Antillectual

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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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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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.

Come and say hi at one of these shows:

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

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While the city of Nijmegen and its surroundings are being visited by tonnes of international marchers and possibly even more beer drinking festival-goers, we are preparing for a little Four Day March of our own. Starting tomorrow, a weekend tour of a mere 2700 kilometers will be our main concern. We’re really looking forward to the festival shows on Fluff 2009 and Scream Out Fest, aswell as the clubshows in JKC Kamen and Sunny Red Feierwerk. Our friend Erik ‘Gameface’ of Sandcreek Massacre will be accompanying us to Fluff.

This will also be the first tour where we carry the new acoustic 7″ “Pull the Plug” in our merch.

Come say hi at one of these shows:

Jul 23      Germany Kamen      JKC
Jul 24     Czech Republic Rokycany/Plzen     Fluff Fest     w/ a trillion bands!!
Jul 25     Austria Pöllau bei Hartberg     Scream Out Festival     @ Club 81
Jul 26     Germany München     Sunny Red – Feierwerk

..Or somewhere along the way?

For those who can’t make it to the German shows: no worries, we’ll be back in Germany in August, touring with the lovely people of Rentokill

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So we had 3 very nice shows last week of which 2 acoustic. And I must say it’s going better and better. Reactions are overall positive. Obviously we aren’t going for the popularity vote beacuse you know that some people will prefer loud guitars over acoustic ploink ploink. Make up your own mind and listen to a song on our Myspace. Anyhow, Punx.nl liked our acoustic 7 inch so much they made it CD (!) of the week and gave us a nice review.

In the mean time Riekus has been busy updating this site and improving what was not perfect yet, and now it all is! You can search this site through the search field on the top right, and some more social networks have been added next to it, Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm, PureVolume, you know the drill. From now on Facebook.com/antillectual is the direct link to our page over there, by the way.

Besides that we updated the merch section and took out what wasn’t available anymore and put in the new EP. Get it while it’s still hot and pink! We also have some samplers (for instance the 15 years AFA compilation) which aren’t featured. Email us if you’re interested, we’ll throw in some nice goodies like stickers and posters.

And last the interview we did in Mülheim in March is online at Get Addicted. There’s also a live video at the same site with a new song.

Let us know if you can help us out with a show for one of our upcoming tours! B-bye!

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