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The Transformers, a short documentary

Meet the band in this mini-docu made by Thomas de Boer! With excerpts from our concert in WORM, rehearsals while ‘undercover in UBIK’, and of course interviews with our band members.

Our first videoclip: Caterpillar

Recorded in March 2024 in New Grounds, taken from our EP New Grounds Sessions. Caterpillar, a song about real experiences of transformation.Listen to our full EP on your favourite streaming platform

Wereldvluchtelingendag at Theater Rotterdam

JUN 20, 2023

My Name Is NeeDit lied schreven we ter gelegenheid van Wereldvluchtelingendag op 20/6/2023. We speelden het live in Theater Rotterdam in de talkshow van Rotterdam Late Night. De avond werd mede georganiseerd door onze partner De Pauluskerk en ging specifiek over de ervaringen van ongedocumenteerden. Het lied is gebaseerd op de verhalen, ervaringen en klanken […]

Now on Spotify: New Grounds Sessions

From September 2023 until March 2024 we worked on new material in New Grounds. We welcomed new members to the group from Pauluskerk, Pluspunt and Ontmoeting, bringing together ideas, perspectives, stories, melodies and rhythms in new songs. This resulted in a showcase concert in New Grounds on December 3rd 2023. In March 2024 we recorded […]

Dies Natalis 2023 at Erasmus University

De Erasmus Universiteit speelt als wetenschappelijke instelling een cruciale rol bij het vinden van slimme, duurzame oplossingen voor ‘grote vraagstukken’ als armoede, sociale ongelijkheid, klimaatverandering, pandemieën en mensenrechten.Tijdens de 110e Dies Natalis speelde The Transformers enkele nummers.

Stadgesprek Dakloosheid at Bibliotheektheater

Dec 20, 2022

On December 20th The Transformers took part in ‘Stadsgesprek: Homeless in Rotterdam’. An evening organized by our partner De Pauluskerk in ‘Het Bibliotheektheater’. An interactive discussion evening aiming to open up new dialogue about the need for people to have a safe place to live and sleep, as the beginning of a solution. The band […]

Undercover in UBIK at WORM

Nov 2022 - Jan 2023

Every Tuesday in November, The Transformers meets up in WORM to write new songs of the city, combining the vocabularies of people who know best what the city is about. This first project runs throughout the months of November, and December 2022 and January 2023, ending with a first show in UBIK on January 24.

Listen on Soundcloud

Check out the live recordings from our concert at WORM in January 23!