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Shit is hitting the fan. After a period of single shows, festivals and writing music, we’re back out there with our new “Future History” EP and a tour through North and South America.

Future History EP

We will record a new full length album this winter and release it spring 2013. In preparation we have been writing, rehearsing and recording new music over the last months. In anticipation of the new album we are releasing an EP with 2 new songs and 2 bonus tracks on September 28th. “Future History” will be released in cooperation with Shield Recordings, Destiny Records, No Reason Records, Lockjaw Records and Angry Chuck Records throughout Europe and Russia. Here’s a little preview of what to expect:

We are taking pre-orders for the EP:

• The new EP + ALL our other releases (CD or LP) + shirt of your choice + tote bag for 35 euro
• The new EP + shirt of your choice for 15 euro (incl shipping within Europe!)
• The new EP for 5 euro

Americas tour

With a release of “Start from Scratch!” in both the USA and Brazil it is about time to go there. What better occasion than The Fest XI to do so? Before we play Fest we will be touring from Canada to Florida with After the Fall, Anchors and The Stereo State. After Fest we will fly out to Brazil for another leg of dates.

• Oct 16 CAN Montreal, QC; Lesco w/ Prevenge, After the Fall, Anchors
• Oct 17 USA Albany, NY; Fuze box w/ Cancer, Bad Friends, After the Fall, Anchors
• Oct 18 USA Rochester, NY; Elixer w/ Weight we Carry, After the Fall, Anchors
• Oct 19 USA Worcester, MA; Ralphs w/ Smartbomb, After the Fall, Anchors, the Stereo State, headliner TBA
• Oct 20 USA Manhattan, NY; ABC No Rio, Saturday Punk Hardcore Matinee. w/ After the Fall, Anchors, the Stereo State
• Oct 21 USA Brooklyn, NY; The Place w/ The Marine Electric, After the Fall, Anchors, the Stereo State
• Oct 22 USA Philadelphia, PA; Mother’s. w/ After the Fall, Anchors, the Stereo State
• Oct 23 USA Washington, DC; Rass Hall w/ After the Fall, Anchors, the Stereo State
• Oct 24 USA Richmond, VA; Empire w/ Worn in Red, After the Fall, Anchors, the Stereo State, headliner TBA
• Oct 25 USA Wilmington, NC; Soapbox, Southbound and Down Fest. w/ None More Black, The Snips, Banquets, Dirty Tactics, After the Fall, Anchors, the Stereo State, more
• Oct 26 USA Gainesville, FL; Fest XI w/ Propagandhi, Lagwagon, Good Riddance + 250
• Oct 27 USA Gainesville, FL; Fest XI w/ A Wilhelm Scream, Polar Bear Club, Latterman + 250
• Oct 28 USA Gainesville, FL; Fest XI w/ Astpai, Despite Everything, Leagues Apart + 250
• Nov 01 BRA Porto Alegre, RS
• Nov 02 BRA Urussanga, SC; Ventuno Pub
• Nov 04 BRA Novo Hamburgo, RS; Abbey Road bar
• Nov 06 BRA Florianópolis, SC; Mustafa Bar
• Nov 07 BRA São Carlos, SP; Palquinho da Ufscar
• Nov 08 BRA Guarulhos, SP; Musical Bar
• Nov 09 BRA Santos, SP; Tribal Club. w/ End of Pipe
• Nov 10 BRA São Paulo, SP; Hangar 110. w/ End of Pipe
• Nov 10 BRA São José dos Campos, SP; Hocus Pocus. w/ End of Pipe
• Nov 11 BRA Vitória, ES; Bar Pós Graduação. w/ Bullet Bane, Blackjaw, Surra, Auria, Inerte, Trace

Whipping Post Music

From September on we will be cooperating with Whipping Post Music for our BeNeLux bookings. Get in touch with our friend Frank to help us out “live”. Around the release of our new album next spring we plan to hit the BeNeLux soil hard.

More shows

• Sep 1, Bunkfest, Willemstad
• Sep 22, Breakfest (Megaland), Landgraaf. w/ Destine, Kraantje Pappie, Dope DOD, Midnight Souls, As Enemies Arise, Hofbuskers, Two Days Left, Major Tom, Fallen One, I’ll Pick You Up, As Heavens Collide, more
• Nov 28 – Dec 2 Italy Tour w/ Bedtime for Charlie
• Feb 1, Juz Dampfmühle, Verden. w/ No Good Intentions, Substanz P

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While it may seem that we are laying low (our last tour was in December) we are actually planning more than ever: tours, releases and new recordings!

