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As you might know, we've got the special Early Bird discount on a limited number of week- and weekend passepartouts for ZXZW 2009. For Weekend passepartout, you receive a €5 discount, a Week passepartout still is €10 cheaper than the regular price.

The presale of these passepartouts is going well, so you better get your ZXZW ticket really soon to save some money!

Visit http://www.zxzw.nl/2009/tickets to read all information and for ordering your ticket(s).

Hi There!
ZXZW 2009 ticket presale starts on Friday, April 10th 9am via www.zxzw.nl (E-Tickets) and Primera stores (physical tickets). Just like last year, we have nine different tickets; Daytickets for all days and Passepartouts for the whole week or just the final weekend.

There is an Early Bird discount on the passepartouts for a limited number of tickets. So be quick to save some money!

All tickets are sold only via www.zxzw.nl as E-Tickets. If you're in The Netherlands you can also grab your tickets at one of the four hundred Primera stores. Both services are powered by Paylogic. The service fee via www.zxzw.nl is per order, the service fee via Primera is per ticket.

Passepartout Friday to Sunday:
Passepartout for all events and performances from Friday 18 to Sunday 20 September.
Presale: €27,50 + service fee
Early Bird: €22,50 + service fee

Passepartout Monday to Sunday:
Passepartout for all events and performances from Monday 14 to Sunday 20 September.
Presale: €50 + service fee
Early Bird: €40 + service fee

Dayticket for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday:
Valid for all events and performances on one day.
Presale: €10 + service fee

Dayticket for Friday, Saturday or Sunday:
Valid for all events and performances on one day.
Presale: €15 + service fee

LINE-UP!
We're adding new confirmations to our website every single day. Currently, there are 48 artists confirmed. Check out the always up-to-date list on our website. Just for the record: More than 200 artists will perform on ZXZW 2009, so we've got a lot of work to do the next months ;-)

All current confirmations:
Der Blutharsch, Of the Wand and the Moon, Deutsch Nepal, Uri Caine, Troum, On, Jonquil, Pompeii, Reso, The Caretaker, Fol Chen, The Terrordactyls, Impure Wilhelmina, Bain Wolfkind, BlakFish, A1 Bassline, Brethren Of The Free Spirit, Broken Note, Common Cause, Instruments, Mugstar, Aufgehoben, Rue Royale, Papier Tigre, Rummelsnuff, Raffertie, Holy State, Altar of Plagues, PIRATE LOVE, K-Branding, The Squire of gothos, Sleeps In Oysters, Dj Beware, The Notorious hi-fi killers, Obstacles, Pneu, Khuda, Kim Janssen, An Emerald City, Constellations, Herpes, Oldseed, Youves, Knalpot, Antoni Maiovvi, Jailhouse Fuck, The Color Of The Sun and hank bobbit

Our very cool new posters are just in.
This is just the beginning, but they look very good.
Check out our Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/zxzw page

See www.zxzw.nl for the latest band confirmations!

Hope to see you all in September!

We've added four new artists to the ZXZW 2009 line-up:

Broken Note (UK) - Filthy drum n bass, techno and dubstep
Jonquil (UK) - Our favourite band from Oxford, UK
Sleeps In Oysters (UK) - Electronica, Experimental, Alternative
Antoni Maiovvi (IT/UK) - Disco House, Electro

Of course, more names will be announced soon. With these names the currently confirmed line-up is:
Der Blutharsch, Dernière Volonté, Uri Caine, Jonquil, The Terrordactyls, Bain Wolfkind, Broken Note, Rummelsnuff, Sleeps In Oysters and Antoni Maiovvi.
More than 200 artists will perform at ZXZW 2009.

A temporary 2009 website will be up soon so you can start adding your favourites and writing the band-bio's on our wiki-based website.

For all latest festival info follow us on Twitter: @ZXZW
Interested in what's keeping us awake at the festival office? Follow the ZXZW Blog on Twitter: @zxzwblog

We've got some new confirmations for the ZXZW line-up coming up today! Follow ZXZW on Twitter (www.twitter.com/zxzw) to be the first to know!

