When Roger Glover heard Dewolff playing, he thought he was hearing his own band Deep Purple’s Mark II unloading on stage. A similar thing happened to Seasick Steve, who claimed to have woken up backstage at a festival hearing them play, thinking he had traveled back in time and was hearing the Allman Brothers play in 1972.
But what they both really heard was Dewolff, a young, electrified Dutch trio led by a powerful Hammond organ. Keyboardist Robin Piso and the brothers Luka (drums and backing vocals) and Pablo (vocals and guitar) Van de Poel are energetic and virtuoso musicians with a free and unrestrained spirit. A group of teenagers who formed a band in the south of Holland, and who hardly passed their twenties, have already made history in Dutch rock and opened a path all over Europe with their mix of blues rock with touches of soul and psychedelia, having released 8 studio albums, 2 EP’s, three live albums (one of them accompanied by the amazing Metropolo Orkest), which have earned them an Edison Award (Dutch version of The Mercury Music Prize), a Dutch Grammy and a Buma Award. As well as having played live with artists such as The Black Keys, Blues Pills, Wolfmother and Deep Purple themselves. And you only need to watch two minutes of a Dewolff concert to understand that the music of the golden age of rock still takes place in the 21st century.