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We're a punkrock trio from Nijmegen, the Netherlands. We've toured and released albums worldwide since 2005. We like our punkrock political and melodic, combining the best of ’90’s skatepunk, ’00’s emo and ’10’s orgcore.

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02 January 2023 ~ Comments Off on Happy 2023!

Happy 2023!

May 2023 continue where 2022 left off for our scene: getting back on track after the pandemic. On the other hand, the world seems to be in dire straits with wars and crises continuing. We hope releasing our upcoming album can offer some solace, hope and a constructive outlook on the future. We didn’t call it TOGETHER for no reason.

As for us, we’re currently in the calm before the storm: we only have 3 shows announced. We’re saving ourselves for the release of our album and the period afterwards and we have quite some bangers lined up. Once the album is out we’ll play like our lives are depending on it! Test pressings have been approved, the waiting game continues. We hope to have more news for you soon!

Jan 20 BE Liege, La Zone
May 13 DE Lindenholzhausen, Limewood Fest
Dec 29 NL Nijmegen, Friends First Fest

Artwork TOGETHER

Artwork TOGETHER by Thomas at Dark Roast

30 December 2022 ~ Comments Off on 2022; weird but good!

2022; weird but good!

After 2 years of pandemic we finally felt like a band again in 2022. The year had a very slow start, and not everything went back to normal, but we did manage to make it a fun year! We played fun shows, recorded music for our upcoming album and regained a sense of purpose!

The year started in hibernation mode, continuing pandemic projects like the years before: doing acoustic Propagandhi covers, deconstructing I Wrote This Song and creating what turned out to be a TikTok hit.

When the time was right we kicked off live with a new festival combining skating & music at our local skate park Waalhalla: SHRED FEST! What a way to come back to live!

Summer brought us festivals like Mad Ones Fest in Luxembourg, Göttingen HC Sommerfest, Beard Ättäck Fest, Kraetzeval, The Broken Fest.

We got to share the stage with Bad Religion, Pussy Riot and Heideroosjes, play amazing locations like Paradiso and Conne Island, and do fun shows like Punk Rock Riot, Turbo Fest and Happy Accidents Fest!

We welcomed Ben as our full time bass player, recorded a new album with Tim at Big Dog Recordings and started working with Hage and Spider Promotion for bookings in Germany/Austria/Switzerland.

Like every year we finished it all off at Friends First Fest! All in all not bad for an “incomplete” year! And the foundation for an even better 2023 has been laid…

30 November 2022 ~ Comments Off on NEWSLETTER NOV 2022: Friends First Fest tickets

NEWSLETTER NOV 2022: Friends First Fest tickets

As the year is coming to a close, it’s time for our end-of-the-year tradition: Friends First Fest! While we’re at it we’ll also spoil some more news about the upcoming album, including a single before releasing the full record. Lastly you’ll find upcoming shows and a free shipping code at the bottom of this newsletter!

Friends First Fest poster

Friends First Fest

All bands have been announced and tickets are on sale starting now! If you wanna join us at De Onderbroek in Nijmegen on Thursday December 29, make sure to get a ticket in presale, as it will probably sell out like previous editions. We’re doing flexible rates and kids get in for free, hoping that everyone can join the fun. Keep an eye on the FB event for surprise updates and check our album Start From Scratch, which we’ll play front-to-back!

Together album artwork

New album

We’re working hard on the release of our new record. We can’t wait to share it with the world, but we’ll have to wait until the vinyl is ready. Yet, we wanted to show our loyal newsletter readers the beautiful artwork by Thomas at Dark Roast and present the title: TOGETHER! If you come to a show, you can hear a new song live: From City To City. We’re crowdsourcing footage for the music video, so feel free to film us playing it and send it over! And if you’re a label interested in releasing/distributing, please reply to this email!

Tour poster - dates below

Upcoming Shows

Because of the new album, we’re taking it easy with shows in the first months of the new year. But we’ve got sweet stuff planned around the spring release! Wanna book us?

Free shipping for albums

With a new album coming we need to make some room and get some extra funding, therefore we’re doing free shipping on all album orders! Mention AHOYAHOY in the order comment and we’ll ship it to you for gratis!


That’s it for now, next time we hope to have a new single and album pre-order for you!
Thanks for reading, till next time; Ben, Riekus & Willem

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06 November 2022 ~ Comments Off on Start From Scratch at Friends First Fest #6 2022!

Start From Scratch at Friends First Fest #6 2022!

START FROM SCRATCH is turning 12 years old this week! To celebrate we announce that we’ll play it front to back at Friends First Fest at De Onderbroek in Nijmegen on Thursday December 29. More details like bands, times, tickets coming soon. After cancellations in 2020 and 2021 we keep our fingers crossed for FFF #6 in 2022! See you there?

Friends First Fest Facebook event
All songs from Start From Scratch, lyrics, liner notes and more

31 August 2022 ~ Comments Off on Back at it

Back at it

It feels incredible being an active band again! The first run of shows we did was amazing: kicking off at our own Shred Fest, joining Bad Religion at Paradiso and supporting Pussy Riot in these troubling times. The rest of 2022 looks quite promising, and 2023 won’t be too bad either… did anyone say “album”?

First of all: we previously announced “an army of bass players” instead of one single person joining us. But after playing shows and discussing the situation with Ben and Gijs we mutually agreed that Ben is our dedicated full time bass player! We’re very thankful that Gijs helped us out in the meantime!

Upcoming Shows

We’re very excited to see you in real life:

  • Sep 03 DE Ulm, The Broken fieldset. Info / FB event
  • Sep 24 DE Saarbrücken, Studio 30 Fest. Info / FB event
  • Oct 28 BE Leuven, Het Depot. w/ Heideroosjes (sold out!) Info / FB event
  • Oct 29 FR Le Havre, McDaids.
  • Nov 11 Available
  • Nov 12 DE Bochum, Turbo Fest (Die Trompete). Info / FB event
  • Nov 19 DE Wiesbaden, 12 Jahre Keep It A Secret (Kreativfabrik). Info / FB event
  • Dec 02 Available
  • Dec 03 DE Glauchau, Festival/Cafe Taktlos.
  • Dec 17 DE Würzburg, Happy Accidents Fest.
  • Dec 29 NL Nijmegen, Friends First Fest #6. FB event
  • Jan 20, 2023 BE Liège, La Zone.

Wanna help out with the “Availables” or book us some other time? Get in touch!

New Album

In 2018 we promised/threatened that we had stopped making albums. But we kept getting requests for a physical release. So after releasing a handful of digital singles we are very excited to announce a new release to our penfriends! A full length album bundling the singles and extra songs. The album is almost done, but we can’t announce a release date yet because vinyl delivery times are crazy long. We aim for a spring release, fingers crossed! We will keep you up to date, you’ll hear it here first!
(If you’re a label interested in releasing/distributing, please reply to this email!)

Merch

After selling out the Bijstand Mural shirts so quickly, we decided to make some extra, and include the Cheetah design, since a lot of people liked those as well. Find them together with our LPs/CDs, discount bundles and other goodies in our webshop!


That’s it for now, next time we’ll share more concrete news about the new album!
Thanks for reading, till next time; Ben, Riekus & Willem

PS: have you seen our TikTok hit yet? 666k people can’t be wrong, right?!

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