Tomorrow we will have the first rehearsal in our new practice space at the Onderbroek in Nijmegen. Can’t wait to try it out and blast our amps at full throttle. Riekus also bought a new nice flightcase for his drum stuff, and Tom just bought a new bass. Aren’t we ready for some thrashing of new songs?
This upcoming weekend we’ll be playing Antwerp (December 4, Koevoet) and Tilburg (December 5, Little Devil). Please come out and join in!
This is the end of our winter break. Behind the scenes a lot of stuff has happened for us the last couple of weeks. And it’s about time to get out again. First of all “us” isn’t the same people anymore. Second of all: despite that our ambitions are bigger than ever. Third of all: please read on below:
– NEW bass player
– NEW tours
NEW tours
Tom has been working hard to learn our set and the newly written songs. To get both our new bass player and the new songs kicked into perfect shape we planned a run of shows close to home:
Nov 21 NL Sevenum, OJC Walhalla w/ The Real Danger, This Is Cowboy Poetry
Nov 28 NL Breda, Kraakkroeg Voorerf Benefiet Klimaat Actie Kamp. w/ Blame Coca Cola, Rat Label
Dec 4 Bel Antwerpen, de Koevoet w/ Kingterror, Bitedown, GBO
Dec 5 NL Tilburg, Little Devil Shield recordings 5 year anniversary party. w/ Smash the Statues, The Real Danger, Argetti
Dec 19 NL Emmen, Huize Spoorloos w/ Barley Wine
Dec 24 NL Meppel, Cafe Clouso Xodus Kerstpunk. w/ Smash the Statues, Ravens, Omission, The Hunger, The Arrangement, Knekelput
Jan 16 NL Barneveld, Villa / Stedsj
Jan 23 NL Nijmegen, De Onderbroek Yvo & Smash the Statues Farewell show w/ Smash the Statues, In-sane, The Acoustic Alarm
After that period we embark on a European tour and record the new album. Below you find the tour schedule. As you can see we are still in need of shows. Please help us out if you can!
Jan 29 Fr Valenciennes, Available
Jan 30 Fr Lyon, Available
Jan 31 Fr Toulouse, Les Pavillons Sauvages w/ Ivan Rebroff’s Armpits, Messieurs de Fursac
Feb 1 Sp Barcelona, Available
Feb 2 Sp Zaragoza, Available
Feb 3 Sp Madrid, Sala Barracudas
Feb 4 Sp Burgos, TBC
Feb 5 Por Lisboa, Available
Feb 6 Por Porto, Available
Feb 7 Sp Vigo, Available (or Por)
Feb 8 Sp Giyon / Oviedo, Available (or Por)
Feb 9 Sp Bilbao, Available (or Fr)
Feb 10 Sp San Sebastian, Available (or Fr)
Feb 11 Fr Bayonne, TBC
Feb 12 Fr La Rochelle, La Barbarella
Feb 13 Fr Paris, Available
Feb 14 Fr Lille, La Chimère
NEW merch and web shop
Since we are almost out of shirts, patches and zippers and we have new touring plans we ordered some new merch. For the first time we will be doing girly zippers. Don’t let us down girls! If you pre-order our news designs you will get 2 free extra posters, 2 buttons, 2 stickers and 4 samplers, not a bad deal I assure you. Check out the designs and let us know what you think. Zippers come in 2 fancy colors, shirts and girlies in 3 colors.
In case this didn’t lead you to our site yet, please reconsider, since we have a completely new merch store, which makes it even easier to get what you want. Those of you privileged to receive this newsletter can also just reply and place your order.
That’s it for now. Because of the winter people are looking for HOT stuff. And we’ve heard twitter and facebook are HOT. So if you want us to feel appreciated interact with us on Facebook and Twitter.
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!
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
While we have barely recovered from our last trip to Fluff Fest and more, we’ll be hitting the road again this Saturday. We’re finally teaming up with our friends of Rentokill for an 8-day tour of Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands.
Needless to say, we are way stoked to get out there again! On this tour, we’ll be bringing along some fresh new shirts: state-of-the-art Portuguese design by our beloved friend Rita Gomes, printed by the great guys at Fair Trade Merch. The Shirts are 100% Organic Cotton and SA8000 certified for social working conditions. How cool is that!
On this tour, we will be accompanied by Tom (Smash the Statues) and Thomas. Somewhere halfway, our friend Pitter of Rush’n Attack / Omission will be joining as well.
Aug 1 Germany Zwiesel Jugendcafé Festival w/ Rentokill
Aug 2 Germany Rastatt Artcanrobert w/ Rentokill
Aug 3 Belgium Zele ‘T Verdriet w/ Rentokill
Aug 4 Netherlands Nijmegen De Onderbroek w/ Rentokill
Aug 5 Germany Siegen Vortex w/ Rentokill
Aug 6 Germany Menden Das Zentrum w/ Rentokill
Aug 7 Germany Büschfeld U&D Büschfeld w/ Rentokill
Aug 8 Netherlands Den Haag cafe de Vinger w/ Rentokill
see you there, or along the way
Nijmegen
Bottrop Stuttgart
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