The popularity of the Achterhoek company Jovink will seem somewhat strange to the average Randstad resident. The band mainly has fans in the east of the Netherlands, where almost every festival and event is visited and played flat. Jovink is a party band and therefore makes the music that is expected of a party band: solid pounding rock on which you can jump and sing along - the condition is that
… you have mastered the dialect a bit - and on The Happy Achterhooker that is no different. Jovink's lyrics are about real male subjects: beer and drunkenness (Noa Elke Slok ...), women (De Vangst Is More Beautiful Than De Jacht) and of course rock and roll (Bandjes Motten Rocken, Centjes Rollen), but there are there is also room for the quiet closing song Malle Willem, about the village idiot who fell through the ice and 'never came out alive again'. (IV)more
