Benga Band + Drumpet Disco at Amsterdam Wine Festival, Gashouder
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Benga Band + Drumpet Disco at Amsterdam Wine Festival, Gashouder

By Noam Bargil, founder of Lupa Entertainment

19 October 2024· Last updated May 2026

Live music production at Gashouder Amsterdam — an 8-piece Benga Band evening for 400 corporate guests. Acoustics, scale, production budget ranges, and when Gashouder is the right venue for your event.


Amsterdam Wine Festival at Gashouder. 6000 guests across the night. Six-piece Benga Band on for the live block, three sets of 45 minutes, then Drumpet Disco taking over at 23:00 to close the room. One of the bigger nights we have produced at this venue, and one of a handful of Gashouder shows for the Lupa team.

Benga Band on the Gashouder main stage — Amsterdam Wine Festival
Benga Band on the Gashouder main stage — Amsterdam Wine Festival

Why Gashouder is unusual to produce

Gashouder is a 100-year-old industrial gas-storage tank converted into one of Amsterdam's signature event venues. The cylindrical industrial volume creates a long reverb tail, the floor capacity is large, and the production load is heavier than a standard ballroom. A wedding or corporate band that has only played hotel rooms typically takes 20 minutes of soundcheck to figure out the room. A band that has played Gashouder before sets up around what the venue does to the mix from the start.

What this show looked like

Six-piece Benga: vocals, two horns, keys, guitar, bass, drums. Three sets of 45 minutes, with a curated playlist between blocks. At 23:00 Drumpet Disco took the room — DJ with live trumpet and live drums — and kept the energy up through the late-night portion of the evening.

The crowd during the band's second set
The crowd during the band's second set

This is the most-booked Lupa setup for a large-format night: a full live band runs the dinner-and-headline block, then a DJ-led act runs the late-night block. Two Lupa acts, one production crew, one contract.

Other Gashouder shows

Amsterdam Wine Festival is one of several Gashouder nights we have produced. The venue books a long calendar of festivals and corporate parties through the year, and Lupa works it as a recurring environment rather than a one-off booking.

Soundcheck before doors
Soundcheck before doors

When Gashouder is the right venue

Gashouder is the right call when:

  • Guest count is large (festivals, large corporate galas, public events)
  • The aesthetic brief includes words like "industrial", "raw", "Amsterdam"
  • The event needs visual impact at scale (the architecture does half the work)
  • The venue is the wrong call for small guest counts where the room reads as empty, or for events that want an intimate, warm aesthetic.

    The Lupa acts we recommend for this

  • **[Benga Band](/artists/benga-band)**: full party band for the live block of a large festival or corporate evening.
  • **[Drumpet Disco](/artists/drumpet-disco)**: DJ with live trumpet and drums for the late-night pickup. This is the pairing we ran at Wine Festival.
  • **[Dupa Trio](/artists/dupa-trio)**: jazz trio for the more refined moments of a multi-format evening.
  • For a large-format night at Gashouder or a similar venue, send us your details.

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