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About Simuze and the music industry. What we build, why, and what we learn from the scene.
Weblog · 1 Sep 2026Putting on shows and festivalsI have organised shows and festivals for years and still do. It is not hard. It is just a lot of small things that all need taking care of.Marten · 3 min
Weblog · 15 Aug 2026Ten years with We vs DeathThe longer story I keep promising. A band from Utrecht that took most of us around the world for about a decade, and taught me how this all really holds together.Marten · 3 min
Weblog · 29 Jul 2026What touring is actually likeFun, exhausting, full of good people and strange places, and away from home for a very long time. All of it is true at once.Marten · 2 min
Booking · 11 Jul 2026The first show I ever bookedTilburg, October, twelve people, three bands, fourteen guilders each. I thought I had figured something out.Marten · 2 min
Weblog · 24 Jun 2026The room below the maths classOur music teacher let us use the music room after school. The maths class below us hated it. Thirty years later we are still playing together.Marten · 2 min
Weblog · 7 Jun 2026Playing other people's songs in barsThe first real shows I played were covers, in bars, with whoever the music school put me on stage with. None of it was mine, and it got me completely hooked.Marten · 2 minWeblogWeblog · 20 May 2026My first show, age sevenI thought I was going to guitar class. I walked in with my guitar and there was a whole room of parents waiting.Marten · 3 min