Crossing Border Festival is an annual festival in The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

, Netherlands

Netherlands

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 focusing on new pop music acts and literature

Literature

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. The first edition took place in 1993. The festival was once held in Amsterdam, but afterwards shifted back to The Hague.

1993

Chasem Batamuntu, Amancia Batta, H.C. tenBerge, Billy Childish

Billy Childish

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 & the Singing Loins, Carla Bogaards, Adriaan Bontebal, Herman Brood

Herman Brood

Hermanus "Herman" Brood was a Dutch musician, painter and media personality. Initially a musician who achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, and called "the Netherlands' greatest and only rock 'n' roll star," later in life he became a well-known painter.Known for his...

, Bart Chabot, Ana Christy, De Lubbers BV, Graham B, Jan KeesHaks, Adrian Henri, Bert Hiddema, Jabklon, Ted Joans, Walter Joris, Jules Deelder & Trio me reet + 2, Hermine Landvreugd, Erik Lindner, Marcel vanMaele, Gerard Malanga

Gerard Malanga

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,
Xavier-SergeMartin, Roger MCGough, Jack Micheline,Nuclarity, Mignon Omoroka, Diana Ozon, Wilma Paalman, Hans Plomp,
Celestine Raalte, Anil Ramdas, Lee Ranaldo

Lee Ranaldo

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 (Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

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), Ishmael Reed, Tennessee Reed, Andy Roberts, R.J.Rueb, Lennie St. Luce, Television Personalities, Rupert Thomson, Merle Tofer, Anabel Tores, Simon Vinkenoog

Simon Vinkenoog

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, Cornelis Vleeskens, Eddie Woods, Zwetsloot, O!

2007

A.F.Th., Susan Abulhawa

Susan Abulhawa

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, Adapter

Adapter

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, Akron/Family, Alkibar, Niccolò Ammaniti, Ólöf Arnalds, Joseph Arthur, Shalom Auslander,, Ayikwei Parkes, Nii Bahara, Hassan, Bang Bang, Hans Barendse, Basil, Priya, Basquiat Strings, Walter van den Berg, Guðbergur Bergsson, Wim de Bie, Andrew Bird, Alan Bisset, Thórdís Björnsdóttir, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, now based in Los Angeles. BRMC is known for their garage rock, blues, folk revival, neo-psychedelia sound. They are influenced by bands such as: The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Verve, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, T...

,Norman Blake,
Afel Bocoum & Alkibar, Basje Boer, Bianca Boer, Hugo Borst

Hugo Borst

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, Michael Bracewell, Anouar Brahem, 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...

, Vic Chesnutt

Vic Chesnutt

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Christmas, Derwent, Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers

The Stranglers

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), Fflur Dafydd

Fflur Dafydd

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, DAM, De Stratenmaker op Zee, Dez Mona, Diaz, Junot
Ceridwen Dovey, Roddy Doyle

Roddy Doyle

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, Duffhuës & strijkkwartet, Cherry Duyns, Don Duyns, Crista Ermiya, fever, Fink, Fuck the Writer, Anja Garbarek, Dan Geesin, Ghostigital, Jurg vanGinkel, Rody Gorman, Alasdair Gray, Klaas Gubbels, Sigurður Guðjónsson,
Gummbah, Said El Haji, Steven Hall, Sanneke van Hassel, Heere Heeresma, Richard Hell

Richard Hell

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, Jam de la Creme, Jansen & Zapp String Quartet, Tjitske, Johnny's Landing, Jong Leest, Oud Leest, Jongeren en Poëzie, Joseph Arthur, Juniusdottir, Asgerdur, Jan Kal

Jan Kal

Johannes Pieter "Jan" Kal is a Dutch poet. He lives in Amsterdam. Along with others, such as Gerrit Komrij, Jan Kuijper, and Jean-Pierre Rawie, he helped revive the sonnet in Dutch literature, and substantially all of Kal's work is in sonnet form...

