Punk Music

Beans was formed in February 1996. They started out covering some songs (most of them by Operation Ivy) during rehearsals to hone their musical skills, which were then basically non-existent.

After the first bassplayer left the band due to lack of motivation, Sander, Ronald and Bikkel went on to play together even without a bassplayer.

After about 9 months of doing this and having taken the first steps towards writing their own songs, they were asked to play their first show in february 1997 at a party in a nearby town. Two weeks before this show, Blok joined the band on bassguitar. Blok was already a great guitarist and his bassplaying skills helped define the sound of the band in the early days. For this first show a bandname had to be put on the flyer, so in a hurry the band came up with the name BEANS and kind of got stuck with it as people started to recognise the name.

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