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The Bips
12+ albums
punknetherlandsAllpunk rockterrorpop
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The Bips (25, and making an impression since 1987) back on stage Rock city, techno-capital, leftwing squatters’ mainframe; call it what you will but Nijmegen has been Bips-city for 25 years. You’re not from Nijmegen if you haven’t heard of The Bips. It’s just a matter of time till someone digs up a Roman skeleton with a Bips sticker on his helmet. In 2011 things seemed over and done with for punk band The Bips. Jozzy Rubenski (who lives by the healthy motto “If I wasn’t Jozzy I’d wish I was.”) may be the face of The Bips but for him The Bips also means Bock on drums or bass players Roy or Barbie. Without one of them The Bips seems too mainstream, and if there’s one band that has never been mainstream it’s The Bips. In 1988 they make Linda de Mol (Dutch TV celebrity) blush by saying they want to sleep with her. When the music police aren’t paying attention DJ Henk Westbroek plays their music nation-wide on (Dutch) Radio 3. Their poster is on the kitchen wall in Absolutely Fabulous. The Bips is both loved and hated; somewhere along the line they briefly changed their name to Love Kills. They’ve been making an impression since 1987. The band is revived in 2002. Their first new performance, which takes place on the same day as the Dutch royal wedding between Maxima and Willem-Alexander, has to wait until Jozzy (who knows the lyrics to The Sex Pistols’ God Save The Queen by heart) has finished watching the marriage ceremony. But is that punk? “The basic rule is, there are n
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