A celebration of 51 years of the Nits EP 27

The list is long: JOS days, Crane-driver, In the Dutch mountains, Une petite allumette, the Concrete House, Two skaters, Yellow socks and Angst, House of Jacob, the Concrete Brothers, Lits-jumeaux. All of these songs come from one place, contents-wise: they take place in Watergraafsmeer, in singer/lyrics writer Henk Hofstede’s youth, in the past of his parents. We’ve made a small expedition into the dutch mountains, the unspectacular neighborhood in Eastern Amsterdam, behind the polders, at some distance from town centre, in the shadow of the chocolate factory. A small trip back in time. Sometimes, the everyday can be transformed into magic. Walking with Henk, on a cold grey morning, under suburban skies. And then we also sat down to talk about lyrics.
Music by the Nits, Oli Hartung, Simon Ho and the Squirls.
Sound design Darren Hayne.