Director Lowlands’ beer costs € 2.60 here, like everywhere “- AD.nl

Edited by: Coen Brandhorst
15-8-14 – 15:13

He ‘celebrating’ this year its own anniversary. Eric van Eerdenburg (53) for the 15th time the festival director Lowlands. If there is something that he has developed over the years it is an elephant skin, because in Lowlands is always critical, and this year one degree more intense, as can be read in an interview with the newspaper.

“There are people who put salt on every snail. It is proof of commitment, but sometimes it’s the whiny off ‘

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From Eerdenburg has the skill built up most of that criticism to parry. He acknowledges that this year unpopular measures, (more expensive tickets, parking costs, abolished deposit), but “who can then better take at one time, it’s no different or more expensive than other festivals.”

Errors
“There are people who put salt on every snail. It is proof of commitment, but sometimes it’s the whiny off. ” says of Eerdenburg. Yet he also acknowledges that mistakes were made with the response of the organization to criticism: ‘Serious topics such as price increases were swept us with a joke under the mat. That we need to do differently in such cases. But a beer cost us 2.60 euros, just as much as anywhere.

milked
And then there’s the yearly criticism of the program. Why book Lowlands for the fourth time Queens of The Stone Age, for the third time in four years and Skrillex twice consecutively Disclosure?

From Eerdenburg “Headliners are inherently bands with a history. I can tell you that Alpha at Queens of the Stone Age and Disclosure will stand. Completely full In other European festivals are Placebo and Blink-182 as headliners – as we have a proper, those bands are milked. Disclosure is for true connoisseurs perhaps the act of 2013, but for the majority of the public does not. “

That Skrillex may safely be called a miracle, if we have the site of 3voor12 this year stands at Lowlands believe. In a telephone interview from Eerdenburg said the American was not happy with a place in the program for Queens Of The Stone Age. “That took some discussion, but I do not think it’s so important what acts are, if there is a large public comes, then what is the problem.”

Move in visitor
He gets his fifties and father of a 18-year-old son still what goes on in the minds of visitors who are “somewhere in the twenties? “Snap, I’ll do it. But of course, I’m not as loose as when I was 20. If I see something, I think, that looks like this or that of twenty years ago. I see the music now in the context of history. It is best to illustrate by means of performances, including Nick Cave last year in the Alpha, our biggest tent that was half empty. Undeniably a great artist, but sit at the kids Disclosure or the Arctic Monkeys, so no more Nick Cave at Lowlands. ”

When asked how long he will remain in charge of Lowlands he only says: “I’ve never worked so long somewhere and it still pleases me well,” says van Eerdenburg in the Volkskrant.