Sophie Straat – Punk & Pluche

Sophie Straat

Chances are you know Sophie Straat from her energetic live performances. Over the past four years, she has toured the country with sold-out club tours and has played at festivals from Into The Great Wide Open to Best Kept Secret and from Wildeburg to Lowlands.

And then of course there is Sophie Straat's Protestfest: a celebration of protest and activism, two years in a row in a completely sold-out Paradiso. Wherever she goes, Sophie Straat impresses with protest music that ranges from tearjerkers to pop hits to punk. But no matter the genre; always with the message first and social problems as a theme.

Punk & Pluche

Sophie Straat is making Punk & Pluche especially for Het Concertgebouw. She says: 'I've always been bad at making choices. An ex once said to me: you can't always have everything. I thought that was shitty advice and I decided that I could.

In retrospect, he was right about something. I'm never really good at anything, never have absolute attention and am never really there one hundred percent. That's how I was too mainstream for the underground and too crusty for the pop world. And that's how Sophie Straat Live in Het Concertgebouw came about. We want everything, to belong everywhere and at the same time keep falling by the wayside'. Also see the page with information about amplified concerts.