Stop De Dijk not a big surprise, but a shame: “Have seen them 100 times”

The singer of De Dijk announced the news in an interview in de Volkskrant† Since then, reactions to the band’s termination have been pouring in.

Harmke and Marco Jansen from Beverwijk have been fans of De Dijk for decades and would like to thank the band for all the years they have experienced with them: “We are just going to enjoy the last concert. We are going to sing along very hard”, they say. They don’t know yet whether the two will keep it dry during the last concert of ‘their’ band. Harmke in particular suspects that she will shed a tear.

Not surprising

Also for fan Frank Lissenburg from Aalsmeer it is no surprise that the band is ending. “It’s not very surprising, because if you’ve read the last books, Huub already wanted to stop two or three times,” he says on NH Radio† “They’ve taken sabbaticals two or three times already.”

Somehow Frank also understands it, because Van der Lubbe is already almost 70 years old. “But it’s a shame, because I went there two or three times a year. I think I’ve seen them 100 times in my life, De Dijk.” Frank especially likes the facial expression of the singer. He can compare it to the facial expression of Joe Cocker. Frank thinks ‘Onderuit’ is a very nice song. “That is about a relationship in which it then wakes up and in which it also goes wrong again,” says the fan about the text. The language in which the songs are sung also plays a role. “It hits me much harder with Dutch than with English.”

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Frank will see De Dijk two more times in this last year. “For the Amsterdamse Bos, because I live a kilometer from there, so I always come there every year.” He also goes to Paradiso every year. The fan is very happy that it is there, because he is not much of the big halls. De Dijk has also announced a farewell concert in the Ziggo Dome, but Frank does not have to be there.

Pub owner Jan van Schuppen is also a big fan and even worked as a roadie for the band: “They are nice people. Immediately very interested. Very nice to be able to experience that as a fan. It was hard work, but it was worth it”, says Jan.

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Biographer of the Dijk Hugo Logtenberg wrote the biography ‘Achter De Dijk’ last year, about 40 years of De Dijk. on NH Radio he says that it was about to happen that Huub van der Lubbe would stop. “It’s not a surprise, maybe the moment he says it now, but it was a matter of months anyway, that he would do it one day.”

diverse audience

The writer thinks it is because of a number of things that the singer wanted to stop. “He has toured with De Dijk for 40 years, in Dutch, so the distance area is not super large, so there is a certain repetitive element in it. The man is bursting with talent, so he also wants to do very other things.” Huub van der Lubbe also suffers from tinnitus, ringing in the ears. “It doesn’t get any better if you play P60 Amstelveen full throttle. The next day you notice that in your ears, it shines if you have tinnitus.”

Many different people always come to De Dijk’s performances. “If you were at De Dijk, and I have seen them perform quite often, you were standing between the cufflinks and the steel noses,” says Logtenberg. “And I’ve seen that with few other bands. I think that’s often a more homogeneous group.” He finds it characteristic of De Dijk that it is very pleasant. The biographer also goes to one of the last concerts. “I’m definitely there, I’m definitely there!”