Antillectual

We have some leftovers from the Canadian tour, which means that we have some new old designs and sizes available in our web shops and at the upcoming shows:

Jul 10 DE Schongau, Reaktor w/ Soapbox Radio, Puke!
Jul 11 AT Reutte, Die Kellerei w/ Special Broadcast
Jul 17 DE Mannheim, Juz w/ Nevver, Pathwalker
Jul 18 DE Hormersdorf, KNRD Fest w/ Satanic Surfers, Wonk Unit, Belvedere, many more
Sep 05 NL Nijmegen, De Opstand w/ Ink Bomb, Pomme Grenade, Trui

On this day in 2011 we started one of our longest tours and our first support tour ever. We had a couple of shows on our own to warm up, but the bulk of the tour was together with a band we grew up on and looked up to: BOYSETSFIRE! Third band on the bill was the amazing letlive.!

The first show was at the A38 in Budapest, which is a boat on the Danube river. To make it extra exciting: Deez Nuts were added to the lineup and played first, and we had to follow them! We were stoked as little kids to experience a 3-band tour circus from “the other side”. Exciting, as we got to meet the people we looked up to and play the same stages and audiences. But the tour was also a reality check, as band members turned out to be normal humans, very humble and down to earth people.

We have great memories of the tour and the amazing shows, especially in Germany. We became friends with the people of BSF and letlive. Natasha and Chad would later help us out with guest vocals on our ENGAGE album and we love bumping in to them at BSF and The Iron Roses shows. We got extremely sad last March when we heard about the passing of founding member and drummer on the 2011 tour, Matt Krupanski, rest in peace. Lastly, credits to Destiny Tourbooking who invited us to this tour after releasing our album Start From Scratch via Destiny Records

Heads You Win was our first single release after announcing we had stopped making albums. Of course that was a slightly skewed announcement. We knew from the start that we would eventually combine all single releases on an album. But it was a fun, innocent way to give attention to a new way of releasing music.

Heads You Win is our most played song on Spotify with 800k+ plays. In 2018 small bands could still get on major playlists. These days building a full album from single release is more rule than exception. However, getting attention for a DIY release seems as hard as it was before the digital “revolution”.

The song was written in response to rising populism and Trump’s first term. You gotta love it when songs stay relevant…

Released via Uncle M, music video by Claudio Stanghellini, cover artwork by Thomas Mennen. Find the song on all streaming platforms here!

Tillsonburg, Ontario pic by Krang’s Don Rola and his 100 year old camera!

Our Canadian tour and 2 extremely fun shows in The Hague and Wermelskirchen are DONE! The first upcoming shows will happen next month, so we’re taking some time off to finalize our 25 year anniversary book and return with these BANGERS!

Jul 04 NL Enschede, Metropool w/ZSK
Jul 10 DE Schongau, Reaktor w/ Soapbox Radio, Puke!
Jul 11 AT Reutte, Die Kellerei w/ Special Broadcast
Jul 17 DE Mannheim, Juz w/ Nevver, Pathwalker
Jul 18 DE Hormersdorf, KNRD Fest w/ Satanic Surfers, Wonk Unit, Belvedere, Makewar, many more
Sep 05 NL Nijmegen, De Opstand w/ Ink Bomb, Pomme-Grenade, Trui
Info & tix

Our 2nd Canadian tour has come to an end! It was a blast to be back in the country of maple and hockey, meet old friends and make new ones including the incredible folks of KRANG!

There’s a bunch of people that we wanna thank for making this trip possible and fun! First of all Steve at Merit Based Bookings for booking the tour, Joel at Nordik Legion Productions for facilitating and all promoters for putting up shows, especially the precious people at Pouzza who kickstarted this tour! Our friend Chris van Haandel for helping us out on the road and behind the merch! All amazing bands we played with! Bruno and Cynthia at Thousand Islands Records for releasing our music, hosting us in Montreal and adding some leftover albums to their distro! Touring Canada means staying at people’s houses, we love the following people for welcoming us into their homes: Nab of Spitehouse, Mig of Dead Alright, Marc Ryan, Jordan Elijah of Faster & Louder Records, Joe & Kyle of Probably House and Cory and Casey of Tarantula Tapes. Two big thumbs up to the Fonds Podium Kunsten for supporting Dutch bands abroad!

We hope to make it back over to Canada asap! Let’s not take 11 years to do this again!

We still owe you pics of the Ontario part of our tour, so here goes!

Queens, Barrie

With Jordy and Soda of Faster & Louder

Toronto, Bovine Sex Club. NOT!

Copper Mug, Tillsonburg

With Marc Ryan in Ottawa

Bovine, Toronto

With Cory and Casey of Tarantula Tapes

Minotaure, Gatineau

Niagara Falls

Somewhere at a lake…

Taking a break from the road

Bovine, Toronto

Post-tow trauma

Art

If you know you know, eh!

CN tower, Toronto, HUGE

Probably House, what a place!

Last supper with Krang

Supply & Demand, London

Post-last show of tour celebration

At the Canadian parliament

Dutch dinner

Welcome to Tillsonburg

Post tour relaxing

AirBNB pasta

Thinking of Clipwing