May 2005. Monokino won second prize at the Parool PopPrijs 2005. We got some very good and positive reactions on our 20-minute performance.
The Parool Poprijs 2005 took place in Amsterdam club Paradiso, on May 26. All the bands were filmed by Fabchannel.com, so you can watch us live. Go the Fabchannel website and search for Parool Popprijs Finale in the “video-on-demand” section, then click ‘monokino’.
VPRO’s 3voor12 has provided their website with the audio-recording of our performance, click here to listen.
For 16 weeks the newspaper Het Parool reported on the contributing bands. The last article about the finals can also be read online, click here. Dutch TV-host and former Editor-in-Chief of Het Parool, Matthijs van Nieuwkerk, hosted the evening. A television report about the evening has been made by RTV Noord Holland, watch it here. A total of 595 bands applied for the Parool Popprijs. View pictures here