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Today, January 13, 2026, we are celebrating our 25th birthday! Twenty five years of Antillectual sounds crazy, especially since this band started as some friends with hardly any musical experience, ambition or talent. We will be celebrating our anniversary throughout all of 2026 with a lot of special events like throwbacks, tours, a new album and the publication of an actual book, how intellectual!

Pinpointing the start of this band is very arbitrary. We started rehearsing sometime in 1999, consolidated a lineup sometime in 2000 and even did our first demo that year. Over the years we evolved as a band, changed our approach and had many lineup changes. Nonetheless it’s a fact that we’ve been playing shows for twenty-fucking-five years… time to celebrate!

Play Live

In 25 years we have played 1200 shows, so it only makes sense that we are going to play some more to celebrate our anniversary! Starting with the second part of our Dutch tour promoting the ANTILLECTUEEL EP, followed by playing Pouzza Fest and a Canadian tour around it, which we will announce in the next weeks.

Jan 29 Haarlem, Patronaat. w/ Third Ego, Rites
Feb 13 Dordrecht, Bibelot. w/ Skroetbalg, Bovendanen
Mar 13 Rotterdam, Voigt. w/ Video Store, De Dikke Kees
Apr 01 Arnhem, Willemeen. w/ All Dogs Go To Heaven
Apr 09 Hoofddorp, Cpunt. w/ Pussy Riot
Apr 11 Zwolle, Skroetfest. w/ Skroetbalg, March, State Power a.o.
May 15 CA Montreal, Pouzza Fest. w/ Pup, Buzzcocks, Makewar, Krang, Not Scientists and many others!

Info & tickets via our site. Many more dates to come…

Release Music

In 2026 we will also release a new full length album, featuring previously released singles “Whose Streets? Our Streets!”, “Post Teens” and 8-10 new songs. All in English, maak je geen zorgen! Leading up to the release of the album we will release a handful of new singles.

Publish A Book

Something that we didn’t know was on our bucket list: creating a book! After 25 years of being a band, releasing music and being on the road it’s time to share some stories that aren’t suitable for social media or newsletters. Throughout the year we will publish excerpts – Ox Fanzine already gave a sneaky preview in issue 182 – and we will give you more details on what you can expect before starting the pre-order. Here’s a tiny hint: plenty of words, unseen illustrations and barely heard music.

TL;DR? Happy birthday to us!

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Today we’re releasing our first ever song in Dutch: VOORRANG VOOR RECHTS! A fast song about Dutch politics moving to the right. Part of the Antillectueel EP and accompanied by a nice string of Dutch dates!

Voorrang Voor Rechts

A thrashy song about giving priority to rightwing politics, describing the Rechtsruck happening everywhere in the world, zooming in on the Netherlands. Check the landing page for our new single with the music video, links to Spotify, Bandcamp and the like. Also including a pre-order of the full EP, with lyrics in Dutch and liner notes in English. Artwork by Tessel Dekker from Segolia.

Antillectueel

If “Antillectual” was a real word “Antillectueel” would be the proper Dutch translation. Inspired by a wide range of influences including Nederpunk bands like Seein’ Red, Mihoen, Antidote, Gewapend Beton and many others. But also by an artist like Drs P, polemic, dad jokes, word puns and ramblings in Dutch for 40 years. Pre-order via our web shop.

After expressing ourselves in English for over 20 years and with Dutch politics going crazy it felt equally exciting as necessary to write songs about what’s going on in our neck of the woods. Songs about local symptoms of global developments. The ANTILLECTUEEL EP will come out November 11 as a digital release and a physical release including an orange vinyl 7″ and an insert with lyrics in Dutch and liner notes in English. Artwork by Thomas Mennen.

Voorrang Voor Nederland

Playing Dutch songs live only makes sense in the Netherlands, so kom op! New shows in Eindhoven and Zwolle added, and amazing bands:

Nov 28 Eindhoven, Burgers. w/ EDLP
Dec 05 Den Haag, Musicon. w/ Cooper, Character Actors
Dec 13 Nijmegen, Voorrang Voor Vrienden Veest. w/ Het Tribunaal
Jan 09 Utrecht, dB’s
Jan 10 Leiden, Resistor. w/ Coral Springs, Dishes
Apr 11 Zwolle, Skroetfest. w/ Skroetbalg, March, State Power
Info & tickets via our site. More dates to be added…

TL;DR? New single, new EP, tour!

