Every year we try to contribute our humble share to Hollands best festival and this year will be no exception! ‘How do you mean?’ Well here’s a little glimpse of what we are up to! On Saturday November 26th Beep! Beep! Back Up The Truck and the awesome
Le Guess Who? festival present the free mini-festival “Le Mini Who?”.

In collaboration with various shops and cafes in and around the Voorstraat in Utrecht we will present mini gigs and viewings of some pretty awesome artists! The fun will take place between 12:00 and 18:00 at various locations. Participating locations at Le Mini Who? are Plato record store, The Village Coffee …& Music, Puha, VinVin, Klijs & Boon, Café ‘t Hart, De Voortuin and Café Sussies. Besides a very extensive and varied music program, Klijs & Boon will show various videos and graphic designer Carlien Peijsel will display her ‘habit’ project in Puha. Exclusively for Le Guess Who? wristband-holders there have been arranged various discounts at these participating partners.

The program of Le Mini Who? will be announced on Friday, November 18th , during the warm-up party with Sleep and Pure X ∞ in EKKO. This pre-party is free for festival pass holders – other visitors pay € 5 entrance.
As always! Feel free to RSVP!

When your to-do list is longer then Mr. Zijlstra’s list of planned cultural cutbacks, you can be hella sure ‘reminiscing’ isn’t on there. That’s how it can happen that while you’re doing your business on the potty (yes, that other kind of business) and your staring absent minded at your calendar, all of a sudden it hits you: Holy crap shit! It’s our birthday!

Yes, good friends. Beep! Beep! Back up the Truck turned 3 years old!

No time to reminisce though. Time for a mind blowing party!

The festivities will take place on Sunday, August 28 at Utrecht’s main venue, Tivoli Oudegracht and will not merely involve eating cake and sipping coffee. No sir, there will also be music! Please behold our humble line up!

Blonde Redhead (us)
Moon & Sun (swe)
The Black Atlantic (nl)
My bubba & Mi (is/se/dk)
Het Gloren (nl)

The evening will start early as doors open at 17:30. The first act will play at 18:30 (order will be announced soon). Good to know: the party will take place at two different stages. The bottom three of the above mentioned acts will kick things off in ‘The mirror room’ while Moon & Sun and Blonde Redhead will carry on the awesomeness at the main stage.
Tickets giving access to both rooms are limited to 200. Tickets for the main hall are available through Tivoli.nl but do not give access to the mirror room. In case you already bought a main hall ticket you can mail info@beepbeep.nl to get info about how to get access to the mirror room.

Tickets go by the price of €20,-
What are you waiting for!

Alden Penner w/ Hidden Words

Alden Penner w/ Clues

Alden Penner w/ The Unicorns

Alden Penner is a Canadian musician and producer from Montreal, Canada. In 2000 Penner formed The Unicorns together with high school friend Nicholas Thorburn and Jamie Thompson. The band released two albums ‘Unicorns are people too and their ‘major album’, ‘Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?’ which garnered critical acclaim.

After The Unicorns disbanded in 2004, Penner played with a number of Montreal-based bands in addition to live concerts as a solo act. In his time between projects, Penner created the score for the independent film The Hamster Cage and managed the Canadian based record label Take This Hammer, which he has since put to rest.

Penner debuted his new band Clues at the Pop Montreal festival in October 2007. Clues’ self-titled debut album was released on May 19, 2009 on Constellation Records, with a North American tour and two European tours to follow.

In 2010, Penner announced the creation of a new band called Hidden Words, which consists of former Unicorns member Jamie Thompson, Eric Farr, James Farr, Neah Kelly, and Marie-Claire Saindon. The band plays music inspired by the Bahá’í Faith and has played many shows in Canada. The first album will be available in late spring, a second album is already in the works.

On April 4th 2011 Alden Penner released it’s first solo effort since 2005 through Beep! Beep! Back Up the Truck. The recording named ‘Odes to the house’ documents a collection of songs written during a three month journey through Africa and the middle east.

Tonight the Black Atlantic will appear on Dutch leading talk show, De Wereld Draait Door and will feature their dance video of  ‘Fragile Meadow’.

A while ago we stumbled upon this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR7Pv1… of a dancer doing an improv on the track ‘Fragile Meadow’. We got in touch and when we found out the girl happened to live in Toronto and we were going there for the NXNE Festival we had to meet. This video is the end result of a day well spend in the beautiful city of Toronto.

Here’s the video, dutchies can tune in at 19:30 on Nederland3!

A while ago ‘the Black Atlantic’ took a bus full of fans to Berlin. Besides having a blast some nice footage was brought home. So if you are bored, feel free to watch some of that material.

