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Coolhaven bio
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2014; Coolhaven speelt het derde deel van de bizarro/2Ton trilogie 'Opstand Der Vasectomen' in Rotterdam en Deventer.

2013; Sonic Protest Festival (Paris).

2012 OCW, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; live radioplay, Return From the Ectoplasma Planet.
Bruismelk, Antwerpen , Belgium; concert.
Ruimte X, Tilburg, The Netherlands; The End Of Ruimte X Performance.

2011 OCW/crimmp, Rotterdam/Havenkwartier, Deventer NL; live radioplay, Planet Of The Ancient Children.
TAZ (Theatre at Sea), Oostende, Belgium; concert/performance.

2010 Kunstmaan revue, Tilburg, NL; hermetic musical.
Today's Art festival, Den Haag; concert/performance.
Istanbul Underground festival, Turkije; concert/performance.

2009 Absurdism festival, Tilburg, The Netherlands; residency/performance, Coolhaven plays De Rondo’s, WORM, Rotterdam,
Centre for Visual Arts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; performance; coolhaven is explained by Florian Kramer.

2008;Ausland, Berlin, Germany - residency/performance -'Anthony' religious Elektro-Soap in 7 parts, for 'Dein Wort in Gottes Ohr'- festival, 2 releases; half a LP voor BIG MAC 3 and contribution to Worm T Schippers compilation 'HARK' (worm records)

2007; Tour with Felix Kubin, may, Coolhaven plays 'Hand Held' -a live radioplay at De Veenfabriek,Leiden, Coolhaven starts the "Agit Prop'project, Waterfront, Rotterdam

2006; March; An Evening With Coolhaven In De Willie in Deventer, Holland In this beautiful; club in Deventer, Coolhaven did another of their extended shows with dancing, lots of mime,russian punk electro and another live radioplay. February; Coolhaven does live radioplay ‘Kachelmeisje' at Extrapool, Nijmegen, Holland Actually this was in the ‘Stromboli' cycle but this time in the form of a live-radioplay, initiated by the Extrapool's ‘Radiotoop'-series.

2005; December; For the Charms festival, Coolhaven produced and played ‘Branding' on several locations. Another ‘theatre' play –with some real bicycling!- about the virtues of branding a good name. September; ‘De Vrolijke Brigade', Schouwburg, Rotterdam, Holland. A ‘theatre' play –with some real acting!- about the cultural Abendland of Socialism. July; ‘The Chroup' in WUK, Vienna, Austria Coolhaven plays and produces a Milky Media Play. April; Coolhaven plays the SKIF festival (again), St Petersburg, Russia. March 2005; STROMBOLI, DePlayer, Rotterdam, Holland the new series of 5 blunt guerilla music-theatre pieces about manhood, empathy,making choices and more

2004; September ; COOLHAVEN plays the performance 'Museum Darlings' in Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland. We offered the museum to buy this performance (which was to say the least, arty) but they couldn't afford it. August ; The COOLHAVEN fashion show, in club De Player, Rotterdam, Holland. There were a lot of requests from fans all over the world to make a show that showed all our different costumes we used through all our different projects. So we got them out of their closets. It smelled good,too. July; Coolhaven plays the Garage Festival in Stralsund, Germany. A small but very inspiring festival on electronic arts. May; An evening with... COOLHAVEN in Chicago , USA. Coolhaven plays the Hidden Network Festival this time, preparing & writing new stuff as part of the project. february; An evening with...COOLHAVEN in Switserland, In Uster, Switserland.Singing, dancing and other pragmatic forms of entertainment. february; COOLHAVEN meets STEAMBOAT in Zurich, Switserland. The old 'Battle Of The Bands'-thing revised, in the WIM in Zürich Coolhaven meets up with the notorious 'Steamboat Switserland'. january; playing 'Strømblock' at the Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany. Well attended multi-media spectacle but shitty produced, anyway, we had a good time.

