They have been performing during the TT for 45 years, but they have never been sanging the event before. But the hundredth anniversary of the event has inspired the Asser rock band Dirty Boulevard. With the number 100 years ago the tire catches the sound of the TT.
With the song, Dirty Boulevard wants to honor the rich history of the motorsport event. “It’s a song about TT experience,” says drummer Aldo Koops. “A number that is about the development of the event, from driving across dusty country roads to the event nowadays on the circuit. From Dusty Roads to crispy guitars in which you hear the sound of engines.”
The rockers fall back on their own 1980s noise. “This is who we are. A bit that Thin Lizzy sound, we are a group of old rockers,” laughs the drummer. A sound that he doesn’t hear much in the city center during the TT week.
If you say TT Festival, you say Dirty Boulevard. About 45 years ago the band performed for the first time at the festival, at the time as a Royal Relation, with its own songs. The band turned out to be a keeper, although 25 years ago a different name and a different sound were chosen. Koops: “At that time we performed in café The Old Dutch on the Markt and were asked to play some covers. That caught on.”
It was the start of a tradition. Since that time, the band closes the TT Festival on Sunday evening at the Markt in Assen. “With all covers from our heroes, with their own sauce,” says Koops. But now the band grabs the past. Both the TT past and the history of the band. “We had to do something special for this edition.”