Antillectual

While we are constantly focusing on new tours and a new release, it's sometimes fun to take a look into the past, in what I like to call our 'shoebox': a huge archive of tour videos, some of which end up being edited into reports . Browsing through the shoebox, I found this little video of our show at Fest 7 , on our last USA tour. Hope you enjoy the video as much as I did.

Antillectual at Fest 7, part 1

Antillectual at Fest 7, part 2

Antillectual at Fest 7, part 3

In other news: due to all kinds of activities (writing songs, touring, fixing our beloved van etc..), we haven't really been able to slap together tour videos lately. We are currently looking into ways to work together with people who enjoy doing this. More about that later.

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So we're back from one tour, and have announced the next one as well. A lot is happening over here. And to keep you up to date as much as possible we'll try to update this site a little more often. Feel free to comment on stuff we're posting. "Communication is what it's all about" sing two major bands, so let's do it.

First of all, if you happen to have/find reviews, pictures, videos, whatever from our USA tour, please send them or a link to us. We like to keep track and collect a lot of souvenirs this way. A written tour report and the last episode of the tour video report are to come.

For the Americans that are looking for ways to order our merch cheaper than from us (shipping costs and stuff) check out Jump Start Records for the Testimony LP. For the CD/LP of Silencing Civilization and the Testimony CD get in touch with Square of Opposition Records. He is more up to date with his email than with his website. Don't you worry. Square of Opposition also has some left over T-shirts from our USA tour up for sale. Soon they will be for sale through this website too. About that; we sold out some old shirt designs and updated this on the merch section. The remastered Silencing Civilization CDs and LPs are available for ordering.

We also found some new reviews of Testimony in German at Waste of Mind fanzine and Blueprint Fanzine, in English in Can You See the Sunset, Punktastic. On top of that the German zine Ox did an interview with us. You can find the online version here. Soon there will be an interview on ipunk.cz and Last Hours. As if we wouldn't let you know.

Phil from Black Numbers Records (Static Radio, Purpose, Rock,star) asked us if we would like to participate in a Kid Dynamite tribute "Carry the torch" they are releasing together with Copper Lung Records and Get Outta Town Records. And of course, we're honoured. There's a list of already confirmed other bands which is quite exciting. So next weekend we'll be recording Kid Dynamite's "Wrist rocket" and perhaps some demos for our own new songs. If there's enough time though.

For now we hope to see you at the Speak Out Fest which can't go wrong with a line up like this: Smoke or Fire, Fake Problems, Tenement Kids, Brat Pack, Rush 'n Attack, Omission, Brito.

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dear all, this week we got back from our longest, best, warmest, hardest and most american euro tour we did so far. we've had great times together with the static radio boys in all the beautiful countries and cities we went to. on the other hand we suffered the worst experience a touring band can experience: a van breaking down. between toulouse and montpellier the van decided not to shift gears anymore. well, stuck in third gear you won't get far, but just like your mom managed to arrange replacement transportation. if it wasn't for mom we'd have to cancel the rest of the tour. with the new transportation (two vehicles actually, a car and a minivan) we could finish the rest of the tour. even though we have to offer our most sincere apologies to the people in montpellier who came to the show and for who we came in too late (we only had a 6 hour delay because of the van breaking down). hopefully we'll be back in montpellier soon to make this up! but for the rest this tour was better than any other tour we ever did. never before did so many people come to the shows, did we sell so much merch and were people singing along in tune this much. thank you to all contributing to this, both people organizing and showing up. if you want to read in detail how everything went, read on at our 3voor12 diary (all in dutch unfortunately, an english version will be posted on our site soon!). if you want to watch some pictures we and static radio took, please go here. a video report will be posted later.

other news: we have some more shows in our own country to announce, and since the show in nijmegen was such a succes even though some people couldn't make it, we'll be playing again in nijmegen december 20, at de onderbroek. also we'll be playing in one of our other hometowns, leeuwarden. check the shows for more dates.

on the tour we brought some new merchandise, new zippers, hoodies, t-shirts, girlies, stickers, 7"es. and there are some leftovers we brought back home. please check the merchandise section if you're looking for a 7" or a new sweater to confront the cold winter. one zipped hoody design is not online yet, next time it will be. we also have new sampler offers. just to let you know.

and, since we just got back from tour, we're working hard on our next tour. this time we'll be hitting the u.k. and germany again. if you can and want to help us out, you're more than welcome. please check the shows section for available dates.

last but not least, next week the final master of the new album, testimony, will be back from the studio. we're still talking to several labels about the release. as soon as any confirmations are in you will read it here. as for now, it looks the record won't be out before the new year though. 

