never been there and we’re unconnected, but there’s a Club Suburbia in Bucharest (Romania).

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 03/05/2006
Band Website: WWW.LECLUBSUBURBIA.ORG
Band Members: GJ - Program/Promotion/Design
Maarten - Program/Promotion/Records
Caspar - Le Chef de Vegan Cuisine
Rynke - Graphic Design www.studiohelmich.nl
R-Nasty - Residence DJ
and other Friends.
Influences: Le Club Suburbia brings you innovative and stimulating musicians from a broad range of global underground indie culture.
Sounds Like: Some of the bands that played at Le Club Suburbia since 2004 include:

1) From the Netherlands:
About, About Paris, Adept, Adolf Butler, Am Square, Anaphylactic Shock, Appie Kim, Arms & Legs, Barre Bizarre, Chickas Ariba, Cotopaxi, De Nieuwe Vrolijkheid, Dusty Blinds, Empire Cheese, Eva Braun, Firestone, fr.ro.st, Fuz, Ice Cream Eating Motherfuckers, Iron Cage, Karaktermoord, Katadreuffe, Kismet, Laser Poodle, Magnetronix, Malle Pietje and the Bimbos, Meldy Peaches, Mexican Holiday, Omission, Pfaff, Real Room, Schotel van de Dag, Silver Salts, Silver Souls, Storm, Spilt Milk, Sweet Sweet, Tenement Kids, Thank Christ for the Bomb, The Heights, The Moi Non Plus, Union Town, The Walt, The Wolf, Death and the Acorn.

2) From the United States of America:
Anavan, Awesome Color, BARR, Burial Hex, Chris Leo & Vague Angels, Core of the Coalman, Crystal Stilts, Das Oath, Die Princess Die, Finally Punk, Glass and Ashes, Get Hustle, Haram, Hawnay Troof, Japanther, Melted Men, Meneguar, Mika Miko, No Age, Numbers, Partyline, Pocahaunted, Rah Bras, Religious Knives, Samara Lubelski, Sic Alps, Sixteens, Spacehorse, Starving Weirdos, Sun Araw, Tara Jane O'Neil, The Chinese Stars, The Good Good, The Flesh, The Jai-Alai Savant, The Yellow Press, U.S. Girls, Wavves, Wives, Wolves in the Throne Room, Woods, XBXRX.

3) From Sweden:
Chronic Heist, Cut City, Jailhouse Fuck, King Kong Kobra, Laagrluv, Seven Feet Four, Tar ... Feathers, The Je Ne Sais Quoi.

4) From Germany:
Airpeople, Amtrak, Fyoelk, Herpes, Schneller Autos Organisation, Song & Dance, The Puddle Parade, Ten Volt Shock, Tschilp, Zisch Zosch.

5) From Canada:
Aids Wolf, The Creeping Nobodies, Les Georges Leningrad, Ghettonuns, Pony Up.

6) From Belgium:
Bear Bones Lay Low, Ignatz, Sylvester Anfang II, White Circle Crime Club.

7) From the United Kingdom:
Hunting Lodge, Nackt Insecten.

8) From Finland:
Echo Is Your Love, High Wolf (France/Finland)

9) From Portugal:
Gala Drop.
Record Label: Knife Slits Water
Type of Label: Indie

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How to get to OCCII

--------------------OcciiAmstelveenseweg 1341075 XL Amsterdamtel. 0031-20-6717778--------------------Located at the south-side of the Vondelpark, the end of the Overtoom. Take tram 1 or 2. There are n...
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