Digging Up Dutch Undergrounds: An Interview with Rob Scholte, Artist, and of The Young Lions and Suspect Rob Scholte was studying at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam when punk happened. A short while later, maybe driven in part by a desire to show punk where it had messed up, he formed the fiercely uncompromising, avant garde post punk band, The Young Lions; along with Ronald Heiloo and Tim Benjamin. Later his art brought him international fame, and though anything after 1982 isn’t really the subject of my thesis (and consequently not something I can use) Rob’s gregarious and forthright nature meant that he didn’t hold back in bringing up his later escapades, covering a wide range of opinions on the way. And the interview went places that were at times personal, driven by an artistic interpretation on matters, and not what I’d imagined we’d be talking about, subject wise. Sitting in the office of his new base the Rob Scholte Museum (just opposite Den Helder’s train station), we began talking… about the idea of the Netherlands being held together and back by a power grid. Halfway through, when the subject began to drift towards talking about ULTRA, I turned on … Meer lezen over Richard Foster – Digging Up Dutch Undergrounds: An Interview with Rob Scholte (artist) and of The Young Lions and Suspect