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You’ve reached the home of 2 Meter Sessions, an independent and still active music archive from The Netherlands. We started in 1987 and have recorded more than 1,800 sessions for national radio & television and streaming platforms.
Amongst those sessions, studio performances by Nirvana (1991), Radiohead (1995), Foo Fighters (1999), Counting Crows (1997 + 1999), Coldplay (2000), James Taylor (1994), Ben Howard (2011), James Vincent McMorrow (2013). And more recent: DMA’S (2020), Marlon Williams (2022), Enther Shikari (2023), King Hannah (2024), Sprints (2024) and Wunderhorse (2024).
ABOUT 2 METER SESSIONS
The show was conceived in 1987 by Dutch radio presenter Jan Douwe Kroeske when, on his popular national radio show, he persuaded New-Zealand band Crowded House to play a short set of their popular songs. The response of the public was so great, that 2 Meter Sessions quickly became a household name in The Netherlands. Almost a million 2 Meter Sessions cd’s were sold in the Netherlands.
In 2018 the team began uploading more and more videos to their fast growing Youtube-channel, showcasing clips from the archive and highlighting new sessions.
The international appreciation of 2 Meter Sessions has been confirmed by looking at the statistics of the Youtube-channel: only 4,7% of the over 35,000,000 views is from The Netherlands.
2 Meter Sesssions has been streaming official recordings from the archive on digital platforms like Spotify, iTunes and Tidal since 2019. Over 21 hours of audio has already been made available to stream worldwide.
We still record 3 to 4 new sessions monthly, with promising and breakthrough acts from all over the world. The recording locations vary from professional recording studios to improvised mobile set-ups at festivals
FEATURED 2 METER SESSIONS
THE CRANBERRIES
The Cranberries were an Irish rock band and rose to international fame in the 1990s with their debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, which became a commercial success. A month after that release they visited 2 Meter Sessions; their first television performance abroad.
BLIND MELON
Blind Melon is an American rock band formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California. They are best known for their 1993 hit “No Rain”, and enjoyed critical and commercial success in the early 1990s with their neo-psychedelic take on alternative rock. Blind Melon visited 2 Meter Sessions in 1993.
FOO FIGHTERS
Foo Fighters is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1994. It was founded by former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of Nirvana after the suicide of Kurt Cobain. Foo Fighters visited 2 Meter Sessions in 1999, making it the second time Dave Grohl recorded a session, eight years after the first one with Nirvana.
COLDPLAY
Coldplay are a British rock band formed in London in 1996. They released their first studio album, Parachutes, on 10 July 2000. It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. A month earlier, they visited 2 Meter Sessions for a recording, making it their first ever over seas performance.
THE MURDER CAPITAL
The Murder Capital are an Irish post-punk band based in Dublin. On 16 August 2019, The Murder Capital released their debut studio album, When I Have Fears, which was produced by Flood (New Order, u2, Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode) and was met with widespread critical acclaim. A month earlier they visited 2 Meter Sessions for a recording.