Photo by: Ron van der Plas (Rascal performing live in The Hague)

How the band members of Rascal met

Rascal is a duo act (currently also performing as a band) from The Hague, The Netherlands.

This duo called themselves King’s Recipe at first, but changed the name to Rascal.

The two founding members Mr. Martin & Robby C. met each other when Robby C. responded to a job vacancy posted by studio owner Mr. Martin, who at the time was in search for an engineer. Robby C. walked

in The WTC building in The Hague,

where the job interview was about to take place and got the job.

He started working at Mr. Martin’s studio, they found out that they both play

guitar and write songs.

Within two months they had their first live performance on stage at the anti slavery festival.

Photo by: André Hazel (Rascal performing live in Roosendaal)

The origins of Robby C.

Robby C. grew up in Leiden and later

moved to the beach town of Noordwijk.

When he was 19 years old he had the

chance to perform alongside his father

on a 12-string guitar.

He considers this experience as his first live performance on stage.

He was influenced by Rock‘n Roll 60’s music from bands such as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and 90’s Rock/Grunge bands

like Foo Fighters, Nirvana and Queens of the Stone Age.

The origins of Mr. Martin

Mr Martin grew up in Zoetermeer and still lives in this small city close to The Hague.

He started performing live on stage when

he was only five years old.

His brothers Andrew and Michel,

who are also guitar players,

gave Mr. Martin the chance to be on stage.

Coming from a musically orientated family, he recalls always being surrounded by music instruments especially guitars.

Mr. Martin noted Robbie Williams as his big inspiration.

Genres like Hip-Hop, R&B and later Pop Rock brought Mr. Martin more into the music scene.