Volcom Garden Experience at PIER15, Breda 2022

Brain melted, faces bruised, souls rocked … Live music, skateboarding, art exhibition, creative market, drinks, great vibes and next level crowdsurfing !

After a first banger this summer at Fridas Pier in Stuttgart, Germany, Volcom Garden Experience held its round two at Pier 15 in Breda, Netherlands right at the end of summer.

This venue has the perfect setup with its indoor skatepark, outside bowl, bars, stage, food kitchen and crew, and once the traditional Dutch rain was dodged, the spirits were on an instant high. Celebrating their Volcom Featured Artist collection, the art exhibition showcased works by Chrissie Abbott, French and Bob Mollema, but more artists and exhibitors gathered for a creative market right next to the skate bowl, adding shopping, discoveries and eye-candy to an already action-packed day.

After Bonglords DJs opened the event, Leopard Ale played first on the main stage spreading their love and good vibes to the afternoon crowd. Whip followed up in the dark bar with a communicative power that resulted in the first mosh pit at 4pm! Then Mooon got people in a trippy retro journey and set the crowdsurf as the norm for the rest of the day. The rest after this was non-stop pure raw energy: Pizza Knife covered the dark bar with people sweat, then Pieter de Clus, Jason Lijnzaat, Jeroen Bruggeman, Tim Rebensdorf, Bart Buikman, Bert and Diego destroyed the bowl.

After that, people’s brains started melting, under the synth attacks of ET Explore Me whose psych punk was truly brutal, so bodies, instruments, drinks, anything got lifted overheads.
The night ended with a banger. Who needs fireworks when you have Ploegendienst? They delivered fresh, raw, fast and in your face punk that could literally send you travel over the crowd on a trash can… knocking people down on the path.

Big thank you to the artists mentioned above, to all exhibitors of the creative market: Harry Wyld, Lovenskate’s Stu, Andi Iordache, Matthias Welker, Gabe Hollington, Tuigoma, Zutmonsac, Unit Record Shop, Rosa Meininger, Kim Thorst, Surreal Apparel, Caliaristhrift.

Big thank you to Pier15 and their staff, Bonk skateshop, Flatspot skatemag, 3voor12, Marshall for stoking someone out with a sweet speaker and everyone attending!

Video by Jordy Mastbooms

Music by :
Leopoard Ale – Until next Time
Ploegendienst – Schiphol