Into the Great Wide Open 2026 @ Podium Vlieland

Performers

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  The Whitest Boy Alive

  RA: Resident Advisor

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  Decius
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  Nusantara Beat

  Indonesians living in the Netherlands, embracing their musical roots, bring their own unique vision of how that should sound in 2025.

  The music of Nusantara Beat feels like stepping into an old film, taking you on a journey to distant places. It's an incredibly exciting fusion of genres. Best of all, it’s wildly fun and refreshingly different!

  Only at G! can you experience something like this in the Faroe Islands.

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  Frans Kalf

  De woorden zijn de wereld nog niet uit, maar wel bijna opgebruikt. Hoe vind je nog woorden om te zeggen wat er toe doet?
  
  Maak kennis met Frans Kalf, poëtische dromer en levenskunstenaar. Half Amsterdammer, half Gentenaar, voor liefhebbers van Shaffy en Brel.
  
  Met pakkende liedjes en rake teksten neemt hij je mee in zijn bitterzoete wereldje, waar er plaats is voor een gebroken hart en een schaterlach.
  
  Niet wat je verwacht, en toch beter dan je dacht.
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  Rikas

  In a heartbeat Rikas turn an evening without a plan, a movie without a plot, into something unforgettable. They all sing, preferably involving anthemic backing vocals. Starting out from their hometown Stuttgart there they have already earned themselves an ever growing fanbase around Europe. Singles like “Overthinking” or “I Always Think Of You (When I Listen To This Song)” gathered millions of streams , Rikas became a live phenomenon in Germany and word of mouth started spreading across the borders. Performing over 300 shows including festivals such as Fusion Festival or MS Dockville in Hamburg and supporting artists like Milky Chance, Alt J or Alice Phoebe Lou around Europe they quickly gathered themselves a reputation. After releasing their debut album “Showtime” in late 2019 and a postponed tour Rikas found themselves in a writer’s block. With their single “Overthinking” in late 2020 and the following EP "Short Stories" they overcame that phase. In the year since the band have once again been at work, recording another new EP, Goodbye Sunshine, due out later this year. The band’s new EP also sees them collaborating with producer Jonathan Rado of Foxygen.

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  Dressed Like Boys

  Jelle Denturck is the singer and frontman of DIRK., a popular Belgian indie band that – in his own words – ‘has been making a fair amount of noise these past few years’. But in fact he thinks he’s a real softie, with a record collection full of melancholic indie pop and rock music: Bowie, Beatles, Lou Reed, Elton John, Nina Simone, Anohni & The Johnsons, Sufjan Stevens, Perfume Genius, Wilco, Tobias Tesso Jr. … clearly there’s a side to Denturck that doesn’t easily reveal itself in DIRK.’s music.

  It's about time, Denturck feels. As Dressed Like Boys he wanted to write songs and make a record all of his own. Not to turn it into an ego trip, but by way of self-examination. Denturck sings about the search for personal freedom, about his dearest friends, his homosexuality and relationship, but doesn’t shy away from uncomfortable topics like gay bashing either. It doesn’t get more personal and fragile than this.