Antillectual

Next Wednesday we will take off for our longest euro tour to date. 21 shows in 22 days covering 8 countries, playing with Hot Water Music and Down By Law! This will be our last tour before the release of our new album “Start from Scratch!” fall 2010.

We have new songs to play and new shirt designs, the Kid Dynamite tribute double LP and the new Fond of Life sampler to sell. And, of course, we bring the typewriter book distro. Waste those euros before they are completely worthless!

This is the schedule, come out and play!

May 26 GER Freiburg, Haus der Jugend w/ Far Off The Zoo
May 27 A Innsbruck, PMK w/ Traktor
May 28 ITA Poirino, MT Beer Festival
May 29 ITA Milano, Leoncavallo (Dauntaun) w/ total abuse, kontatto
May 30 !AVAILABLE!
May 31 ITA Bologna, New Lazzaretto w/ The Cute Lepers
Jun 1 ITA Tarzo (TV), Cantina Cenci
Jun 2 SLO Ajdovscina, Club Baza
Jun 3 SLO Ljubljana, Tovarna Rog
Jun 4 A Wien, EKH
Jun 5 A Wiener Neustadt, EntroP’s Extended
Jun 6 A St. Johann im Pongau, Casino Rockbar
Jun 7 A Graz, Sub
Jun 8 GER Zwiesel, Jugendcafé Zwiesel w/ Punchers Plant
Jun 9 CZ Hradec Kralove, La Putika
Jun 10 POL Wroclaw, Wagon Club w/ All Wheel Drive
Jun 11 GER Berlin, Subversiv
Jun 12 GER Holzminden, U-Rock w/ Call Me Names, Enesty
Jun 13 NL Heerlen, Bluff w/ Ravedigger
Jun 14 BEL Antwerpen, Trix w/ Hot Water Music, Break of Day
Jun 15 NL Arnhem, Willemeen w/ Down By Law, Brat Pack

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We got back from a very awesome tour bringing us to the Groezrock festival, the UK, Queensday in Holland, Just Like Your Mom’s HQ and the traditional Le Havre Mayhem. A lot of thanks to those coming out to our show at Groezrock and the shows we did in the UK and the mainland. Thanks to promoters for organizing and hosting. And thanks to High Five Drive for accompanying us on this trip and making it very worthwhile. A proper tour report will follow later.

Ashes Records, Never Trust an Asshole Zine and Fond of Life Records recently released a sampler featuring one of our songs together with a lot of really great bands. Check those samplers: Ashes Records, Never Trust an Asshole Zine (download zine and sampler) and Fond of Life Records. The Never Trust an Asshole Zine actually includes a recent interview with us.

For our upcoming tour we are still really in need of shows. So far we are going to Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Belgium. If you want to help us out with a date or two we’d be extremely grateful. Even though we are a very frequently touring band, booking never is an easy job and can’t happen with your help. In Antwerp (BEL) we will be playing with Hot Water Music on June 14 and on June 15 we will support Down By Law in Arnhem (NL).

Dates so far:
May 26 Germany Freiburg Haus der Jugend w/ Far Off The Zoo
May 27
May 28 Italy Poirino MT Beer Festival
May 29
May 30
May 31
Jun 1
Jun 2 Slovenia Ajdovš?ina TBA w/ Argetti
Jun 3
Jun 4 Austria Wien EKH
Jun 5 Austria Wiener Neustadt EntroP’s Extended
Jun 6
Jun 7
Jun 8
Jun 9 Czech Republic Hradec Kralove La Putika
Jun 10 Poland Wroclaw Wagon Club
Jun 11 Germany Berlin Subversiv
Jun 12 Germany Holzminden Juz
Jun 13
Jun 14 Belgium Antwerpen, Trix. w/ Hot Water Music
Jun 15 Netherlands Arnhem, Willemeen. w/ Down By Law, Brat Pack

This week we finished mixing and mastering our new album. We are really looking forward to the release later this year. In the meantime we are not slowing down and doing quite a lot of cool tours, shows and festivals the coming months.

• Start from Scratch!
• Tour with High Five Drive
• Groezrock
• May-June tour
• Festivals, other shows

START FROM SCRATCH!

Indeed, that is the name of our freshly recorded album. Describing both the state of a band in bloom and a world in crisis. While recording the songs
we shot some videos (part 1 and part 2), hope you enjoy. Since last week we can announce the track list with some very self-explanatory song titles:

1. Every Crisis Is a Moral Crisis
2. Buyer’s Remorse
3. The Hunt Is On
4. America’s Worst Role Model
5. Cut the Ground from under Our Feet
6. “Kraken gaat door”
7. Some of My Best Friends Are Meat Eaters
8. Chinese Takeover
9. Our Hearts
10. The New Jew
11. Classic Themes Never Get Old
12. So Much More

In the next newsletter more news on when and how the release will take place and a song as a preview!

