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The Netherlands’ Johan play NYC next month
23 August 2001

Dutch pop masters Johan (named after soccer star Johan Cruijff, as fellow Hollanders Bettie Serviert named themselves after Tennis star Bettie Stove) cross the water next month for a single show at the CMJ festival in New York city on 14 September. It comes in the midst of a massive Netherlands tour for their second album, Pergola (named after a city in northeast Italy). The tour runs from this Saturday through the end of the year.
    Johan’s CMJ show is at the Acme Underground starting at 9:45 with Daryll-Ann (also from Holland), Bright, Moviola, and The Count Me Outs.
    Johan released their self-titled debut LP five years ago in The Netherlands, picked up a few months later by SpinArt for the US. Pergola, out since April at home, hits US stores in January on Dutch label Excelsior.
    Johan are a quintet: Jacco de Greeuw on vocals, guitars, keyboards; Diederik Nomden on guitars, keyboards, vocals; Maarten Kooijman on guitar; Diets Dijkstra on bass; and Wim Kwakman on drums and loops. They play pure pop in the tradition of Big Star, Matthew Sweet, and Teenage Fanclub. For a taste, check our links. | Johan (in Dutch) | | Excelsior Records (mostly Dutch) | | Tumble And Fall (Real Audio) | | Concert from Pinkpop 2001 (44 minutes, RealAudio) | | discography | | top of page |

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