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Off to Germany!
Filed under: Announcements, Live gigs | December 30th, 2011
It’s something we’ve been planning to do for a while, and now it’s official: on January 19th we’ll hop in the van and drive off to Germany!
We’ll be crossing the borders for the first time to do a mini tour in Germany, a nice three-show weekend from January 19th till the 21st, starting in Berlin. No doubt that there’s quite an adventure for us up ahead, and we will do our best to keep you up to date about it through Facebook and Twitter.
Below you can see where exactly and in which venues we’ll be playing.
Date
City
Venue
Country
Jan 19, 2012
TenTemPiés in
Berlin
Sage Club
Germany
Jan 20, 2012
TenTemPiés in
Immeldorf
Weisses Ross
Germany
Jan 21, 2012
TenTemPiés in
Chemnitz
Subway To Peter
Germany
This is the first of many tours to come. 2011 was a great year for us, seeing our debut album come to life, playing a lot of shows and meeting great people on the way. We’re determined to make 2012 even better! For now, from us all, we thank you for taking your time to listen to our music, come to our shows and to get to know us personally. We wish you all a happy new year!
Abrazos,
TenTemPiés
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Pictures: Paradiso [Dec 11, 2011]
Filed under: Pictures | December 29th, 2011
Our first time playing the main hall of Paradiso, Amsterdam.. It was really something else. On December 11th we performed there as the support act for Ojos de Brujo at their final concert in Europe. In short it was a wonderful experience. Below are some pictures of that show.
![Paradiso [Dec 11, 2011]](http://www.tentempies.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/IMGP6320-100x100.jpg "Paradiso [Dec 11, 2011]")
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Last show of 2011: La Pegatina & TenTemPiés at Tivoli
Filed under: Live gigs | December 15th, 2011
Last weekend was amazing. We opened for Ojos de Brujo in the main concert hall of Paradiso, which was their last concert ever in Europe. It was also officially our 50th show of 2011! Proud of that! Plans are already looking good for 2012: we’re set on releasing our second single of our debut album Canto Para Gritar in Februari. Perquisite made a beautiful remix and we can’t wait to let you hear it. And there are requests coming in from some very cool summer festivals.. But before that we’ll be doing a mini tour of Germany in mid-January! More on that soon.
This Saturday the 17th of December marks our very last show of 2011 at Tivoli Oudegracht in Utrecht! We’re the support act for La Pegatina, Spanish heavyweights that had the Dutch audience wanting more and more ever since that spectacular show at Lowlands 2009. They’re back again this month to present their latest release Xapomelön. Tickets for the concert at Tivoli Oudegracht can be bought right here!
The tickets are going fast, but for our most dedicated fans we have two guestlist spots available! Interested? Just email before December 17th to info@tentempies.com why you should be our guest of honour. The winner gets free entrance to the show for him/her +1. After the show, come and have a drink with us, get a free CD or shirt, get crazy!
Read the details of the event over here.
Un abrazo!
TenTemPiés
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Dec 11: Supporting Ojos de Brujo in Paradiso
Filed under: Live gigs | December 6th, 2011
Dear friends! End of this week, Sunday the 11th of December, we are the support act for none other than Barcelona superband Ojos de Brujo! What makes this concert even more special is that it might be the last chance you’ll ever have of seeing this group perform live. After 10 years of making musica mestiza at the highest level (or ‘Jip Jop Flamenkillo’ as they call their style), 5 albums and no less than 7 world tours, Ojos de Brujo has decided to stop. Paradiso will be the final venue in The Netherlands they’ll perform in.
We’re very proud to open the night on this special occasion and hope we can share it with you as well. The tickets for this event (€28,50 + membership) can be bought right here. Tight budget this month? We’ll let you in on a little secret….
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New video: Perquisite & Maurino Alarcón – Me Despido
Filed under: Videos | November 17th, 2011
Today marks the release of a new video clip. Not of a TenTemPiés song, but a collaboration between the excellent Dutch producer Perquisite and our lead singer Maurino. For those who haven’t heard about this project before, it’s part of Perquisite’s solo album ‘Across’ which was released last year. The song is appropriately called ‘Me Despido’ (I Say Goodbye), as it is also the last single from that album (available on iTunes).
While in the desert of Tabernas in Spain for another clip shoot, they decided to shoot a one-take video for this song. It turned out really well! The video was made by Derek van Egmond and Ruben Wiegerinck, the same guys who made the video for ‘Leon’. So without further ado, just press play!
PS. Be sure to catch the last ‘Across’ tour show on December 29th at MC Theater, Amsterdam. Maurino will be there as well as several other guest musicians.
