Good News & Bad News: The Long-Awaited Double Live Album is (Finally) On Its Way Dear friends, let’s start with the bad news… As you may know, we recorded a live show over two amazing nights in our hometown, Nijmegen, at the end of 2023. The recordings turned out exactly how we’d hoped, and…
Hey there music lovers, good to see you checking in on our website! Hope you all are doing well. We are too. This September we picked up where we left it after Zwarte Cross Festival: on the road. We’re getting warmed up and had some good vibes going on in Noordwolde, Fryslan and The Shack,…
Friends, thanx for checkin’ in! Last year was great with tons of shows to support the release of ‘That’s Amore’; we made new friends at festivals, blues clubs and pop venues all over the place. This year -2024, wow- we’ll continue being road dogs, with bookings at festivals like Bridge Guitar and Zwarte Cross, but…
Good day to all you music lovers! We finished off a great, busy year with a BANG – two sold out nights at the most Rock ‘N’ Rollinest venue of our hometown Nijmegen! Yes, that would be Merleyn. Back in 2008 we played our first gig at Merleyn and it was a blast. We supported…
‘The best sound you can get is an intimate club room, where you’ve got four walls and the sound just bounces. That’s the way this music is meant to be heard’. – Bob Dylan. Friends! We feel that we’re currently in the best musical shape we’ve ever been, brimming with passion and a ravenous hunger…
Friends! Our newest album “That’s Amore” is out for one month and it has been a great ride so far! Thank you so much for supporting us: we see a lot of familiar & new faces at live shows, you stream this stuff like crazy on spotify and you buy that hot stuff like you’re…
Well, it’s been two weeks since we launched ‘That’s Amore’ and what a party has it been since then! Thank you to our loyal fans for coming out to our shows, supporting R’N’R by spending some hard earned euros on our merch (new shirt design available at shows!) and spreading the news wherever you can.…
Hell yeah, friends! Here it is: our fifth album! THAT’S AMORE. Come and buy it at a show or send us a message to order your copy. Of course it’s out on all digital platforms (a.o. SPOTIFY), but we suggest you get the physical album so you can experience this baby in the way we…
Dear friends, honest music lovers, As the release of our fifth studio album That’s Amore is almost due, we feel it is time to elaborate on the beautiful packaging that keeps the vinyl and compact disc warm & safe. For us it certainly is a design that fits the band in its’ current phase, including…
Well good people, we might be on tour in Germany momentarily (it’s a blast!), but we sure ain’t slacking. Oh no sir… Because here is the first music video from ‘That’s Amore’: Long Road Down. Turn it up & act silly. Learn the lyrics & sing along at a show. Thanx for sharing. Sharing is…
Music lovers, we hope you’re having a good day! We certainly do, since we move towards the release of ‘That’s Amore’ in a fast pace. While we’re working behind the scenes to get the production, promotion and distribution rolling, let’s take a moment and tell you something about the recording process of our 5th studio…
Music fanatics! Here are 4 facts about our new album ‘That’s Amore‘ we’d like to share with you right now: We chose the title ‘That’s Amore’ because that’s what we are all in need of right now; a little bit of love… Don’t you think so? Also it stands for the way we experience our…
Friends, it’s about that time! We’ve got a new album coming up and it is titled ‘That’s Amore‘. Release show: Friday 21st April 2023 at Doornroosje, Nijmegen. Our 5th studio album is the one where it kind of feels like we’ve come full circle: it’s got the energy and vibe we associate with our debut…
Friends, let’s not be macho about it: WE MISS YOU. We miss meeting you all, we miss being on the road, we miss loading and unloading our van filled with heavy musical equipment. BBR is all about that wolfpack attitude, as you know. It’s so cool to that vibe of working and hanging together, like…
❤️ Damn you, COVID-19. Stay healthy, friends! Simon, Mike, Jaap & Mark
Yesterday we announced an extra gig on Friday April 3rd in our hometown Nijmegen to celebrate a good night of R’N’R music in a dive bar. It’s obvious you keep an eye on our social media posts, because it’s already sold out! No need to go and weep, because you still can catch us live…
2019 was a year in which BBR released ‘Fire’ (4th studio album), played more instore shows than ever before, hit the sale charts with our non-hyped album promotion and we had a focused run of shows to support the album release. We rounded it off in the best way we thought is possible: in a…
Dear friends, Our new album “Fire” has been out for a couple of weeks now and it’s going quite good! Since the release we played a bunch of instores, radio stuff and live shows with a great response from the audiences – resulting in good sales for CD’s as well as LP’s and a solid…
Dear friends, we’re very pleased to present our new album… FIRE. This is our 4th studio album, filled with 9 originals about life’s twists and turns. Now, let me tell you why we are a bunch of proud guys. It’s a real looker to start with. Packed in a gatefold with two enormous, beautiful photos…
Dear friends, we’d like to thank you all for a great year! We played dozens of shows, made new friends, hooked up with old buddies, ended this year with another sold out show at Doornroosje (and experienced the hair of the dog the day after),wrote and recorded new originals for our upcoming album FIRE, compiled…
Dear friends, starting today we’ll hit the road again! We’re very excited now we can reach out to YOU, having spent the last months rehearsing at De Basis, recording and mixing at Galloway Studio, finally mastering at Hofa Studio in Germany… and now we’ve completed ‘FIRE’, our 4th album to date, we can warm up…
Dear friends, The past few months have been quite busy and we’re now completing our 4th album which will be entitled FIRE. Slowly we’ll pick up where we left and get ready for the road Fall ’18. Tour will be all around the country. Expect lots of new songs when you see us live… we’re…
Dear friends! We’re so glad 2018 is here and we hope you had a nice start of the new year, together with some good folks and a drink or two. We sure did at Royal in Mill last Saturday, where a lot of you showed up and welcomed 2018 with an old school night of 2…
Dear friends, Together with YOU we had one hell of a great night at Doornroosje 28th December, which was the last of our Indigo Blues Tour. The supports The Liquid Machine and The Fuel gave it their best – thanx guys! Our last-of-the-year-celebration gig was a short one for us (just over 80 minutes), but…
Over 90 minutes of honest live music. YEAH. Thanx to Paul van Druten for this video. You rock!
