Deerhoof Backstage with Best Fit
02 September 2017, 09:15
Photography by
Sara Amroussi-Gilissen
The San Francisco experimentalists were on tour in the Netherlands at Doornroosje in Nijmegen and Sara Amroussi-Gilissen donned her camera for this picture feature cramming in everything from drum stick signing to cats and dogs (which it also rained).
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