Indie rock, alternative rock, modern rock

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Brimming with darkly sweet pop hooks, Cafebar 401's music blends Bowie-esque vocal presence with danceable grooves firmly rooted in Euro-rock. Their relentlessly contemporary sound calls to mind Coldplay, Masters of Reality, Muse, Beck, Soulwax, Radiohead, and Queens of the Stone Age, but Cafebar 401 brings something else entirely of their own to the party. Don't miss it.

Cafebar 401 leader Tije Oortwijn grew up listening to the Black Crowes, the Rolling Stones, and Masters of Reality. He first piloted grunge-driven bands during the mid-'90s. Gradually he absorbed his influences and concocted the shadowy pop confections of Cafebar 401. Combining the roar of alternative rock with the drum-and-bass of N.E.R.D., Timbaland, Daft Punk, Cassius, and Outkast, Cafebar 401 evokes a hipper Foo Fighters, a fun and funkier Bush.

Oortwijn is a songwriter first, a craftsman of guitar and studio.

He infuses his songs with a mix of celebration and sadness. "If the song isn't powerful," he says, "we throw it away."

Wampus Multimedia signed Cafebar 401 in March 2003. The U.S.-based indie label released the band's debut CD june 30 2004. This deal brought the band a lot of publicity, regional newspapers published interviews, there was a big article in dutch most important daily newspaper "De Telegraaf", a live performance at 3FM and even a special on
TV with SBS6.

Cafebar 401 gigged at many important venues in the Netherlands, like 013, Atak, Hedon, Paard, Vera, Lantaarn and Effenaar. Also on many festivals like Dauwpopfestival, IO-festival, Virus festival, Bevrijdingsfestival, 4-daagse festival.

The first single I Need to know has got lots of attention in the Netherlands from national radio en even 3 weeks medium rotation of the clip on MTV. Reviews of the debut CD were great. International airplay already started with Lord Litter, JRRI radio, Cyberstorm radio, WSVN radio, WDYN radio and more.

End 2004 Cafebar 401 received 2 nominations on www.groovevolt.com between big names like Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, The Libertines and more. National Dutch TV (RTL) even made an item with Cafebar.

Jan 2005 Cafebar 401 performed very successful at the prestigious Eurosonic festival. This brings the band airplay on national 3FM radio, live perfomances in important radio programs, gigs at important festivals, several interviews
and more, much more.

In 2006 Cafebar 401 toured in England, did gigs in Belgium and Germany, toured with USA based bands Brazztree and Boatzz and finally decided end of 2006 to stop touring.

June 2007 they released "Blame The Villain"