BLØF

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

BLØF, pronounced 'bluff', is a pop band from Vlissingen, formed in 1992. The band sings in Dutch and emphatically holds on to its roots in Zeeland. The permanent core consists of the singer and guitarist Paskal Jakobsen, the bassist Peter Slager, who writes the lyrics, the keyboard player and guitarist Bas Kennis and the drummer Norman Bonink.

Music and breakthrough

The breakthrough came in 1998 with Liefs uit Londen, from the album Helder. Hits followed such as Harder dan ik hebben kan, Dansen aan zee and Mooie dag. In 2001 the drummer Chris Götte was killed in a road accident, and Bonink took his place. The album Omarm (2003) was a great success, and in 2004 BLØF reached number 1 in the Top 40 with Holiday in Spain, together with the American band Counting Crows. For Umoja (2006) the band recorded songs with musicians from thirteen countries.

Influence

Zoutelande (2017) is a Dutch-language version of Frankfurt Oder by the German singer Bosse. Slager moved the song to the Zeeland village of Zoutelande. The hit version is a duet with the Flemish singer Geike Arnaert, formerly the voice of Hooverphonic. In 2018 the song spent ten weeks at number 1 in the Top 40 and six weeks at number 1 in Flanders. That same year it reached number 31 in the Top 2000. Since 2006 BLØF has organised the festival Concert at SEA on the Brouwersdam. In this way the band stayed connected, through its songs and its festival, to the region it comes from.

Listening

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  Zoutelande · BLØF ft. Geike, 2017
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Discography

Studio albums

• 1995Naakt onder de hemel
• 1997Helder
• 1999Boven
• 2000Bløf doet Doe Maar
• 2000Watermakers
• 2002Blauwe ruis
• 2003Omarm
• 2006Umoja
• 2008Oktober
• 2009April
• 2011Alles blijft anders
• 2014In het midden van alles
• 2015De Grasbroek sessies
• 2017Aan
• 2022Polaroid

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Mixtape 11: Nederpop^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• Dutch-language song GenreAcda en de Munnik continued the line of kleinkunst, and BLØF, with Geike Arnaert, made Zoutelande (2017), one of the biggest hits ever in the Netherlands.
• Zoutelande SongIn 2017 BLØF had a big hit with Zoutelande, a duet with the Flemish singer Geike Arnaert about a beach in Zeeland.

See also

• Dutch-language song

Sources

1. Wikipedia (nl): BLØF
2. Wikipedia (en): Zoutelande (song