We're a punkrock trio from Nijmegen, the Netherlands. We've toured and released albums worldwide since 2005. We like our punkrock political and melodic, combining the best of ’90’s skatepunk, ’00’s emo and ’10’s orgcore.
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Our first upcoming show is at Tivoli in Utrecht, with Ramones Alive! These last Dutch shows have been so much fun, let’s see if Ramones fans can dig it too!
26 Mar Utrecht, Tivoli w/ Ramones Alive
01 Apr Arnhem, Willemeen w/ All Dosgs Go To Heaven
09 Apr Hoofddorp, Cpunt w/ Pussy Riot
11 Apr Zwolle, Skroetfest
02 Jun Den Haag, PAARD w/ Nerf Herder
Info & tix
Pics from dB’s Utrecht and Voigt Rotterdam by Chris and Roos
We recorded our first full length album Silencing Civilization at the end of 2004, with Menno Bakker at the Bunt Studio in Utrecht. The first serious recording we ever did, with someone we looked up to because Menno had been recording all the bigger Dutch bands; Undeclinable Ambuscade, NRA, Bambix, ao. I remember our friends in Laternpoll recorded with him not long before us and they sounded amazing, and now he was gonna record us! We demo’d 3 songs (later featured on the Waves EP) and recorded everything live on tape, which you can still tell because of the sound and limited dubs. Wick from Bambix even contributed guest vocals on one of the songs!
Our friend Peter Bootsman just started a label, Angry Youth Records, and he offered to release the album. We didn’t hesitate and were very excited to be the first full length album on his label! Yvo’s partner Suzette created the artwork for the album. In 2009 Shield Recordings offered to release Silencing Civilization on vinyl for the first time. Soon we will run out of physical copies (LPs/CDs) of Silencing Civilization, end of an era?
Right after the release of the album we left for our first Euro tour in a rental van (Engelbarts!), with Peter helping us out behind the wheel and merch. To this day we usually play a song from the album in our set, and people seem disappointed when we don’t. For this year’s Friends First Fest we have some very special plans with this album (and maybe some other older albums as well?).
Photos from the Silencing Civilization tour shows in Bologna and Dudelange:
This week in 2003 we played with Against Me! at De Overdosis squat in Den Bosch!
Booked by our friend Thomas (who still does a lot of our artwork), it must have been AM!’s first euro tour, as the crowd was still limited, nonetheless we already knew by then they would be going places!
As you might know BandCamp is the most artist friendly platform. On BandCamp Fridays they even waive their fees and ALL proceeds go to bands/artists. We’d like to point this out once again as it is BandCamp Friday TODAY!
Also, in the spirit of our anniversary: we only have a handful of our first 2 LPs left…
Find all our available albums (physical and digital) and merch on BandCamp.
By popular demand, our first upcoming show will finally bring us back to Rotterdam!
We played the legendary Poortgebouw in 2001/2002/2005, Waterfront in 2008 and Baroeg in 2018. This time De Kleine Opstand invited us to Voorheen Voight with our friends of Video Store and De Dikke Kees on Friday, March 13!
Utrecht Arnhem Hoofddorp
