Intwine
Encyclopedia
Intwine was a Dutch
rock band formed by five students of the Tilburg
Rockacademie in 2001.
The band received nationwide notoriety in the Netherlands after lead singer Roger Peterson
's participation in the Idols
talent show in 2002. Subsequently, Intwine charted the Dutch Top 40
five times, with "Happy?" (#3) and "Cruel Man" (#7) being their major hits. During their nine-year career they released four studio albums: Intwine
(2003), Perfect
(2004), Pyrrhic Victory
(2006) and Kingdom of Contradiction
(2009).
On October 16, 2010, Intwine announced on their website that it had broken up. The group's last line-up consisted of Roger Peterson (vocals), Jacob Streefkerk (guitar), Jon Symons (guitar) and Eric Spring in 't Veld (drums).
in 2001, where they met Aruba
n vocalist Roger Peterson
. These three young musicians, who all crossed the Atlantic, started to play in a roots reggae
band, Orange Grove. Beside from their activities in Orange Grove, they also formed their own band "Intwine" in 2001, with fellow students Erwin Gielen (drums) and Kevin Hissink (guitar).
was a participant in Idols
, the Dutch version of Pop Idol, and reached the last ten finalists. Yet he decided to quit the show, after refusing to sign the Idols contract, because it wasn't supposed to allow him to play his own songs and with his own band. For him and Intwine, however, it yielded a lot of publicity and a record deal with Dureco. Regarding Idols, Peterson later said in an interview: "The show has been a friend in court for us (Intwine), but has also been a millstone around our necks. Idols invested a lot in our notoriety and we are grateful for that. However, people relate us with a show that didn't bring any good. Be honest: that show flopped."
Their first single "Happy?" was released in February 2003 in the Netherlands
and Belgium
and hit the third spot in the Dutch Top 40
. Their debut self-titled album
came out that same year on October 3 and spawned three more singles: "Way Out", "Get Outta My Head" and "Let Me Be". The band was nominated for the TMF Awards
and for an Edison Award.
In 2004 Intwine released the DVD/live album The P.U.R.E. Session, a registration of one of their live shows, for which the band was joined by percussionist Ferdinand van Duuren. The same year the band composed and recorded the song "Cruel Man" as soundtrack
for the Dutch film De Dominee
(The Preacher). It was the first single of their second studio album Perfect
, released through V2 Records
on September 27, 2004. On March 19, 2005, Perfect was awarded with the 3FM Award for best album. "Cruel Man" reached seventh position in the Dutch Top 40 and even became number one in the Turkish charts. Drummer Erwin Gielen left the band in 2004 and was shortly replaced by Jeremy Bonarriba. In December 2004 Rocheteau Mahuwallan became Intwine's drummer.
In 2005 Intwine was nominated again for an Edison Award. Intwine played at the Pinkpop
festival on May 13 and also performed at Madrid
's MetroRock festival on June 25. The same summer guitarist Kevin Hissink left the band and Jon Symons, earlier playing in a heavy metal band called Primal Rage, became his permanent substitute.
and incorporated the impressions of this trip into the non-album single "Peace of Mind". They donated the single's sales profits to the Millennium Development Goals
project.
Percussionist Ferdinand van Duuren left the band in 2006, due to personal and creative dissents.
Intwine wrote and recorded "Feel It" as the soundtrack for the 2006 movie Nachtrit (Nightrun), which also features Intwine's "For Goodness Sake". "Feel It" was also the first single of their third full-length album Pyrrhic Victory
, released on October 9, 2006. About the record, the band stated on their website:"Pyrrhic Victory was recorded with sound artist Gordon Groothedde, who also worked with Intwine on their previous albums. The result is the most impressive project so far. This is a dark record. Spare, without any filler or frills. The gloves are off in songs such as "Cut Me Loose", "For Goodness Sake" and "Solo". Disappointment and pain have seldom been conveyed so beautifully and at the same time as grippingly as they have on this third CD. Yet the record also conveys a genuine fighting spirit. Intwine is rocking harder and sounding more honest than ever."
Due to internal circumstances, record label V2
was not able to promote the album, resulting in the fact that Intwine was only able to sell CD's at their live shows, making that few copies of Pyrrhic Victory were sold. At that time the band was asked by German
record label Tiefdruck-Musik, who were impressed after seeing one of Intwine's live shows, to sign to their label and to release Pyrrhic Victory also abroad of the Netherlands. However, V2 refused to drop Intwine's contract. Yet Intwine later did manage to leave V2.
