Dead Neanderthals were due to celebrate their tenth anniversary at the 2020 edition of Roadburn Festival, with a series of special sets and collaborations that underlined exactly why the band are such an enduring and captivating fixture of the Dutch underground music scene. With those plans put on ice, for the time being at least, you’d be forgiven for thinking things had been quiet at Dead Neanderthals HQ. Quite the opposite…
The irrepressible duo are bursting with creative ideas and we knew they would be the perfect candidates for one of the brand new projects commissioned for Roadburn Redux 2021. Otto and René teamed up with Dutch singer-songwriter Aafke Romeijn and Jonge Woudloper, one of the musicians in Aafke’s band, to create: IXXO.