Abdomen

Recent FatCat signings, Abdomen, are a Netherlands power trio, based in Leeuwarden, Frisia, up in the country’s North. Sometimes described in the Dutch press as “post-grunge garage”, they themselves are keen to avoid any pigeon-holes or genre labels.

The band consists of Roel Meijer on drums, Ate Kamsma on bass, and Peter van Beets on vocals and guitar. All come from families passionate about music, but only Roel received any training in the traditional sense. Roel and Peter are old school friends, who reconnected some years after graduation with the idea of making music. The subsequent jams resulted in Abdomen, a name that they joke reflects the directness of their approach and attack - a “gut feeling”.