Dial Nits

Dial Nits

By Eric FaconArtsMusicMusic Interviews
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Dial Nits episodes

  • Unfinished Houses
    A celebration of the Dutch band Nits EP 1

    Dutch pop band The Nits will turn 50 soon – an incredible length of time for any band. In these five decades, this very special band has gone its own path, from Sixties power pop influenced by the Beatles, the Kinks or the Hollies via new wave sounds informed by XTC or Kraftwerk to then finding their very own soundscapes. In all this time, the band has recorded some 25 albums and many singles, has scored hits such as «Nescio» or «In the Dutch Mountains» and played countless concerts in Europe and beyond. Even though this is a band that always looks to the future, now seems the right moment to look back at their unique œuvre. This first episode concentrates on the expectations of this series of podcast episodes. Eric Facon talks to core members Henk Hofstede, Rob Kloet and Robert Jan Stips.

    Production and Design Darren Hayne.

    35 min

About Dial Nits

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Dutch band (The) Nits looks back on an extraordinary career of fifty years, in which the band has published an enormous amount of very different albums, has played countless concerts all around the globe and has participated in many side ventures. A band that chose its own path and that continues to evolve in unexpected ways. Starting out as a power pop band with songs in the vein of the Beatles, the Kinks or the the Hollies, they evolved into an outfit with an own sound, a mixture of pure pop with classical and neo classical, jazz and folk elements. Then came the hits, like "Nescio" or "In the Dutch mountains", but the Nits kept on exploring their sonic possibilities, thereby expanding the envelope of pop music. A curious band, in all senses of the word.