Cheers, Erik

This weekend we went to the excellent Hokaben festival in London. It was a small scale ZXZW with artists like Sun Ra Arkestra, Chops, Dethscalator and Zun Zun Egui playing. The festival was held in 93 Feet East, a nice venue with 3 halls close to the Rough Trade record shop, in a cool part of town full of record shops, clothing shops, Indian restaurants and girls looking like The Ting Tings members.
The smalles hall was curated by Illegal Seagul which is like the Vatican Analog of Bristol. A lot of weird acts with nice costumes performed there. On Friday Don Caballero did the usual stuff, playing some pastiche post rock music and proving that their best band member started Battles.
Fucked Up really ruled. They played a very dynamic show with some anthems, some chaotic parts and some underpants. Also the very loud krautrock trip of Mugstar ruled.
The Saturday was the best day of the festival. So much good music. Zun Zun Egui did a superb show, adding some noisy layers to the sound of nu-white-afropop bands like Vampire Weekend.
Aufgehoben (who play rarely live) are on the ZXZW 2009 withlist. They have a line up of two drummers (one drummer also playing bricks), one guitar guy and one sound guy and play a free jazz with some metal influcences.


Also a great thing was seeing Chris Corsano playing live. He’s a wizard with drumsticks, a master of technique. But Corsano is not a macho-technical drummer. Everything is dedicated to the composition, to the fire music of the set. The duo with Mick Flower is a combination of free jazz, punk drones, free rock and total surrender. What a joy to watch! Corsano is definitely one of the best and most exciting contemporary drummers around.
Acid Mothers Temple did their regular Japanese psychedelic stuff. Good and psychedelic. Stoner and Stockhausen. It was a pity that Kid606 only played for 20 minutes, due to a strict curfew and a schedule which wasn’t maintained very tight.

However, the breakcore stuff really went on at the Scotch Egg show. A totally wasted small room got ravenous wild on his gameboy tunes. He added fun and another sound to the quite guitar based festival line up. Woohoo!
Sunday started quite slowly. Close to the festival the Souljazz dj’s were playing a free gig. Had to be there. Had to be jealous at their kick ass dancehall and dub records. Wow, what a sound they created. At the meantime the Norwegian friends from Arabrot (who recorded their new record with Steve Albini) did a very tight noiserock show. Bromancer was fucking loud and attacked a camera man.
Sun Ra Arkestra was headlining Hokaben. Again they proved their unique position in the history of music. The set consisted of old and new. Of the usual Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson stuff combined with some of the finest Sun Ra and Marshall Allen compositions. Marshall Allen played his crying solo’s and the other members were on. Can’t see them enough.
What else to say? If you’re a indie kid: listen to Rolo Tomassi, who play synth driven harcore. Friends with Holy Roar bands like Cutting Pink With Knives, young, good looking, can play their instrument and they know how to create a concert vibe. We want to thank all the Hokaben guys for the great festival and all the effort they put in it. We’ll be there next year!

One part extreme metal, one part big balls rock'n roll, a whole lot of sweat and more energy than a raging flock of bulls. Monolithic (http://www.zxzw.nl/2008/act/483) seek to push the boundaries of what is physically possible in rhythmic music today. Monolithic is total awareness and explosive energy throughout! Baritone guitarist Stian Westerhus also plays in PUMA (also on ZXZW Tuesday 16 September), Bladed and Jaga Jazzist. Kenneth Kapstad is also the drummer in Motorpsycho and Animal Alpha.

Monolithic is part of the Norwegian Invasion and will play the 013 on Tuesday 16 September. Norwegian Invasion is a collaboration between ZXZW and our Norwegian counterparts of the independent music club Bla, in Oslo, and is supported by Bureau Cultuurmakelaar in Tilburg. The Batcave will host a whole week of cool Norwegian bands and acts including Shining, Svarte Greiner and Shari Vari.

Check www.zxzw.nl for all info!

And, with damn near every last square inch of the city littered with preamps and patch cords, that can only mean one thing: a killer lineup. Making their way to Tilburg this year are the likes of Wire, Cadence Weapon, Torche, Ponytail, Jeremy Jay, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Ladyhawk, Bjorn Torske, Shining, Castanets, the Sun Ra Arkestra, Tom Brosseau, PRE, David Karsten Daniels, Otto Von Schirach, Religious Knives, Nick Castro & The Young Elders, Pelican, Our Brother the Native, Schlammpeitziger, Watain, and far too many others to count. Not to mention find.
Read more on ZXZW here
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/144827