{"id":71854,"date":"2026-04-30T10:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/71854\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:41:43","slug":"boa-amsterdam-paradiso-20-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/71854\/","title":{"rendered":"B\u00f4a – Amsterdam, Paradiso – 20 April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jase Walker<\/p>\n

\"PosterTo say I\u2019m excited for this particular show above everything else that I could possibly be doing this year is a bit of an understatement. Nevermind the massive shows with insane production value or shows with rambunctious crowds that would leave even the most pit hardened of folk a bit wary of their own safety.\u00a0Tonight I am watching B\u00f4a.<\/p>\n

B\u00f4a are a band that are responsible for penning one of my all time favourite songs, \u2018Duvet\u2019, that is also the opening theme for one of my all time favourite anime series, \u2018Serial Experiments Lain\u2019. It went much further than that with me picking up their \u2018Twilight\u2019 album from HMV many years ago and they unfortunately faded from the public eye until the same song went viral on TikTok and they took a chance to build on it and here we are at Paradiso for tonight\u2019s show. Not just that but I\u2019ve had the fortune to be able to sit and have a chat with Jasmine and discuss a bit about their history and incredible resurgence.<\/p>\n

Along for the ride on the European dates are Francis Of Delirium who are a new band to my knowledge and ears so as usual, I am here at doors because every support act deserves a spin.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty obvious the crowd is fully engaged already considering how loud they cheered for Francis Of Delirium<\/a> taking the stage.<\/p>\n

Feeling very much in a similar vein to B\u00f4a with a slightly fuzzy indie rock sound that feels a bit similar to The Strokes except the vocals are actually really good. I\u2019ve definitely picked the right spot again with the front balcony, the acoustic feel of the venue is doing a fantastic job of cultivating the band\u2019s sound. I also think this is the first band I\u2019ve ever heard from Luxembourg as well.<\/p>\n

One of the slower songs about falling in love with your best friend gives me some early Coldplay vibes, a bit sombre, a bit dreamy, a straight up nice ballad. As much as I\u2019m really enjoying them on this sort of stage and venue, I keep thinking about how nice it\u2019d be to witness them up close in a tiny dive bar.<\/p>\n

This sort of stuff would be fantastic in a venue where you can\u2019t escape the pervasive fuzziness of the guitar and ends up feeling closer to a shoegaze experience. They\u2019ve got solid rock and roll chops too, it\u2019s not just three people standing there playing pleasant funny music, they move a lot and are genuinely very entertaining to watch and clearly love playing their hearts out to the crowd.<\/p>\n

Evidently if there\u2019s one thing the Dutch can get on board with is doing their best to outclass the French. Francis Of Delirium does well with getting the crowd to sing along and getting people\u2019s phone lights out as well by putting them against the previous Paris show, and wow, the crowd really are giving it balls on the sing-along.<\/p>\n

They finally finish their set with a jumpy anthem and Francis Of Delirium can walk off triumphantly from this show considering how much everyone is into them. Fantastic opener set from these.<\/p>\n

Francis Of Delirium\u2019s new album, \u2018Run, Run Pure Beauty<\/a>\u2018 will be released via Dalliance Records on 29 May.<\/p>\n

\"Francis<\/p>\n

The sudden darkening of the room signals the start of B\u00f4a<\/a>\u2018s set and the room erupts into screams, cheers and clapping. Jasmine revels in it for a moment before kicking the set off. The venue is absolutely rammed by this point, with the vast bulk of the audience crammed into the floor space as people opt to get a ground level view over spreading to the balconies.<\/p>\n

The difference in sound between their show at Tolhuistuin last year and Paradiso\u2019s fantastic main hall is exactly what I hoped it would be and B\u00f4a\u2019s sound is complimented fantastically, their music having more air for it to fill sounds immense. You\u2019d think that given the whole virality of \u2018Duvet\u2019 that it\u2019d be easy to write off people being here based on just that but looking around at the crowd with every subsequent song it\u2019s pretty obvious that the rest of their catalogue of songs has connected well with people too. There\u2019s barely anyone I can see that isn\u2019t at least enthusiastically swaying to the music and hugging themselves or a close one while singing along.<\/p>\n

\"BOA<\/p>\n

For a bit more of an observation on the band themselves, the balance of the instruments is spot on, with each component part of the band being fully audible from the bass to the keys. All filling their own respective spots in the overall texture of the music, to the point where it\u2019s genuinely super easy to focus in on each part and follow everything they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

\u2018Rain\u2019 still gives me the same chills it did the first time I listened to their \u2018Twilight\u2019 album years ago, and clearly others feel the same given the volume of people singing it back. A quiet moment is pierced by someone loudly screaming \u201cI love you!!\u201d, a feeling that clearly resonates with everyone else in the room given the round of whoops and cheers that immediately followed it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been so utterly transfixed on the set that I\u2019ve not even noticed that we\u2019ve blasted through nearly an hour already. It\u2019s hard to really take stock of a lot of happenings when you\u2019re so engrossed in a show that you completely forget everything that\u2019s going on and the passage of time becomes non-existent.<\/p>\n

\"BOA<\/p>\n

While B\u00f4a are a far cry from the frantic and mental shows that pepper most of my days, there\u2019s something so heartwarming and familiar about settling in to watch B\u00f4a after thinking I\u2019d never get to see these live for the rest of my life, let alone get to interview Jasmine!<\/p>\n

I do need to give a special mention to their guitar tech because that man is properly speedy with his switches and always has the courtesy to sort the jack lead out as well.<\/p>\n

\u2018Fool\u2019 serves as the end of the main set and its peak sets the whole crowd off bouncing around and cheering, a fantastic main set closer that builds from a slow start to a huge bouncy finish. The crowd is far from done though and makes deafening noise to usher B\u00f4a back to the stage for the encore.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t expecting the first encore song to be \u2018Duvet\u2019 which fully blindsided me and the waterworks started in seconds so I\u2019ve spent the whole song watching the band with blurry vision, whoops. And lastly the one-two combo of \u2018Twilight\u2019 and \u2018Walk With Me\u2019 to finish off an emotionally exhausted man and send him packing back to his bed with a smile on his face despite the red teary eyes.<\/p>\n

What a band, I\u2019m so glad they\u2019re seeing such incredible success now. I\u2019ll be back time and time again.<\/p>\n

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