Antillectual

This might sound like mixed signals, but we want to take a new approach to releasing music. We will of course continue creating new music. But instead of bundling new songs for a new album, we will write, record and send them out to the world one by one. Today we’re pleased to bring you our first new single: Heads You Win, Tails We Lose!

The single on Spotify, Amazon, iTunes and Deezer. Find lyrics, liner notes and the song via all other platforms here.

This song is a response to the current populist wave. Trump is a big idiot and unfortunately part of a worldwide epidemic. The video was shot on the Loud & Rising Tour through the Netherlands with Green Lizard and This Means War last February. The video is put together by our friend, Italian video maker Claudio Stanghellini. Bonus feature: the last ever footage of our old van …

New T-shirts and totes
What’s a new release without new merch? Dark Roast designed the Heads You Win, Tails We Lose artwork and FairTradeMerch printed beautiful shirts. With each shirt comes a download of our new single and a poster of the artwork. Order here!
To celebrate our album Testimony’s 10 year anniversary you can now get Testimony (LP or CD) + a shirt for only 22 euro! Because of popular demand we also restocked on Engage shirts and tote bags!

Heads You Win, Tails We Lose Tour
All upcoming Tour dates:
Jun 08 DE Hamburg, Booze Cruise Fest
Jun 09 DE Herne, Heisterkamp Open Air
Jun 15 DE Golm, Golm Rockt
Jun 16 DE Grevenbrück, Rock n Roll BBQ
Jul 21 BE Westerlo, Kaiser Fest
Jul 27 DE Bausendorf, Riez Open Air
Jul 28 ES Girona, Actitud Fest
Nov 02 NL Eindhoven, The Sound of Revolution
Dec 20 NL Den Haag, Paard
Dec 21 Osnabrück, Bastard Club

Whatsapp updates
You’re not (very) active on social media but want to get updated when we play your area? Send your name and city to +31651708169 and we’ll keep you in the loop.

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Today is ENGAGE’s 1st birthday! There’s good and bad news: the 1st euro pressing is sold out, but the pre-order for the 2nd starts today! You can pre-order new shirts and zipped hoodies as well! As pre-order you can choose various colors and sizes that we will not have available at our webstore or shows!

The 2nd pressing of ENGAGE is of 500 golden LPs in gatefold sleeves, in cooperation with Redfield Records. “Donny Cash” design by Dark Roast, “Spread the Hope” by Daggers Design, prints by FairTradeMerch.

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We made a music video / after movie / tour report from the footage we shot on our
Latin American tour. And we will go to South-West Europe in June and play a
bunch of festivals this summer.

Latin European Tour

We have added a new chapter to the ENGAGE tour: South-West Europe AKA Latin
Europa. It’s the first time we’re going there with our new album. Looking
forward to it a lot, it’s been a while since we did a run like this, and there’s
some very promising shows in there!

• 31.05 FR Le Havre, McDaids
• 01.06 FR Nantes, Le Ferrailleur
• 02.06 FR Bordeaux, Rock School Barbey (w/ Against Me! & The Bronx)
• 04.06 ES La Coruña, Nave 1834
• 05.06 ES Vigo, Frenopátiko
• 06.06 PT Lisbon, Popular Alvalade
• 07.06 ES Madrid, Trash Can
• 09.06 ES Castellón, Four Seasons
• 10.06 ES Barcelona, Kasal de Joves Roquetes
• 11.06 ES Sarrìa de Ter, ATV / Associació Cultural Apaga la Tele
• 12.06 FR Toulouse, Forbidden Zone

Tour event on facebook.

Presented by Outro Shows and Infected Records

Latin American tour report

What to expect when Antillectual comes on tour? The video tour report of our
Latin American tour with Satanic Surfers will tell you! AKA: the new music video
for One Size Fits All from our latest release ENGAGE! Get a peek of the amazing
time we had in Latin America; on and off stage!

Merch

Now you can pay by card (credit/debit/etc) when you buy merch at shows! Of
course you can also get our merch through our web store. We still have
some leftover items from our Latin American tour. Very limited edition; old and
new designs, selected sizes. For the first time we have ENGAGE available on
cassette tape!

ENGAGE tour continues

Our program for the rest of the summer is taking shape quite nicely as well,
we’re playing LOTS of cool festivals. See you out there!

• 12.05 FR Rouen, DIY or Die Fest
• 26.05 NL Dordrecht, Bibelot
• 27.05 BE Mol, El Topo Goes Loco Fest
• 17.06 DE Osnabrück, Fairytale Festival
• 23.06 NL Ysselsteyn, Jera On Air
• 01.07 DE Enkirch, Fallig Open Air
• 15.07 NL Lichtenvoorde, Zwarte Cross
• 19.08 NL Gemert, Zebra Festival
• 24.08 DE Sulingen, Reload Festival
• 22.09 DE Bochum, 15 Jahre Punkrockers-Radio Festival
• 06.10 NL Utrecht, de Helling
• 29.12 NL Nijmegen, Friends First Fest

Loud Noise bookings

As of now Loud Noise is taking care of our European bookings (Germany excluded)
and we are working on a lot of fun things (tours, shows, festivals) for the rest
of the year. Again, see you out there!

For European bookings (Germany excluded): martijn@loudnoise.nl

For German bookings: maik@thelivingproof.de

That’s it for now. In our next newsletter we’ll have new tours and festivals for you, promise! And who knows what else …
Thanks for reading, stay in touch!

– Willem, Riekus & Toon

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Just like last year, we’re doing Record Store Day on our own DIY terms: WEB STORE DAY! This year we’d like to offer you our ENGAGE PACKAGE: a web-store-exclusive pre-order package to get your hands on exotic ENGAGE pressings and items. Delivered to you on Record Store Day, without leaving the house!

ENGAGE PACKAGE:
LP (North American pressing by Bird Attack Records: Gatefold/clear “beer” vinyl/350 pressed)
CD (South American pressing by Fusa Records: digipak)
CD (Japanese pressing by Waterslide Records: cardboard sleeve/obi strip/Japanese lyric translations)
Cassette tape (Argentinian pressing by Catarata Records: limited to 30 pcs)
T-shirt – ENGAGE design – of your color/size/shape
Koozie (only 25 made)
Tote bag
Poster
2 pins

How much? 50 euro + shipping (separate items cost 70+ euro in total)
When? order between April 4-14, delivery April 22
Where? through this link!

But wait, there’s more! Or actually, less: We only have a limited amount of these packages available, simply because we don’t have many copies of each release …
Shopping tips:
+ Send a package as a gift.
+ In case you already have one or more of our albums: give double copies to a friend.

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We’re incredibly excited to present you our new album in full after months of preparing and teasing. This is by far the best album we ever made, we hope you will enjoy it! Some ways to get it:

LP / CD / package
Bandcamp 
Spotify 
iTunes 
Deezer 
Amazon 
Soundcloud 
Google

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