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Pictures: Uitmarkt [Aug 27, 2011]
Filed under: Pictures | October 4th, 2011
So we kicked off the new cultural season with a show at the Uitmarkt in Amsterdam on August 27th. It was cloudy and raining when we started playing, but halfway through a few sunrays appeared and umbrellas went down. We had the honour of having the talented trumpet player Randell Heye join us for this concert.
Our good friend Julio Flórez, an excellent photographer from Colombia, was in town and shot some very nice pictures of the concert. Check them out below.
![Uitmarkt [Aug 27, 2011]](http://www.tentempies.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/TenTemPies_Uitmarkt_2011-100x100.jpg "Uitmarkt [Aug 27, 2011]")
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Coming to your town!
Filed under: Live gigs | September 7th, 2011
As we’ve mentioned before we have been selected as one of the 100 Dutch bands that will participate in the Popronde 2011, a travelling music festival. A selection of fresh up-and-coming bands will get the chance to perform outside of their region and effectively expand their network and fanbase. This year the Popronde will take place in 27 cities throughout The Netherlands, from september till november.
This weekend our first Popronde gig is going to take place in Nijmegen. Below you can find our Popronde gig list so far. We hope to see you at one of our shows when we’re coming to your town! More dates coming in soon.
Date
City
Venue
Country
Sep 9, 2011
TenTemPiés in
Nijmegen
The Shamrock
Netherlands
Time: 23:30.
Sep 23, 2011
TenTemPiés in
Maastricht
d’n Avanceur
Netherlands
Time: 21:30.
Sep 29, 2011
TenTemPiés in
Delft
Cafe Tango
Netherlands
Time: 20:15.
Oct 20, 2011
TenTemPiés in
Middelburg
De Barrel
Netherlands
Time: 20:30.
Oct 21, 2011
TenTemPiés in
Leeuwarden
Cafe Spinoza
Netherlands
Time: 23:05.
Oct 22, 2011
TenTemPiés in
Alkmaar
Odeon
Netherlands
Time: 23:00.
Oct 27, 2011
TenTemPiés in
Enschede
De Beiaard
Netherlands
Time: 23:30.
Oct 29, 2011
TenTemPiés in
Amersfoort
Cafe Vyssotski
Netherlands
Time: 23:30.
Nov 3, 2011
TenTemPiés in
Tilburg
Cafe Polly Maggoo
Netherlands
Time: 23:00.
Nov 5, 2011
TenTemPiés in
The Hague
Cafe September
Netherlands
Time: 23:45.
Nov 11, 2011
TenTemPiés in
Eindhoven
Bakkerij
Netherlands
Time: 22:45.
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More pictures: CD presentation [Jun 15, 2011]
Filed under: Pictures | August 31st, 2011
A quick flashback: we found some more pictures of our ‘Canto Para Gritar’ CD presentation we did last summer in Paradiso. These very nice black and white pics are made by Joep Siermann (view the other photo gallery of the CD presentation here).
![CD Presentation, part II [Jun 15, 2011]](http://www.tentempies.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JBS_Tentempies_shotbyjoepsiermann-19-100x100.jpg "CD Presentation, part II [Jun 15, 2011]")
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Every year the Uitmarkt takes place in the last weekend of August, marking the start of a new cultural season. Music, dance, theatre, literature and cabaret will fill the cultural heart of Amsterdam with over 450 performances on 30 different stages.
We were asked to perform our show this Saturday, August the 27th at Museumplein. We will play at the Grolsch stage at 17:30. The stage will be shared that day with other great music acts such as Houses, Novack, Beans & Fatback, Sinas and Blaxtar. See the full program over here.
We hope to see you there, let us know!
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Celebrating cultural diversity
Filed under: Live gigs | August 14th, 2011
Every year on August 20th the Vondelpark in Amsterdam becomes the scene of the commemoration of the racist murder of Kerwin Duijnmeijer. After the memorial service, festival Melting Pop will take place. With this festival the organisation (Platform Stop Racisme en Uitsluiting) wants to emphasize the positive influence that cultural diversity has on our society: how dull would this country be without it? What exactly is the ‘Dutch identity’? And: how beautiful is the dance and music produced by a multi-cultural society?
In a time where racial and cultural discrimination is still an every day reality worldwide (even in The Netherlands), where fear of cultural differences still spark much hatred and violence, to us this event seems like a very good initiative. With music as our weapon, oppression and social inequality is exactly what we are fighting against. As a multi-cultural combination of identities ourselves we were asked to headline the festival.
The festival program also consists of comedy, dance performances, theater, films, interesting speakers and several other bands. Melting Pop will take place on August 20 at 19:00 on ‘de Speelweide’ in Vondelpark, Amsterdam. We hope you will come and celebrate cultural diversity with us!
Un abrazo.
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