TOUR WITH HIGH FIVE DRIVE

The nice guys from High Five Drive asked us if we wanted to join them on a part of their European tour. Since we tend to enjoy touring together with
cool bands we decided to accompany these fine Canadians on the last dates of their tour. Please come out and support us! Check:

Apr 24 BE Meerhout, Groezrock Macbeth stage
Apr 25 UK London, Ryan’s Bar. w/ High Five Drive, Apologies, I Have None, Without Fire
Apr 26 UK Macclesfield, The swan with two necks. w/ High Five Drive,The Shuffle
Apr 27 UK Lincoln, Library Bar. w/ High Five Drive
Apr 28 UK Manchester, Retro Bar. w/ High Five Drive
Apr 29 UK Peterborough, Club Revolution. w/ High Five Drive
Apr 30 NL Naaldwijk, de Flaat. w/ High Five Drive, Sweet Empire, Drunktank, Fortynine
May 1 BEL Oostende, OHK. w/ High Five Drive, Go Rampage
May 2 FR Le Havre, Mac Daid’s. w/ High Five Drive

GROEZROCK

Our first stop on this tour will be a 20 minute set at Groezrock’s Macbeth stage, on Saturday from 12:55 to 13:15 sharp. Expect some golden oldies and some songs from our new record. Our friends in Static Radio are playing the Etnies stage just before this show. Also, High Five Drive will be playing the Macbeth stage at 19:10.

Shield Recordings and No Reason Records will be present at the groezrock merch tent. Be sure to drop by, buy them a drink and get some of their great records, or perhaps some Antillectual merch.

MAY-JUNE TOUR

Our last achievement before the summer break (as if …) is a tour through central Europe. We are still in need of some dates, so you know the drill:

May 26 GER Freiburg, Haus der Jugend
May 27 Available
May 28 ITA Poirino (Turin), MT Beer Festival
May 29 ITA Available
May 30 ITA Available
May 31 ITA Available
Jun 1 SLO Available
Jun 2 SLO Available
Jun 3 Available
Jun 4 Available
Jun 5 A Wiener Neustadt, Entro P’s Extended
Jun 6 Available
Jun 7 Available
Jun 8 Available
Jun 9 CZ Hradec Kralove, La Putika
Jun 10 POL Wroclaw, Wagon Club
Jun 11 GER Berlin, Subversiv
Jun 12 Available
Jun 13 Available

Festivals, other shows

The summer is coming up and that means festival time! Besides that we are also doing some single shows in the Benelux. As always, we are looking for cool shows and festivals; feel free to get in touch!

May 6 BEL Groot Bijgaarden, JK Paddestoel. w/ This Routine Is Hell, The Ignored
Jul 9/10 GER Verden, Break the Silence Fest. w/ Brat Pack, Oi Polloi, Vitamin X and many, many more.
Jul 17 NL Vlaardingen, Open Air Skate/punkfestival
Aug 5 NL Meppel, Cafe Clouso. Donderdag meppeldag!
Sep 4 NL Zwolle, Rock ‘n’ Roll Festival. w/ Peter Pan Speedrock, Fakkelbrigade, more tba
Sep 17 NL Zeist, De Peppel. w/ Rentokill
Sep 18 NL Tilburg, Incubate Festival

We ordered a new batch of shirts from the same design since they sold out pretty fast. Check our webstore if you want to support our band, or simply need clothing.

(also available in blue and brown, and as girlies / zippers / female zippers)

In the next issue of your favorite newsletter you will find some news about our new album and more shows, shows and shows.

Thanks, you made it, friends ‘til the end!

Last Thursday we finished recording our new album. We recorded the drums, bass, guitars and vocals for 12 songs for our new album which will be called “START FROM SCRATCH!”. Honestly we are really happy with the result so far. Now it is up to Nico van Montfort to mix and master it into heaven. While recording we shot some more video footage, enjoy:

A track list will be posted in the near future. There is no release date set for the new album yet. We will upload a song to give you an impression as soon as everything is mastered.

On another note; in April and May we will be touring together with the guys from High Five Drive from Canada. We will hit the UK, France, Belgium and Holland. Check the dates . After that we will travel through a bigger part of Europe at the end of May and June. Again, check the dates at the shows section.

Last week we spent in the studio tracking guitars and vocals. Things actually get in shape pretty nice, if I may say so. Next week we will be finishing some more guitars (rhythm, lead, acoustic), vocals (lead, backing, guest) and do some more additional percussion. You can still check out a little video report we did here. More frequent updates are sent out to “followers“, “fans” and other “BFF’s“.

The new album will feature a song called “Kraken gaat door!” which translates to “Squatting continues!”. This is a song against the to be implemented anti-squatting law in the Netherlands. I know a lot of bands, their audience, artists, students and other people benefit from squatting, so we oppose forbidding it. In case you are a musician (or audience member?) yourself and you want to contribute your voice against this law, please go here and leave your message. We’ve signed it and hopefully you will too! Kraken gaat door!