Antillectual

We’re super hyped about our upcoming Balkans tour, but first things first: one more awesome summer festival in less than 2 weeks: MAD ONES FEST in LUXEMBOURG!

Info & tix (for all shows)

We love celebrating 25 years of being a band by going to places we’ve visited over this past quarter century. But what’s been most amazing these past 2.5 decades is making friends in new places. Therefore we’re extremely excited to announce a 10 day tour throughout the Balkans! On top of that we’re spoiling our Friends First Fest plans…

Balkans

We’ve played most countries in Europe by now, but there was one blank region on our map with pins: the Balkans. It seems this tour is gonna make up for that all at once! We’re so hyped to be going to new places, we hope to see a lot of new faces! Info and tickets via our website!

Oct 08 Croatia – Zagreb, Dva Osam
Oct 09 Serbia – Novi Sad, CK 13
Oct 10 Serbia – Belgrade, Drugstore
Oct 11 Serbia – Smederevo, Etno Klub
Oct 12 North Macedonia – Skopje, Dze Pub
Oct 13 Greece – Ioannina, Brigada Domovoi
Oct 14 Albania – Tirana, TBA
Oct 15 Montenegro – Podgorica, DKC Pomorandža
Oct 16 Bosnia and Herzegovina – Mostar, Ima I Može
Oct 17 Croatia – Dubrovnik, UM Orlando

Friends First Fest

Besides celebrating 25 years as a band in 2026 we also get to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Friends First Fest this December! This duality could only lead to one thing: we’re doing a 2-day FFF edition this year:

On Friday December 18 we’re looking ahead into the next 25 years. We’ve invited 3 bands that we met and came to existence over the last couple of years. They will carry the torch for the next 25 years, no pressure! On this day we will play songs from our last album Together, the Antillectueel EP and recently released songs. There will be a karaoke afterparty for as long as our legs can keep us up…

On Saturday December 19 we’re celebrating the past 25 years by looking back. We’ve invited 3 bands and friends who have meant a lot to us since the early years. Expect old bands reuniting and new bands with longtime friends! We will be playing songs from the first five albums, in the lineup that we recorded them in(!). That means we will reunite with our friends Toon, Glen, Tom, Yvo and Bob and play songs together!

Over the next weeks we will announce all bands involved, tickets are up for sale already. As always, at flexible rates, people under 18 get in for free!

25 Years Anniversary

We’re celebrating a quarter century of our band, with new music, a lot of shows and even a book! We’ve started sharing throwbacks to the last 25 years and all the things we have done. Recent throwbacks: Our biggest show ever, our longest tour ever, touring with Propagandhi, and many more stories!

Shows

Besides the Balkans tour and Friends First Fest we have even more shows planned! Info & tix

Sep 19 LU Luxembourg, Mad Ones Fest
Nov 28 NL Terneuzen, De Pit
Dec 04 CH St. Gallen, BHF Bruggen
Dec 05 DE Nürnberg, Heizhaus
Dec 08 DE Berlin, Schokoladen
Dec 09 DE Dresden, Ostpol
Dec 11 AT Wnr Neustadt, Triebwerk
Dec 12 DE Würzburg, Immerhin

TL;DR?

We’re touring the Balkans, we’re doing 2 days of Friends First Fest and check out our 25y anniversary throwbacks!

That’s it for now, thanks for loyally reading our newsletter in times of unreliable social media! We love hearing from you, so don’t be shy and hit reply! In the next episode we’ll hopefully write a little more about our anniversary book and maybe something Japanese…

Take care! Ben, Riekus & Willem

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