Antillectual

New Pokerface and we will be the supports for the November 11 show of No Use For A Name at the W2 in Den Bosch. Needless to say, we are very happy to play that show. The last time we supported No Use at de Effenaar in Eindhoven was a blast!

Anyway, the W2 is allowing us to offer 10 tickets with a €6.50 discount. That means you can get into this show for a measly 10 euros. Wanna be that cheapskate punk? (cheap skate punk, ha!) Just drop us a line at info@antillectual.com and we’ll sort it out. First come, first serve.

See you in Den Bosch!

Last weekend we got back from a crazy tour with our friends in Static Radio NJ. We had a blast reuniting and raiding around Europe again. For those who organized a show or came out to one: thanks a lot! Tour reports from our new guy Glen have been posted here and here, and the complete story will be posted on this site soon as well.

Of course there are also new plans for the future. To finish this year nicely we will be doing a small UK trip (looking for dates!), support for de Heideroosjes and No Use For A Name, some single shows and for the first time go to Greece! Next year January we will return to Germany for 2 weekend trips. Check the show department for details.

And last but not least: the nice people from Undermusic Records (Mute, Forus, End of Pipe) in Brazil will release our album “Start From Scratch!” on February 1, 2012. After that a Brazilian tour will follow!

Sitting still? No thank you!

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

On July 25 we announced our search for a new bass player. During the last 1,5 month over 30 people responded to our call; from North America to Italy, from the UK to Belgium and of course a lot of response from the Netherlands. We are incredibly thankful for all the applications, kind words and other support. We had to find someone with outstanding bass skills, singing experience, endless dedication and creative input; on and off stage. This process is something we never want to deal with ever again (headhunting, what a business), but we are really confident about the result.

Drum roll please: Glen is the great new addition to our band! He has been playing bass and singing in bands for over 10 years (we actually played one of our first shows ever with his former band), with a background in punk, hardcore and hiphop and experience as full time promoter. In stead of the usual high-fiving on the deal, we forced him to sign a contract for life.

You can read more about Glen in his interview for De Bassist (in Dutch) about joining our band. Even though Koen will play bass on our upcoming tour with Static Radio, Glen will join us as well. From halfway November we will be hitting stages with Glen. Hitting hard!

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!