013 is a music venue in
Tilburg
Tilburg () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, in the southern province of North Brabant. With a population of 222,601 (1 July 2021), it is the second-largest city or municipality in North Brabant after Eindhoven and the seventh-larg ...
, the
Netherlands
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. The venue opened in 1998 and replaced the ''Noorderligt'', the ''Bat Cave'' and the ''MuziekKantenWinkel''. 013 is the largest popular music venue in the southern Netherlands.
There are two concert halls of which the "Main Stage" (formerly ''Jupiler Zaal'' and ''Dommelsch Zaal'') is the largest, with a capacity of 3,000 attendees. The smaller stage has a capacity of 700 attendees.
The name of the venue is based on the
area code
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of Tilburg.
In August 2011, the director of 013, Guus van Hove, died of heat exposure in the Californian
Joshua Tree National Park, together with his girlfriend. Van Hove had told friends he planned to visit the site of U2's
The Joshua Tree album cover, which they falsely assumed to be near the location where they died.
013 hosts the bigger acts at the annual music festivals
Roadburn (
stoner rock festival),
Incubate Festival and
Neurotic Deathfest. Also it was a home for
Ayreon's live shows in 2017 and 2019, which gathered more than 9000 people from more than 50 countries.
References
External links
Official website
Music venues in the Netherlands
Music venues completed in 1998
1998 establishments in the Netherlands
Buildings and structures in Tilburg
Music in Tilburg
20th-century architecture in the Netherlands
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