Harmen Kuiper songs, vocals, guitar
Maarten de Mink guitar, backing vocals
Jarry Porsius bass
Stef Spronck violin
Bastiaan van Diedenhoven
Mark de Jonge
Ro Halfhide drums
Influences
People in general
Women in particular
If you have the urge to compare us, please do it by mentioning one or some of the following names: Violent Femmes, Beat Happening, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Silver Jews, Built to Spill, The Lemonheads, Teenage Fanclub, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, Tocotronic, Velvet Underground, Beck, Nirvana, Smog, Eric's Trip, Guided By Voices, The Breeders, Buffalo Tom, Gumball, Bettie Serveert and/or The Cure. Remember to add the phrase "Not even close, but who gives a hoot and a holler" to it.
Sounds Like
PAVEMENT meets NOG IETS
Our first gig ever:
Bitterzoet ASG CD release (filmed by Max):
In a living room somewhere in Noord:
Occasional so low
Record Label
bookings (and other offers): chinupsongs@gmail.com
Chinup used to be a guy sitting on his bed singing songs of love and hate and regret and ecstasy and religion and disappointment and amazement and revenge and competition and lust and guts and fear and love. The cockroaches hiding behind his fridge as his only audience. Manically recording hundreds of songs on his little four track. And that was that he thought.
But he thought wrong. After years of encouragement by his friends he started to play songs for everyone who wanted to hear it. Soon he was even warmly welcomed by the Amsterdam Songwriters Guild. His simple songs based on straightforward melodies and everyday emotions always screamed to be played by a rockband and then this also happened. The first time Jarry, Stef, Bastiaan, Maarten and Harmen got together in this combination was at a J. Mascis gig. Without the individuals involved being aware of it, this is where Chinup the Band was born. A couple of days later they found themselves in a steaming hot rehearsal room playing Chinup songs and they realized that they were a band, not really knowing how they ended up there, but enjoying the hell out of it.
They are interested in playing live as much as possible, getting that chinup energy across. They have played at venues like Bitterzoet, P60, LVC and the Noorderslag Festival. Currently their tied up in the Popronde, playing in bars across the Netherlands. In their spare time they're finishing their debut My Intentions Are Not Bad And Your Ass Is Quite Fine Too, a conceptalbum about horses, 16 songs in 45 minutes. For their Dutch work they chose the moniker Klimop. If they have gathered enough Dutch songs they will release their Dutch debut Wie Ja Zegt Moet Ook Nee Zeggen as soon as possible...
Discography:
- The Rules Of Attraction (solo, 1999, out of print)
- The "From Bad Ass Me To Only You" EP (solo, 2003, out of print)
- Be Sure To Break Yr Bottles Where The Police Sees (solo, 2005)
- Marketeer of the Year (solo, 2007)
- Chinup and the horse you rode in on (solo, 2008)
- Butt Seriously (solo, 2008, out of print)
- Tropic of Lobster (solo, 2009)
- My Intentions Are Not Bad & Your Ass Is Quite Fine Too (2009, forthcoming band debut)
If you would like to order one of these titles send your reason why to chinupsongs@gmail.com. They're quite cheap but also quite worth your while. Buy buy.
Chinup the band pouring it the popular way at 't Blijvertje Photo taken by Engelbert Fellinger (www.engelbert.org, check it out!) ______________________________________________________________
Bedankt voor het compliment :) Dat waarderen wij zeer. Misschien komen we een keer samen spelen in de Sappho, anders zie je mij (Tamara) waarschijnlijk wel alleen een keer spelen.
Hoop jou/jullie ook een keer te zien daar, de muziek klinkt leuk!
Harmen, Maarten, Jarry, Mark, bedankt voor het verschijnen op de rode mat van de Derde Oosterparkstraat en voor het geweldige concert. Eén live concert is tien maal repeteren of zoiets toch?
changed the song a little bit at the end to make it better (as if that was possible) so listen to our new song COWBOY ROB (about the conspiracy theories that hunt US of A, ya know) it's tha bomb man, we're back in town!!! word!
You missed our show in the HMH! I hope to see you there next time. I heared that you're on tour in Turkey? How is it there? Remember always to declarate dependency! xx Miss Fortune (& cheers from Rob L. )