2003; october; Strømblocque Phantasieën. Schubert meets Electronics while baywatch is on; mega-production for several big festivals; Crossing Border, October Music, Rumor Festival and more. may; Hamburg, Bremen und Berlin, Germany. Confirming the friendship of french wood with german dwarfs while drinking too much wodka. april; ‘Stromboli' at ‘The Player' ,Rotterdam , Holland. An electro soap with lots of guests, one week ,doing a different show every day at a former sexclub in the former red light district of Rotterdam. january; the CD ‘Blue Moustache'

2002; november; presentation Worm salon, Worm In Las Palmas , Holland Which means we presented all the people that presented something on this occasion. We created our own vehicle for this (with wheels that is) and wrote meaningfull poems. october; Tour to Slovenia, Austria, Hungary and Czech republic together with S.Spier and Liana Flu Winks. september; ‘Fanfare' during the ‘Kunstexpress' A lucid tribute to youth and it's tight ass. april; Coolhaven goes to Russia. Playing ao. at the Kuryokhin Festival in Petersburg and DOM in Moscow. march; ‘Het Zoveelste Kutbandje Dat Op Het Dak Speelt'. During the ‘Museumnight 2002 Coolhaven played ‘Let It Be' on the roof of the V2 building for almost an hour. february; 'Ambiance Asthmatique', Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam , Holland. A multi media experience for visitors of the Museum Boymans Van Beuningen during the opening of an exposition.

2001; november; Radioplay ‘Grindpad Naar Las Palmas' icw. radio Worm, for‘Supplement' National Radio4, a 2-hour live radio play with some electronic stuff, and a neo-postmodern approach to telling stories, on Dutch National Radio. november; Langweiligkeit festival, Paard, Den Haag , Holland september ; 'The Summer Of Love' set , Lantaren/Venster, Rotterdam , Holland. Maybe this will lead someday to our long awaited spoken word project called 'Spoken Worst'. july ; playing the ‘Stubnitz' multi media boat. may ; 'Futurism Was Now' workshop and presentation during Worm In Las Palmas, Rotterdam, wth students from the art-academies in Rotterdam and Den Haag we made a very audience-challenging performance. april; ‘Klank' festival, Den Haag , Holland Winning the Klank- trophy, and being very proud of that as it is probably the only thing we will ever win.

2000, december ; the piece ‘kutbandje' during the ‘ Ver Uit De Maat”-festival, Rotterdam , Holland. Trying to recall that good old 'playing in a rockband' feel, but failing miserably., october ; ‘the best of Impakt', Paradiso, Amsterdam , Holland ; the piece‘Four Labtops'. Making some mighty intelligent comments on playing live-music with labtops. august; ‘de armada' in Nijmegen, organised by Extrapool, premiere of the piece ‘Four Labtops'. This piece was a comment on playing electronic music in a live situation. With other words ; who is doing what on their labtop and is there a big difference with just playing the tape and who cares ? july; performance festival in ‘De Verschijning' Tilburg. may; Nesserdijk (Rotterdam), Historical & Environmental Foundation Performance with live cinema. march/april/may ; Lantaren/Venster workshop production ‘Tribune'. ‘TRIBUNE' is a musical performance with the help of the syndrome of Gilles De La Tourette. Most people live their lives without ever having to seriously react or make decisions. People with the Syndrome can't do that ; they are forced to organise their own ‘spectacles'. ‘Tribune' used this thought as a starting point for a theatrical reality. january/february/march; ‘the linzentour' Performances in Zwatra (Rotterdam), Vrij Entrepot (Amsterdam), 2B (Eindhoven), Extrapool (Nijmegen), London(Centurion, Klinker en Mopomoso)Brightton, Eurodusnie (Leiden) and Ekko (Utrecht). This tour had a conceptual program ,concerning human suffering and very thick soup.

1999; september; ‘Estafette' filmmusic for animations, in cooperation with Karel Doing. Mixing animation cinema with performance & sound.in Nighttown, Rotterdam september; ‘Coolhaven plays Tourette', in Lantaren/Venster A try out for the theatre piece ‘tribune' that turned into something totally different then the latter -we found that out later- this was a performance about the Syndrome of Gilles De La Tourette. juni 1999; tuinhuis/huistuin 7” on Room records, performance Room gallery Coolhaven exists since june 1999. In that month they released a 7” Single on Room records, with a sleeve by the well respected simple mind Jan vd Ploeg.