Pop punk stalwarts Neck Deep will close out proceedings at this summer’s 2000trees festival when they headline the Sunday night. They join Pup, Alkaline Trio and Funeral For A Friend, who will top the bills on each of the preceding three nights respectively.
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It was Thursday night and it was about to get very weird in Utrecht as Igorrr made a stop to unleash their own unique brand of bizarre genre bending noise upon the sold out crowd. Their latest album, ‘Amen’, has been on Jase W’s very heavy rotation since it dropped last year and seeing them steadily progress up the stage sizes over time finally them taking the Ronda stage in Tivoli Vredenburg with a 1.5k cap. Our man got his usual perch on the balcony because he had a mix of feeling the age in his legs and not wanting to have his vision obscured by the ridiculously tall demographic of the Dutch…
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As Monk said in the intro to his review of the first gig staged to celebrate this historic year for what many of NI fans regard as “the best little rock club in the arse-end of nowhere”, longevity is a rare commodity in this disposable world, and therefore landmark moments such as a 20th anniversary of putting your heart and soul into something you love definitely, and defiantly, deserve to be marked in joyous style – and what better way to continue this 12-month long party than bringing back another of the many acts who have graced this lovingly bespoke curated stage over the past two decades?
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Crystal Lake and Miss May I have just embarked on a co-headliner tour stomping around Europe and this opening night stop at Tivoli Vredenburg in the Pandora stage sounded like a good way for Jase W to spend an evening. Along for the ride are Great American Ghost and Diesect and looking at the stage times it’s quite a quick flash through two 30 minute opener sets and two headliner sets of an hour each, about 15 minutes to changeover each act so no messing around for this show to say the least.
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It’s no secret that Jase W is a huge fan of Carpenter Brut and have been for a very long time since the building blocks for the ‘Trilogy’ album were being steadily put together. The ability to fuse darker synthwave vibes with elements of rock and metal to create a monster that has live audiences split 50/50 between people who enjoy a good rave and your average sweaty mosher. Now, 2026 sees the completion of yet another “trilogy” of albums in the form of ‘Leather Temple’ that wraps up the journey from ‘Leather Teeth’ through ‘Leather Terror’ and onto this newest effort.
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