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Who are you? Tell us about your band, your genre and your members!
We are RedPrint, a rock band from the Netherlands. We wouldn’t know what specific subgenre we would be in. And we don’t really care either. Our band members are Selinde Baar (vocals and violin), Ronald Koeken (guitar), Rick Amiabel (drums) and Milan van Lien (bass guitar).

Watch this short video to meet the band!

Tell us about your career so far.
Milan: I used to play in another band (I was the bass player), but that band collapsed in 2012. So, I asked the rhythm guitarist and the lead guitarist if they would join me to form a new band. We searched for a drummer, and the two guitar players knew a girl from a local bar who sang karaoke very well. Thus, “The Plan” (the original name of the band) was formed. The plan was to be a blues band, playing Chicago and Texas blues. However, we got our first gig pretty soon, so we played what we knew. Shortly after, a second gig turned us into a cover band.

Fast forward to (I think) 2017: our lead guitarist decided he could not combine his work with the band anymore, so we searched for a replacement. After a short detour, we got Ronald as our lead guitarist. As we rehearsed to get our set back with the new guitarist, we felt we could get back to gigs, but our singer decided she didn’t want to continue. So now we were without a singer. This was a longer search; we had several guest singers and almost had a new one, but she decided she could not continue either. Finally, Selinde found our ad, and we finally found our new singer.

Fast forward again to 2020, and COVID hit. 2019 was a great year; we did a lot of gigs, and we were ready to get ourselves out into the venues for real. But lockdowns and COVID rules had us down once again. During this time, our rhythm guitarist and singer did a little project. “Stop Running” was made; on a computer, Selinde did the vocals, and at home, we all thought about what we could do with it. Our drummer sent a drum part, I came up with a bassline, and Ronald had to do the solo. However, because it was made on a computer originally, there was a synthesizer part in it. So, our rhythm guitarist got himself a synthesizer, and after the lockdowns (or in-between a couple), we started working on “Immersion.” Soon after that, “Herd” came to be, and we realized we needed to rethink “Stop Running.” That track was slow and a bit boring compared to the next two songs, so we spiced it up a bit. You can still hear that it’s a softer kind of track now, but it fits.

Fast forward one last time to August 2022: three tracks were ready, and we wanted another so we could record it as an EP. The first three were heavily influenced by our guitarist/synthesizer player. But it all came together as a band. We all wrote our own parts based on the ideas that formed. Now we all had ideas, and in a rehearsal where he could not make it, we set up two new tracks. One was already in progress, and one was new. But the direction we took on it was something different from his views. After a couple of months, in late 2022, he decided our views were too different and, after a decade, he left the band.

Again, a major setback: three tracks done and two concepts, but a band member down. How were we going to replace a band member who did synthesizer in two tracks and rhythm guitar in the other? So, we decided not to replace him. The lead guitarist also does rhythm, and the synthesizer is replaced with violin. Luckily, Selinde can play it very well. Thus, one of the concepts became “Telephone,” and shortly after, we recorded it. “Colour Me Insane” was just there. I came up with a bassline, and this progressed very fast. We didn’t think it was complete, but it was also too good not to record.

After we released the EP, we changed our name because there are so many bands named “The Plan” or similar names on streaming services. It was necessary. I took control of the socials and stumbled into the community. vox + stix and Paul Harwood shared our profile, and the rest is history.

How would you describe your sound to a four-year-old?
Milan: That’s a tough one. I wouldn’t even know how to describe it to an adult or even a musical expert.

Now elaborate on that…if you’d like.
Milan: Because we don’t hold ourselves to any specific subgenre it’s hard to give a short answer to this. We have the idea to play what we like and just hope people will like what we play.

What’s your favorite album of all time?
Milan: Well, that is an impossible question for me personally…it could be “No Roots” by Faithless today and “Grand Funk (red album)” from Grand Funk Railroad tomorrow. And another the day after. Depends in the mood or the weather or how work went that day.

Ronald said “Sound of Madness” by Shinedown but thought it was just as impossible to make this choice, as did Rick and Selinde. 

What does musical success look like to you?
Milan: I guess play regular gigs, and personally I love the feedback we get from our music on the streaming services. But playing shows is what we love the most.

What is next for you?
Milan: At this moment we have nothing planned, but we will record some new songs soon. We will probably release it later this year. But we did not book the studio yet.

Where is the best place for people to follow you in order to stay up to date on all things RedPrint?
Milan: That would be Facebook. We are also on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok but Facebook is best for those things.

On FB – RedPrintband

Insta – redprintband

YouTube – redprintband

TikTok – redprintband

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