Kids With Buns
Between 2019 and 2021 we discovered (on Soundcloud), developed, booked, promoted and managed ‘Marie’/’Kids With Buns’ from zero to victory in De Nieuwe Lichting 2021, a semi-final in 2020’s Humo’s Rock Rally and three weeks on #1 in De Afrekening as well as 15(+) weeks of airplay on national radio.
We set up distribution (V2 Records) and booking (Ampersand/Busker) deals and matched the duo with producer Mathias Stal. The band’s first three singles were released under the OENGER flag and reached a combined 1,000,000 streams within the first half year.
In november 2023, the total amount of streams for these three songs was approaching 5 million (cross-platform).
The band was featured in and by multiple media outlets, such as VRT, HUMO, Knack, NWS NWS NWS, … and played Jong Muziek 2020, some club supports, a (first) COVID-summer with sold-out gigs withmost notably Dranouter among them, whilst being an OENGER-band. Their debut single ‘1712’ was also the anthem for the 1712-campaign of 2019-2020.
OENGER laid the foundation for a career which already resulted in a 4-page interview in HUMO and bookings for international events such as Grasnapolsky (NL) on which Musickness (Balthazar, dEUS, Tamino) is building further since May ’21 (Eurosonic, Reeperbahn, Pukkelpop, Sold-out club shows (AB Box), Lotto Arena, Balthazar & Eefje De Visser Supports) & 2 MIA (Music Industry Awards, Flanders) nominations (Best Alternative, Best Group).
(c) Zeb Coune
