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There’s all sorts of horrible things happening in the world at the start of twentytwentyfive. But if you like to see us live or love to hear new music from us, we’ve got some news to hopefully cheer you up a little!

Deutschland & Die Schweiz

Behold, this is a big one! If you apply the right standards this will be our biggest tour through Germany and Switzerland! We’re really looking forward to return to cities we’ve been playing for ages like Hamburg, Berlin and Hannover. But we’re equally excited to make our debut in cities like Bottrop, Oerlinghausen and finally play Switzerland again!

Info and tickets via our website.

Shirt

With a new tour poster comes new merch! The beautiful design was created by Daggers Design and we couldn’t NOT make shirts of it! You can (pre-)order them via our web shop. Packages will be sent out before the tour starts on Feb 20.

Fresh Release

What better excuse to go on the road again than new music?! We’re eager to share our new single WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS! on February 18! A tiny toot from our own little horn: this new song is a skate punk anthem about our public space, how “public” it is these days, and who gets to use it. Where gentrification, hostile architecture and skate punk culture meet. Let’s crack a beer to that! (You’ll get that reference once you hear the song…)

That’s it for now, thanks for reading our newsletter! Don’t be shy, hit reply; we love hearing from you… In the next episode you can listen to our new single!

Take care, Ben, Riekus & Willem

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After working on it for 7 years we can finally present TOGETHER! This record became an extensive project, with single releases starting in 2018, a lineup change, 3 recording sessions in 2 different studios, and then the pandemic… We’re incredibly satisfied with the final result, hopefully you too!

Lyrically

Togetherness is the thread that’s weaving through all songs. Capturing the feeling that current day problems can’t be solved if we don’t fight them with combined forces. The release is a Do It Together cooperation of twenty-plus labels by music industry friends we made over the years. All previous digital singles are included in the tracklist. Since the creation of the record was an extensive project we put extra effort into molding the album into a whole. We’re also thrilled that Ian Legge aka the Punk Cellist contributed to Helping Hands! Enough reasons to check TOGETHER in its entirety:

Digitally

We created a landing page with TOGETHER on all platforms and lyrics and liner notes. As always: feel free to add tracks to playlists, follow/like/comment via your favorite DSP and forward it to people with an excellent taste in music. The album is called TOGETHER for a reason!

Physically

One of the advantages of releasing an album instead of individual tracks are the LPs, CDs and tapes featuring the beautiful artwork by Thomas at Dark Roast. Eco friendly, 180gr, transparent green vinyl in gatefold sleeves, digipak CDs, and 25 hand numbered tapes. We also have discount bundles with older albums and shirts. Check our web shop for all options.
If you’re a label and want to add TOGETHER to your distro, get in touch!

Lively

It’s time to play our new songs for you! Come to one of the following to hear the tracks live:

• May 13 DE Limburg-Lindenholzhausen, Limewood Festival
• May 27 NL Nijmegen, Paraplufabriek
• Jun 01 NL Utrecht, ACU
• Jun 02 BE Bruxelles, Drink Drink
• Jun 03 DE Siegen, Vortex
• Jun 17 NL Hengelo, Heng Loose Fest
• Aug 09 SI Tolmin, Punk Rock Holiday
• Oct 05 DE Wermelskirchen, AJZ Bahndamm

Info & tickets via our website, many more dates to follow, get in touch for bookings.

Thanks for reading our newsletter. Don’t be shy, hit reply; we love hearing from you! In the next episode you will find a fall tour…
Take care, Ben, Riekus & Willem

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We’re taking the final step before the full length release: a brand new single and the album pre-order! Check FROM CITY TO CITY and if you like what you hear, pre-order TOGETHER on LP / CD / tape. Check the single, music video and pre-order via our website.

FROM CITY TO CITY

Where touring and critical thinking meet. We always wonder what kind of people we will meet when touring across the world. The advantage of living in a globalizing world is that there’s “great minds thinking alike” on the other side of the world. A disadvantage is that you might be out of touch with your direct neighbor. FROM CITY TO CITY is about feeling connected to people on the other side of the world, while feeling disconnected from people living right around the corner. Even though oceans are keeping us apart, the islands we live on are connected. Bogota, Colombia sometimes feels closer than Groesbeek.

The FROM CITY TO CITY music video footage was crowdsourced at recent shows in Bochum, Wiesbaden, Alfeld, Glauchau, Würzburg, Liège, Nijmegen and on the road in between. Thank YOU for filming, dancing and singing along to a song you’d never heard before! Credits to Jay at Moonboy Films for editing.

TOGETHER

As of now you can pre-order our new album! We’ve got LPs, CDs, Tapes, album & shirt bundles, and limited editions of the album. The tracklist includes brand new musical discoveries and your favorite previously released digital singles within an album context, all in your physical format of choice! Albums come with lyrics and extensive liner notes. LPs are eco-friendly produced and come in a gatefold sleeve with transparent green vinyl, CDs come in a digipak and tapes are limited to only 25 hand numbered copies. TOGETHER comes out on May 2, and your physical copy will be with you on the release date.

Are you a label or someone that wants to do the release/distribution TOGETHER with us? Get in touch!

Release tour

Next to releasing new music physically and digitally, we can’t wait to play our new songs for you! Come to one of the following to hear the tracks live:

• Apr 02 NL Amsterdam, Melkweg w/ No Fun At All Info / FB event
• Apr 03 NL Enschede, Metropool w/ No Fun At All Info / FB event
• Apr 14 NL Amsterdam, Positive Outlook Fest Info / FB event
• Apr 22 BE Antwerpen, Bearded Punk Fest
• May 13 DE Limburg-Lindenholzhausen, Limewood Festival Info
• May 27 NL Nijmegen, Paraplufabriek w/ Two Star Review, Sjonnie en het Talent. Free show/no tix! FB event
• Jun 02 BE Bruxelles, Drink Drink Info / FB event
• Jun 03 DE Siegen, Vortex Info
• Jun 17 NL Hengelo, Heng Loose Fest FB event
• Aug 09 SI Tolmin, Punk Rock Holiday Info & tickets / FB event

That’s it for now! We’ll send a new newsletter when TOGETHER is out, combined with all the release tour dates… Thanks for reading, till next time; Ben, Riekus & Willem

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There’s a new episode of the deconstruction of I Wrote This Song! Episode 3 contains a first attempt at vocals, real drums and adjusting the tempo, and an analysis of structural updates. It’s so much fun ripping apart old songs!

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Because we received such enthusiastic feedback, here’s the second episode of our series DECONSTRUCTING I WROTE THIS SONG! In this ep we’re analyzing the structure of the song, individual parts and connecting them, parts we eventually rearranged or left out completely and a confession about working titles.
Any insights you’d like to learn in future episodes?

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