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“To the left. To the right” – The European Championship hit has already caused an earthquake
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Holland shows who is the party master
France only managed a draw against the Netherlands at the European Football Championship. And the Dutch are showing Europe how to celebrate. WELT TV reporter Alina Quast also got to experience this.
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The European Championship has its hit: Videos of tens of thousands of Dutch football fans jumping left and right are going around the world. The accompanying song dates back to 2015 and is by the band Snollebollekes. They are big stars in the Netherlands.
The European Football Championship has its big hit. It comes from the Netherlands and is being celebrated by the Oranje fans. First at the fan march in Hamburg, then a few days later in Leipzig. And on Tuesday before the third group match against Austria (6 p.m.) the cry in Berlin will again be: “To the left, to the right.” Videos of tens of thousands of Dutch fans jumping to both sides have been going around the world for days.
The song was written by a combo called Snollebollekes, which itself came about more by chance. Frontman Rob Kemps was a well-known comedian, and as part of a TV show he and his colleagues recorded a song that was intended as a gag, but made it to number eleven in the Dutch charts. Since then, the band has grown so much in the neighboring country with their party and après-ski music that they now organize their own festival with seven stages and over 100 acts.
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The nine-year-old song “Nach links, nach rechts” has been a hit in the Netherlands for years. Snollebollekes regularly perform on the big stage at “King’s Day”. In 2019, the song got the 40,000 spectators in Breda so excited that the measuring devices recorded a small earthquake. Ballermann singer Mickie Krause had already tried a German cover in 2018, but it didn’t make it a big hit.
He felt honored, said Kemps
Six years later, the European Championships have turned “Links rechts” into a national phenomenon. This pleases 38-year-old Kemps, who was already in Leipzig and personally directed the crowds to his hit. 25,000 people are said to have attended, and a similar number are expected in Berlin.
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Kemps told “Spiegel” that he felt honored and made no secret of the simplicity of his art: “Music connects people, no matter where they come from. It doesn’t need deep tones like in tragic classical pieces or French chansons. It’s very simple party music that can make people happy.” And his compatriots are particularly good at that: “People from the Netherlands are simply free. They aren’t ashamed to celebrate.”
