Antillectual

last weekend we checked if we were still able to play like a proper band after 3 months of not playing or practicing. and people told us we did, the new songs turned out pretty good and some old songs we hadn't played for a while, or never with riekus at all, worked out o.k. as well. so, we tried to arrange some more shows. and again we'll be playing with a band that has influenced us enormously over the years. we imitated their riffs, stole their lyrics, only their looks were too hard to copy: we'll be playing with strike fucking anywhere! and we're so excited you can't imagine … again we're a step closer to having achieved what we wanted and quitting the band. we have some more shows to announce, we'll accompany the burning heads (france's best band we've been told) at their show in het bolwerk in sneek. and we'll be playing at the e.p. release party of our good friends from the tenement kids in a place called arnhem, the stage.
 that's it for now. stay!
 

hey there! here we are again, with actual news to announce! check the latest live xs with a review of our show at the valkhof affaire festival in nijmegen. we got compliments for our show and a comparison with both hot water music and bad religion. anyone heard of those bands?

we also have new shows in the netherlands and belgium. we'll be supporting our austrian friends from rentokill on their benelux dates. besides the dates we play with them, this incredible band will play at the stage in arnhem on thursday december 7. go check those guys out! besides all these confirmed shows we have some more coming up. as soon as they're confirmed, we'll post them.

we also post our dates on our "renewed" myspaced. renewed: we've put some new pics on it and you're extra welcome to become our "friend": www.myspace.com/antillectual

we're still writing and working on new songs which are coming along pretty well. we plan to make demo recordings later this year or early next year. again, we'll keep you updated. good news on the kiddies front as well: jippe is healthy and well, the little fellow is growing like falafel, or on falafel … take care!

hey there all of you! survived your summer vacation? we did. and we have great news to announce, well yvo has: his son "jippe" got born on august 23, healthy and all! so we congratulate yvo and suzette and jippe, and wish them a happy and cosy family with the three of them. we're very curious whose musical talents jippe inherited! perhaps he screams louder than his father?

as for the band, we actually started writing and praticing new songs and they are working out quite alright, we think … someday they'll make it to a record. if you want to hear them, book us a show … we want to play them live ourselves as well! at that we have a new show to announce in charleroi, belgium for a small trip to belgium and france, check the shows. more t.b.a. soon.

we're pretty much running out on some t-shirt and sweater models, if you want to order check the merch-section.

if you want to combine listening our songs with songs from other bands, don't go to our purevolume or myspace sites but listen to blitzkriegpop at kink f.m. it appears there is a radio show willing to give us some airplay!

hopefully some more "important" news soon! to be continued. how you doin'? 

fucked up, if you think about it. but try to keep that negativity down, the economy is recovering! and in emo capital of holland amersfoort you can get suspended from school if your sister wears pants. who cares about israel if you have issues like these in your own country? (inter)national politicians don't. that's for sure. on a more or less similar note, you can watch riekus' pants on this website now. his profile is online. click on "band" if you want to know more about our new drummer.

have we got shit to announce? oh yes we do. after forming antillectual, 6 years of being in a band together, having shitloads of fun in studios and vans, bob has decided to quit antillectual. even though it is not a complete shock coming out of the blue, the last year he has been focusing on his study, it was still an important and heavy decision to make. below you can read the statement bob asked us to put online:

 "hi everyone, bob here.
 after a good talk yesterday with willem and yvo i've decided to leave antillectual. it was a hard decision but with a busy next year coming up i'm just not able anymore to just pack my stuff and go on tour. cause that's what being in antillectual is all about, playing as many shows as possible. i think we all agree on that. so after a nice talk yesterday i decided that it would be a good time to step out now instead being on tour and suddenly realize it isn't working out. so i'm sorry, no fights or whatever just a good talk. it could've saved metallica a lot of money! but enough lame jokes…
 i want to thank willem and yvo for just everything, irina angry & peter youth, suzette, riekus for filling in for me. and everybody else that i've ever met/played with. i also wish suzette and yvo all the best and happiness with their own angry youth.
 this is it. i'm signing out. thanks everyone for the last 6 years.
 toedeloe!" (july 16, 2006)

well, there you go … we want to thank bob enourmously for everything he has done for the band, all the time and energy he has put in the band and for putting up with us. there's no way we can thank him enough. as said, no hard feelings, pressure or arguments influenced his decision. neither do we criticize his decision, this is the best for both bob and antillectual. we wish him all the best for the future and his work as a sound engineer. if you want to send him a message you can do so through bob@antillectual.com, beware: do not disturb him during dinner.

fortunately enough antillectual will not be without a drummer now. a logical next step seemed to be asking riekus, being the replacement drummer for bob already, if he wanted to join the band for real. and he wanted to! so we can also introduce our new drummer rightaway: riekus. also famous from bands like brandnewday, stars overnight, straight a's and almost every band coming out of friesland. he already played around 30 shows with us the last months replacing bob and we're very happy he's willing to replace him permanently.

we're somewhere in between sadness of bob leaving the band and hapiness of having riekus as his replacement. fact of the matter is though, that we're still as strong as ever and more ready than ever. we'll be writing new songs this summer and hopefully playing a lot in the new season. got shows? keep 'em comin'! and in the future new releases will follow for sure. releases? schmeleases!

furthermore: we want to thank everyone that showed up at the show we played last friday at the valkhof affaire in nijmegen. it was a blast playing at such a big festival in front of so much people appreciating what we do. thanks! you can read a nice review of the show at 3 voor 12.

also; being three years late with every hype, we put some new songs on our purevolume and myspace sites.

unfortunately we have some less positive news as well, our show in boxmeer has been cancelled. hopefully we'll be playing the box some other time, but certainly not on september 23. but on the other hand, we have a new show for october 1st. in winterswijk that is. hope to see you then and there! keep 'em comin'!