Antillectual

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Comment ca va? We have the best news in three years to tell you: we have a new record, "Testimony"! And a lot more things coming along with that. Please read on below:

* New album TESTIMONY is available!
* Release show
* Upcoming tour
* Reports
* Website down
* All tour dates

New album TESTIMONY is available!
You can order the CD from today. The price is 10 euro (excl shipping). Get it through pre-order from the following labels:

* Fond of Life Records (Germany, United Kingdom, Luxembourg) joe@fondoflife.net / http://www.myspace.com/fondoflife
* Infected Records (Portugal) infected_records@yahoo.com
* No Reason Records (Italy) info@noreasonrecords.com / http://www.myspace.com/noreasonrecords
* Rise or Rust Records (Austria) info@riseorrustrecords.com / http://www.myspace.com/riseorrustrecordcompany
* Shield Recordings (The Netherlands and Belgium) info@theshieldhardcore.com / http://www.myspace.com/shieldrecordings
* Youth Way Records (France) Alex@youthwayrecords.com / http://www.myspace.com/youthwayrecords
If you don't live in any of these countries in Europe, please order it from a country near you. In Europe the LP version will only be available through Shield Recordings. The band will sell the album (CD+LP) at shows from March 3. This is also the date when the album is available in shops throughout Europe. If you are a label or distributor interested in our record, get in contact with a label near you for wholesale prices.
If you haven't listened to the new songs, you can check them online at our myspace, we recently added a new song called "Friendly Fire". There you can also take a look at the beautiful artwork by Gemma Pauwels. The first review of the album is in already; if they all could be like this one … please have a read:

Antillectual – Testimony

From mid-tempo melancholic post-punk to thrashing punkrock! Antillectual is far from ashamed to militantly show its versatility on the band's second full-length album. Indeed, Silencing Civilization's successor is a straight up hit! Recognizable melody, emotion, and passion combined with somewhat unconventional structures, inventive guitar riffs and vocal harmonies. Propagandhi meeting A Wilhelm Scream meeting Strike Anywhere meeting No Use For A Name meeting Bad Religion with a hint of Hot Water Music? No, totally different! (But somewhat alike).

From the rising of the drums in opening song Testimony to the fade out of the swelling sounds in I Hope You Got My Letter, all are a feast for the ear and eye. Not the least for the eye, because again the socially critical lyrics and their explanations can be found in the booklet.

Plusses are among many things the hot Maiden riff in The Dog Ate It! and pleasantly up-tempo rocking songs like Waves and On Its Own. The only blot is the length of I Hope You Got My Letter that tends to stand out in that way. This could be a personal objection that no one agrees with though, so don't be bothered. If the record contained 4 more songs I wouldn't even have noticed.

Well, a band that spreads its message with this much passion and integrity and, on top of that, is a treat for the ear, what else could one wish for?How beautiful punkrock can be. *Sigh*

Score: 88/100

Some more publications will follow soon, including Testimony reviews and interviews in Up Magazine and Long Live Rock 'n' Roll among others.

Release show
To celebrate the new release we're having a release show on March 21. It will take place in cafe The Stage in Arnhem. Other bands playing will be Holland's finest:
* The Real Danger
* Gewapend Beton
* Smash the Statues
* New Pokerface
Entrance is 5 euro and it all starts at 19.30. If you're from Holland you can make it back by public transport for sure.

Upcoming tour
To present this brand new album to the rest of the world we'll be going on tour some more. Starting in March, going to France, Spain and Portugal.

The dates so far:
March 5: Paris (Fr.), Le Palais Bar
March 6: Toulouse (Fr.), Cave de la Notte
March 7: Spain, available
March 8: Spain, available
March 9: Spain, available
March 10: Spain, available
March 11: Spain, available
March 12: Faro (Por.), Associação Músicos. W/ Part Time Killer
March 13: Guia-Albufeira (Por.), FNAC
March 14: Cascais (Por.), Lotus Bar. W/ Part Time Killer, Breakloose, Mr. Shrink
March 15: Entroncamento (Por.), Lareira Bar
As you can see, there are some holes to fill. Please, let us know if you can be of any help. It would be very much appreciated.

Reports
On our last tour in January we experienced some hard times in the UK and some overindulgence in Germany. If you want to know more, you can read our tour report here, check out the pictures we took here, and watch the tour report we filmed here (including English subtitles (!) for you non-Dutchies).

Website down
As some of you might have found out already, our website is temporarily down. We're awaiting the new website to be launched. In the mean time you can of course check all information on our myspace . When the new website is ready you'll be able to read all old reports we made, check all pictures we took, order all merch available, and get more details that myspace can't offer you.

