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The full video of Testimony live at Friends First Fest is online!

For its 10th anniversary we played our album Testimony in its entirety (+ more recent bonus songs)! See yourself if you were at Friends First Fest #4! See for yourself what you missed if you weren’t!
Which Testimony song from the live set do you like best?

Shot at De Onderbroek during Antillectual’s Friends First Fest #4 on December 29, 2018.
Video recording: Ruben Smulders & Mari-Liis Burket
Video editing: Ruben Smulders
Live audio mixing & recording: Emiel Carey Mahoney
Recorded audio mixing & mastering: Nico van Montfort XPZ Sound

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Our new single is out today! Finally we can present you the music and the accompanying video for The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist! Merch with the artwork is now also up for regular sale via our site and available at our upcoming tour dates. This is our second single, so we officially have a “series” now!

The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist

Check our new single on Spotify, Youtube, Bandcamp or your channel of choice via antillectual.com/theinvisiblehand. Listen, download, buy, spread and add it to your playlists! The Invisible Hand is an ode to conscious consumers in a capitalist world: a world dictating you to either produce commodities under sketchy circumstances or buy them. The song is recorded at Mailmen Studio and mastered by XPZ Sound, the video is created by Younique Film.

The Invisible Hand Shirts and Zippers

Order The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist merch – organic, fair trade & sustainable – created by Daggers Design. With each order come stickers, posters and a download of the new single. Previous designs are still available, including package deals with our 10-year anniversary album Testimony.

Speaking of Testimony …

Friends First Fest 2018

The end of 2018 is near, and that means Friends First Fest is coming up. We’re thrilled (and a little scared!) to announce that we will play a special TESTIMONY set, consisting of our 10 year anniversary album in its entirety, completed with more recent singles! We’ll be playing songs we never played live before from your favorite album*! Tickets are on sale now and come with a free Testimony download! We will announce other bands and details over the next weeks.
*By us, from that year?

The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Tour

Of course we want to play our new single for you! Come to one of the following to hear it live:

• Nov 02 NL Eindhoven, The Sound of Revolution w/ Propagandhi, Dag Nasty, Life of Agony, more
• Nov 17 NL Groningen, Lola
• Dec 01 DE Ibbenbüren, Rocktage
• Dec 08 DE Kiel, Schaubude
• Dec 20 NL Den Haag, Paard w/ No Fun at All
• Dec 21 Osnabrück, Bastard Club w/ No Fun at All
• Dec 22 DE Hamburg, Punkalicious Christmas Festival (Hafenklang)
• Dec 29 NL Nijmegen, Friends First Fest (De Onderbroek)
• Jan 30 NL Arnhem, Luxor Live w/ Pussy Riot

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Hopefully you all had an incredible summer with lots of music and nice weather! We had an amazing time releasing Heads You Win, Tails We Lose and playing festivals all over Europe to spread our new single. But summer has come to an end and it’s time to bring you some fresh music and accompanying shows!

The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist

We will release our new single “The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist” on October 30! Musically it might seem a mellow track but its content is heavy nonetheless:

“In a world where politicians govern their nations as companies, citizens are reduced to customers. We are left with little more influence than our spendings. Let’s use that mechanism and “celebrate” the crisis’ 10th birthday by making our purchases with even more care about who we support financially. We, the extras in the neoliberal narrative, should address them in the only language they understand and let our money do the talking. Strategic purchases, consumer strikes and boycotting companies whose policies we don’t agree with are our only bribe to get a foot in the door. Show the invisible hand of the market the visible fist of the people. Merry 10 year crisiversary!”

Pre-order new shirts and Zippers

Starting now you can pre-order The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist merch. Daggers Design created the artwork for the single and the merchandise. Pre-orders end on October 7! Previous designs are still available, including package deals with our 10-year anniversary album Testimony.

The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist Tour

Of course we want to play our new single for you! Come to one of the following to hear it live:

• Oct 11 DE Dortmund, Bierschinken Eats FZW
• Oct 13 DE Rees-Haldern, Butze Am Reitplatz
• Nov 02 NL Eindhoven, The Sound of Revolution w/ Propagandhi, Dag Nasty, Life of Agony, more
• Nov 17 NL Groningen, Lola
• Dec 01 DE Ibbenbüren, Rocktage
• Dec 08 DE Kiel, Schaubude
• Dec 20 NL Den Haag, Paard w/ No Fun at All
• Dec 21 Osnabrück, Bastard Club w/ No Fun at All
• Dec 22 DE Hamburg, Punkalicious Christmas Festival (Hafenklang)
• Dec 29 NL Nijmegen, Friends First Fest (De Onderbroek)
• Jan 30 NL Arnhem, Luxor Live w/ Pussy Riot

Still hot: Heads You Win, Tails We Lose

Unfortunately we can’t give you any audio of the new single yet. But this might be a nice occasion to play our most recent single Heads You Win, Tails We Lose? Thanks for all heartwarming reactions to the song and our new “singles approach”!

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It’s only a couple of days left before it’s the end of the year. Traditionally we “do” our last show of the year at De Onderbroek in Nijmegen at our very own Friends First Fest! This year will be a special edition spread over 2 days with bands from close to home and from a little further away. With new bands and bands that we grew up on. And with proper afterparties: DJ Bobby Brat (Th Dec 28) and live punk rock karaoke from Singalong Riot (Fr Dec 29)! Proceeds will go to causes worth supporting: Solidarity Not Silence, Animal Equality and AFA Nederland.

We hope to see you all at De Onderbroek on December 28 and 29 to celebrate good music and the end of the year.

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