Antillectual

While the city of Nijmegen and its surroundings are being visited by tonnes of international marchers and possibly even more beer drinking festival-goers, we are preparing for a little Four Day March of our own. Starting tomorrow, a weekend tour of a mere 2700 kilometers will be our main concern. We’re really looking forward to the festival shows on Fluff 2009 and Scream Out Fest, aswell as the clubshows in JKC Kamen and Sunny Red Feierwerk. Our friend Erik ‘Gameface’ of Sandcreek Massacre will be accompanying us to Fluff.

This will also be the first tour where we carry the new acoustic 7″ “Pull the Plug” in our merch.

Come say hi at one of these shows:

Jul 23      Germany Kamen      JKC
Jul 24     Czech Republic Rokycany/Plzen     Fluff Fest     w/ a trillion bands!!
Jul 25     Austria Pöllau bei Hartberg     Scream Out Festival     @ Club 81
Jul 26     Germany München     Sunny Red – Feierwerk

..Or somewhere along the way?

For those who can’t make it to the German shows: no worries, we’ll be back in Germany in August, touring with the lovely people of Rentokill

So we had 3 very nice shows last week of which 2 acoustic. And I must say it’s going better and better. Reactions are overall positive. Obviously we aren’t going for the popularity vote beacuse you know that some people will prefer loud guitars over acoustic ploink ploink. Make up your own mind and listen to a song on our Myspace. Anyhow, Punx.nl liked our acoustic 7 inch so much they made it CD (!) of the week and gave us a nice review.

In the mean time Riekus has been busy updating this site and improving what was not perfect yet, and now it all is! You can search this site through the search field on the top right, and some more social networks have been added next to it, Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm, PureVolume, you know the drill. From now on Facebook.com/antillectual is the direct link to our page over there, by the way.

Besides that we updated the merch section and took out what wasn’t available anymore and put in the new EP. Get it while it’s still hot and pink! We also have some samplers (for instance the 15 years AFA compilation) which aren’t featured. Email us if you’re interested, we’ll throw in some nice goodies like stickers and posters.

And last the interview we did in Mülheim in March is online at Get Addicted. There’s also a live video at the same site with a new song.

Let us know if you can help us out with a show for one of our upcoming tours! B-bye!

We recently announced the release of our acoustic 7″ titled “Pull the plug”. Those of you who follow us on Twitter might have heard about it already: the 7″ is finished and we’re damn proud of it. The first pressing comes with a lovely, screen printed sleeve and pink or black vinyl. Check it out:

In support of the 7″, we’re adding more and more acoustic shows to our roster. This Sunday, we will be having the release party at Knoflook, Den Bosch with Mischief Brew. Come and say hi if you like low-volume punkrock. Other acoustic shows:

Sun Aug 9      Arnhem      Sonsbeek Avenue Festival
Tue Aug 25      Nijmegen      De Bijstand       w/ Oldseed
Sun Aug 30      Nijmegen      Rock Royale       w/ Lea, more
Thu Sep 17      Amsterdam      Winston Kingdom  w/ Kevin Seconds, Mike Scott

We’re going on another European tour with our buddies from overseas After The Fall (usa). If they didn’t blow your socks off  already, check their music here. We can’t wait!

The tour is from October 2 till 11. get in touch if you’d like to do a show. Thanks!

We played a small, intimite show in The Move in Arnhem last sunday. It was a hot afternoon. Acoustic guitars and subtle drums. My kids were there as well. I really enjoyed it. Playing our songs acoustic force (in a very gentle, yet fierce way) us to relearn those very same songs. I like the vulnerable aspect of it. Gosh, I almost sound like a pacifist…

Check out the show section for the acoustic (and non-acoustic) shows, I hope to see you at one of them.

Take care, Yvo