In 2007, Intwine toured the Dutch theatres for the first time with The Acoustic Rumshop Sessions. With these shows Intwine returns to their Caribbean roots, playing their songs in styles such as reggae
, bolero
, zouk
, soca
and cumbia
. For this tour Intwine was joined by percussionist Roël Calister of Orange Grove.
As the soundtrack for the video game Assassin's Creed
Intwine released the non-album single "The Chosen (Assassin's Creed)" featuring Brainpower
in November 2007.
record label Tiefdruck-Musik in 2008 to start recording their new album. During the recording process bassist Touché Eusebius and drummer Rocheteau Mahuwallan left the band and were replaced by Pablo Penton and Eric Spring in 't Veld respectively.
Intwine released their fourth studio album Kingdom of Contradiction
on August 14, 2009. The album is their first international release and contains fifteen songs that appeared on previous albums which Intwine re-recorded to present themselves abroad of the Netherlands. 3VOOR12
wrote that the band had given the songs a nu metal
twist and sounded heavier, harsher and darker than before on this album. Comparisons were made to alternative metal
bands such as Deftones
, Incubus
, P.O.D.
, Taproot
, Godsmack
and Ill Niño
. Beside of the fifteen "old" tracks, the album also contained one "new" song, namely a cover of The Police
's "Walking on the Moon
", featuring Belgian vocalist Sarah Bettens
.
With their new sound Intwine opened for American alt-metal band Sevendust
on June 1, 2009 for their gig in Utrecht
and four times for Welsh "ragga-metal" band Skindred
in February and March 2010.
On October 16, 2010, Intwine announced via its website that "the curtain had fallen". The motives of their breakup were not notified.
of rock
with reggae
, latin, and hip hop
influences. Troughout the years and with several line-up changes, the band shifted from the pop rock
of their debut album Intwine (2003) and second album Perfect (2004) to a heavier and darker sound containing more heavy metal
elements on the albums Pyrrhic Victory (2006) and Kingdom of Contradiction (2009).
Beside their regular shows, Intwine also played The Rumshop Sessions, in which they performed their songs acoustic and in Caribbean styles such as reggae
, bolero
, zouk
, soca
and cumbia
. A collection of these songs were captured on their EP The Original Acoustic Rumshop Sessions Vol I (2010).
Regarding their influences, the band has been cited to have been inspired by musical groups ranging from heavy metal to reggae such as Metallica
, Bob Marley & The Wailers
, Sublime
, Ozomatli
, Sevendust
, Krosfyah
, Kassav'
, Collie Buddz
, Foo Fighters
, Audioslave
, A Perfect Circle
, Incubus
, Deftones
, Taproot
, The Tea Party
, Pearl Jam
, Soundgarden
, Sinch
, Nirvana
, Silverchair
, Maná
and Jarabe de Palo
.
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...
rock band formed by five students of the Tilburg
Tilburg
Tilburg is a landlocked municipality and a city in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of Noord-Brabant.Tilburg municipality also includes the villages of Berkel-Enschot and Udenhout....
Rockacademie in 2001.
The band received nationwide notoriety in the Netherlands after lead singer Roger Peterson
Roger Peterson (musician)
Roger Francis Peterson is an Aruban-Dutch musician. He is known as the lead vocalist for the former rock band Intwine, which disbanded in October 2010. He also was a competitor on the first season of Dutch talent show Idols....
's participation in the Idols
Idols (Netherlands)
Idols is a television show on the Dutch television network RTL 4, which is part of the Idol series based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in the Netherlands....
talent show in 2002. Subsequently, Intwine charted the Dutch Top 40
Dutch Top 40
The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...
five times, with "Happy?" (#3) and "Cruel Man" (#7) being their major hits. During their nine-year career they released four studio albums: Intwine
Intwine (album)
Intwine is the first studio album by Dutch band Intwine. It was released on October 3, 2003 by Dureco.-Track listing:#"Way Out" – 4:34#"Raven Claw" – 3:29#"Let Me Be" – 3:44#"Sorry" – 3:29#"Hello Again" – 4:07#"Obituary" – 3:23#"Today" – 6:03...
