CLASSIC WATER







Concrete Pleasures
Out now on Treetop Records


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UPCOMING SHOWS

PAST SHOWS
2023
07/09 Kulturhaus Insel / Berlin (GE)
08/09 7180 Bar / Crailsheim (GE)
09/01 Sound of Bronkow / Dresden (GE)
24/02 EKKO / Utrecht
18/02 Corneel / Lelystad

2022
12/11   Le Guess Who? / Utrecht
27/09 FZW / Dortmund (DE)
04/09 Hembrug Happening / Zaandam
13/08  Treetop Festival Tivoli / Utrecht
07/07  Centraal Laat, Centraal Museum / Utrecht
26/02  dB’s / Utrecht
17&18/02 Future Echoes festival / Norrköping (SE)
11/02   EKKO / Utrecht

2021
10/12    EKKO / Utrecht
23/10   VERA / Groningen
03/10   Gigant / Apeldoorn
25/09  Willem II / ‘s Hertogenbosch
18/07   Palais Sommer Festival / Dresden (DE)
23/06  De Nieuwe KHL / Amsterdam
19/03   Classic Water Presents Concrete Pleasures / Utrecht (NL)      

2020

04/12   De Nijverheid / Utrecht (NL) SOLD OUT
10/9      Effenaar ‘t Wasven / Eindhoven (NL)
25/8     Paradiso / Amsterdam (NL)

20/5     The Heatley / Vancouver (CA)
15/05   The Palomino / Calgary (CA)
11/5      The Horsethief / Radium Hot Springs (CA)
09/5    Whitetooth Brewing / Golden (CA)
03/5    Ship & Plough / Gimli (CA)
02/5    The Black Cat Tavern / Saskatoon (CA)
01/5     Goodfellows / Edmonton (CA)
29/4     Café Deux Soleils / Vancouver (CA)
16/4      Willem Twee / Den Bosch (NL)
21/3      Stadtklang / Düsseldorf (GE)
25/1      EKKO / Utrecht

18/1       Donkere Dagen Festival / Harderwijk

17/1       Treetop X Take me to Showcase / Groningen






Picture: Tess Janssen


ABOUT

The songs of Classic Water bring to mind driving through dusty backroads of deserted villages, thinking back on what once was but will never be again. The surreal words of singer Tom Gerritsen are guided by stretches of intertwining melodies, alternated with brief bursts of rock and roll.

In an earlier life, Tom released folk music as The T.S. Eliot Appreciation Society, playing over 180 shows in Europe. Seeing Classic Water perform live is a visceral experience. The debut album Concrete Pleasures was recorded and produced by Stacy Parrish (T Bone Burnett, Alison Krauss & Robert Plant) in a 14th century farmhouse in Sweden.

The band is named after a David Berman (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains) poem.





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