• Fest 11 + USA Tour
• Re-releases “Start From Scratch!” and “Testimony”
• Pre-production recordings and EP
• New zippers and shirts

Fest 11 + USA Tour

Can we get a drum roll please? The biggest and best news by far is the tour that we have planned for October and November. After 4 years of absence, we will finally return on American soil. We have been confirmed to play the almighty Fest 11 in Gainesville, and we will be touring the USA on our way down to Fest. Details to be confirmed.

Re-releases “Start From Scratch!” and “Testimony”

Since all LPs of “Start From Scratch!” and all CDs and LPs of “Testimony” are out of stock, we decided to run a second pressing of both albums together with our friends at Shield Recordings. The 350 gatefold LPs of “Start From Scratch!” will be “seein’ red” and “Testimony” will see a reincarnation of 250 LPs in the “grey area”. The 500 “Testimony” CDs will be a jewel case edition.

Pre-production recordings and EP

Having written half a new album already, we decided to book some studio dates. In May we will record these songs to prepare ourselves for the recordings of our fourth full length album next winter. 2 of those new songs will end up on an EP which will be released later this year. Details to be confirmed.

New zippers and shirts

No re-release here! Freshly designed zipped hoodies and T-shirts! Stay up to date and support us by ordering a shirt, zipper, a repressed album or a nice package of shirt+album.

Shirts have the King Kong print on the front. A limited amount of these shirts, with a red and black print on white, will be sold by Fairtrademerch at this year’s Groezrock Festival. Speaking of Groezrock: make sure to stop by Shield Recordings and No Reason Records on the market, and treat yourself to one of Mom’s Veggie Burgers.

Shows

MAY 04 Brussels (BE) – Garcia Lorca w/ The Arteries, The Octopussy’s, Black Sheep – [RSVP]
MAY 05 Utrecht (NL) – DB’s w/ Cobra Skulls, Wanderlust, The Windowsill – [RSVP]
MAY 16 Ysselsteyn (NL) – Jera On Air w/ No Turning Back, This Routine Is Hell + more tba
MAY 18 Arnhem (NL) – H80 bult theater festival – [RSVP]
MAY 27 Tienray (NL) – Gaellus Open Air w/ Sunday Zombies & The Brain – [RSVP]
JUN 02 Heilbronn (DE) – Ex Stereo w/ Planet Watson – [RSVP]
JUN 23 Oostende (BE) – Skatefest (Skate Bowl) w/ Madsin, Ostend Powers, Funkyfresh, Windub – [RSVP]
JUL 20 Südwinsen (DE) – Südwinsen Festival – [RSVP]
JUL 23 Drachten (NL) – Iduna w/ Ignite, Sparky’s Revenge – [RSVP]
JUL 27 Langenau (DE) – Pfleghof Open Air w/ Benzin, Settle Down – [RSVP]
AUG 10 Bunsbeek (BE) – Kloemprock w/ MXPX, Voodo Glow Skulls, Atlas Losing Grip, Gino’s Eyeball, Off the Charts, Left Alone
NOV 24 Erkelenz (DE) – Plug In Let’s Rock Festival / Auditorium w/ Not Available, Face the Fax, Ginos Eyeball, Ten Tons of Glory, Middle Finger Salute, 51st Degree, Cause for Confusion  – [RSVP]

USA Tour

OCT 15 – 25 USA – East Coast Tour
OCT 26 FEST 11 – Gainesville, FL
OCT 27 FEST 11 – Gainesville, FL
OCT 28 FEST 11 – Gainesville, FL

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Our trip started in a rather unorganized fashion: we almost missed our flight from Düsseldorf. Don’t ask how, but we heard our names being called over the speakers on the airport: “mr Ten Haaf, Heijmans and Van Montfort, you are delaying your flight”. Pretty strange, but we made it by a close call and besides that we could skip the whole waiting around at the airport. Win-win situation. Also, we had to wait for Riekus a little longer because he had a leatherman somewhere in his bag and they don’t like small heavy iron objects with a knife in airports.

Arriving in Greece was pretty nice for us: 19 degrees and some sun is better than the icy, windy, rainy weather we had left behind in the Netherlands. The first night we were invited to play a sort of secret show for a smaller audience in a rehearsal studio. It was small and intense and extremely warm but very cool to play there. Jack from Despite Everything (great band!) recorded the whole show with his studio-gear. I have no idea how we must have sounded (loud as always I guess) but I was having a cold and Willem was recovering from a cold. All in all we had a great evening on our first friday night ever in Greece.

On saturday, our host Apostolis’ roommate Drossos (“even for Greeks it’s a weird name” he said) showed us around Athens. It’s nice as a tourist to see the ancient Greek parts of Athens. It’s hard to figure out how heavy ass it must have been to make such structures without all the possibilities and heavy constructions stuff we use these days to build things. What’s strange to see for me as a european in another european country was all the police walking around all day and night. It sometimes gave me a feeling of discomfort being there. Of course there is a lot going on about politics and the eurocrisis but I can understand that a lot of young people don’t like all the police walking through their city fully armed. It just gives you a feeling of being uncomfortably ‘safe’ sometimes..