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Jon Savage, Silke Scheuermann, K. Schippers, Sjón, Patti Smith

Patti Smith

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, So What, Soko

Soko

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, Spinvis

Spinvis

Spinvis is a Dutch one-man project centred around Erik de Jong . Using experimental, lo-fi music, Spinvis became an instant success in his home country, earning two gold records in the process and performing sold-out tours in both the Netherlands and Belgium.-Spinvis:In 2001, Erik de Jong, or...

, Strike the Colours, Super Furry Animals

Super Furry Animals

Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band that lean towards psychedelic rock and electronic experimentation. Since their formation in Cardiff, Wales in 1993, the band has consisted of Gruff Rhys , Huw Bunford , Guto Pryce , Cian Ciaran and Dafydd Ieuan Super Furry Animals are a Welsh rock band...

, Taken by Trees, The Go! Team

The Go! Team

The Go! Team are a six-piece band from Brighton, England. They combine indie rock and garage rock with a mixture of blaxploitation and Bollywood soundtracks, double dutch chants, old school hip hop and distorted guitars similar to the style of Sonic Youth. Their songs are a mix of live...

, The New Pornographers

The New Pornographers

The New Pornographers is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia.-History:The band's first four albums each ranked in the top 40 on The Village Voices Pazz & Jop year-end poll of hundreds of music reviewers. From 2000 to 2006, either a New Pornographers' album or a...

, Thomas, Scarlett Tiny Vipers, To Hell with Journals, Leon Verdonschot, Windmill, Harry de Winter, Yeasayer

Yeasayer

-History:The band's three core members, Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton, and Anand Wilder, first came to attention after appearing at the SXSW festival in early 2007. Their first single consisted of a double A-side of the tracks "Sunrise" and "2080"...

, Zappa Band feat. Kees 't Hart

2008

Fabian Beghin & Didier Laloy, Frédéric Beigbeder, Hadjar Benmiloud, Laura Broekhuijsen, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Dead Stereo, Death Cab for Cutie

Death Cab for Cutie

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, Alela Diane, Pam Emmerik, Steven Galloway, Aviv Geffen, Asaf Hanuka, Janneke van der Horst, Stef Kamil Carlens

Stef Kamil Carlens

Stef Kamil Carlens is a Belgian musician and leader of Belgian rock band Zita Swoon. Carlens studied at the "Hoger Kunstonderwijs, Rijksinstituut, Antwerpen". Together with Tom Barman he co-founded Belgian Alt Rock band Deus...

 - Bob Dylan Tribute, Ariel Kenig, Etgar Keret, Federica Manzon, Cass McCombs, Catherine O'Flynn, Abdellah Taïa

Abdellah Taïa

Abdellah Taïa is an openly gay Moroccan writer who has lived in self-imposed exile in Paris since 1998. Taïa writes in French and has had works translated into Basque, Dutch, English and Spanish....

, Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux

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, Jonathan Trigell, Rachel Unthank, Van Dyke Parks

Van Dyke Parks

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 & Inara George & Mondriaan Strings, Vreeland met Jerry Goossens, Robbert Welagen, Tom Baxter

Tom Baxter

Tom Baxter is an English singer-songwriter based in London. He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, and grew up in Cornwall with his sister Vashti Anna, two brothers, Jo Spencer and Charlie Winston, and parents Jeff and Julie Gleave...

, Hannah Buenting, Isobel Campbell

Isobel Campbell

Isobel Campbell is a Scottish singer, cellist and composer in the indie and rock genres.-History:Campbell was a member of Belle & Sebastian from their formation in Glasgow in 1996 until 2002, when she departed the band for personal reasons. She played cello and keyboards with the band, and sang...

 & Mark Lanegan

Mark Lanegan

Mark Lanegan is an American rock musician and songwriter. Lanegan began his music career in the 1980s, forming the grunge group Screaming Trees with Gary Lee Conner, Van Conner and Mark Pickerel. During his time in the band Lanegan would start a low-key solo career...

