We can’t believe it’s exactly one year ago since we released our album “Deep Below”! 🐌 Still our favorite album so far but as we speak we are working on new songs. To be continued… 🎵
The Muziekgieterij Session we played at @bksfestival.bsky.social last summer is online now! 🎥 Watch it here. 👇
RATS ON RAFTS - Live at Best Kept Secret 2025 - Muziekgieterij Sessions
YouTube video by Muziekgieterij
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Our new single 🌹 Painting Roses 2025 is out now! 🎧 Stream it everywhere: ratsonrafts.lnk.to/PaintingRose... or watch the stop-motion visualiser ↓
Rats On Rafts - Painting Roses (Official Visualiser)
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🎉To mark the tenth anniversary of ‘Tape Hiss’, a limited edition run of 75 numbered cassette copies have been made (📼 cut from the original analogue masters, guaranteeing yet more glorious hiss). 🦓 ratsonrafts.lnk.to/TapeHiss
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Listen to Tape Hiss by Rats On Rafts.
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Watch the full #Rockpalast live session at Haldern Pop Festival now! 🌑🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfjm...
Session: Rats On Rafts | Haldern Pop Festival | 2025 | Rockpalast
YouTube video by WDR Rockpalast
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We played a live session for the legendary Rockpalast in a boiling hot studio 🔥 during Haldern Pop Festival in Germany last August! 🇩🇪 Winter songs in the middle of summer ❄️☀️ check out Japanese Medicine here 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFzz...
We’ve been fans for many years, so we are thrilled to announce: Plus Instruments will be joining us at the upcoming shows at de Muziekgieterij in Maastricht on the 28th of November and Fluor, Amersfoort on the on the 4th of December ! Tickets: ratsonrafts.com
Out now: @heavenmagazine.bsky.social published an interview with us about our new album & live shows! The interview took place just after we played a live session on the #Muziekgieterij stage at #BKS25
Exactly half a year ago we released our album Deep Below! 🐌 On our way to celebrate this anniversary at Haldern Pop Festival in Germany 🇩🇪 with two shows: 13:00 at the Jugendheim featuring @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social and at 18:00 in the Tonstudio Keusgen: Prost! 🍻
Looking forward to Haldern Pop next week w/ @ratsonrafts.bsky.social @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social, Mermaid Chunky and others
Announcement: the mighty @ratsonrafts.bsky.social and I continue our on-off collaboration at Haldern Pop, Thursday 7th August.
It’s a pleasure to announce our Deep Below tour will continue across the Netherlands with six new dates for this autumn! 🍂🐀
Yesterday was exactly 11 years ago we supported Echo & the Bunnymen at the Tivoli Oudegracht ! A magical night spent mostly chatting to @willsergeant.com Does anyone have some pictures of the event ?
Accompanying our last Deep Below show at Le CHAFF in Brussels 🇧🇪 next Monday (12 May) is a new interview (in Dutch) with the Belgian online platform Dansende Beren 🐻 Hope to see you there! www.dansendeberen.be/2025/05/07/i...
Interview Rats on Rafts: ‘Alles wat we doen en gedaan hebben, vereist aandacht’
Rats on Rafts is niet weg te denken uit de Nederlandse alternatieve scene. Met een duidelijk visie op hoe muziek moet worden gemaakt, én hoe het mag
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Absolutely thrilled to announce we are playing at Best Kept Secret !
After so many great nights in the UK and Holland, we will be on our way to France, Germany and Belgium for the next chapter of the tour! 🎶🔥 Starting at Le Sonic in Lyon 🎸 on Wednesday, after which we will play our first German show at Swamp in Freiburg! 🖤 Tickets & info: ratsonrafts.lnk.to/Tour
RATS ON RAFTS in EKKO Lees een nieuw artikel op broccoli.fm/rats-on-rafts/ Luister naar: Rats on Rafts - Japanese Medicine #ratsonrafts #ekko #utrecht #postpunk #newwave #live #livemusic #concert #broccolifm #sharethemusic 🥦
After two great nights at Effenaar and EKKO we are off to de @melkwegamsterdam.bsky.social for our last Dutch show of the ‘Deep Below’ album tour! 🎶 Doors at 20:00 still some tickets left! 🎟️ 📸 1: Truus de Groot- @ Effenaar 📸 2: @jacco.bsky.social - @ekko.nl
German tour for Rats On Rafts coming up next week! @ratsonrafts.bsky.social
This Friday we are playing at EKKO! Our album ‘Deep Below’ has a special connection with this venue. In 2021 we teamed up with Palmbomen for an in house residency and turned EKKO into an analog recording studio. One of that weeks creations Cashmere Carey was released on Ekko’s 35th anniversary LP.
3 shows down, three to go. 2 sold-out nights already—thank you all for coming to see us at Rotown, Vera and Merleyn! Next week, we’re back for the final 3 NL shows. Looking forward to seeing you there. 🎶 27 Mar Effenaar, 040 28 Mar Ekko, 030 29 Mar Melkweg, 020 Tickets: ratsonrafts.lnk.to/Tour
Recensie op de krenten uit de pop: dekrentenuitdepop.blogspot.com/2025/02/revi... De Rotterdamse band Rats on Rafts reproduceert op haar nieuwe album op prachtige wijze de postpunk en new wave uit de jaren 80 en heeft een album gemaakt dat in de jaren 80 zomaar mijn favoriete album had kunnen zijn.
Review: Rats on Rafts - Deep Below
De Rotterdamse band Rats on Rafts reproduceert op haar nieuwe album op prachtige wijze de postpunk en new wave uit de jaren 80 en heeft een ...
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Rats on Rafts uit Rotjeknor in een redelijk goed gevuld Vera Groningen.
Playing at Merleyn in Nijmegen on Saturday with Nouveau Vélo! 🚨 Only a handful of tickets left for this show‼️ 🎟️ Tickets & info: www.doornroosje.nl/event/rats-o...
Surprise announcement ! We are supporting Franz Ferdinand tonight at Paradiso! We are on at 19:15 ! 🏴🖤
🇳🇱 The Dutch dates of our Deep Below album tour all take place over the next month! 🐌 Starting in our beloved hometown at Rotterdam @rotown.nl (Just a few tickets left!) on Friday the 7th of March with Nouveau Vélo. 🙌 Tickets: ratsonrafts.lnk.to/Tour
@ratsonrafts.bsky.social doet tijdens hun tour Londen aan en wekt ontzag met een set vol nieuw stemmig werk. Wie op de oude hits hoopte, komt er bekaaid vanaf. #TheVictoriaDalston #london #review #concert #goldheart #richardjamesfoster muziscene.nl/2025/02/27/d...
De Rats in Londen: geconcentreerd, accuraat
The Victoria Dalston is een traditionele Engelse pub, een beetje in het noord-oosten van Londen. Bijzonder is dat in die pub, verborgen achter een boekenkast, een concertzaal is te vinden. Je loopt…
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UK Tour is over! A big thank you to everyone for coming out to see us 🙏 thank you to all the show promoters and all the great bands we played with!💐 Next up: Rotown, Rotterdam. It’s very close to selling out so make sure you get your tickets asap! 🎉 Tickets: shorturl.at/tX7Yt
Rats on Rafts - Vrijdag 7 maart 2025 - Rotown, Rotterdam
De Rotterdamse band Rats on Rafts speelt op vrijdag 7 maart een thuiswedstrijd in Rotown! Tip voor fans van The Fall en Joy Division.
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Thanks to Joy Richings for taking some amazing photos of @ratsonrafts.bsky.social Here's 4 for you to wet your whistle!
