This Sunday, you can find me and my records on the annual winter market in the Vechtclub XL in Utrecht (Europalaan 2B). Shop local music at Tiny Room Records (to be found in the big concert hall of the building).
I’ll bring vinyl, CDs, zines, art and more. Perfect gifts for anyone in need of good music during the holiday season!
Between 11.00 and 17.00 on Sunday 24 November. Free entrance!
Since last year, Utrecht based psychedelic post-punk band Combo Qazam has been hosting shows in their rehearsal space, Studio Patrick. During these nights, they are hosting experimental, weird, funny, loud, quiet and great music by independent artists and great people. Studio Patrick is one of the coolest underground venues in the Netherlands. Great sound, cheap drinks, good DIY vibes and the best indie music.
On March 23rd, 2024, Combo Qazam invites wh^rl (whose self-titled debut album came out last November on Tiny Room), who will come with a full band to perform his beautiful, bare lo-fi/indie/folk/blues/noise songs. After that, the Belgian jumpy indie pop outfit Tonsils comes back to the Netherlands, especially for this show. We are beyond excited! If you want to check out Studio Patrick and come to this show, so you’re that cool kid that knows what’s up, look up studio_patrick_utrecht on Instagram and find out more.
Tomorrow, we are present at the Sound of Young Holland, the annual showcase of the Dutch independent scene in O’Ceallaigh and Kult. Very cool to be hosting the upper floor in O’Ceallaigh on this fest, organized together with Subroutine, Lepel and Zeevonk. You can see wh^rl (photo) and Immen in our tiny room.
The coming months, we’ll continue to host shows as Combo Qazam in our rehearsal space / indie venue Studio Patrick in Utrecht. We have cool stuff coming up like Kenmujo next Monday, Zea and Môgô in February and wh^rl and Tonsils in March. For now, the Tiny Adventures in De Groeverij have been put on hold for a while, but who knows what the future has in stock! Stay tuned for LIVE MUSIC 😀
Yesterday was the perfect ending to this year’s Tiny Adventures series. Great to finally see The Puddle Parade again (after 15 years!), creating loops with kalimba, singing saw and other cool little instruments. This time with saxophone, that blended so well with the melodica! Beautiful & charming lo-fi stuff.
Garciaphone came all the way from France for this show, and – although the trip was long – totally delivered with his old and new songs, melodies and harmonies that warm your soul. No big stories to tell, no epic show elements, no branded marketing needed. Just beautiful Songs (with a capital S). Always a delight to see him play live, and this was no exception.
And this all in a sold out Groeverij – the most cozy, pleasant and welcoming store in and around Houten. Thank you all!
Yes yes yes! We are gearing up for the 3rd installment of the monthly Tiny Adventures, that take place in record store slash diy venue De Groeverij in Houten. Exciting, intimate, unknown and really really good – you know the drill by now, right?
For this edition we picked a Tuesday (the last day of this month) and invited two very special singer/songwriters. Geri van Essen comes all the way from London UK for THIS SHOW. This will be the second time she plays a Dutch show since the release of her soulful, folky record Cleaned The Windows came out on our label in 2021. Not to be missed for fans of Vashti Bunyan, Aldous Harding en Sibylle Baier.
And then there’s Tape. Finally, Jacco van Elst (This Leo Sunrise, The Fire Harvest, Holden Goldmund) solo on a stage again! We have called his voice the most beautiful one of our country – but what do we know? We have got nothing to do with The Voice and Holland’s Got Talent and stuff like that, we’re the underground…!
We think it’s time you come and check it out for yourself. See you Tuesday next week, for some beautiful music, conversations, and a celebration of everything that is Real and Offline. 
It’s time to go on a second adventure with us! Next week, on Saturday 30th of September, we’ll welcome you to De Groeverij in Houten again. First we’ll have a unique listening session of a field recording collage by Cochlea called Four Seasons of Noise. A special experience of going around the year in 15 minutes.
