Vengaboys

Overview

The Vengabus is coming! How long I have waited to actually be able to say that and it be true is quite embarrassing. Perennial party-ers the Vengaboys rose to fame when I was just a small child, and now they are bizarrely making a comeback – much to the delight of, well, everybody!

Let me take you back to 1998, when questionable European pop bands were all the rage and lycra was an acceptable and supported fabric. It was a time when music was infected by repetition and the closest thing to indie rock was...nothing. Nothing at all.

Looking back now, these songs make 1. absolutely no sense 2. are in awful in every way 3. would never make it into the mainstream nowadays. 2010's subtly named 'Rocket to Uranus' consists of a cameo by celeb gossip blogger Perez Hilton and contains such masterful lyrics as “We're almost there. Uranus is so pretty! It feels like home”. Surely they must've made that song for a laugh? Or maybe not, they are Dutch after all.

I may have been 8 years old, but goddamnit did I want to go to Ibiza. Relive the late 90s how you remember them – on board the Vengabus. If you like to party, c'mon and move your body, happiness is just around the corner!