Antillectual

For those of you who haven’t been paying attention at all: this Friday, December 3rd, we will throw a release party for our new album “Start From Scratch!”. It will be held in the Merleyn in Nijmegen, other bands playing are This Routine Is Hell and The Real Danger. This time we are in it for the afterparty as well: DJ Santina Runaway will serve the finest eighties hardrock and hairmetal until the break of vocal chords. Shield recordings and Typewriter will bring their distros to provide you with the best Sinterklaas presents of the decade. On a related note: we will sell the last copies of our stack of limited vinyl of “Start From Scratch!”.

Bring all your friends, but make sure you are on time. Doors open at 21.00h and it will get FULL. You can also reserve tickets. Wondering which of your facebook friends are coming?

KOME!

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Alright, so we have calmed down a little after releasing our new album on November 1st and touring France after that. How are you doing? The feedback so far has been more than mind blowing and jaw dropping. Below you can find some feedback that reached us, some interviews we did and some reports of what has been going on the last weeks. If you know of more reviews, interviews or the like, please inform us! And of course you can still download all our music including our new album (for free or for a donation) at music.antillectual.com or order a CD or LP at our webshop. Let us know what you think of it, speak freely.

To promote our new album we are gonna play live a lot. See “SHOWS” for all shows, including our “Release Benelux Tour”. Some shows we want to emphasize, in order of appearance:

Dec 3 NL Nijmegen Merleyn RELEASE SHOW “START FROM SCRATCH!” w/ The Real Danger, This Routine Is Hell

Jan 5 GER Available! w/ Red Tape Parade
Jan 6 GER Augsburg Ballonfabrik w/ Red Tape Parade
Jan 7 GER Available! w/ Red Tape Parade
Jan 8 GER Berlin Scherer8 w/ Red Tape Parade, Man the change
Jan 9 GER Available! w/ Red Tape Parade

Jan 13 NL Groningen Eurosonic / Noorderslag: Shadrak, Main w/ Turbostaat, Kvelertak, De Staat, Death Letters, Destine, Kensington, MakeBelieve, Only Seven Left, The Opposites, and so many more … (January 15 we will play acoustic at Eurosonic/Noorderslag for Live in Your Living Room)

As you can see we are still looking for some shows and confirmations for our German tour in January. Where should we drop by? Let us know!

For Dutch blog Eerste Hulp bij Plaatopnamen Riekus reported how we set up, executed and received feedback on our streaming project around the release. For Dutchies interested, read the third part of the trilogy! A lot of people, zines and other media have been writing about us lately. Here you can find a selection of those pieces:

Interviews:
Our interview at Punkfiction (in French)
Our interview at Noize Italia (in Italian)
Our interview at Dagheisha (in Italian)
Our interview at Roar Ezine (in Dutch)

Reviews:
Rockrebelmagazine (in Italian)
Longliverocknroll (in Italian)
Metalorgie (in French)
xBethereorbesquarex (in French)
Roomthirteen (in English)
Massmovement (in English)
Shakezine (in English)
Rockfreaks (in English)
In-your-face (in German)
Track4 (in German. 5 out of 5 stars!)
Tristesse (in Finnish)
Revolution-music (in Danish. 6 out of 6 stars!)
Punx.nl (in Dutch)
Roarezine (in Dutch)

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You may or may not have noticed that a few shows have disappeared from our schedule. We were supposed to play a show with our fresh label buddies Dead To Me in Luzern on october 1st. Unfortunately, Switzerland is a little too far away to just drive down and back for 1 show, and we ended up being too late to book a few shows on the way down and back. We’d really have loved to play that show, but it just didn’t work on this short notice. Many thanks go out to Alain from Sumsrecords for trying to find us shows. And don’t worry: we will come back to Switzerland. The Dead to Me show in Luzern is still happening, just not with us. To those attending the show: enjoy!

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After the release of our new album on November 1st we will be touring our asses off. Starting with a release tour in France in November. First dates have been announced. Please see below. We are still looking for dates, get in touch with us or Effervescence Bookings to fill the voids.

Nov 4 Available
Nov 5 Available
Nov 6 Available
Nov 7 Available
Nov 8 Available
Nov 9 France Saint Etienne, Thunderbird Lounge
Nov 10 France Marseille, TBA
Nov 11 France Montpellier, Up and Down
Nov 12 France Bayonne, Le Kixkil
Nov 13 France Cauterets, Le Commerce
Nov 14 Available

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Since the storm is growing and growing we are making plans for the near future and after the release. Our first trip takes us to Switzerland and Belgium and we could still use some help booking:

Sep 29 AVAILABLE
Sep 30 AVAILABLE
Oct 1 Switzerland Lucerne, Treibhaus. w/ Dead To Me, Face the Front
Oct 2 AVAILABLE
Oct 3 AVAILABLE
Oct 4 Belgium Zele, ‘t Verdriet

We know this is LAST MINUTE so we’re not picky anymore …

After the release we will pack our bags and cases to tour France from November 4 to 14. Our French label Effervescence Records will be booking the tour. In case you want to help us out with a show anywhere in France (or western Italy) please get in touch with booking@effervescence-records.com.

In December we will celebrate our new album with a release show in our hometown Nijmegen and “tour” through Holland and Belgium. In the new year we will be going to the UK and the rest of the universe. Get in touch with us if you want to help out somewhere somehow.

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