Carol Lee van Dyk

Love is a flower
You gotta let it grow

Street art poster by an artist called D7606 with a pug holding a red crayon in its mouth and a red heart tag around its neck

love is the answer

(Street art by D7606 in Amsterdam Noord)

#Amsterdam #streetart #D7606 #graffiti #poster

A photo of Peter - guitar player of the Dutch band Bettie Serveert - standing in front of several colorful photos made by the Dutch artist Erwin Olaf, who passed away 2 years ago.

Peter Visser @ Erwin Olaf expo at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Great expo, btw.

#Amsterdam #ErwinOlaf #museum #bettieserveert

YouTube video by Jesse Welles Tropical Fuck Storm - You Let My Tyres Down

mind blown

#jessewelles #tropicalfuckstorm #youletmytiresdown #acoustic #cover
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Black & white photo of 2 men in a studio, Stephan is sitting behind a computer, Herman is playing bass guitar in front of a drumkit

hanging out with Stephan & Herman (our drummer and bass player)

#bettieserveert

It was an honor to have met you, dear Conrad, thank you for all your kindness ❤️

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A sunny afternoon in a street in the city center of Amsterdam, with trees and bikes

on my bike, doing groceries on a sunny afternoon

#Amsterdam

photo of a brown/orange tremolo guitar pedal with 3 knobs on it

new toy 🎸

#guitarpedals #tremolopedal #tremolo

a black & white cat with light green eyes, being completely oblivious of what’s going on in the world, is sitting on the kitchen table and staring into my camera saying “sup”. Peter Visser is sitting in the background. Btw, this is not my cat, it belongs to a friend of mine. It's also not my kitchen.

#notmycat #black&whitecats #cathurday #sup #cat

The first ‘bowl’ should be served late January, the rest of the menu will hopefully follow later next year 😉

Thank you so much!

A woman with long blond hair, wearing glasses and a striped t-shirt, sitting on a bed with a laptop in front of her. There's a mirror in the back and curtains

noodling

#bettieserveert #noodling #recording

3 members of Bettie Serveert, Peter Visser (wearing a cowboy hat), Gino Geudens and me standing outside in front of a building looking upwards to the sky

Dreamaniacs (acoustic), recorded live in 2005 with 2 mics with Peter & me on guitar & our Belgium drummer Gino 'Gigi' Geudens on backing vocals & shaker during an interview at a radio station in Seattle. No click track, no autotune, yes mistakes ;)
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lots of boats on the river of Amsterdam and in the far distance there are some tall ships and buildings

a woman wearing a white and blue striped t-shirt, sunglasses, blond hair. There's a tall ship behind her called the A.R.A. Libertad from Argentina

photo of a bold man wearing glasses and a blue t-shirt & a woman with long blond hair wearing sunglasses, there's a boat on the river behind them and some tall buildings in the far distance

Of course Peter and I had to visit Sail today, we went there on our bicycles. Being a tourist in my own city is awesome & I love tall ships. Somewhere, in some alternative reality, I’m probably a sailor ;)

#Sail #Amsterdam #tallships #staycation

A sea green handheld cell phone from 1999, with a light blue background

My 1st cell phone, a Pocketline Swing 200, from 1999. Loved the colour. You could only save 10 text messages, so it would keep you in a constant pick-and-choose mode

Defensive posturing from a wild hamster.

De favoriete plaathoes van Bettie Serveert: 'Nothing But Thieves' In de speciale zomereditie van OOR vragen we 33 kenners, liefhebbers en visionairs naar hún favoriete plaathoes aller tijden. Vandaag: Bettie Serveert. De band kwam voort uit De Artsen, ooit opgericht...

Peter and Carol did a short Dutch interview with the OOR magazine about their favorite album covers from other bands:
oor.nl/news/de-favo...

Héél deftig ;)

Peter Visser at the Paleis op de Dam (Royal Palace) in Amsterdam

Peter Visser on staycation at the Paleis op de Dam (Royal Palace) in Amsterdam

A photo of a marble statue made by Artus Quellinus of a person with snakes on their head (NOT Medusa), one snake pinching the right cheek, the person seems to be screaming. I love being a tourist in my own city!

Visiting the first retrospective of Artus Quellinus (Artus Quellijn de Oude 1609-1668) at the Paleis op de Dam (Royal Palace) in Amsterdam. He made beautiful marble statues, this one is called 'Jealousy’. Amazing how he was able to carve such details, like that snake pinching a person’s cheek

Dankjewel dat je helemaal naar Venlo wilde afkomen! Wij hebben Herman natuurlijk ook gemist ;)

a colour photo taken from the front of the stage, with floor monitors & light rigs, looking out at a big empty tent and a mixing board in the back with 4 tiny people

an hour before the festival gates were openend @ Zomerparkfeest in Venlo on Thursday 7 August, where we played with Bettie Serveert

colour photo of 4 musicians on a stage, lot's of yellow lights, 3 men and a woman.

It was great to see all of you at the Zomerparkfeest festival in Venlo on Thursday!/Het was geweldig om jullie allemaal te zien op het Zomerparkfeest in Venlo afgelopen donderdag! XO, the Betties (photo by Janneke Michels)

A cartoon drawing of Bettie Serveert: a woman with long hair and a guitar & 3 men

an article in The New Yorker about Bettie Serveert and Juliana Hatfield playing at the Central Park SummerStage in NYC on 23 July 1994

My scrapbook clippings from The New Yorker: on 23 July ’94 Bettie Serveert & Juliana Hatfield played at the Central Park SummerStage @ NYC in front of 2000 people in the pouring rain. To those who were there despite the foul weather, you were awesome!

This is how it looks when a Sea Anemone runs away from a Starfish.

A gif of a woman with long blond hair and a striped t-shirt, holding her hand up with the text 'Ta! = No. 5' written on it

Ta! is nr 5 in the Dutch indieXL charts ❤️
www.free40.nl/charts/indie...
1 TEXOPRINT - Flag
2 THE GIANT LOW - Care a lot
3 HUNK - Upset
4 QUEEN’S PLEASURE- Eva
5 BETTIE SERVEERT - Ta!
6 MY BABY - Siren song
7 MOONRADIO - Beautiful
8 TALKS MAKE DO - Jules
9 LEAVERS- Trenches
10 SPRAWLER FU - Something

On 7 aug we’re playing @ Zomerparkfeest in Venlo at 7:45 PM. It’s a free festival & of course we’re playing Palomine & our new single Ta!, we hope to see you there! (photo by Philip Harder)

On 7 aug we’re playing @ Zomerparkfeest in Venlo at 7:45 PM.
It’s a free festival & of course we’re playing Palomine & our new single Ta!, we hope to see you there!
(photo by Philip Harder)
www.zomerparkfeest.nl/programma/be...

It is sad. Reg the in-store, I’ve asked Peter and he said maybe ’94/’95? Tbh, we’ve done a lot of in-stores in the past 34 years, we're sorry that we don’t remember all the details