32
2024, 17-19 mAY
![](https://www.londoncalling.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/57-LondonCalling-TheDare-Zaterdag-HIGHRES-SabrineBaakman-2500x1667.jpg)
THE DARE
Nobody was prepared for this. One artist and his microphone turning the entire venue upside down. The Dare pulls out one banger after another and manages to draw a peak of energy from the audience even at 1 AM after a long day with no fewer than 20 acts. Our eyes are tired, but we can’t seem to take them off The Dare. Seductive, energetic, irresistible. I don’t know if it was because it was the closing act of Saturday and we all already had a happy glow on our cheeks after a whole weekend, or if it was because the short set (only half an hour!) exploded from start to finish – but for those 30 minutes, Paradiso was a nightclub in New York in the 2010s, the heyday of indiesleaze. What a time to be alive.
Photo: Sabrine Baakman
Words: Charlie Rombach
&&&
17 + 18 May in Paradiso
Abby Sage – Adwaith – Allegra Krieger – Angélica Garcia – Been Stellar – Being Dead – C.O.F.F.I.N • The Dare – Divorce – Do Nothing – Eaves Wilder – Florry – Gut Health – HotWax – Jack Valero – King Isis – Mali Velasquez – Malice K – Mali Velasquez – Mary In The Junkyard – Miss Tiny – Mock Media – The Mysterines – Night Beats – Psymon Spine – Radio Free Alice – Sam Akpro – UCHE YARA – Upchuck • Vacations – Viji – Willie J Healey
19 MAY IN TOLHUISTUIN
ELEPHANT STONE – Frost Children – SWEEPING PROMISES – THE BELAIR LIP BOMBS