Nederbeat

Nederbeat
Stylistic origins	Beat music Nederpop garage rock
Cultural origins	Mid-1960s in the Netherlands
Typical instruments	Electric guitar bass guitar acoustic guitar drums piano keyboards
Other topics
Dutch pop and rock

Nederbeat (also: Nederbiet) was the Dutch rock boom of mid-1960s influenced by British beat groups, led by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones and, much like British freakbeat, it is essentially the Dutch counterpart to American garage rock.

The emergence of pirate station Radio Veronica also worked to stimulate the Dutch music community to produce a great amount of 'Nederbeat'. The Hague was the country's beat capital, along with neighbouring coastal town Scheveningen. The clubs on its boulevard, from where Veronica's pirate ship was constantly visible, proved instrumental as a locus for Dutch talent.

Popular groups were The Outsiders, Q65, The Golden Earrings (the predecessor of Golden Earring), The Motions (with Robbie van Leeuwen who would later form The Shocking Blue), Ro-d-ys, Bumble Bees, The Shoes (Dutch band), Les Baroques, The Hunters (Jan Akkerman's first band), and Cuby & the Blizzards.

See also

• Freakbeat
• Garage rock
• List of garage rock bands
• Nederpop

External links

• http://www.nederbeat.nl/ Nederbeat database
• Trans World '60s Punk:Cutie Morning Moon - Provides Information Mostly About Garage Bands From Outside the United States