(2003), Perfect
Perfect (album)
Perfect is the second studio album by Dutch band Intwine. It was released on September 27, 2004 by V2.-Track listing:#"Slow Down" – 3:25#"Beautiful" – 3:13#"Perfect" – 3:26#"Cruel Man" – 3:17#"You" – 4:52#"No Ones" – 4:31#"Dutty Step" – 3:58...
(2004), Pyrrhic Victory
Pyrrhic Victory (album)
Pyrrhic Victory is the third studio album by Dutch band Intwine. It was released on October 9, 2006 by V2.-Track listing:#"Jack in a Box" – 4:57#"Solo" – 3:33#"Cut Me Loose" – 4:41#"Cookie Jar" – 3:55#"Feel It" – 3:04#"For Goodness Sake" – 5:09...
(2006) and Kingdom of Contradiction
Kingdom of Contradiction
Kingdom of Contradiction is the fourth studio album by Dutch band Intwine. It was released on August 14, 2009 by German record label Tiefdruck-Musik/Universal.-Track listing:All songs written by Intwine, except where noted.#"Cookie Jar" – 5:02...
(2009).
On October 16, 2010, Intwine announced on their website that it had broken up. The group's last line-up consisted of Roger Peterson (vocals), Jacob Streefkerk (guitar), Jon Symons (guitar) and Eric Spring in 't Veld (drums).
Formation
Guitarist Jacob Streefkerk and bassist Touché Eusebius were childhood friends at the island of Sint Maarten and played together in several bands before moving to the Netherlands. Both signed in at the Fontys Rockademie of TilburgTilburg
Tilburg is a landlocked municipality and a city in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of Noord-Brabant.Tilburg municipality also includes the villages of Berkel-Enschot and Udenhout....
in 2001, where they met Aruba
Aruba
Aruba is a 33 km-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located 27 km north of the coast of Venezuela and 130 km east of Guajira Peninsula...
n vocalist Roger Peterson
Roger Peterson (musician)
Roger Francis Peterson is an Aruban-Dutch musician. He is known as the lead vocalist for the former rock band Intwine, which disbanded in October 2010. He also was a competitor on the first season of Dutch talent show Idols....
. These three young musicians, who all crossed the Atlantic, started to play in a roots reggae
Roots reggae
Roots reggae is a subgenre of reggae that deals with the everyday lives and aspirations of the artists concerned, including the spiritual side of Rastafari and with the honoring of God, called Jah by rastafarians. It also is identified with the life of the ghetto sufferer, and the rural poor...
band, Orange Grove. Beside from their activities in Orange Grove, they also formed their own band "Intwine" in 2001, with fellow students Erwin Gielen (drums) and Kevin Hissink (guitar).
Breakthrough and first two albums (2002-2005)
In 2002 lead singer Roger PetersonRoger Peterson (musician)
Roger Francis Peterson is an Aruban-Dutch musician. He is known as the lead vocalist for the former rock band Intwine, which disbanded in October 2010. He also was a competitor on the first season of Dutch talent show Idols....
was a participant in Idols
Idols (Netherlands)
Idols is a television show on the Dutch television network RTL 4, which is part of the Idol series based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in the Netherlands....
, the Dutch version of Pop Idol, and reached the last ten finalists. Yet he decided to quit the show, after refusing to sign the Idols contract, because it wasn't supposed to allow him to play his own songs and with his own band. For him and Intwine, however, it yielded a lot of publicity and a record deal with Dureco. Regarding Idols, Peterson later said in an interview: "The show has been a friend in court for us (Intwine), but has also been a millstone around our necks. Idols invested a lot in our notoriety and we are grateful for that. However, people relate us with a show that didn't bring any good. Be honest: that show flopped."
Their first single "Happy?" was released in February 2003 in the Netherlands
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...
and Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
and hit the third spot in the Dutch Top 40
Dutch Top 40
The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting...
. Their debut self-titled album
Intwine (album)
Intwine is the first studio album by Dutch band Intwine. It was released on October 3, 2003 by Dureco.-Track listing:#"Way Out" – 4:34#"Raven Claw" – 3:29#"Let Me Be" – 3:44#"Sorry" – 3:29#"Hello Again" – 4:07#"Obituary" – 3:23#"Today" – 6:03...
came out that same year on October 3 and spawned three more singles: "Way Out", "Get Outta My Head" and "Let Me Be". The band was nominated for the TMF Awards
TMF Awards
The TMF Awards are an annual television awards show broadcast live on TMF .The first Dutch TMF Awards were held in 1995, as a brand extension to the recently launched local Dutch music channel TMF. The show was very small and held in the company cafeteria...
and for an Edison Award.
