Antillectual

Aspiring designers: we need your help!

To promote our shows all over Europe and the rest of the world, we are in need of new tourposters. We’ve designed a couple of these ourselves in the past, and we are running out of stock. Instead of relying on our own (fairly poor) design skills, we figured we’d give it a try and see if someone else could help us out. Here’s your chance!

We won’t be doing this without a favor in return, of course. So here’s the deal: whoever sends us the coolest design will be rewarded with a nice merch-package (shirt + CD / Vinyl + some extra goodies) and 2 guest list spots for 2 shows of your choice. Besides that, your posters will be stuck on walls all over the world, and you are free to include your name / website on the poster.

Sound good? Here’s some guidelines:

• Send your design to tourposter@antillectual.com before june 10, in low resolution
• While designing, keep in mind that we will need to print this poster LARGE! DIN A2 is what we aim for, but alternative formats are an option: extra long, extra wide
• The final design will need to be 300 DPI CMYK color / Grayscale
• Leave some free space on the poster for our signatures bookers to add their show info (see example below)
• Our band logo can be found here (black on white) and here (white on black)
• Use whatever you like: album artwork, photos, your mom’s backyard wall.. But please respect intellectual property when using other people’s material

Other than that: go crazy! Please don’t let the guidelines ruin your creativity..

This is the poster we are using now, just for reference.

(click for LARGE version)

After june 10, we will announce the winner of this little design play-off.

We appreciate your help very much! Looking forward to your contribution

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

A couple of weeks ago we auctioned some merch items. 50% of all proceeds would go to Stichting Gast, a local foundation helping refugees in need. To us it was an experiment, but it turned out quite nice. We just wired a donation of 100 euro to Stichting Gast. Now that won’t solve the problems around (illegal) immigration, but at least it is a small step in the right direction. And our storage room looks a bit nicer. Thanks for contributing!

Speaking of alien threats, check our new zippers and T-shirts featuring our “new needed enemy” Kingkong!

Here is a little experiment, for us at least. Over the last years we built a nice stack of rare, one-off and left over merch items. Bringing these to shows doesn’t make sense, but keeping them in boxes at home isn’t much better. So we are putting them up for bidding. 50% of all proceeds go to Stichting Gast (Guest foundation), a local organization that can use every euro to help refugees in need. See below if there is something you like and simply email us your offer. The highest bidder wins. If your bid is not the highest, or if you get out-bid, we let you know. Shipping costs will be added to your bid. Bidding stops in 2 weeks on Monday April 2nd. Click for our standard webshop.

Zipper “With Fire”

XL, grey print on black zipper, Anvil Sustainable (regular price 30 euro)
Mail us with ‘zipper With Fire’ in the subject line

Tote bag “Our Life”

Grey print on purple bag, Earth Positive (regular price 5 euro)
Mail us with ‘tote bag Our Life’ in the subject line

Shirt “Our Life” grey

S, black print on grey shirt, Fairtrademerch (regular price 10 euro)
Mail us with ‘shirt Our Life grey’ in the subject line

Shirt “Our Life” black

S, white print on black shirt, Anvil Organic (regular price 10 euro)
Mail us with ‘shirt Our Life black’ in the subject line

Shirt “Gramophone” blue

XL, silver / blue print on navy blue shirt, Fairtrademerch (regular price 10 euro)
Mail us with ‘shirt Gramophone blue’ in the subject line

Shirt “Gramophone” black (back patch, backdrop? Big shirt, be creative!)

XXL, silver / red print on black shirt, Fairtrademerch (regular price 10 euro)
Mail us with ‘shirt Grammophone black’ in the subject line

Ladies Zipper “Gramophone” grey

M, silver / red print on grey zipper, continental (regular price 30 euro)
Mail us with ‘zipper Gramophone grey’ in the subject line

Ladies Zipper “Gramophone” black

S, silver / red print on black zipper, continental (regular price 30 euro)
Mail us with ‘zipper Gramophone black’ in the subject line

Shirt “Our Life” white

Size M, black print on white fabric (regular price 10 euro)
Mail us with ‘shirt our life white’ in the subject line