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De Dijk
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
De Dijk was founded in 1981 by the brothers Huub and Hans van der Lubbe and the guitarist Nico Arzbach. The band emerged from the funk group Stampei from Krommenie and named itself after Amsterdam's Zeedijk. The first gig was on 1 October 1981 at Paradiso, supporting Raymond van het Groenewoud. For forty years De Dijk sang in Dutch about Amsterdam and the people who live there.
Music and breakthrough
The music came from America: soul, blues and rhythm and blues, with horns and a tight rhythm section. The debut album De Dijk appeared in 1982. In 1987 came Wakker in een vreemde wereld, with Mag het licht uit on it, written by Huub van der Lubbe and Nico Arzbach. The band received the Zilveren Harp (Silver Harp), a Dutch music prize, that year. The album Niemand in de stad (1989) was their breakthrough and sold 100,000 copies. The Gouden Harp (Golden Harp) followed later (1993), and an Edison Oeuvreprijs, the Dutch lifetime achievement award (2005).
Influence
De Dijk remained one of the most popular live bands in the Netherlands. In 2010 the group made the album Hold On Tight with the American soul singer Solomon Burke. In 2005 De Dijk recorded a version of their own of Welterusten mijnheer de president by Boudewijn de Groot. The last studio album was Nu of Nou (2019). In May 2022 Huub van der Lubbe announced that he was stopping. The last concert was on 17 December 2022. The band's archive is going to the Amsterdam City Archives.
Listening
Mag het licht uit · De Dijk, 1987Apple Music ↗
Discography
Studio albums
- 1982De Dijk
- 1983Nooit meer Tarzan
- 1985Elke dag een nieuwe hoed
- 1987Wakker in een vreemde wereld
- 1989Niemand in de stad
- 1991Nooit genoeg
- 1992Zeven levens
- 1994De blauwe schuit
- 1997De stand van de maan
- 2000Zevende hemel
- 2002Het eerste jaar van...
- 2002Muzikanten dansen niet
- 2003Door
- 2005Later is nu
- 2008Brussel
- 2010Hold on Tight
- 2011Scherp de zeis
- 2013"De mooiste" collectie
- 2014Allemansplein
- 2017Groef
- 2019Nu of nou
In School of Rock
The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.
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Mentioned in other articles
- Rock in Dutch Genre
The Frank Boeijen Groep made new wave in their own language, De Dijk soul and rhythm and blues with horns, The Scene solid guitar rock and the Heideroosjes punk.
- Mag het licht uit Song
In 1987 Mag het licht uit by De Dijk from Amsterdam was released.