In 2004 Intwine released the DVD/live album The P.U.R.E. Session, a registration of one of their live shows, for which the band was joined by percussionist Ferdinand van Duuren. The same year the band composed and recorded the song "Cruel Man" as soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
for the Dutch film De Dominee
The Preacher (film)
The Preacher is a 2004 Dutch thriller film about a drug lord named Klaas Donkers. The film is based on Bart Middelburg's biography of real-life drug lord Klaas Bruinsma....
(The Preacher). It was the first single of their second studio album Perfect
Perfect (album)
Perfect is the second studio album by Dutch band Intwine. It was released on September 27, 2004 by V2.-Track listing:#"Slow Down" – 3:25#"Beautiful" – 3:13#"Perfect" – 3:26#"Cruel Man" – 3:17#"You" – 4:52#"No Ones" – 4:31#"Dutty Step" – 3:58...
, released through V2 Records
V2 Records
V2 Records is a record label that is owned by Universal Music Group as of October 2007. The label was founded in 1996 by Richard Branson, five years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI....
on September 27, 2004. On March 19, 2005, Perfect was awarded with the 3FM Award for best album. "Cruel Man" reached seventh position in the Dutch Top 40 and even became number one in the Turkish charts. Drummer Erwin Gielen left the band in 2004 and was shortly replaced by Jeremy Bonarriba. In December 2004 Rocheteau Mahuwallan became Intwine's drummer.
In 2005 Intwine was nominated again for an Edison Award. Intwine played at the Pinkpop
Pinkpop
Pinkpop Festival, or Pinkpop for short, is an annual festival held at Landgraaf, Netherlands. It is held annually on the Pentecost weekend...
festival on May 13 and also performed at Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
's MetroRock festival on June 25. The same summer guitarist Kevin Hissink left the band and Jon Symons, earlier playing in a heavy metal band called Primal Rage, became his permanent substitute.
Pyrrhic Victory, label issues and Rumshop Sessions (2006-2007)
In February 2006 the band visited the favelas of Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
and incorporated the impressions of this trip into the non-album single "Peace of Mind". They donated the single's sales profits to the Millennium Development Goals
Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals are eight international development goals that all 193 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015...
project.
Percussionist Ferdinand van Duuren left the band in 2006, due to personal and creative dissents.
Intwine wrote and recorded "Feel It" as the soundtrack for the 2006 movie Nachtrit (Nightrun), which also features Intwine's "For Goodness Sake". "Feel It" was also the first single of their third full-length album Pyrrhic Victory
Pyrrhic Victory (album)
Pyrrhic Victory is the third studio album by Dutch band Intwine. It was released on October 9, 2006 by V2.-Track listing:#"Jack in a Box" – 4:57#"Solo" – 3:33#"Cut Me Loose" – 4:41#"Cookie Jar" – 3:55#"Feel It" – 3:04#"For Goodness Sake" – 5:09...
, released on October 9, 2006. About the record, the band stated on their website:"Pyrrhic Victory was recorded with sound artist Gordon Groothedde, who also worked with Intwine on their previous albums. The result is the most impressive project so far. This is a dark record. Spare, without any filler or frills. The gloves are off in songs such as "Cut Me Loose", "For Goodness Sake" and "Solo". Disappointment and pain have seldom been conveyed so beautifully and at the same time as grippingly as they have on this third CD. Yet the record also conveys a genuine fighting spirit. Intwine is rocking harder and sounding more honest than ever."
Due to internal circumstances, record label V2
V2 Records
V2 Records is a record label that is owned by Universal Music Group as of October 2007. The label was founded in 1996 by Richard Branson, five years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI....
was not able to promote the album, resulting in the fact that Intwine was only able to sell CD's at their live shows, making that few copies of Pyrrhic Victory were sold. At that time the band was asked by German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
record label Tiefdruck-Musik, who were impressed after seeing one of Intwine's live shows, to sign to their label and to release Pyrrhic Victory also abroad of the Netherlands. However, V2 refused to drop Intwine's contract. Yet Intwine later did manage to leave V2.
In 2007, Intwine toured the Dutch theatres for the first time with The Acoustic Rumshop Sessions. With these shows Intwine returns to their Caribbean roots, playing their songs in styles such as reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
, bolero
Bolero
Bolero is a form of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.The term is also used for some art music...
