Nederbeat (also: Nederbiet) is a term used to describe the Dutch rock boom of mid-1960s influenced by British Beat groups led by The Beatles and The Rolling Stones and, much like British Freakbeat, it is essentially the Dutch counterpart to American garage rock. Also the emergence of pirate station Radio Veronica stimulated the Dutch music community to produce truckloads of 'Nederbeat'. The Hague was the country's beat capital, along with neighbouring coastal town Scheveningen.