ARTISTIC VICE is a young entertainment company and has been set up by Marcel Haug.

Haug started professionally in 1992 and since then gained wide experience as programmer, booker in several music venues, producer and organizer of several music and comedy festivals. Previous years het was an employee at Men at Work TV Produkties as talent coördinator of tv-shows such as The Comedy Factory and Raymann is Laat both hosted by Jörgen Raymann. Haug was priveliged to book and to work with over hunderd acts such as Kanye West, Amy Winehouse, John Legend, Keane, Joss Stone, Anouk and with comedians from Jimmy Carr to Russel Peters to Zach Galifianakis.
Comedy Arts Festival is the first self produced festival of Artistic Vice.

Festivals

ARTISTIC VICE now books for festivals like Metropolis and Oerol and is launched its own festival called Comedy Arts Festial.

Management & Agency

Our management department, with manager Niels Post, is delighted to work with two very talent Dutch acts called The Madd and El Pino & The Volunteers. As an agency we currently book acts such as The New Earth Group who played the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2009. We also book the new project of Theo Wesseloo who was known as part of the sketch duo Rembo and Rembo. Together with Ed Sewerratti they are called Hausmagger.

Audio & Visual Productions

The documentary Nighttown is produced by Artistic Vice. The first viewing was December 10th 2009 at the Cinerama Theater in Rotterdam together with a DVD release.