Antillectual

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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Hopefully you all had an incredible summer with lots of music and nice weather! We had an amazing time releasing Heads You Win, Tails We Lose and playing festivals all over Europe to spread our new single. But summer has come to an end and it’s time to bring you some fresh music and accompanying shows!

The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist

We will release our new single “The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist” on October 30! Musically it might seem a mellow track but its content is heavy nonetheless:

“In a world where politicians govern their nations as companies, citizens are reduced to customers. We are left with little more influence than our spendings. Let’s use that mechanism and “celebrate” the crisis’ 10th birthday by making our purchases with even more care about who we support financially. We, the extras in the neoliberal narrative, should address them in the only language they understand and let our money do the talking. Strategic purchases, consumer strikes and boycotting companies whose policies we don’t agree with are our only bribe to get a foot in the door. Show the invisible hand of the market the visible fist of the people. Merry 10 year crisiversary!”

Pre-order new shirts and Zippers

Starting now you can pre-order The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist merch. Daggers Design created the artwork for the single and the merchandise. Pre-orders end on October 7! Previous designs are still available, including package deals with our 10-year anniversary album Testimony.

The Invisible Hand Meets the Visible Fist Tour

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

• Oct 11 DE Dortmund, Bierschinken Eats FZW
• Oct 13 DE Rees-Haldern, Butze Am Reitplatz
• 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

Still hot: Heads You Win, Tails We Lose

Unfortunately we can’t give you any audio of the new single yet. But this might be a nice occasion to play our most recent single Heads You Win, Tails We Lose? Thanks for all heartwarming reactions to the song and our new “singles approach”!

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The LOUD & RISING TOUR is coming up in 1 week! For ultimate preparation we created playlists on Spotify, Youtube and Bandcamp feat Green Lizard, This Means War and yours truly. Enjoy and hope to see you at one of these:

Feb 08 Den Bosch, W2
Feb 09 Utrecht, DB’S
Feb 10 Alkmaar, Victorie
Feb 15 Rotterdam, Baroeg
Feb 16 Arnhem, Willemeen
Feb 17 Heerlen, Nieuwe Nor

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Finally we get to announce the LOUD & RISING TOUR!

6 Dutch shows with the legends of Green Lizard and brand new punk rockers This Means War. Brought to you by Loud Noise!

08.02 Den Bosch Willem Twee poppodium
09.02 Utrecht dB’s
10.02 Alkmaar Podium Victorie
15.02 Rotterdam Baroeg Rotterdam
16.02 Arnhem Willemeen
17.02 Heerlen poppodium NIEUWE NOR

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We made a music video / after movie / tour report from the footage we shot on our
Latin American tour. And we will go to South-West Europe in June and play a
bunch of festivals this summer.

Latin European Tour

We have added a new chapter to the ENGAGE tour: South-West Europe AKA Latin
Europa. It’s the first time we’re going there with our new album. Looking
forward to it a lot, it’s been a while since we did a run like this, and there’s
some very promising shows in there!

• 31.05 FR Le Havre, McDaids
• 01.06 FR Nantes, Le Ferrailleur
• 02.06 FR Bordeaux, Rock School Barbey (w/ Against Me! & The Bronx)
• 04.06 ES La Coruña, Nave 1834
• 05.06 ES Vigo, Frenopátiko
• 06.06 PT Lisbon, Popular Alvalade
• 07.06 ES Madrid, Trash Can
• 09.06 ES Castellón, Four Seasons
• 10.06 ES Barcelona, Kasal de Joves Roquetes
• 11.06 ES Sarrìa de Ter, ATV / Associació Cultural Apaga la Tele
• 12.06 FR Toulouse, Forbidden Zone

Tour event on facebook.

Presented by Outro Shows and Infected Records

Latin American tour report

What to expect when Antillectual comes on tour? The video tour report of our
Latin American tour with Satanic Surfers will tell you! AKA: the new music video
for One Size Fits All from our latest release ENGAGE! Get a peek of the amazing
time we had in Latin America; on and off stage!

Merch

Now you can pay by card (credit/debit/etc) when you buy merch at shows! Of
course you can also get our merch through our web store. We still have
some leftover items from our Latin American tour. Very limited edition; old and
new designs, selected sizes. For the first time we have ENGAGE available on
cassette tape!

ENGAGE tour continues

Our program for the rest of the summer is taking shape quite nicely as well,
we’re playing LOTS of cool festivals. See you out there!

• 12.05 FR Rouen, DIY or Die Fest
• 26.05 NL Dordrecht, Bibelot
• 27.05 BE Mol, El Topo Goes Loco Fest
• 17.06 DE Osnabrück, Fairytale Festival
• 23.06 NL Ysselsteyn, Jera On Air
• 01.07 DE Enkirch, Fallig Open Air
• 15.07 NL Lichtenvoorde, Zwarte Cross
• 19.08 NL Gemert, Zebra Festival
• 24.08 DE Sulingen, Reload Festival
• 22.09 DE Bochum, 15 Jahre Punkrockers-Radio Festival
• 06.10 NL Utrecht, de Helling
• 29.12 NL Nijmegen, Friends First Fest

Loud Noise bookings

As of now Loud Noise is taking care of our European bookings (Germany excluded)
and we are working on a lot of fun things (tours, shows, festivals) for the rest
of the year. Again, see you out there!

For European bookings (Germany excluded): martijn@loudnoise.nl

For German bookings: maik@thelivingproof.de

That’s it for now. In our next newsletter we’ll have new tours and festivals for you, promise! And who knows what else …
Thanks for reading, stay in touch!

– Willem, Riekus & Toon

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