, zouk
Zouk
Zouk is a style of rhythmic music originating from the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe & Martinique. Zouk means "party" or "festival" in the local Antillean Creole of French, although the word originally referred to, and is still used to refer to, a popular dance, based on the Polish dance, the...
, soca
Soca music
Soca is a style of music from Trinidad and Tobago. Soca is a musical development of traditional Trinidadian calypso, through loans from the 1960s onwards from predominantly black popular music....
and cumbia
Cumbia
Cumbia is a music genre popular across Latin America. The cumbia originated in the Caribbean coast of Colombia, where it is associated with an eponymous dance and has since spread as far as Mexico and Argentina...
. For this tour Intwine was joined by percussionist Roël Calister of Orange Grove.
As the soundtrack for the video game Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed
Assassin's Creed is an award-winning historical third person, stealth action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. The bulk of the game takes place during the Third Crusade, with the plot revolving around a sect known as the Secret Order of...
Intwine released the non-album single "The Chosen (Assassin's Creed)" featuring Brainpower
Brainpower
Gertjan Mulder, professionally known as Brainpower, is a bi-lingual rapper, who writes, records and performs in both the English as well as the Dutch language. The Dutch audience mainly knows him as a Dutch language rapper. He was born in Belgium and grew up in the Netherlands. He started making...
in November 2007.
Kingdom of Contradiction and international ambitions (2008-2009)
Intwine signed to GermanGermany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
record label Tiefdruck-Musik in 2008 to start recording their new album. During the recording process bassist Touché Eusebius and drummer Rocheteau Mahuwallan left the band and were replaced by Pablo Penton and Eric Spring in 't Veld respectively.
Intwine released their fourth studio album Kingdom of Contradiction
Kingdom of Contradiction
Kingdom of Contradiction is the fourth studio album by Dutch band Intwine. It was released on August 14, 2009 by German record label Tiefdruck-Musik/Universal.-Track listing:All songs written by Intwine, except where noted.#"Cookie Jar" – 5:02...
on August 14, 2009. The album is their first international release and contains fifteen songs that appeared on previous albums which Intwine re-recorded to present themselves abroad of the Netherlands. 3VOOR12
3VOOR12
3VOOR12 is a multimedia platform of the Netherlands Public Broadcasting VPRO for alternative pop.3VOOR12 has 2 digital television channels , different radio channels ranging from punk, Roots and Alternative rock to metal), radioprograms on 3FM, a website and a weekly live event...
wrote that the band had given the songs a nu metal
Nu metal
Nu metal is a subgenre of heavy metal. It is a fusion genre which combines elements of heavy metal with other genres, including grunge and hip hop...
twist and sounded heavier, harsher and darker than before on this album. Comparisons were made to alternative metal
Alternative metal
Alternative metal is a genre of alternative rock and heavy metal that gained popularity in the early 1990s. Most notably, alternative metal bands are characterized by heavy guitar riffs and experimental approaches to heavy music.-Origins:...
bands such as Deftones
Deftones
Deftones are an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, founded in 1988. The band consists of Chino Moreno , Stephen Carpenter , Chi Cheng , Frank Delgado , and Abe Cunningham . Currently Sergio Vega is standing in on bass while Cheng recovers from a car accident...
, Incubus
Incubus (band)
Incubus is an American rock band from Calabasas, California. The band was formed in 1991 by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while enrolled in high school and later expanded to include bassist Alex "Dirk Lance" Katunich, and Gavin "DJ Lyfe" Koppell;...
, P.O.D.
P.O.D.
Payable on Death is an American Christian metal band formed in 1992. The band's line-up consists of vocalist Sonny Sandoval, drummer Wuv Bernardo, guitarist Marcos Curiel, and bassist Traa Daniels. Their Christian faith is an important part of their music.They have released seven studio albums and...
, Taproot
Taproot
A taproot is an enlarged, somewhat straight to tapering plant root that grows vertically downward. It forms a center from which other roots sprout laterally.Plants with taproots are difficult to transplant...
, Godsmack
Godsmack
Godsmack is an American heavy metal band from Lawrence, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. The band is composed of founder, frontman and songwriter Sully Erna, guitarist Tony Rombola, bassist Robbie Merrill, and drummer Shannon Larkin...
and Ill Niño
Ill Niño
Ill Niño is an American six-piece metal band from New Jersey founded in 1998. The band has sold over 3.3 million units worldwide; they have 5 studio albums and 10 music videos.-History:...
