Indie Champions 2025:
Double Vee Concerts

Jacco van Lanen and Willem Venema founded the three-people-strong promotion company Double Vee Concerts at the end of 2009.

By IQ | 19 November 2025

Double Vee Concerts was founded by long-time promoters Jacco van Lanen and Willem Venema at the end of 2009 from the ashes of The Alternative (part of The Entertainment Group).

Double Vee promotes shows all over the Netherlands, with artists such as Kraftwerk, LiVE, Big Thief, Dead Can Dance, Tori Amos, Curtis Harding, Jack Johnson, Foy Vance, Shakey Graves, Chet Faker, Lucky Fonz III, Hollow Coves, EELS, Baxter Dury, Ólafur Arnalds, Echo and the Bunnymen, Aldous Harding, Hania Rani, Bettie Serveert, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

“Double Vee is just three people,” says Van Lanen. “I book and promote shows together with Emiel Schaap, and Niklas Hoffmann is assisting us both. For some shows, we work with indie production advancers and indie PR agents. And during…

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