The Kik

The Kik sounded like something out of a Beatles movie and that's exactly how they sounded for years. This changed when singer Dave von Raven bought a clavioline, the first commercial synthesizer from 1942. That's how he slowly became interested in synthesizers from the seventies and eighties. 'And at a certain point you start turning those knobs. A whole new world opened up for me'.

Influences such as Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello and Het Goede Doel crept into the new work of The Kik. According to journalist and also the country's biggest Elvis Costello fan Gijsbert Kamer, it fits the band like a glove. After three studio albums, the record with Armand, the snack Hertaalt and the Boudewijn de Groot cover record that brought them to two nights in Ahoy', the need arose to take a different path. No 'Phil Collins Situation' but a new sound.

Tomorrow never knows, but everything points to the fact that the transformation from Nederbeat to Nederpop has given The Kik a second youth. All the time in the world.