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So, sunday night we arrived back home more or less safely from a tour that showed us a lot of asphalt, gas stations and “European Unity”. We have posted some professionally shot pieces of picture here. We dropped off the Americans at the airport, they should be home right now. The shows were a blast! Thanks to the people that came out and to those who organised the shows! Also thanks to Thomas, Frank and Pieter for helping us out on merch, van and bass (in that particular order).

For now we will be working on the new songs and some more “behind the scene” activities. You will know soon. Until that time please check out this great free sampler. Next to our acoustic contribution it contains mostly European bands.

Among others:
ASTPAI
DEATH IS NOT GLAMOROUS
JENA BERLIN
THE TWISTED MINDS
PLAGUE MASS
OK PILOT
ONE WIN CHOICE
RED TAPE PARADE
SMASH THE STATUES
HIGH FIVE DRIVE

What is there not to like?!

Least not, but last: we are looking for shows to try out our newly written songs. It is always best to kick them into shape on a stage. If you want to hear them, help us out with a show! Greatly appreciated!

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As of today, the song “Sponsorship for life” from our latest full-length album Testimony is featured on a CD-sampler made by the guys at Fairtrademerch.com. We’re very pleased to make a contribution to the awareness surrounding the Fair Trade movement, and besides that we’re really pleased to share a spot on this sampler with great bands like Rentokill, Deny Everything, The Real Danger and loads more.

Check it out! You can listen to the sampler online, but make sure you get a hold of a copy to support the good cause. We’ll be carrying the sampler in our distro as soon as we receive our copies in the mail.

And last but not least: if you, your band, sportsclub, whatever are interested in getting fair shirts for a decent price, get in touch with David or Tobi at Fair Trade Merch. We had our last t-shirt design done by them and are more than pleased with the quality, pricing and service. And no, they’re not paying us to say that 🙂

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The tour with Rentokill was amazing, as we hoped for. We have been friends with those guys for quite some years now and it was really fun and interesting to be on the road together for the first time. Hopefully more enterprises like this will follow. Thanks for coming out to the shows and dancing and cheering. In case you did.

Right now we are booking the dates for the tour together with After the Fall. There are still some dates to be filled, feel free to hop in and help out. We’re also working on new songs. I guess you can say we are past halfway. We are aiming for 12 or 13 songs to be recorded before the end of this year. At each show we will play some new songs to play them into shape live.

Our Italian label No Reason Records managed to get us on “Pop Punk Loves You #4”. Together with other fine bands like A Wilhelm Scream, Useless ID, Rufio, This Is A Standoff, Enemy Alliance, All Time Low and others. Not bad, not bad.

For the rest of August and September we have several single shows to play. Some acoustic (people really seem to take us seriously with the acoustic thing …) and some “normal”. And some of those are actually in Nijmegen, one of our hometowns. Please come and check us and our new merch out!

Aug 25 NL Nijmegen De Bijstand
*Acoustic* w/ Oldseed

Aug 29 NL Schoonhoven De Bastille
w/ Face Tomorrow, Bail, Plaats Delict, Dead Man Running, Boy Gol

Aug 30 NL Nijmegen Rock Royale
*Acoustic* w/ Lea, Bandito, Go Back to The Zoo, Mark & the Spies, My Boot Heels, With Ice, Automatic Sam, Baby Jade Brown, Cauldfield

Sep 4 (Afternoon) NL Nijmegen TBA
*Acoustic* Guerrilla gig.

Sep 4 NL Utrecht ACU
w/ Smash the Statues, The Real Danger

Sep 5 Bel Olen Skatefest
w/ Born From Pain, Easyway, No Turning Back, Final Prayer, The Rawönes, Azriel, Tenement Kids, Noyalty, The Headshots, Angelskin, The Crackups, Bite The Bullet, Smakeloos

Sep 17 NL Amsterdam Winston Kingdom
*Acoustic* w/ Kevin Seconds, Mike Scott

Sep 30 Ger Essen Emokeller
w/ Sleazy inc. operated

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We recently announced the release of our acoustic 7″ titled “Pull the plug”. Those of you who follow us on Twitter might have heard about it already: the 7″ is finished and we’re damn proud of it. The first pressing comes with a lovely, screen printed sleeve and pink or black vinyl. Check it out:

In support of the 7″, we’re adding more and more acoustic shows to our roster. This Sunday, we will be having the release party at Knoflook, Den Bosch with Mischief Brew. Come and say hi if you like low-volume punkrock. Other acoustic shows:

Sun Aug 9      Arnhem      Sonsbeek Avenue Festival
Tue Aug 25      Nijmegen      De Bijstand       w/ Oldseed
Sun Aug 30      Nijmegen      Rock Royale       w/ Lea, more
Thu Sep 17      Amsterdam      Winston Kingdom  w/ Kevin Seconds, Mike Scott

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And it seems we are back! And we’re very happy with that. Some features will still be added, but we’re up and running, and that’s what matters most. We have two (2) tour reports to announce. One from our tour through Germany in February/March of this year the we forgot to put up here. The other one is from our tour through Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria in May. Enjoy!

Furthermore we are happy to announce a tour with our European political punker colleagues of Rentokill! Check the shows section for when and where exactly. A nice package to have an enjoyable evening with I presume. On top of that Tom from Smash the Statues will be joining us on the road despite his here and there somewhat peculiar taste in music. Kidding, we love him. And not only for coming on tour with us. We are still in need of one (1!) show, let us know if you want to help us out.

Today we also received our new and acoustic “Pull the Plug” 7″. In case you want to order one let us know. It costs 5 euro and contains four (4!) songs. And we’re extremely happy with the PINK result. More info will follow soon in our merch section. You can listen to a song on our myspace page.

In the mean time we keep adding more and more “local” shows in between our busy touring schedule. Check the shows section for those and let us know if you want us to play your metropole too. More (+) news soon!

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