. Beside of the fifteen "old" tracks, the album also contained one "new" song, namely a cover of The Police
The Police
The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For the vast majority of their history, the band consisted of Sting , Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland...
's "Walking on the Moon
Walking on the Moon
"Walking on the Moon" is a 1979 song by The Police, from their second album, Reggatta de Blanc. The song was The Police's second number-one hit single in the United Kingdom. It reached number nine in Australia but did not chart in the United States...
", featuring Belgian vocalist Sarah Bettens
Sarah Bettens
Sarah Bettens is the lead singer of the Belgian band K's Choice. Sarah and her brother Gert Bettens are the two popular faces of the band. She is known for her enigmatic, smoky voice. The band is popular in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, and had toured in the U.S...
.
With their new sound Intwine opened for American alt-metal band Sevendust
Sevendust
Sevendust is an American heavy metal band from Atlanta, Georgia. Formed in 1994 by bassist Vince Hornsby, drummer Morgan Rose and guitarist John Connolly. After their first demo, lead vocalist Lajon Witherspoon and guitarist Clint Lowery joined the group...
on June 1, 2009 for their gig in Utrecht
Utrecht (city)
Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...
and four times for Welsh "ragga-metal" band Skindred
Skindred
Skindred is a Welsh rock band from Newport. The band was formed in 1998 following the disbandment of vocalist Benji Webbe's previous band, Dub War. Skindred's musical style mixes alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and reggae...
in February and March 2010.
Rumshop Sessions EP and breakup (2010)
As a result of their Rumshop Sessions live shows, Intwine released an EP titled The Original Acoustic Rumshop Sessions Vol I on June 19, 2010, which contained studio and live recordings of songs played at those shows.On October 16, 2010, Intwine announced via its website that "the curtain had fallen". The motives of their breakup were not notified.
Musical style and influences
Intwine's musical style has been considered a fusionFusion (music)
A fusion genre is music that combines two or more styles. For example, rock and roll originally developed as a fusion of blues, gospel and country music. The main characteristics of fusion genres are variations in tempo, rhythm, i a sometimes the use of long musical "journeys" that can be divided...
of rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
with reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
, latin, and hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
influences. Troughout the years and with several line-up changes, the band shifted from the pop rock
Pop rock
Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...
of their debut album Intwine (2003) and second album Perfect (2004) to a heavier and darker sound containing more heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
elements on the albums Pyrrhic Victory (2006) and Kingdom of Contradiction (2009).
Beside their regular shows, Intwine also played The Rumshop Sessions, in which they performed their songs acoustic and in Caribbean styles such as reggae
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
, bolero
Bolero
Bolero is a form of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.The term is also used for some art music...
, zouk
Zouk
Zouk is a style of rhythmic music originating from the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe & Martinique. Zouk means "party" or "festival" in the local Antillean Creole of French, although the word originally referred to, and is still used to refer to, a popular dance, based on the Polish dance, the...
, soca
Soca music
Soca is a style of music from Trinidad and Tobago. Soca is a musical development of traditional Trinidadian calypso, through loans from the 1960s onwards from predominantly black popular music....
and cumbia
Cumbia
Cumbia is a music genre popular across Latin America. The cumbia originated in the Caribbean coast of Colombia, where it is associated with an eponymous dance and has since spread as far as Mexico and Argentina...
. A collection of these songs were captured on their EP The Original Acoustic Rumshop Sessions Vol I (2010).
Regarding their influences, the band has been cited to have been inspired by musical groups ranging from heavy metal to reggae such as Metallica
Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...
, Bob Marley & The Wailers
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Bob Marley & The Wailers were a Jamaican reggae, ska and rocksteady band formed by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963. Additional members were Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, Cherry Smith and Aston and Carlton Barrett...
, Sublime
Sublime (band)
Sublime was an American ska punk band from Long Beach, California, formed in 1988. The band's line-up, unchanged until their breakup, consisted of Bradley Nowell , Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh . Michael "Miguel" Happoldt also contributed on a few Sublime songs, such as "New Thrash." Lou Dog, Nowell's...
, Ozomatli
Ozomatli
Ozomatli is a seven to ten piece band playing primarily Latin, hip hop, and rock music, formed in 1995 in Los Angeles. They are known both for their vocal activist viewpoints and their wide array of musical styles - including salsa, jazz, funk, reggae, rap, and others.In a 2007 NPR interview, band...
