Antillectual

Today we bring you the 4th edition of our singles series: If You’re Not Outraged! An energetic, urgent track with an anti-fascist message. Critical times still call for critical culture!

Extreme right wing ideologies are growing. Alt-right, identitarian movements and populism are proof that the far right wing is on the rise again. Just to be clear: we think that’s a bad thing. As a result the anti-fascist (re)action and movement is growing too. Just to be clear: we think that’s a good thing. Anti-fascism is not a crime!

Check this special page for If You’re Not Outraged via all platforms (Spotify, Youtube, Bandcamp, etc), the lyrics and liner notes. Join us for a Q&A about our new single today (Tuesday, July 9) at 20h00 CET on our Youtube channel.

This is the first release from our recording session with Tim van Doorn at Big Dog Recordings in Antwerp, Belgium, more to come! Mastering by Nico van Montfort at XPZ Sound. The music video is created by Bram Bergs. Single artwork by Ruben Swieringa.

Merch

To have appropriate new merch our friend Thomas at Dark Roast adapted a picture of a demonstration by the Neo-Nazi Nordic Reich Party in Växjö, Sweden in April 1985. A Polish-Swedish passerby (whose mother had been sent to Auschwitz) could no longer resist swinging her handbag at the nazis. FairTradeMerch made beautiful organic, fair-trade and vegan shirts of the design. Orders come with free downloads of all our singles, and you can still get older merch with a discount if you use NEWSLETTER25 as coupon code!

If You’re Not Outraged tour dates

Come hear our new single live at the following shows:

• Jul 13 DE Hormersdorf, KNRD Fest
• Jul 21 NL Zaanstad, Haltpop
• Jul 26 DE Hamburg, Markthalle w/ Propagandhi
• Aug 02 BE Duffel, Brakrock
• Aug 10 DE Lingen, Abifestival / Lautfeuer
• Aug 10 NL Amsterdam, Melkweg w/ Descendents
• Aug 24 DE Bergen, Ein Festival Der Vielfalt
• Sep 13 DE Köln, Sonic Ballroom
• Sep 20 DE Göttingen, einsB
• Sep 21 DE Berlin, Heart Attack Fest
• Nov 23 DE Alfeld, Alfeld Rockt
• Dec 07 DE Jena, Rosenkeller
• Dec 28 NL Nijmegen, Friends First Fest

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This is more or less a one-off announcement. Read about our upcoming single, check the accompanying merch pre-orders, or find some heavily reduced older merch. Explore Willem’s guitar tutorial series and see our upcoming show dates.

New Single

On July 9 we will release our next single! If You’re Not Outraged is a faster and more aggressive song than our last singles. The lyrical content deals with the rise of the anti-fascist movement and its actions, responding to the growth of extreme right sentiments, and how antifascism seems to trigger critical reactions while being a positive force. Our friend and designer Ruben Swieringa created the artwork.

New Merch

With a new single comes new merch! Thomas from Dark Roast designed a shirt to go with the theme of the single, which can be pre-ordered. Orders will be with you on July 9 and come with a download of the new single. As always: all shirts and prints are organic, fairtrade and vegan.

Reduced Merch Bundles

To make room for new designs we’ll let go of some old designs for a reduced price: 25% off each order over € 20. Use coupon code NEWSLETTER25 during checkout in our web store.

Guitar Tutorial Series

After getting requests about how to play our songs on guitar, Willem did a live playthrough of The Invisible Hand a couple of months ago. The interest and positive feedback led to a second playthrough (of Truth Hits Everybody) and more live videos to come! Check the videos.

If You’re Not Outraged tour dates

Come check out our new single live at the following shows:

• Jul 07 NL Utrecht, dB’s/Revivalfest
• Jul 13 DE Hormersdorf, KNRD Fest
• Jul 20 NL Zaanstad, Haltpop
• Jul 26 DE Hamburg, Markthalle w/ Propagandhi
• Aug 02 BE Duffel, Brakrock
• Aug 10 DE Lingen, Abifestival / Lautfeuer
• Aug 10 NL Amsterdam, Melkweg w/ Descendents
• Aug 24 DE Bergen, Ein Festival Der Vielfalt
• Sep 13 DE Köln, Sonic Ballroom
• Sep 20 DE Göttingen, einsB
• Sep 21 DE Berlin, Heart Attack Fest
• Nov 23 DE Alfeld, Alfeld Rockt
• Dec 07 DE Jena, Rosenkeller
• Dec 28 NL Nijmegen, Friends First Fest

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Hope you all had a wonderful NYE and a good start in the new year? May your 2019 be better than 2018, even if 2018 wasn’t all that bad for you!

We’ll tell you what we can tell you about our 2019 plans, and we’ll hint at those we can’t tell you about yet.
Coming up first we have a nice extended weekend with one of the most controversial yet interesting (punk) acts around (Pussy Riot!) and one of our favorite bands of all times (Satanic Surfers!). In March we will record new music with Tim van Doorn at his Big Dog Recordings in Antwerp. That same month we will release a new single, for which the writing isn’t done, but the recordings are. In April we will play an awesome festival in a European country we toured extensively in the past, but not recent. In summer we will release another single, and we have some summer nice festivals scheduled. We plan to tour to places we haven’t been before (on the borders of fortress Europe) late summer. Our last 2019 single will be released in late fall/early winter when we hope to return to the other side of the equator to enjoy a little summer in winter. And of course we will end the year with a bang at the 5yr anniversary edition of Friends First Fest!