Dear friends, we’re very pleased to let you know that Black Bottle Riot is back on the road after 4 months. In the meantime we’ve been jamming, rehearsing and writing with our new drummer Mark Weerts. This is the only line-up change we’ve gone thru since our take off in 2008. We’ve known Mark for…
Last Sunday we closed 2015 with a very special gig in our hometown Nijmegen. Thank all of you for coming out and making Pieter’s last gig on BBR drums one hell of a party. In the past 7 and a half years we’ve written, composed, rehearsed, recorded, toured, laughed, fought, smoked and drank till we…
Dear friends, here’s a personal message from drummer extraordinaire Pieter Hendriks. “All good things come to an end. With that said I’m announcing my retirement as the drummer for Black Bottle Riot. After seven awesome years with great shows, tours and comradery I’ve entered a new phase in my life. It’s not possible to commit…
We struck upon many beautiful sceneries when we crossed Spain last week, so we decided to catch some of the desert on film. We also brought a small field recorder and played an acoustic rendition of ‘Around The Sun’. It felt like the right time and the right place. Enjoy.
Yeah baby! Our third release party will be one hell of a party once again. All tickets are sold in presale, so no tickets available at the door. For those that miss out on this one: don’t worry, we’ll make it up to you! Promised. See you Saturday!
Be sure to keep an eye on our FaceBook page, because we’ll upload some short videos with snippets of new tracks! “III: Indigo Blues” will be released September 11th 2015. We started off last Wednesday with a fragment of ‘Heart Of Stone’. Until the release, we’ll follow it up with snippets from ‘Time & Time…
Our third album “III: Indigo Blues” will be out Friday 11th September and we’ll celebrate it with YOU a week later at the Plu, Nijmegen! Show tickets over HERE. This album is quite special to us. More than ‘Black Bottle Riot’ (debut album) and ‘Soul In Exile’ we feel this is a personal and intense…
Wow Friends! Thank you all for the massive response we received at the Teddy Widder stage at Down The Rabbit Hole 2015. We played some new tracks as well and you all ate it like hungry lions. An excellent way to round up before the summer break, as this was the last gig we did before…
Dear friends, before we prepare ourselves for the upcoming release of our third album Black Bottle Riot is featured on two festivals: 20th June @ Elektra Tuinfeest, Sliedrecht, with a.o. Hans Dulfer, Truckfighters and Yawns. 26th June @ Down The Rabbit Hole, Beuningen, with a.o. Ryan Adams, The War On Drugs and Seasick Steve. See…
We have moved on in the last nine days. Without light, fresh air and a social life – but with something to smoke, drink and burn. We’ve emptied our system. It turned out a bit darker than you’ve heared before from us. We knew we wrote some heavy songs, but now we had to do…
Thanx for a great year! We’re in this together, friends. SEE Y’ALL IN 2015! COOL STUFF COMING UP!
❤ See ya next year! Take care, Barry & Gura! Bericht door BLACK BOTTLE RIOT.
Here’s BBR’s full show from last weekend supporting Blackberry Smoke. The boys only had 25 minutes, but as you can see it was an energetic and lively gig! Setlist: Bright Light City Backseat Boogie Trying Too Hard In The Balance Rambling Fever Stay Hungry
Good news, friends! At this moment we’re writing a bunch of new tracks for our third album, which we will record early 2015. As you may know, we like to move everything around a little bit. This means we won’t revisit the exact same paths we already stepped on. Prepare for some tracks that show…
BBR opened the festival season with a BANG at Paaspop, Schijndel! Thanx for the great response at Bart’s THUNDERBOLT stage. We’re in this together, folks. Let’s enjoy the ride. These pics are shot by De Koen Rutten. More over here!
Last week we played our first two shows in almost two months – Noorderslag was the last before our break – and it was great. Thanx to the stages Tivoli (Utrecht) and Luxor Live (Arnhem) and our fellas in Black Stone Cherry, Shaking Godspeed and Texas Radio! And of course to the good folks we…
New tour coming up! We joined hands with two lowdown and dirty bands… We’ll get in the van with the insane Shaking Godspeed (new album coming up!) and gutbucket groovers Texas Radio (bluesy organ and slide stuff!) just to make sure you all will waste your hard earned cash on some beers and gutsy merch. Check…
Hey friends, A lot of you came out to the Southern Tibute shows we participated in, so thank YOU for your presence and ambiance! We had a great time paying hommage to the greats of Lynyrd Skynyrd (January 23rd and 24th) and The Allman Brothers Band (February 6th). As for now, these are the only…
Thanx folks! We had a great time partying with you all at Noorderslag! We only had 45 minutes to do our thing, but we experienced a great vibe of people that sang along (ha! some knew the words better than Mr Simon), clapped their hands and drank a beer or two. It felt like home…