, Julian Cope

Julian Cope

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, Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham

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, DBC Pierre, Emmy the Great, Laia Fabregas, Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes are a folk rock band which formed in Seattle, Washington. They are signed to the Sub Pop and Bella Union record labels. The band came to prominence in 2008 with the release of their second EP, Sun Giant, and their debut full length album Fleet Foxes...

, Johnny Flynn, Ben Folds

Ben Folds

Benjamin Scott "Ben" Folds is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and television personality. From 1995-2000, Folds was the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. Since the group disbanded, Folds has performed as a solo artist and has toured all over the world...

, Karin Giphart, Mohsin Hamid, Kristin Hersh

Kristin Hersh

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, Les Doigts de l'Homme, Emmanuel Louis with The Gardening Group, Bart Moeyaert, Charlotte Mutsaers

Charlotte Mutsaers

Charlotte Jacoba Maria Mutsaers is a Dutch painter, prose writer and essayist.- Biography :Born in Utrecht, Charlotte Mutsaers was the daughter of the art historian Barend Mutsaers who worked at Utrecht University. She attended a gymnasium and studied Dutch in Amsterdam. Subsequently she became a...

, Olla Vogala, Geert Ooms, Karen Russel, Victor Schiferli, Seasick Steve, Shearwater, Henk van Straten, The Dears

The Dears

-History:The band formed in 1995 and released their first album, End of a Hollywood Bedtime Story, in 2000. Their orchestral, dark pop sound and dramatic live shows cemented The Dears at the foundation of the then-emerging Canadian indie renaissance...

, The Fratellis

The Fratellis

The Fratellis were an indie rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. The band consisted of lead vocalist and guitarist Jon Fratelli , bass guitarist Barry Fratelli , and drummer and backing vocalist Mince Fratelli .The band released 2 albums during their career, Costello Music in 2006 and Here We Stand in...

, The Ideal Husband, The Swell Season, J. Tillman, Steve Tolz, Chad VanGaalen

Chad VanGaalen

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, Dimitri Verhulst, Helen Walsh

Helen Walsh

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, Women

Women (band)

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, The Moi Non Plus, Yuri Landman

Yuri Landman

Yuri Landman is a Dutch experimental luthier who has made several experimental electric string instruments for a list of artists including Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Liars, Jad Fair of Half Japanese and Liam Finn...

, Julie Mittens & Lone Productions, Brett Anderson

Brett Anderson

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 (Suede

Suede (band)

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), Appie Kim, Wim de Bie, Stefan Merrill Block

Stefan Merrill Block

-Biography:Stefan Merrill Block was born in Texas and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. He has written two novels: The Story of Forgetting and The Storm at the Door.-References:...

, Bianca Boer, Broken Records, DBC Pierre, Eli Paperboy Reed & The True Loves, Anne Enright, Liam Finn

Liam Finn

Liam Mullane Finn is a New Zealand musician and songwriter. Born in Australia, he moved to New Zealand as a child...

, First Aid Kit, Krijn Peter Hesselink, Micah P. Hinson, Carsten Jensen, Doug Johnstone, Jackie Kay, Chris Killen, Herman Koch, Aidan Moffat, Nightporter (Mark Ritsema

Mark Ritsema

Mark Ritsema is a singer, guitarist, songwriter, journalist and writer from the Netherlands. During the eighties and nineties he fronted cult bands Spasmodique and Cobraz and currently he plays with Raskolnikov...

), Pete Molinari, Ross Raisin, Jan Rot

Jan Rot

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, Jan Siebelink

Jan Siebelink

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, Ali Smith, The Black Keys

The Black Keys

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, The Cave Singers, The Phantom Band

The Phantom Band

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, The Ship of Fools, The Uglysuit, Rupert Thomson, Julian Velard, Simon Vinkenoog

Simon Vinkenoog

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, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Roddy Woomble & Allan Stewart