Oh and don’t forget! the Black Atlantic will be bringing that blast to the US next week! Goodtimes, goodtimes!

Short documentary (in Dutch) by 3voor12

the Black Atlantic – Dandelion for Berlin Sessions

…and some U.S. dates
Oct 7 2010 – Los Angeles, CA @ TAIX “Culture Collide”
Oct 9 2010 – Los Angeles, CA @ 826 “Culture Collide”
Oct 13 2010 – Denver, CO @ Hi-Dive
Oct 15 2010  – Omaha, NB @ The Waiting Room ƒ
Oct 16 2010  -  Sheboygan, WI @ The Green Room pub%
Oct 17 2010 – Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen#
Oct 18 2010  – Toledo, OH @ Ottawa Tavern#
Oct 19 2010 – Cleveland, OH @ Cranky’s#
Oct 20 2010  – Columbus, OH @ Spoonful Recs. IN-STORE
Oct 20 2010 – Cincinnati, OH @ t.b.c.
Oct 22 2010 – New York, NY @ The Livingroom “CMJ”

# w/ Lighthouse and the Whaler
% w/ Rue Royale
* w/ Cass Mc Combs
ƒ w/ Conduits & Dim Light

Well well well, with a swell presentation behind us, we can now announce you our humble share as a part of the Le Guess Who? 2010 festival. We are honoured to present you a night at Ekko as well as an acoustic night at Kargadoor. So here we go: Beep! Beep! Back up the truck! Proudly presents: Barsuk recording artists Menomena, 31knots’ leadsinger side project, called Tu Fawning and the folk rock of Jason Molina’s buddy Elephant Micah. Yes, that good friends are some sweet sweet artists. More bands will be announced in the upcoming month.

But of course there is way more then just then these Beep! Beep! contributions. Check out this far from complete list of artists that the festival is serving you already.

Swans (vs) opening with support from James Blackshaw (en)
Caribou (can)
Beach House (vs)
The Tallest Man On Earth (zw)
Dimlite (sw)
Trembling Bells (sco)
Ganglians (usa)
Subtitle (usa)
Sharon van Etten (usa)
Voice Of The Seven Thunders (uk)
Alasdair Roberts (sco)
Junip (zw)
Fitz (vs)
Ty Segall (vs)

The Le Guess Who? festival takes place in Utrecht, the Netherlands from November 24th till November 28 2010.
Early Bird tickets cost € 50,- and are on sale from juli 3, go to Tickets for more info.

For now we will leave you with some high quality youtube material by Elephant Micah.

Cheerio!

Tonight Beep! Beep! Back Up the Truck will be represented by We vs. Death and Kismet along side some other great artists including Robyn, The Go! Team and Uffie at the German festival and music convention in Cologne. The venue will open at 8pm. Make sure to stop by if you happen to be in the neighborhood! More info can be found by clicking here or on the image underneath. Abgefahren!

Ever since we’ve made them pretty swagger shirts, people have been asking us about the sweater variant our staff is wearing.

We told everybody: ‘that shit is exclusive’. Now we must apologize for that! You sweethearts are exclusive to us! So here’s the dealio! The sweatshirts can be pre-ordered until June 27th. This is your only chance to get one of these soon to be classics. So be quick and order yours!

Note: These sweaters cost €30,00. Not because we are greedy, but these beauties are silk screened three times to serve you with a top quality print. Besides that they are produced ethical, ecological and environmental. Which (in the end) helps you to feel good about yourself. Whooohaaa! Off to Toronto!

V V V SHOP V V V

• beep! beep!
  Swagger sweater
  €30.00

*Oh and you can check out them pretty colors here!
*Silkscreen print always in white

So here’s a little piece of education for all you non Dutchies.

On April 12, we will present our first all Dutch release. Which means that the lyrics are packed with funny sounding words and ambiguous expressions that make us smile while you don’t get it.

‘Glorie 123′ by Het Gloren is the musical debut of Floris Schrama. Schrama grew up in Schipluiden which is located in the typically Dutch polder. Polder? Yes, polder! This explicit environment formed the foundation for Schama’s reflection en consciousness that you will find in his lyrics and music.

Where Floris is known for playing solo the album was recorded in company of Wouter Kors and Gerben Houwer both known for their role in We vs. death.

Since translating the lyrics of Het Gloren would ruin the whole experience
we suggest you’ll start practicing Dutch…Go on! You won’t regret it.

Press play for your first lesson!

• Zomerdagen oostenwind

With the release comes an album presentation in style. So if you happen to be nearby (or drown in money). Make sure to stop by at wood sawing company ‘the Stern’, based in an original Mill in the city center of Utrecht. Ain’t that fresh!