[1] The venue opened in 1998 and replaced the Noorderligt, the Bat Cave and the MuziekKantenWinkel.

013 is the largest popular music venue in the southern Netherlands.

In August 2011, the director of 013, Guus van Hove, died of heat exposure in the Californian Joshua Tree National Park, together with his girlfriend.

[3][4] Van Hove had told friends he planned to visit the site of U2's The Joshua Tree album cover, which they falsely assumed to be near the location where they died.

Also, it was a home for Ayreon's live shows in 2017, 2019, and 2023, which gathered more than 9000 people from more than 50 countries.