Bettie Serveert
Encyclopedia
Bettie Serveert are a Dutch
indie-rock band. Their name translates to "Bettie Serves", or "Service to Bettie", which is the title of a book written by Dutch tennis
player Betty Stöve
, who made it to the Wimbledon ladies singles final in 1977.
, BC) (vocals and guitar), Peter Visser (guitar), Herman Bunskoeke (born c. 1961 in Amsterdam
) (bass) and Berend Dubbe (born c. 1961 in Amsterdam) (drums), they originally formed in 1986 but split up after only one gig. They reformed in 1990 and released their debut album, Palomine, in 1992. This met with low-key critical acclaim in the alternative music press.
, Dinosaur Jr
, Buffalo Tom
, Superchunk
, Come
and Jeff Buckley
.
After releasing the full-length album Dust Bunnies
and the Velvet Underground cover album Venus In Furs, Dubbe decided to leave due to artistic differences. He went on to form his own band, Bauer
.
Various drummers (such as Reinier Veldman, who played drums in the Bettie Serveert proto-band De Artsen) replaced Dubbe on their next album, Private Suit, later followed by Stoffel Verlackt, Jeroen Blankert and Gino Geudens who played drums on Log 22 and Attagirl. Bettie Serveert continues to tour extensively through Western Europe
, Canada
and the United States
.
Their cover of the Bright Eyes track "Lover I Don't Have to Love
" was featured in episode 18 of season 3 of the FOX show The OC. Palomine's title track can be heard playing in the background during episode 4 of My So-Called Life
.
The band also covered Bob Dylan
's "I'll Keep It with Mine
" for the soundtrack of the 1996 indie film I Shot Andy Warhol.
Bettie Serveert released an EP
, Deny All, on Second Motion Records
digital only, on 26 January 2010 in the United States. Their ninth full-length album, Pharmacy of Love, was also given a US release by Second Motion on 23 March of that year.
. However, her family moved to Holland in 1969 and the formerly outgoing child became reserved when confronted with the language barrier and she never completely mastered the Amsterdam variation of the Dutch language. Her voice is praised for its beauty and clarity, as well as its unusual pronunciations.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
indie-rock band. Their name translates to "Bettie Serves", or "Service to Bettie", which is the title of a book written by Dutch tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
player Betty Stöve
Betty Stöve
Betty Stöve is a former Dutch professional tennis player. She is best remembered for reaching the ladies' singles final at Wimbledon in 1977. She also won ten Grand Slam titles in women's doubles and mixed doubles.-Career:...
, who made it to the Wimbledon ladies singles final in 1977.
Genesis
Composed of Carol van Dijk (or van Dyk, born 22 April 1962 in VancouverVancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, BC) (vocals and guitar), Peter Visser (guitar), Herman Bunskoeke (born c. 1961 in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
) (bass) and Berend Dubbe (born c. 1961 in Amsterdam) (drums), they originally formed in 1986 but split up after only one gig. They reformed in 1990 and released their debut album, Palomine, in 1992. This met with low-key critical acclaim in the alternative music press.
Subsequent releases
Three years later, the group released their second album, Lamprey, which also was well-received and aided them in obtaining tour slots alongside the likes of BellyBelly (band)
Belly was an alternative rock band formed in 1991 by former Throwing Muses members Tanya Donelly and Fred Abong. The band was based in Boston, Massachusetts, though all of the original members grew up in Newport, Rhode Island. The band consisted of Donelly on lead vocals and guitar, Abong on bass,...
, Dinosaur Jr
Dinosaur Jr
Dinosaur Jr. is an American alternative rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1984. Originally called Dinosaur, prior to legal issues that forced the group to change their name, the band disbanded in 1997 until reuniting in 2005...
, Buffalo Tom
Buffalo Tom
Buffalo Tom is an alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1986. Its principal members are guitarist Bill Janovitz, bassist Chris Colbourn, and drummer Tom Maginnis. The band's name is derived from the band Buffalo Springfield and the first name of the drummer.-Career:Dinosaur Jr...
, Superchunk
Superchunk
Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, consisting of singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Jon Wurster. Formed in 1989, they were one of the bands that helped define the Chapel Hill music scene of the 1990s...
, Come
Come (US band)
Come was an American alternative rock band from 1990-2001. Come was formed in Boston by Thalia Zedek , Chris Brokaw , Arthur Johnson , and Sean O'Brien .-Band history:...
and Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician...
.
After releasing the full-length album Dust Bunnies
Dust Bunnies
Dust Bunnies was the third album by the Dutch indie band Bettie Serveert, released in 1997.-Track listing:All tracks by Carol van Dijk#"Geek"- 3:52#"The Link" - 3:09#"Musher" - 3:09#"Dust Bunny" - 2:12#"What Friends?" - 2:47#"Misery Galore" - 4:02...
and the Velvet Underground cover album Venus In Furs, Dubbe decided to leave due to artistic differences. He went on to form his own band, Bauer
Bauer (Dutch band)
Bauer is a band founded in 1999 by former Bettie Serveert drummer Berend Dubbe and based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The band writes upbeat electronic music.-Discography:...
.