All tour dates:
Mar 5 2008 paris (fr.), palais bar
Mar 6 2008 toulouse (fr.), cave de la notte
Mar 7 2008 spain, available
Mar 8 2008 spain, available
Mar 9 2008 spain, available
Mar 10 2008 spain, available
Mar 11 2008 spain, available
Mar 12 2008 faro (por.), associacao de musicos
Mar 13 2008 albufeira (por.), fnac store
Mar 14 2008 cascais (por.), lotus bar
Mar 15 2008 entroncamento (por.), lareira bar
Mar 21 2008 RELEASE SHOW! arnhem (nl.), the stage. w/ gewapend beton, the real danger, smash the statues, new pokerface
Apr 19 2008 aalborg (dk), baghuset. w/ smash the statues
Apr 23 2008 karlstad (swe), tolvmansgatan. w/ smash the statues, ends like this (swe)
Apr 26 2008 lund (swe), hemgarden. w/ smash the statues
May 11 2008 rotterdam (nl.), waterfront. w/ a wilhelm scream (usa)

In the next newsletter hopefully some more news about non-European release plans for Testimony, some more European tour dates (Italy, Austria, Germany, France), non-European touring and new Testimony-inspired shirts/girlies/hoodies.

Thanks, you made it, friends 'til the end!

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this update brings good news! first: news about the tour through germany, the united kingdom and germany. the tour is looking better and better. we're still looking for 4 shows so help is welcome, as usual. please drop by and say hello if you're from the area we'll be touring. we'll bring new songs to play, new merchandise, the snowstar records distro and the typewriter book distro. for this upcoming tour we’ll be doing another tour report (in english) on the dutch music portal 3voor12 .

next to the tour dates some more dutch dates have been announced. we'll be playing with frightening fiction, bob's new band! and also new touring plans for march. check it under shows. it feels good to go out on the road again after 2 months of working on the release full time.speaking of which; finally, after waiting forever and ever and ever we can announce our new album "tesimony" to be released on march 3, 2008. exactly three years after the release of our last full length "silencing civilization". the new album will be released by fond of life records (uk, ger, lux.), infected records (por.), no reason records (ita.), rise or rust records (a.), shield recordings (nl, bel.) and youth way records (fr.). we're very happy to have the full support of these 6 cool and hard working labels. from february 2 you can get your pre-orders from a label near you. this release makes us “label mates” with great bands like enemy alliance, rentokill, this is a standoff, the indecision alarm, the real danger, the twisted minds, astpai, straightaway and much more awesome bands. we can't tell you how much we have been and are still looking forward to this release. some more details: the album is recorded in august 2007, in die tonmeisterei studio in oldenburg, germany. nico van montfort (a.o. face tomorrow, malkovich, instil) did an amazing job on the recording/mixing/mastering of the album. the album costs 10 euro (shipping excluded) and will come in a beautiful digipack designed by gemma pauwels. next to a digipack version shield recordings will also release a vinyl version on 12” and the album will be available in several download stores through fond of life records.

last thing; when we were in the states we made a tour report that got a lot of positive reactions. when we were on the second part of the transatlantic tour in europe we also shot some footage, not as much as in the u.s.a. though, obviously we had some problems with other “stuff”. check out what “stuff” on the video report from the european part of the transatlantic tour report on youtube and on this website. look under “photos” for a lot of photos and a written tour report in english. on our youtube site you can still find the video reports we made during our u.s.a. tour. feel free to become our “video friend”. a studio video report we shot during the recordings of our new album will follow soon.

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thanks to all the friendly people that came out to the amazing enemy alliance show in amsterdam. nice to play there again and see so many familiar faces. we hope you enjoyed it as much.

about the release: people keep asking us about it, and it feels terrible we still can't confirm anything. but it wouldn't be wise to do so until all parties are 100% confirmed and everything is arranged. as we say in dutchland "we are putting the dots on the 'i'" and things are looking damn fine so far. more news within 2 weeks for sure.

to kill the time please read the tour report yvo wrote during the last euro tour we did with static radio. it's online in english here finally.

we are also still working on our u.k.-germany tour in january. please have a look at the dates and let us know if you can help us out on the still available dates. it would mean a lot to us. looking forward to that one, even though it will be cold! in the mean time we also added some more german dates in february.

well, that's it for now, hope to see you soon, perhaps at one of our shows we are doing in holland before the release? 

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hey there! from the outside it might seem there's not much happening, but on the inside it's boiling. we're working on the release full time, we don't even have time to play shows this month. but things are looking good, the album will appear on both c.d. and vinyl this time and will be available all over europe. and beyond. that's more or less all we can say right now. as soon as there's confirmations, we'll post it here.

what we did update is the merchandise section. the new zipped hoody is online and orderable. and adorable. and all buttons/pins are back in stock again, just like the new stickers. go see for yourself.

awaiting the new album and the new songs you can watch the video that was shut at our last show (to date) in breda. there's some new songs on it too, if you're interested. check it out on our youtube page under "favorites", of course!

we can still use some help on the dates in the u.k. and germany in january, so if you feel the need, feel free to help out! info@antillectual.com . we hope to see you in amsterdam on november 30 when we play with enemy alliance (!) and smash the statues(?). that's it for now, bye!

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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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