, Sevendust
Sevendust
Sevendust is an American heavy metal band from Atlanta, Georgia. Formed in 1994 by bassist Vince Hornsby, drummer Morgan Rose and guitarist John Connolly. After their first demo, lead vocalist Lajon Witherspoon and guitarist Clint Lowery joined the group...
, Krosfyah
Krosfyah
Krosfyah is a Soca band from the Caribbean island of Barbados.They are best known for their hits "Road Jam", "Pump Me Up", and "Sak Passe". Formed in 1989 by Edwin Yearwood, Krosfyah is one of the most known and successful Soca bands of the Caribbean....
, Kassav'
Kassav'
Kassav' is a Francophone zouk band formed in Paris in 1979. The core members of the band are Jocelyne Béroard, Jacob Desvarieux, Jean-Philippe Marthély, Patrick St. Eloi, Jean-Claude Naimro, Claude Vamur and Georges Décimus...
, Collie Buddz
Collie Buddz
Collie Buddz is a Bermudian reggae and dancehall artist best known for his single "Come Around". Although born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was raised in Bermuda. He performed on Shaggy's 2007 album Intoxication on the track "Mad Mad World". In 2008, he performed the song "SOS" on WWE The Music,...
, Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters is an American alternative rock band originally formed in 1994 by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of his previous band. The band got its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War...
, Audioslave
Audioslave
Audioslave was an American rock supergroup that formed in Los Angeles, California in 2001. It consisted of former Soundgarden lead singer/rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell and the former instrumentalists of Rage Against the Machine: Tom Morello , Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk...
, A Perfect Circle
A Perfect Circle
A Perfect Circle is an American rock supergroup formed in 1999 by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan. The original incarnation of the band also included Paz Lenchantin on bass, Troy Van Leeuwen on guitar, and Tim Alexander on drums...
, Incubus
Incubus (band)
Incubus is an American rock band from Calabasas, California. The band was formed in 1991 by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while enrolled in high school and later expanded to include bassist Alex "Dirk Lance" Katunich, and Gavin "DJ Lyfe" Koppell;...
, Deftones
Deftones
Deftones are an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, founded in 1988. The band consists of Chino Moreno , Stephen Carpenter , Chi Cheng , Frank Delgado , and Abe Cunningham . Currently Sergio Vega is standing in on bass while Cheng recovers from a car accident...
, Taproot
Taproot
A taproot is an enlarged, somewhat straight to tapering plant root that grows vertically downward. It forms a center from which other roots sprout laterally.Plants with taproots are difficult to transplant...
, The Tea Party
The Tea Party
The Tea Party is a Canadian rock band with blues, progressive rock, Indian and Middle Eastern influences, dubbed "Moroccan roll" by the media. Active throughout the 1990s up until 2005 when the band broke up, The Tea Party released eight albums on EMI Music Canada, selling 1.6 million records...
, Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready...
, Soundgarden
Soundgarden
Soundgarden is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by singer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto...
, Sinch
Sinch
Sinch is an American alternative rock band formed in 1994 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.-History:The alternative rock quartet Sinch formed in 1994 while its members were attending different high schools in Doylestown and Willow Grove in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania...
, Nirvana
Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
, Silverchair
Silverchair
Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...
, Maná
Maná
Maná is a pop rock band from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, whose career has spanned more than three decades. They have earned three Grammy Awards, seven Latin Grammy Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards Latin America, five Premios Juventud awards, nine Billboard Latin Music Awards and 13 Premios Lo...
and Jarabe de Palo
Jarabe de Palo
Jarabe de Palo is a Latin rock group from Spain led by Pau Donés , singer, songwriter, and guitarist.- History :Pau Donés, born in Montanuy Huesca, Aragon and raised in Barcelona, worked for various groups before being able to take on his current project, Jarabe de Palo. He began at age 15 with his...
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Band members
- Roger PetersonRoger Peterson (musician)Roger Francis Peterson is an Aruban-Dutch musician. He is known as the lead vocalist for the former rock band Intwine, which disbanded in October 2010. He also was a competitor on the first season of Dutch talent show Idols....