We hope to see each and every one of you in 2019 and have a blast together!

Jan 30 NL Arnhem, Luxor Live w/ Pussy Riot
Jan 31 NL Utrecht, Ekko w/ Satanic Surfers
Feb 01 BE Oostende, Elysee w/ Satanic Surfers
Feb 02 DE Münster, Skaters Palace w/ Satanic Surfers
Mar 08 DE Leer, JUZ
Mar 09 DE Neunkirchen, Stummsche Reithalle
May 03 AT Wels, SBÄM Fest
Jun 01 DE Wesel, Eselrock
Jul 07 NL Utrecht, dB’s/Revivalfest
And so much more to come …

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2018 & Friends First Fest – in retrospect

We are thankful and happy that we get to end every year with Friends First Fest. It’s an incredible way to end the year, and yesterday was no exception! Thanks to the massive group of people making De Onderbroek packed and sweaty, the way we like to see it! Sorry to the people that got turned down at the door for the venue being too full already. Next chance next year! Not unimportant, together with Minor Operation Donations we managed to raise over 1300 euro for Help Refugees!

2018 was a strange but good year for us! We started by closing the ENGAGE cycle and shooting and releasing a video series for Change the Standard. An enormous project which we couldn’t have done or wouldn’t have been as much fun without the help from so many friends.

In 2018 we took a turn from our standard routing and started doing some things differently. Most noticeable we have stopped writing, recording and releasing albums. Instead we have started a song-by-song approach since June 2018. We were very anxious to release our first two singles (Heads You Win, Tails We Lose & The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist) but were relieved when the response turned out overwhelming. We got to record the singles with Martin Beusker at Mailmen Studio, and something we will release in 2019 (to be continued!) with our sound tech Emiel and Menno Bakker at the Amsterdam Recording Company. We’ve shot videos with Younique Film, Ivana Smudja and many of our friends for our music videos of 2018.

We played less shows in 2018 because of study related obligations, which will continue in the first half of 2019. But the shows that we did were great! The Loud & Rising Tour with Green Lizard and This Means War, festivals like Manchester Punk Fest, AntAttack, Uncle M Fest, Booze Cruise, Riez Open Air, The Sound of Revolution, Bierschinken Fest and an amazing weekend in Spain for Actitud Fest. We had incredible shows in Liège, Minden, Wermelskirchen, Kiel, Osnabrück, Hamburg and many other places. We got to say goodbye to Adhesive in our hometown/living room and met and shared the stage with all time heroes No Fun At All and Propagandhi multiple times. We also got to say goodbye to our loyal van for 10 years and hello to our new red menace!

2018, you’ve been good to us. And by that we mean “THANK YOU!” to all who checked us out, came to a show or helped us out otherwise in 2018! Another big thanks to our solid partners The Living Proof Agency, Loud Noise, Uncle M Music, Redfield Records. And last but definitely not least a big “THANKS!” our steady rock crew Roos and Emiel, and all others that joined us on the road!

Catch you on the other side! Willem, Riekus, Toon

PS: check our best of 2018 playlist here

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Our new single is out today! Finally we can present you the music and the accompanying video for The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist! Merch with the artwork is now also up for regular sale via our site and available at our upcoming tour dates. This is our second single, so we officially have a “series” now!

The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist

Check our new single on Spotify, Youtube, Bandcamp or your channel of choice via antillectual.com/theinvisiblehand. Listen, download, buy, spread and add it to your playlists! The Invisible Hand is an ode to conscious consumers in a capitalist world: a world dictating you to either produce commodities under sketchy circumstances or buy them. The song is recorded at Mailmen Studio and mastered by XPZ Sound, the video is created by Younique Film.

The Invisible Hand Shirts and Zippers

Order The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist merch – organic, fair trade & sustainable – created by Daggers Design. With each order come stickers, posters and a download of the new single. Previous designs are still available, including package deals with our 10-year anniversary album Testimony.

Speaking of Testimony …

Friends First Fest 2018

The end of 2018 is near, and that means Friends First Fest is coming up. We’re thrilled (and a little scared!) to announce that we will play a special TESTIMONY set, consisting of our 10 year anniversary album in its entirety, completed with more recent singles! We’ll be playing songs we never played live before from your favorite album*! Tickets are on sale now and come with a free Testimony download! We will announce other bands and details over the next weeks.
*By us, from that year?

The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Tour

Of course we want to play our new single for you! Come to one of the following to hear it live:

• Nov 02 NL Eindhoven, The Sound of Revolution w/ Propagandhi, Dag Nasty, Life of Agony, more
• Nov 17 NL Groningen, Lola
• Dec 01 DE Ibbenbüren, Rocktage
• Dec 08 DE Kiel, Schaubude
• Dec 20 NL Den Haag, Paard w/ No Fun at All
• Dec 21 Osnabrück, Bastard Club w/ No Fun at All
• Dec 22 DE Hamburg, Punkalicious Christmas Festival (Hafenklang)
• Dec 29 NL Nijmegen, Friends First Fest (De Onderbroek)
• Jan 30 NL Arnhem, Luxor Live w/ Pussy Riot

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