We are proud to announce the second installment of Roadburn Festival Introduces. The idea is to showcase promising up-and-coming Dutch bands firmly rooted in either psychedelica or the heavy seventies.

This year, we will offer Gingerpig the opportunity to connect with the international Roadburn community during an intimate show at the Cul De Sac music café on Saturday April 16^th. Doors open 12:30pm and showtime 1.30pm.

We feel that Gingerpig, revolving around Gorefest guitarist Boudewijn Bonebakker, has something unique and interesting to offer Roadburners. We are also predicting that their forthcoming debut album, The Ways of the Gingerpig (due out on Suburban Records in Benelux on April 29^th, rest of Europe May 9^th), will rank among the favorite Roadburn-related albums of 2011.

Gingerpig take the best elements of Seventies hard rock, early prog, funk and even soul, and blend them with a bluesy edge. The band can nimbly go from long, drawn out guitar and Hammond organ improvisations to delivering compact pop, sometimes even throwing in riffs that would not feel out of place on a Gorefest record. Bonebakker’s vocals are a pleasant surprise, too.

The Netherlands has been long overdue for a band to put the country back on the international heavy seventies map. We are glad to see Gingerpig rise to the occasion with their stunning eclectic bluesrock!