Antillectual

this update brings good news! first: news about the tour through germany, the united kingdom and germany. the tour is looking better and better. we're still looking for 4 shows so help is welcome, as usual. please drop by and say hello if you're from the area we'll be touring. we'll bring new songs to play, new merchandise, the snowstar records distro and the typewriter book distro. for this upcoming tour we’ll be doing another tour report (in english) on the dutch music portal 3voor12 .

next to the tour dates some more dutch dates have been announced. we'll be playing with frightening fiction, bob's new band! and also new touring plans for march. check it under shows. it feels good to go out on the road again after 2 months of working on the release full time.speaking of which; finally, after waiting forever and ever and ever we can announce our new album "tesimony" to be released on march 3, 2008. exactly three years after the release of our last full length "silencing civilization". the new album will be released by fond of life records (uk, ger, lux.), infected records (por.), no reason records (ita.), rise or rust records (a.), shield recordings (nl, bel.) and youth way records (fr.). we're very happy to have the full support of these 6 cool and hard working labels. from february 2 you can get your pre-orders from a label near you. this release makes us “label mates” with great bands like enemy alliance, rentokill, this is a standoff, the indecision alarm, the real danger, the twisted minds, astpai, straightaway and much more awesome bands. we can't tell you how much we have been and are still looking forward to this release. some more details: the album is recorded in august 2007, in die tonmeisterei studio in oldenburg, germany. nico van montfort (a.o. face tomorrow, malkovich, instil) did an amazing job on the recording/mixing/mastering of the album. the album costs 10 euro (shipping excluded) and will come in a beautiful digipack designed by gemma pauwels. next to a digipack version shield recordings will also release a vinyl version on 12” and the album will be available in several download stores through fond of life records.

last thing; when we were in the states we made a tour report that got a lot of positive reactions. when we were on the second part of the transatlantic tour in europe we also shot some footage, not as much as in the u.s.a. though, obviously we had some problems with other “stuff”. check out what “stuff” on the video report from the european part of the transatlantic tour report on youtube and on this website. look under “photos” for a lot of photos and a written tour report in english. on our youtube site you can still find the video reports we made during our u.s.a. tour. feel free to become our “video friend”. a studio video report we shot during the recordings of our new album will follow soon.

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thanks to all the friendly people that came out to the amazing enemy alliance show in amsterdam. nice to play there again and see so many familiar faces. we hope you enjoyed it as much.

about the release: people keep asking us about it, and it feels terrible we still can't confirm anything. but it wouldn't be wise to do so until all parties are 100% confirmed and everything is arranged. as we say in dutchland "we are putting the dots on the 'i'" and things are looking damn fine so far. more news within 2 weeks for sure.

to kill the time please read the tour report yvo wrote during the last euro tour we did with static radio. it's online in english here finally.

we are also still working on our u.k.-germany tour in january. please have a look at the dates and let us know if you can help us out on the still available dates. it would mean a lot to us. looking forward to that one, even though it will be cold! in the mean time we also added some more german dates in february.

well, that's it for now, hope to see you soon, perhaps at one of our shows we are doing in holland before the release? 

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next saturday, november 17, we'll be playing in almighty veenendaal, in the escape. together with local heroes, de tarrels, dislocated and some band called brat pack. come check it out.
 

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dear all, this week we got back from our longest, best, warmest, hardest and most american euro tour we did so far. we've had great times together with the static radio boys in all the beautiful countries and cities we went to. on the other hand we suffered the worst experience a touring band can experience: a van breaking down. between toulouse and montpellier the van decided not to shift gears anymore. well, stuck in third gear you won't get far, but just like your mom managed to arrange replacement transportation. if it wasn't for mom we'd have to cancel the rest of the tour. with the new transportation (two vehicles actually, a car and a minivan) we could finish the rest of the tour. even though we have to offer our most sincere apologies to the people in montpellier who came to the show and for who we came in too late (we only had a 6 hour delay because of the van breaking down). hopefully we'll be back in montpellier soon to make this up! but for the rest this tour was better than any other tour we ever did. never before did so many people come to the shows, did we sell so much merch and were people singing along in tune this much. thank you to all contributing to this, both people organizing and showing up. if you want to read in detail how everything went, read on at our 3voor12 diary (all in dutch unfortunately, an english version will be posted on our site soon!). if you want to watch some pictures we and static radio took, please go here. a video report will be posted later.

other news: we have some more shows in our own country to announce, and since the show in nijmegen was such a succes even though some people couldn't make it, we'll be playing again in nijmegen december 20, at de onderbroek. also we'll be playing in one of our other hometowns, leeuwarden. check the shows for more dates.

on the tour we brought some new merchandise, new zippers, hoodies, t-shirts, girlies, stickers, 7"es. and there are some leftovers we brought back home. please check the merchandise section if you're looking for a 7" or a new sweater to confront the cold winter. one zipped hoody design is not online yet, next time it will be. we also have new sampler offers. just to let you know.

and, since we just got back from tour, we're working hard on our next tour. this time we'll be hitting the u.k. and germany again. if you can and want to help us out, you're more than welcome. please check the shows section for available dates.

last but not least, next week the final master of the new album, testimony, will be back from the studio. we're still talking to several labels about the release. as soon as any confirmations are in you will read it here. as for now, it looks the record won't be out before the new year though. 

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 yeah, sorry for that. the site just felt like it needed to be update again. mainly because we will be on tour pretty soon and we want all available information to be correct. so all the other playing bands and all venues are up to date as much as possible. if you have more info that needs to be online, let us know. for the tour kick off in merleyn you can win tickets to get in for free and get a free 7" as well. if you go to as ice hardcore e-zine or punx.nl you have to answer a question and you might get in for free if you're lucky.

we are terribly sorry that we are not playing bologna any more. the gig got cancelled because of a big demonstration that will be held because of the eviction of a squat in bologna. people were asked not to organize shows on that day to garantuee a high turn out for the demonstration. so we hope the demonstration turns out alright to support the punk/squat scene in bologna so they can exist for many more years and organize a lot of good stuff. we have played bologna twice and those were some of our best shows, we hope that we are able to come back soon! for that day we found another show in pieffe factory in gorizia, eastern italy. of course we are looking forward to play there as well!

since we are here anyway: yesterday another amazing gig got confirmed: november 30 in winston kingdom in amsterdam with the already almighty enemy alliance (ex-satanic surfers/venerea) from sweden. we are happy to play that gig as you can imagine!

and last but not least, a news update about the "community" that surrounds antillectual: angry youth records is working on a split 7" featuring new dutch punk bands as brat pack, the real danger, union town and the tenement kids. square of opposition records is working on the distribution of their new 7"es including ours and yo man go's (ex-hypatia) and looking for labels all over the world to trade and sell wholesale. our 7" is available through interpunk.com (just like our full length) and ebullition records. reviews should be in soon. just like your mom is maybe busier than we are. check the schedule on their myspace account. they are driving bands like the datsuns, bambix, high five drive, the addicts and giving chase; and at that booking shows. some one is showing off there! suzette design turned into hi-fibre, she's currently working on our new website, which is gonna look amazing! or at least better than her own … ok that's enough. for now. talk to you tomorrow! 

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