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Two weeks ago we started this reference challenge. We realized it was quite something to ask people to actually read and think about song lyrics. But it was fun to see people actually do it and come up with interesting (and sometimes unintended) references. Thanks for thinking along!

Tim Jansen from Zuid Scharwoude (NL) came up with most correct references, as you can check below. He wins a discography+shirt. When we release another album we will repeat this challenge with fresh lyrics and references, so keep an eye out!

Winning references:

With Gaga On Our Side refers to With God On Our Side by Bob Dylan

Mother Inferior > Mother Superior by Good Riddance

Waste = Food > An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore

Chinese Takeover > Chinese Democracy by Guns ‘N Roses

So Much More > Girls, Girls, Girls by Motley Crue

Benefit of the Doubt’s “Socrates always was right” > “I know that I know nothing” by Socrates

Another Guide’s “produce what you can and consume in so far you need” > Karl Marx

The Dog Ate It! > Dividing Lines by Adhesive

Spoken quote before I Hope You Got My Letter > The Shawshank Redemption

Welcome To Le Jungle > Welcome To The Jungle by Guns N Roses

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As you might know, there’s 2 things we love a lot: 1) using references in our songs 2) giving away things. Let’s combine!

We will send a discography package (CD/LP) + T-shirt to the person finding the most intended references in our songs. You may include songs from all our albums, using both musical and lyrical references. 2 examples: Song title “Welcome to Le Jungle” refers to the Guns ‘n Roses song “Welcome to the Jungle” (who would’ve thought?!). The intro of “The Dog Ate It!” is a musical quote from Adhesive’s “Dividing Lines”.

You can find all our music and lyrics on our website.
Please email us your references, admission closes on April 1st, no joke!

So, Bring It On!

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In 2009, when only Frankie Stubbs knew how to play acoustic punk, we released our acoustic endeavor “Pull the Plug”. This EP is currently sold out. But when screen printing the covers back then we fucked up. 38 times. Therefor we have 38 EPs left without a cover. To solve this we made a rainbow of new/limited/one-off covers (are you feeling the Sochi reference?). You can now order one of those last 38 copies at our webstore. If you have a preference for a color combination let us know and we can see if we have anything matching.

Following up on our “limited-edition-one-of-a-kind-re-release” of our acoustic EP Pull the Plug, we also put it online at our youtube channel. Make sure to subscribe to that channel to stay up to date with all music and videos we release over there.

The Pull the Plug EP was recorded with Nico of XPZ Sound in our rehearsal space of that time: my (Willem) parents’ place. Yvo plays acoustic guitar in stead of bass. It was released in 2009 by our friends from Shield Recordings, No Reason Records and Sums Records. The original 3-way PINK artwork by Gijs!; 200 PINK EPs, 300 black.

Benefit of the Doubt  and  Because We Can  were previously released as normal versions, while these were the first (and only acoustic) appearances of  The New Jew  and  The Hunt Is On, later featured as amplified songs on “Start from Scratch!”.

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After an extremely busy period last year, we started this year a little more relaxed, working on new music. But all quiet things come to and end, we are lining up more and more new shows!

April 11 NL Middelburg, Bar American. w/ Flatcat, March, Scallywags. FB event
April 19 GER Paderborn, 15 Jahre Horrorbiz Fest / Kulturwerkstatt. w/ A Time To Stand, Giver, The Vaders, Back at Sea, MayTheForceBeWithYou, Britney’s Tears. FB event
May 9 GER Frankfurt, Elfer Klub
May 10 GER Saarlouis, IN-CORE Festival / Utopia. w/ Not Available, Rising Anger, Choking on Illusions. FB link
May 17 NL Nijmegen, Heel Nijmegen Plat / De Onderbroek. FB event

Feel free to drop by at one of these, or get in touch if you want us to play your area, we’re always up for fun! Info@antillectual.com

Have a nice weekend!

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I hope you all had a great year? We did, doing so many fun things. Just to name a few:

We recorded and released our new album “Perspectives & Objectives” in August. Next to cooperating with new friends such as Suburban Records and A-F Records we recorded the album partly ourselves in the beginning of the year, a first time. All attention, reactions and reviews for the album were heart-warming and magnificent. Connected to this release we made our first “professional” music video for “Soundtrack” in June.

We played around 100 shows this year, including tours with Propagandhi, ZSK, Timeshares, Smile & Burn, Sweet Empire, The Rebel Spell and City Light Thief. We shared the stage with all time heroes like Bad Religion, NOFX, Alkaline Trio, Strike Anywhere, Skin of Tears and many others. And we had an amazing summer playing at festivals like Monster Bash, Punk Rock Holiday, Anti-Fest, Ex Fest, Ecofest and our own Releasefest for the new album. We didn’t go to crazy, exotic places this year, but it was nice to return to Sweden and Norway, and visit Sicily for the first time.

No bad things this year then? But of course: At one point it seemed we drove more kilometers in a broken van to and from the car shop than to shows. But vans are repairable!

Thanks to all involved for being a part of this amazing year, see you in 2014!

Supporting Bad Religion in Groningen (Photo: Tom Roelofs)

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