Je Dirai

Je Dirai

A louder kind of love

The Archive

3 stories in print

Front Page

27 AUGUST 2026

The Field They Built Themselves

Biddinghuizen, 06:40

Four friends, one borrowed field and a sound system held together with tape. This is how the summer's most talked-about new festival got made.

Portraits

20 AUGUST 2026

She Kept The Rejection Letters

Amsterdam, backstage

Two years ago Zoya Rahman was uploading songs from a box room in Slotervaart. Tonight she headlines the Alpha tent. She brought the emails that said no.

Dispatches

13 AUGUST 2026

The Club That Opens At 9 AM

Berlin, after hours

By night it is one of the city's best-known techno rooms. By day the same space feeds breakfast to the street around it. The regulars of both shifts have started talking.