CrowdMateThursday, September 24 gives Amsterdam a compact piece of local indie history: PIP BLOM 10 YEARS at Skatecafé. The 20:00 programme is built around a return to earlier material, with Gini Cameron joining Pip Blom, Tender Blom and Darek Mercks on drums for this pair of special London and Amsterdam dates. That reunion supplies the evening’s clearest musical premise. Pip Blom’s own announcement frames it as a chance to play “oldie but goodies”; the Amsterdam bill also brings Baby Berserk, Djalan Djalan, Fellatio, My Purse, plus Gini on Drums & Scram C Baby into the celebration. It is an anniversary structured as a live scene gathering, with the headliner’s catalogue at its centre and several fellow acts around it.[1][2][3]
The setting matters. Skatecafé has room for the occasion’s social scale: a Thursday-night bill whose many live names invite people to arrive for the supports, stay through the headliner and treat the evening as a whole programme. Pip Blom’s official site identifies the Amsterdam date as one of only two anniversary shows, following London two nights earlier. For a band rooted in the city, that makes this a particularly direct homecoming: one room, one date, several generations of collaborators and friends in the same running order.[1][2]
Four songs revisited for PB10
The concert follows the July release of PB10, a four-track project that revisits songs from across Pip Blom’s catalogue. The band recorded the selections again in Pip’s home studio, with Tender handling the mixes; the track list includes 2026 versions of “Hours,” “School” and “Babies Are a Lie,” alongside “The Shed.” The release’s accompanying anniversary book gathers photographs and stories from a decade of recording, touring and playing. Those details keep the Skatecafé date from functioning as a simple milestone gig: the band has actively re-entered its earlier songs, putting current hands and current ears to material associated with its formative years.[3]
That backward glance also lands after a meaningful shift in Pip Blom’s recent work. Heavenly Recordings describes 2023’s Bobbie as a move from the group’s earlier guitar-led identity towards synthesiser-led pop, while still naming Pip on vocals and guitar, Tender on guitar and vocals, and Darek on bass. PB10 points back to the songs that formed the group’s early language; the anniversary set at Skatecafé can therefore be approached as a live junction between those beginnings and the band’s present configuration. Cameron’s return gives that idea a tangible rhythmic connection to the earlier period.[3][4]
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A practical Thursday plan
PIP BLOM 10 YEARS takes place at Skatecafé in Amsterdam on Thursday, September 24, with a local start time of 20:00. The listed live bill is Pip Blom, Baby Berserk, Djalan Djalan, Fellatio, My Purse, and Gini on Drums & Scram C Baby. Check Skatecafé and Pip Blom’s official pages again before travelling, since door times, running order, access information and ticket availability can change.[1][2]