Bad news arrived this week that a member of the Yawp family has had a severe heart attack. Our former guitarist, and replacement-bassist during the Aussie-tour, Louwrens aka Loz is current being treated in a hospital in Ljubljana. Best wishes to you pal. Fight back! My thoughts go out to you!

Yawp's Line up has changed once again. In the spring of 2014 singer Bob left the band. Since then Herry is back on vocals again (like he was for the biggest time througout the years). A few months later, drummer Kevin also left, and is now replaced by Patchelly. Patchelly once was Kevin's inspiration to start playing drums. Bob and Kevin will be missed greatly, by they stay part of the family. And Yawp will go on...

Today it's 5 years ago that our drummer Erik died. I still miss him. Besides being the co-founder of Yawp and drumming with us for 22 years, he was an incredible great guy.

On march 23rd Yawp has finally released new material for the first time in 12 years. This 5 track 7-inch is a memorial release for our late members Rolf and Erik. Rolf actually still plays on this record.

Rolf died today
Today the tragic news arrived that Yawp's bassplayer died of a heart failure. Rolf was co-founder of Yawp and played the bass from 1986 til 1996 and returned to the band in 2002. Til present date Rolf continued to play with Yawp. He was known for his loyal friendship, heartwarming friendliness and his distinct humour. Rolf will be missed greatly.We will never forget him!

Hopefully a new 7 inch will be released soon. Keep your fingers crossed, the 12 year gap will soon be closed.

Finally a new gig again... Yawp plays with the Simpletones and Wanderlust on january 28th, 2011 @ OccII, Amsterdam. See giglist

I, Herry have decided to give up singing. Eventho I really love to sing and put the right emphasis on the lyrics, I didn't want to bring the overall sound of Yawp down anymore. I just lack the energy. Currently we're looking for a new singer and I will keep playing guitar. It's the intention that Yawp will be as loud and energetic again as we used to be. And that we will do more shows in the near future.

Eventho Faber's stay was just very temporary, we regretted his decision to leave Yawp. Still everything became brighter again now we have Kevin as our new drummer.Welcome to Kevin!

Yawp welcomes Faber as the new drummer. Yesterday, August 13th, 2008 we had our first rehearsal and this guy appeared to be just what we had hoped for. Yawp had already decided to continue, and we now have done so. Hopefully you will be able to hear from us soon.

Yawp has decided to continue playing. Although we know Erik will never be forgotten, and cannot be replaced, we also feel like Erik would've wanted it this way. Or to say it in Anouk's words, who was Erik partner, "Erik would be very angry if you guys wouldn't go on". Still, Yawp needs some time to recover from this blow. Hopefully it will not take too much time, before we can do some shows in the honour of Erik!

Dude, you won't ever be forgotten!!! Rock In Peace!!!

In the meantime Herry has decided that he does not want to go on singing with yawp, and wants to revert to guitar and backing-vocals, and maybe sing a single song. We asked our former bassplayer, Daan, to take over on mike. He already did so on the tracks "below zero attitude", and "Internal political Affairs", which made him our favorite candidate. Daan has accepted our offer, so we welcome him as a re-newed Yawp member.

Erik Jansen has died (21-06-1967 17-04-2008)

Erik Jansen, drummer for amongst others Gepopel, Yawp, Funeral Oration and many more bands, died in the early morning of April 17th, 2008. On friday April 12th Erik fell down the stairs of his home and ended up in coma. After 4 days of struggling for his life a far too soon end came to the life of this remarkable drummer.

In the early 80's Erik started his drumming career with the West-friese Gepopel. In this band he played with Niels (Sack-o-Woes) and Wil (Funeral Oration) hardcore punk. After the split of Gepopel, Erik, Herry (Deadlock) and Rolf started Yawp in 1986. Erik en Herry played with this line-up until this sorrowful day (22 years and 1 month!) (just Rolf quit temporarily). In those 22 years Yawp released 4 albums and 2 singles and did an Australian tour (in 1996).

Besides Yawp Erik played many years with Funeral Oration, with whom he did a few American and Germa tours and recorded 3 albums.

After Erik got RSI in 2001, which rendered him unable to drum for a few years, Yawp's reputation dropped rapidly. Many people thought we had split up. The last few years we were working hard to get Yawp back on the road again, but mainly because of our inability to manage to band and arrange shows, our stage-experience kinda slipped through our hands. A good example of this was out latest show at the Baarmoeder (Amsterdam), which was regretfully Erik's last show as well.

Besides Erik's drumming in Yawp, he was also one of my best friends. I've know him for about 25 years and we went through heaps of things together.

Erik's life slogan was "Life your life to the max!" and so he did. He used to say he wanted to have done anything he dreamt of and regret nothing. In that, he fairly well succeeded. And without playing the drums, his life would be worthless to him.

Erik, dude, Rest in peace. You will never be forgotten!!! As a friend, as a collegue, as a human...

We wish Anouk, Nathalie, Stefan, all family and friends and ourselves all strength in this painful time...

Herry

People who wish to do so can leave their condolances at the guestbook of this website

Today we received the bad news that Erik, drummer for Yawp since the beginning, had a severe accident. How the situation will be is still very uncertain. Yawp-related information about this will follow on this page.

Yawp speelt op het waarschijnlijk laatste festival in de Baarmoeder, in Amsterdam. Helaas moet dit pand plaats maken voor het grootkapitaal en wordt het enthousiasme van een nieuwe generatie punks weer verknald. Het is toch jammer dat er zo weinig ruimte is voor dit soort subculturen, en dat een stel egoisten met te veel geld koste wat het kost met liefde dromen kapot maken.

Guestbook now works again (with captcha). I thought I had used a good spamblocking method, but it was too good. It actually kept everybody from leaving a message. Well, due to those sickening assholes I had to install a new method to keep them out! Hope it works for some time. If you ever meet a spammer, kick his ass!

On December 15th 2007 there will be a Joe Strummer memorial at the Maloe Melo in Amsterdam. (1 week before his 5 year death). Yawp will be performing a couple of Clash songs, together with a number of other bands. So take your diary and write it down.

Today was Benno's funeral. Benno's family, Marc and Theo organised it. Great thanks for this. Benno will never be forgotten. Deep grief will eventually be replaced by a monumental memory of a man who was a friend you could rely on. And no matter how thick his beard was, it could never hide his everlasting smile. R.I.P.

Just heard the sad news that our friend BENNO has died in an accident. Being on tour with the Rolling Stones, as a stage-roadie, he was killed while the stage he was working on collapsed.

Today we also launched a Yawp myspace site. Visit it at Yawp at MySpace.

Sunday december 10th Pinochet died. Eventho the world had become a little bit more of a better place, he still completed his life not punished for done cruelty. Now, for the man that didn't know what mercy meant, let God have the same faith with him.

The new Yawp website is finally finished. Well, not really. Somethings still need to be done. But those of you who've seen the old page, know the difference.