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and again, it's been a while, but only because all of us have been so damn busy! mainly we've spent 10 days and nights in the studio to record the most important parts for our new full length album. but we still have to record some piano parts, mix everything and send it to the mastering studio. and then we'll have to see for a way to release this thing. we're talking with several labels about the release, but no decision has been made so far. hopefully it will be out before the end of this year, it should be possible if things get along. in the studio we also shot some video, so you might expect a small video report sooner or later.

other report-talk: the tour report from our u.s.a. tour is now also up on our site in english, please check it out here, you can also find links to the pictures we took on that tour and the videos and diaries we made. have fun! we're also busy preparing our longest euro tour to date, 16 dates together with our friends from static radio. we'll be crossing holland, france, italy, austria and germany. all but one shows are confirmed and looking good, so if you have the chance, drop by and say hello.

we'll also bring a complete new line of merchandise including, shirts, girlies, (zipped) hoodies, stickers and 7"es. and we might play some of the new recorded songs live. no, we will. if you want to check out the tour poster (and spread it?), you're welcome: click here for a big version and a huge version. we don't do small no more. a lot of thank you's to all the "partners" helping us out ons this tour, mentioned on the bottom of the poster. the poster is designed by gemma, check her other amazing stuff!

if you want to order the 7" that was released for the u.s.a. tour you can go to the no idea records site and order it through their distro. for this upcoming tour there will be a tour diary on 3voor12, holland's biggest online music magazine. i'm afraid it will be in dutch, we will see what we can do about that. we hope to update it as much as possible. more than we update this site, we hope.

speaking of which, the new website seems to have some delay, unfortunately. all our time and attention is going to the new record and the upcoming tour. i guess that's it for now, we hope to see you out on tour! 

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 dammit. this is the first update after our u.s.a. tour with static radio. and even though we've been back for 2 weeks now, it's still going through our heads all the time. the whole trip was extremely overwhelming. almost every night we played at a cool show, the reactions we got each show were really positive, we got rid of all the merch we brought (we actually sold it!) and the new 7"es just flew out of our hands. it's amazing to see how a nation with such a "bad reputation" has so many awesome people and such an inspiring scene. we're very happy the way this tour turned out, it was better than we could have ever hoped for. a lot of "thanks you!'s" go out to the people without who this trip wouldn't have been half as much fun: our new friends and tour buddies from static radio. great people, grand band. also, a big "thank you!" goes out to chris from square of opposition records who helped us out with the 7"es and other merchandise. the list of people we want to thank is endless, so we won't go there, but a lot of people did a great job making us feel at home, moms and dads included.

if you want to read, hear and/or see all about our tour, there are some reports online already. check out the 4 reports we made for reload magazine here (words in dutch, videos in dutch and english), check the videos (dutch and english) on our youtube account , check a full report in words (dutch) and pictures (universal) on www.musicfrom.nl , all pictures can be found on our picasa page. and last but not least the full tour report will appear in english on this site soon.

going from the one outstanding project to the other; next week we will be entering the studio to record our sophomore full length album. we can't wait to get into the studio and lay down the tunes we've been working on and playing live the last months. during our stay in the studio we will bring a video and photo camera, so expect some reports being made. only if we get bored, that is! in the mean time, listen to our old songs and the demo recordings we made in march. there's no relaese date for this new album yet, expect it at the end of this year.

we managed to get some new shows as well, both on the transatlantic tour and in holland. please come and check them out, we'll be playing with cool bands like in-sane (slo.) again!

finally we hope to see you at our tour kick off in the merleyn in nijmegen on friday september 28. you can buy the 7" at the door for 1 euro extra. last chance. 

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