Causes were a four-piece
indie pop
Indie pop (also typeset as indie-pop or indiepop) is a music genre and subculture that combines guitar pop with a DIY ethic in opposition to the style and tone of mainstream pop music. It originated from British post-punk in the late 1970s and s ...
band who were based in the
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
.
History
The band is composed of British singer-songwriter Rupert Blackman (vocals), Jan Schröder (guitar), Simon Boeing-Messing (drums) and Robert Pronk (bass).
Blackman moved to
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...
from the UK and started busking on the street. He regularly sold out of homemade CD's and interest quickly garnered. He signed a record deal in
Benelux with
Play It Again Sam. Soon after he met guitarist Jan Schroder and Causes was swiftly formed.
The band's debut single "Teach Me How To Dance With You" was released in late 2014 in Benelux and proved an immediate success; first being playlisted on
Radio 538, with all other major radio stations soon following suit. It quickly gained
Platinum status and was followed up by a second, also very successful single "Walk on Water" which was premiered with a performance on
3FM June 4 alongside another RTL Late Night TV performance. Causes were invited back to
RTL Late Night the following week to close the season finale. The band went on to sign a deal with Year One /
RCA records in July 2015 and "To The River" was released on 9 October, their first release outside Benelux.
2015 held a busy summer of live shows and festivals including
Pinkpop and
Appelpop as well as a headline show at the
Paradiso in Amsterdam.
Causes' debut album was produced by Ian Grimble (Bears Den, Daughter) and was released in 2016 through RCA/PIAS. The band played the Eurosonic and
Noorderslag festivals in January 2017.
On 5 April 2019, the band announced that they were dissolving.
Discography
Albums
* ''Under Bridges That You Built for Me'' (5 February 2016)
* ''Wake Me Up So I Can Dream'' (26 October 2018)
References
External links
Official website
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Dutch indie pop groups