The show in Athene went well on saturday night: we had a great time playing and meeting a lot of new people and for me personally seeing new bands. Then sunday morning we had to travel to our show in Volos, but to be honest (and we also told the audience later on) we had no idea where and what Volos was. So Riekus got his macbook out, ran Volos through wikipedia and google maps and SHABAM we knew what to expect from the city.

I believe it was a 4 hour drive from Athens to Volos. Sitting in the van with Wish Upon A Star from Athens, we got the extra touring guide information about what we were seeing from the roads we were on (and holy shit do Greek people talk loud!).

The show in Volos went well. I actually heard from some people that they liked the show in Volos most. It’s always tough for me as a musician to compare shows with each other but maybe they were right. After all, the show felt good and I was not feeling so sick anymore in Volos. So that was Volos. One thing I will never forget was the ENORMOUS teddybear at the sleeping place in Volos.

So that was that! Back to Athens airport on monday morning and trying to get some sleep in the plane. No flights were delayed this time. A big Thank You goes out to Apostolis for inviting us and putting up 3 shows for us! I’m very grateful for the possibilities we got for playing over there and hopefully we can go back to Greece another time soon.

Pictures or it didn’t happen!

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After a relatively easy summer we are ready again for action! Touring Europe, getting our new bass player ready; there is hope for the future!

Euro tour with Static Radio

We reunite the team that did the Transatlantic tours in 2007; together with Static Radio we will be hitting Europe this October. Facebook event and dates:

• 30-09 NL Sneek, Het Bolwerk. w/ The Get Up Kids
• 01-10 UK Manchester, Night and Day. w/ Leagues Apart, Chief, Deecracks, Murderburgers
• 02-10 UK Edinburgh, Banshees Labyrinth. w/ Shields Up, First Step to Failure
• 03-10 UK Leeds, The Well
• 04-10 UK Swansea, Mozarts. w/ Nozzle, Hangmen
• 05-10 UK Bridgend, Hobo’s
• 06-10 FR Le Havre, Mac Daid’s. w/ Without Skin
• 07-10 DE Cologne, Aetherblisment
• 08-10 NL Arnhem, The Stage.  w/ Wanderlust
• 09-10 DE Trier, Exhaus
• 10-10 DE Minden, Hamburger Hof
• 11-10 DE Berlin, Lovelite
• 12-10 DE Kiel, Schaubude
• 13-10 DE Hannover, Chez Heinz. w/ Red City Radio
• 14-10 DE Wiesbaden, Kreativfabrik
• 15-10 DE Bergkamen, Jz Yellowstone. w/ Eskimo Callboy, Distance in Embrace, Monstars get Loaded

Music Video Buyer’s Remorse

Our Italian friend Claudio Stanghellini shot our show with Boysetsfire in Milano last June and made a music video from the footage. The result can be seen here. Share it till you can share no more!

New bass player

Last but not least at all: we found a new bass player! During the last 1,5 month over 30 people from all over the world responded to our call. We are incredibly thankful for all the applications, kind words and other support! Our new member’s name is Glen and from December  on we will be doing shows with him. He has been playing bass and singing in bands for over 10 years, with a background in punk, hardcore and hiphop and experience as a full time promoter. In stead of the usual high-fiving on the deal, we forced him to sign a contract for life.

Below you can find the rest of the shows to come. Feel free to help us out with our UK tour in December or other shows!

• 30-11 – 6-12 UK tour: Get in touch for dates!
• 03-12 UK Dundee, Book Yer Ane Fest (Kage Nightclub). w/ Leatherface, Franz Nicolay, Bangers, the Arteries, the Cut Ups, the Living Daylights, Mikey Erg, ONSIND, many more.
• 08-12 NL Utrecht, Tivoli / De Helling. w/ De Heideroosjes
• 09-12 NL Zwolle, Hedon. w/ De Heideroosjes
• 23-12 BE Herselt, Jh De Choke *Acoustic*

That’s it for this time! As always: check our music, merchandise (we’ve got new designs/colors!) and most recent stuff at antillectual.com

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While we’re booking ferry tickets, renting cars, getting a stand-in bass player ready and generally keeping busy preparing for tour, there’s still 3 dates to be filled for this tour:

08.10.2011 – France, Netherlands, Belgium
09.10.2011 – Netherlands, Belgium, Germany
10.10.2011 – Belgium, Germany

If you would be willing to book us and Static Radio in any of these areas, please get in touch with George at No Decline Booking. Thanks!

And guess what: the first show of this tour will be with the almighty Get Up Kids in Sneek. Looking forward to that one!

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