GIMME SHELTER <br>The Stones in pictures</br>
From 14 November to 11 April, Noorderlicht and the Stichting Oude Groninger Kerken present a large exhibition on The Rolling Stones in the Der Aa-kerk. ‘GIMME SHELTER’ shows work by photographers as well as documentaries, television material and much more. The exhibition runs parallel to ‘Unzipped’ in the Groninger Museum and offers a different view of the legendary band, by presenting a lot of early photography and partly approaching The Stones from a Dutch-Groningen perspective.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Bent Rej (Denmark, 1940-2016), was part of The Rolling Stones entourage during the Satisfaction tour from March 1965 to May 1966. He became a confidant and friend of the band, who gave him carte blanche. Former Stones bassist Bill Wyman calls Rej’s work “the finest single collection of Stones photographs I’ve ever seen”. From the same time: the infamous Stones concert in the Kurhaus in The Hague, which got completely out of hand. Rob Bosboom (Netherlands, 1940-2017) accompanied The Rolling Stones that day. He was one of the country’s first real pop photographers. During the seventies Gijsbert Hanekroot (Netherlands, 1945) was the lead photographer of the music magazine OOR. In this period his beautiful Stones archive arose, of which a selection will be shown during ‘GIMME SHELTER’. Hanekroot captures their huge presence on stage as well as intimate moments behind the scenes. Claude Vanheye (Netherlands, 1948) was the youngest and most successful Dutch photographer in the 1970s and a leading figure in the international pop scene. All the world stars appeared in front of his lens. In his Stones-work he shows the persons behind the music in shoots done backstage and in the studio.
FILM
Groningen local Nick Landman messaged all his friends asking: Where were you on 2nd June 1999? Most of them still knew: in the Stadspark at The Rolling Stones concert. Landman made a documentary about it (trailer). We also show unknown fragments from the archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Boudewijn Büch’s interview with Mick Jagger from 1997, the documentary ‘I Am a Rolling Stone’ (Roeland Dijksterhuis, 2020) and a reconstruction of the Kurhaus concert for the Andere Tijden TV show.
Film screenings GIMME SHELTER-cinema
10:25, 12:28 & 14:31 hrs: Büch Meets Jagger (1987)
11:06, 13:10 & 15:13 hrs: Nick Landman – Waar was jij op 2 juni 1999 (2020)
11:35, 13:38 & 15:42 hrs: Roeland Dijksterhuis – I Am a Rolling Stone (2020)
12:00, 14:03 & 16:07 hrs: Andere Tijden – Jongens waren het, The Stones in het Kurhaus (2011)
COLLECTIONS
The neighboring Noorderlicht Studio, next to the church, shows a fine selection from the Stones-collections of Jelle Tadema and Nick Landman.
SHOP
Finally, we present a small Stones-market in de City Central-shop, next to the entrance of the church.
DESIGN
The design of the exhibition is in the hands of Studio 212 Fahrenheit.