Various drummers (such as Reinier Veldman, who played drums in the Bettie Serveert proto-band De Artsen) replaced Dubbe on their next album, Private Suit, later followed by Stoffel Verlackt, Jeroen Blankert and Gino Geudens who played drums on Log 22 and Attagirl. Bettie Serveert continues to tour extensively through Western Europe
Western Europe
Western Europe is a loose term for the collection of countries in the western most region of the European continents, though this definition is context-dependent and carries cultural and political connotations. One definition describes Western Europe as a geographic entity—the region lying in the...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
.
Their cover of the Bright Eyes track "Lover I Don't Have to Love
Lover I Don't Have to Love
"Lover I Don't Have to Love" is a song by Bright Eyes released as a single in 2002 and released on the album Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground....
" was featured in episode 18 of season 3 of the FOX show The OC. Palomine's title track can be heard playing in the background during episode 4 of My So-Called Life
My So-Called Life
My So-Called Life is an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. It originally aired on ABC from August 25, 1994, to January 26, 1995 and was distributed by The Bedford Falls Company with ABC Productions. Set at the...
.
The band also covered Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
's "I'll Keep It with Mine
I'll Keep It with Mine
"I'll Keep It with Mine" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1964, first officially released by folk singer Judy Collins as a single in 1965. Dylan attempted to record the song for his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde.-Dylan's Version:...
" for the soundtrack of the 1996 indie film I Shot Andy Warhol.
Bettie Serveert released an EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
, Deny All, on Second Motion Records
Second Motion Records
Second Motion Records is part of Second Motion Entertainment based in Carrboro, North Carolina. The Label was founded in Chapel Hill, NC by Stephen Judge, who is the former manager of the rock band Athenaeum as well as the former General Manager/A&R Director of Redeye Distribution and Yep Roc...
digital only, on 26 January 2010 in the United States. Their ninth full-length album, Pharmacy of Love, was also given a US release by Second Motion on 23 March of that year.
Lead vocal
Carol van Dijk was born in Canada to Dutch parents, so her native tongue was EnglishEnglish language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
. However, her family moved to Holland in 1969 and the formerly outgoing child became reserved when confronted with the language barrier and she never completely mastered the Amsterdam variation of the Dutch language. Her voice is praised for its beauty and clarity, as well as its unusual pronunciations.
Albums
- 1992: PalominePalominePalomine was the first album by the Dutch indie band Bettie Serveert. In Europe, Palomine was released in 1992 on Guernica, a short-lived subsidiary of 4AD Records; in the United States, it was released on Matador Records. "Brain-tag" is a cd-only bonus track...
- 1995: LampreyLamprey (album)Lamprey was the second album by the Dutch indie band Bettie Serveert, released in 1995.-Track listing:#"Keepsake"- 6:18#"Ray Ray Rain" - 4:22#"D. Feathers" - 5:32#"Re-feel-it" - 3:58#"21 Days" - 3:23#"Cybor *D" - 4:01#"Tell Me, Sad" - 5:18...
- 1997: Dust BunniesDust BunniesDust Bunnies was the third album by the Dutch indie band Bettie Serveert, released in 1997.-Track listing:All tracks by Carol van Dijk#"Geek"- 3:52#"The Link" - 3:09#"Musher" - 3:09#"Dust Bunny" - 2:12#"What Friends?" - 2:47#"Misery Galore" - 4:02...
- 1998: Plays Venus in Furs and Other Velvet Underground Songs
- 2000: Private Suit
- 2003: Log 22Log 22Log 22 is the sixth studio album by the Dutch band Bettie Serveert, released in 2003.-Track listing:#"Wide Eyed Fools" - 5:10#"Smack" - 2:10#"Have a Heart" - 4:35#"Captain of Maybe" - 4:35#"De Diva" - 6:10#"Given" - 6:10#"Not Coming Down" - 2:17...
- 2004: AttagirlAttagirl (album)Attagirl is the seventh studio album by the Dutch band Bettie Serveert, released in 2006.-Track listing:All tracks by Carol van Dijk & Peter Visser except were noted#"Dreamaniacs" – 3:50#"Attagirl" – 3:53#"Don't Touch That Dial!" – 3:37...
- 2006: Bare Stripped Naked
- 2010: Pharmacy of Love
Singles/EPs
- 1992: "Tom Boy" (also on the soundtrack to AmateurAmateur (film)Amateur is a 1994 film written and directed by Hal Hartley starring Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan and Elina Löwensohn.-Title:The title is also an acronym, encompassing elements of the film* Accountancy* Murder* Amnesia* Torture* Ecstasy...
) - 1993: "Palomine"
- 1993: "Kids Alright"
- 1993: "Palomine (new single edition)"
- 1995: "Crutches"
- 1995: "Something So Wild"
- 1995: "Ray Ray Rain"
- 1997: "Co-coward"
- 1997: "Rudder"
- 1997: "What Friends?"
- 1999: Our New Demo
- 2000: "White Tales"
- 2000: "Private Suit"
- 2003: "Smack"
- 2003: "Wide Eyed Fools"
- 2010: "Deny All"
Other
- 1994: "For All We Know" from the Carpenter cover-song compilation album If I Were a Carpenter