City scars, festival policy & RAYE tix 🎤🎟️

City scars, festival policy & RAYE tickets, a local news and events round up out of Amsterdam, with @cathycentral.

Listen back to this episode on the mixcloud player above. 

🎶 Music included The Kittens who are asking you to see them all the way in … Haarlem 🙂 in October, and RAYE’s new release as tickets for her January 2026 concert go on sale this week.

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Other stories included:

• a monumental building on the Herengracht gets squatted
• are we going to get “the most beautiful gym in the Netherlands” at the Werkspoorhal development? Let’s see …
•  some scary incidents recently around city parks and sports grounds in daytime, think about safety in numbers
• local politicians start reaching out ahead of the city elections in March 2026.
• the Windows Festival in Oost is over halfway there to their first edition

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