– vocals (2001–2010) - Jacob Streefkerk – guitar (2001–2010)
- Jon Symons – guitar (2005–2010)
- Eric Spring in 't Veld – drums (2008–2010)
Former members
- Erwin Gielen – drums (2001–2003)
- Jeremy Bonarriba – drums (2003–2004)
- Kevin Hissink – guitar (2001–2005)
- Ferdinand van Duuren – percussion (2004–2006)
- Edsel "Touché" Eusebius – bass guitar (2001–2008)
- Rocheteau Mahuwallan – drums (2004–2008)
- Pablo Penton – bass guitar (2008–2009)
Touring members
- Roël Calister – percussion (2006–2007)
- Quincell Adolphin – bass guitar (2009–2010)
- Rik Kraak – bass guitar (2009–2010)
Studio albums
- IntwineIntwine (album)Intwine is the first studio album by Dutch band Intwine. It was released on October 3, 2003 by Dureco.-Track listing:#"Way Out" – 4:34#"Raven Claw" – 3:29#"Let Me Be" – 3:44#"Sorry" – 3:29#"Hello Again" – 4:07#"Obituary" – 3:23#"Today" – 6:03...
(Dureco, 2003) - PerfectPerfect (album)Perfect is the second studio album by Dutch band Intwine. It was released on September 27, 2004 by V2.-Track listing:#"Slow Down" – 3:25#"Beautiful" – 3:13#"Perfect" – 3:26#"Cruel Man" – 3:17#"You" – 4:52#"No Ones" – 4:31#"Dutty Step" – 3:58...
(V2V2 RecordsV2 Records is a record label that is owned by Universal Music Group as of October 2007. The label was founded in 1996 by Richard Branson, five years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI....
, 2004) - Pyrrhic VictoryPyrrhic Victory (album)Pyrrhic Victory is the third studio album by Dutch band Intwine. It was released on October 9, 2006 by V2.-Track listing:#"Jack in a Box" – 4:57#"Solo" – 3:33#"Cut Me Loose" – 4:41#"Cookie Jar" – 3:55#"Feel It" – 3:04#"For Goodness Sake" – 5:09...
(V2, 2006) - Kingdom of ContradictionKingdom of ContradictionKingdom of Contradiction is the fourth studio album by Dutch band Intwine. It was released on August 14, 2009 by German record label Tiefdruck-Musik/Universal.-Track listing:All songs written by Intwine, except where noted.#"Cookie Jar" – 5:02...
(Tiefdruck-Musik/UniversalUniversal Music GroupUniversal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...
, 2009)
Singles
- "Happy?" (Dureco, 2003)
- "Get Outta My Head" (Dureco, 2003)
- "Way Out" (Dureco, 2003)
- "Let Me Be" (Dureco, 2004)
- "Cruel Man" (Dureco, 2004)
- "Slow Down" (V2, 2005)
- "You" (V2, 2005)
- "Peace of Mind" (V2, 2006)
- "Feel It" (V2, 2006)
- "Solo" (V2/INterTWINE, 2007)
- "Cut Me Loose" (V2/INterTWINE, 2008)
- "Perfect" (Tiefdruck-Musik/INterTWINE, 2009)
Albums
| Title | Date of release | Highest position | Number of weeks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intwine | 03-10-2003 | 17 | 21 |
| Perfect | 27-09-2004 | 18 | 28 |
| Pyrrhic Victory | 14-10-2006 | 43 | 4 |
| Kingdom of Contradiction | 14-08-2009 | 71 | 1 |
Singles
| Year | Single | Album | Peak Position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch Top 40 | Dutch Top 100 | |||
| 2003 | "Happy?" | Intwine | 3 | 4 |
| "Way Out" | 22 | 24 | ||
| "Get Outta My Head" | 32 | 44 | ||
| 2004 | "Let Me Be" | - | 50 | |
| "Cruel Man" | Perfect | 7 | 11 | |
| 2005 | "Slow Down" | - | 56 | |
| "You" | 38 | 24 | ||
| 2006 | "Peace of Mind" | non-album single | - | 84 |
| "Feel It" | Pyrrhic Victory | - | 24 | |
| 2007 | "The Chosen (Assassin's Creed)" (ft. Brainpower Brainpower Gertjan Mulder, professionally known as Brainpower, is a bi-lingual rapper, who writes, records and performs in both the English as well as the Dutch language. The Dutch audience mainly knows him as a Dutch language rapper. He was born in Belgium and grew up in the Netherlands. He started making... ) |
non-album single | - | 43 |
| 2008 | "Solo" | Pyrrhic Victory | - | 90 |