Crooijmans & Boumans

Crooijmans & Boumans is a collaboration between two friends: Jelle Crooijmans (Cavolo Nero, Uncle Arthur) and Mart Boumans (personal trainer, Bumble B. Boy). Their paths regularly cross in the Dutch indie landscape through collaborations in various bands, but now they have made a first-hand pact. They play each other's songs as they are written: in a small room, sitting opposite each other with a guitar on their lap, without too much fuss. The setlist varies per show and grows with their collaboration: with ideas that are less than a week old, songs from previous bands they played in, and maybe even a cover of an evergreen. They draw inspiration from the Excelsior catalogue around the turn of the century, contemporary alt-country and their hometown Nijmegen.