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Releasing music is always exciting, but our new single Post Teens is something else for us. It’s probably the most “accessible” song we’ve ever put out. If you’re anything like us you’ll love it! Unless you hate earworms? Either way we can’t wait for the world to hear it, proceed and check it out:

Post Teens is a nostalgic anthem, resonating with everyone over 20 longing back to their high school days. Willem has been playing the main guitar riff for years now, and finally managed to include it in a song with lovely guest vocals by Roos de Huu. Check the track on your favorite platform and let us know what you think. We’re not old, we’re all post teens!

Recording, mixing and synth effect by Tim van Doorn and Big Dog Recordings; mastering by Nico van Montfort at XPZ Sound. 90s music video by Roos de Huu and artwork by Wouter and Maarten de Vugt at Daggers Design.

Shows

Besides being contagious, Post Teens is extremely difficult to play live. We’re gonna do it and give it all nonetheless! Unfortunately, due to unforeseen reasons, the Leipzig and Störfaktor shows will not happen for us… Fortunately we have other great excuses to leave your retirement home:

Aug 08 DE Düsseldorf, Pitcher
Aug 09 DE Villmar, Tells Bells
Sep 06 DE Sassenburg, Kottenrock
Info & tickets via our site.

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Festival Season

We had an amazing spring tour, taking us all over Germany and Switzerland, introducing us to fun places like Dörverden and Oerlinghausen and revisiting classic hotspots like Bremen, which we hadn’t played in ages. Thanks to all for the good times and especially Spider Promotion and Rookie Records for making it happen. Now it’s onwards to a new chapter; the festival season is the only reason to stay alive! (Hope you get that reference…)

May, May, May

We have 3 awesome festivals coming up this month, outdoors and with lots of amazing other bands. Up first is the always cozy PUNK MEETS PEOPLE in Haldern, a week later we’ll be shredding and enjoying the amazing lineup at the RECONSTRUCTION TOUR and the week after that we’ll be sadly but worthily singing goodbye at A LAST DANCE WITH JPP:

May 17 DE Haldern, Punk Meets People Festival
w/ The Meffs, Butterwegge, Weekly Carouse, more
May 24 BE Berendrecht, Reconstruction Tour
w/ Pennywise, Propagandhi, The Iron Roses, more
May 30 BE Bruxelles, A Last Dance With JPP
w/ Guerilla Poubelle, March, The Pigeons, more
Info & tickets via the shows section on our site.

Post Teens

Did you enjoy our latest single WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS!? We hope you are ready for a new song: on June 24 we will release a new single: POST TEENS! Our most accessible track according to some (including us). We’re working on the final mix and master, artwork and music video as we speak. Where to find it? Here! Just keep on keeping on and check for digital post on June 24!

Merch restock

Tour drained our merch and sticker stock, so we got extra made! Shirts (sizes XS-3XL), albums, zipped hoodies and more are available via the shop on our site and at shows. All orders come with extra goodies!

Shows

The May festivals look promising, but we’ve got more (festivals) coming up!
Jul 04 DE Leipzig, Plaque
Jul 05 DE Zwickau, Störfaktor Festival
Aug 08 DE Düsseldorf, Pitcher
Aug 09 DE Villmar, Tells Bells
Sep 06 DE Sassenburg, Kottenrock
Info & tickets via the shows section on our site.

That’s it for now, thanks for reading our newsletter! We love hearing from you, so don’t be shy, hit reply! In the next episode we will share POST TEENS with you, and maybe some dates closer to (our) home…

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We’re excited as hell because we’ve got a new single for you! After releasing Together in 2023 we’ve been steadily working on new music. WHOSE STREETS? OUR STREETS! is the first of a new singles series!

Check the song on this landing page, including all platforms like Spotify and Bandcamp, the music video on YouTube, lyrics & liner notes and merch with the artwork by Daggers Design!

WHOSE SINGLE? OUR SINGLE!

The release continues where we left off with Together. An uptempo, melodic track, the type that we love to write and play. Thematically this song deals with our public space and how “public” it is these days. Dedicated to everyone that lives on the streets and depends on public services and accommodation for their daily life and livelihood. And to anyone that can’t find a public bathroom, is fined for drinking in public or gets kicked out of a skate spot.

The music video footage is taken from the New Road Sessions episode we recently shot, more about that soon! The audio is recorded and mixed by Tim van Doorn at Big Dog Recordings and mastered by Nico van Montfort at XPZ Sound.

WHOSE TOUR? OUR TOUR!

We’ve got a lot of shows coming up and we’re very eager to play our new single, so come check this new tune live! As always, info & tickets via our website.

That’s it for now, thanks for reading our newsletter! We love hearing from you, so don’t be shy, hit reply! In the next episode you will find the live session we recently did…

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