Then, Amsterdam-based American Dusty Stray takes over the stage. We love his alt-folk songs, little stories that matter. Really excited to finally see this live. If you’re digging Kurt Vile, The Posies or Big Thief, this should be right up your alley.
Hope to see you next week, link here:
And Facebook event:
We are starting a new concert series! Over the course of the next months, there will be 4 evenings with live music in De Groeverij in Houten. You can discover new, exciting, a little bit experimental and extremely good artists in a very intimate setting. We named these events Tiny Adventures.
The first edition is happening in a week: Saturday September the 2nd. Tilburgian indiepostfolkjazzkraut artist Microwolf is presenting his new album Changelings in a unique solo setting. Also playing is wh^rl, all the way from Groningen. Singer/songwriter Jurgen Veenstra lived many lives playing in noiserock bands all over the world, but finally comes (after almost 60 years) with his solo debut as wh^rl.
Two amazing songwriters who open up new perspectives on the whole ‘man with guitar’-concept. Very exciting! Hope to see you there. Limited seats available.
FB Event page: Tiny Adventures #1: Microwolf & wh^rl – LIVE
Ticket link: https://groeverij.nl/product/za-2-sept-tiny-adventures-live/
This Sunday we’ll be present at the annual Onafhankelijke Label Markt 2023 in Amsterdam. Like every year, we bring our catalogue of vinyl, CDs, cassettes and other merch, free promos, plus some second-hand bins from our own collection.
This year, we managed to find some items we thought were sold out. Like the last copy of Todd Tobias’ Impossible Cities 2 cd-r, the last two copies of Moon Moon Moon’s Help! Help!, Moonchy & Tobias’ Venus Mirror EP… and we even found an End of Latin cassette by Sven Agaath!
There are new postcards by The World of Dust (and a collage zine that is not in the video) and of course the main new release: Microwolf – Changelings LP. That one will be on display, you should get it!
On vinyl, we’ll also have these special items with us:
– The last copy of Combo Qazam’s Flight Music
– The last two copies of Lost Bear’s Inside The Dragon double LP
– The last two copies of Toby Goodshank’s Untitled record
– Astral Swans self-titled record featuring Julie Doiron
– The last copy of the Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy / Naked Shortsellers split 7″
– Last copies of Microplaza’s Read The Room and Tiny Wine’s Archer EPs
We want to welcome you to our next event! For the February edition of our ‘Tiny Room Records presents’ series we’ll be in De Groeverij in Houten again.
On the bill is Ilsha, our favorite choral folk group. They don’t perform much, but when they do it’s always delightful, intimate and special.
Support act is Tenrec, Combo Qazam’s Arno Breuer on kalimba. He left quite the impression with this side act on Podiumdorst last year, so we wanted to see/experience this again.
Next week! Link to limited tickets here.
It’s showtime! This year we’ll be hosting a little bit fewer concerts than in 2022. We aim for one each month. The January and February concerts both take place in De Groeverij, a beautiful, cosy and very welcoming record store in Houten. So let’s talk about the first one! On Saturday 21st of January (next week) our German friend Boo Hoo comes over from Frankfurt for just one show.
Boo also manages Lousy Moon Records, the label that worked with us on both Toby Goodshank‘s record as well as Gaman, the latest World of Dust album. His music is melancholy & uplifting at the same time, with stories that are captivating, quirky and beautiful. He tells stories over quiet folk strummings – standing out in the singer/songwriter genre by being so damn good. Boo is also a funny and reliable friend that we can’t wait to see (play) again. We hope you will be there with us to celebrate live music like you did last year.
Support act is Sterre, a local young woman with a steel-string guitar. We saw her play covers of the Cranberries, Elliott Smith and The Smiths, but when playing a song of her own, she struck us with trueness, personality and talent. There should be more room for beginning and developing artists to explore and experiment, so let’s do it.
Tickets are here (seats are limited): https://groeverij.nl/product/za-21-jan-boohoo-live/
RSVP in the FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/3417531348482250