Matthijs van Nieuwkerk is happy that Anouk asked him to interview her about her new album. “It was nice to interview someone again,” said the presenter on Monday evening at the presentation of the record in Fabrique des Lumières in Amsterdam. “I was honored and happy for all kinds of reasons and I am also very happy to be here.”
Van Nieuwkerk has not been seen on television for almost a year due to the appearance of a production of de Volkskrant about a culture of fear at his former program The world goes on. In recent weeks he seems to be slowly but surely returning to work. He has also done book presentations by Bart Chabot and Özcan Akyol.
“Three weeks ago I received a voice message on my phone from a number unknown to me. When I typed that in, it turned out that it was Anouk,” Van Nieuwkerk told the audience about how Anouk came to him. The singer asked how he was doing and whether the presenter wanted her new album Deena & Jim wanted to listen.
West Side Story
“I said: yes, send it on. And then I listened for an hour. You don’t know what you hear,” Van Nieuwkerk continued. “I texted back: ‘crazy, completely perfect and so different’.” The presenter also compared the record with the musical West Side Story. Anouk then asked Van Nieuwkerk to do the presentation.
Anouk also had him interview him, as was announced earlier on Monday. That happened in a snack bar in Amsterdam-Noord. The entire conversation will appear online on Wednesday.
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