The title can mean only one thing, right? And yes indeed, we will be playing the only Dutch show Rise Against does on this tour! Initially they were booked for a gig at the Fields of Rock festival, but since that got cancelled a show was booked at the Oosterpoort in Groningen on June 20. We've double checked our to do list and we're clueless of what's next. Amazing! Stoked! Siked!
And that too, you can interpret in two ways. Because first we would like to thank everybody that showed their support after we had to cancel a part of our upcoming tour in june. Thanks for all warm words in emails, myspace messages and comments. It seems everybody understands our decision and has no hard feelings and that’s good to know. We’ll make it up soon. Promise.
And second of all (you can all stop feeling sorry for us here) we heard we will do the support for Propagandhi, Anti-Flag and Death by Stereo in the upcoming months. If that doesn’t compensate any hurt …
This month we have played with great bands like Strike Anywhere, A Wilhelm Scream and Story of the Year who are big influences on us. But the one band that is our biggest influence ever (plagiarism, anyone?) was still on our “to do list” though, and now finally we will play a show with the almighty Propagandhi. Right now we’re looking for a new number 1 on our to do list. Maybe it is not being sued by those guys after they heard us play? On top of that the show with Anti-Flag will be in the Melkweg, a venue where we visited a shit load of shows ourselves. It’s really great to play there with our own band now.
Anyhow:
With Anti-Flag: June 26; Melkweg in Amsterdam
With Death by Stereo: July 20; Dynamo in Zurich (Switzerland)
With Propagandhi: August 5; JOC De Nartist in Temse (Belgium)
Furthermore, we have done some interviews while we were at the Give It A Name Fest in Milano, Italy and you can find some of that footage here (there’s a report for the Give It A Name Fest too) and here. All in Italian I’m afraid. We also did an interview with La Nariz Roja, a Spanish zine. They will release a sampler with one of our songs on it together with the newest issue. So in case you’re from Spain and interested …
As Riekus already mentioned before we have some new, Testimony-inspired, T-shirts. Check the merchandise section for the design and how to order one. To be complete: you can get our newest album for 5 extra euros if you order a shirt.
And last we found a new review of our Waves 7” in an American zine. Check it out here.
By the way, feel also free to leave a comment on this very website!
Hi all,
how has your weekend been? We had a fine time in the north of Italy with our friends Dami and Ste of No Reason Records. Playing the Give it a Name fest was amazing, watching the other fine bands was great! Thanks to everyone for showing up, and a big thank you to the guys of No Reason for taking such good care of us. Pictures and interviews of the show will be collected in the time coming. Last but not least a big thank you to our friend Pytrik of RE/Fuse fanzine for coming along and sipping espresso
As for upcoming shows: we have one fatality and one newborn: the show in zwolle on may 23rd has been cancelled due to complications with the municipality of Zwolle.. too bad, we sure hope to make it to Zwolle soon.
The newborn is a show in Wageningen on the 31st of may: Bram and Sandbox Rebellion invited us to come play with Sunpower (BE), Damaged Goods among others.
For an updated view on the shows, take a look at our shows . See you at one of them!
Is your weather as great as ours? Hopefully it is. But, what's your excuse to sit behind a computer then? Ah wel … this is my excuse:
This weekend we will be playing the Give It A Name Fest in Italy, Milano. We'd love to invite all Italians to come over, but we simply don't have all your email addresses. Therefore No Reason Records put our new album temporarily as a stream on their website to promote our show at Give It A Name. If you are Italian and want to read about us in your native language go here, Noize Italia did an interview with us.
For our tour in June we're still missing some dates for which we'd love to have shows. Please check the show section and let us know if you're able and willling to help us out. Would be much appreciated! In our own little country we keep on getting more and more shows confirmed. See the same show section for details.
Remember the news that Just Like Your Mom's new van got crashed? In case you didn't believe it, here's some proof for you:
Pretty F'ed up, no? Fortunately Mom will be getting a new toy again soon.
And, as usual, we have some new reviews for you. Check em out here or under the "About" section. Both Testimony and the Waves EP have been reviewed lately.
Strike Anywhere, Agnostic Front, Madball, Textures, Do or Die, The Jux Junction, JB Conspiracy, Getaway, Sonic Boom Six, Electric Eel Shock, Aux Raus and a couple more will be playing with us on the Jera on Air Festival May 1, 2008 in Ysselsteyn. Check http://www.jeraonair.nl/ for more information and updates. Hope to see you there!
Some not totally random listening suggestions:
Nijmegen
Bottrop Stuttgart
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