From behind the misted windows in a battered sailors’ tavern, ‘Het Bloedvergiet’ (The Massacre) music can always be heard, invariably live. Musicians and other riff-raff from all corners of the world alight on this watering hole and let their instruments do the talking. Each day a different hotchpotch ensemble pipes up. Every soul is welcome and anyone can play anything. Although there is one rule: someone has to die in every song. Preferably premeditated…

Flip Noorman and his impromptu band, aptly called ‘De Moordmannen’ (The Murderous Men) present a gruesome and hilarious set of self-penned murder ballads, sprinkled with some traditional folksongs around the same theme. In addition to partner Vera van der Bie (violin/vocals), members of the Amsterdams Andalusian Orchestra: Mehmet Polat (ud) and Alper Kekeç (percussion) will also join. It will be a r rough night, choc-a-bloc with insane sing-alongs, pub fights, characters who take the law into their own hands, sleepwalkers, and violent deaths that explode with a zest for life.

 “Earlier, Flip was totally convincing as Odysseus in De Sirenen (O.2021) and as Nienke Nasserian’s counterpart in First Dates (O.2022). In Moordballades, once again he shows his versatile narrative and musical qualities.” – Hans Blik, managing director O.