antillectual

New Album Stream ep. 4: America’s Worst Role Model

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:00:19 +0200

The fourth song of our new record deals with subjects such as sex, guns, god and fashion. Morality in combination with hypocrisy; it turns out to be an awesome mix. As said we’ve never played this song live because it is rather calm yet weirdly structured. We were really curious for how it would turn out when recorded. And it turned out even better than we expected on forehand.
This week’s guest writer is Fieke from Shield Recordings. Shield Recordings has put out almost everything we ever recorded, helped selling our merch on tour and through their webshop and helped us book shows. Without them we’d be a couple steps down the ladder. Please read on, enjoy the song and feel free to share it with your friends.

Keep on reading: New Album Stream ep. 4: America’s Worst Role Model

Touring plans!

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:36:17 +0200

Since the storm is growing and growing we are making plans for the near future and after the release. Our first trip takes us to Switzerland and Belgium and we could still use some help booking:

Sep 29 AVAILABLE
Sep 30 AVAILABLE
Oct 1 Switzerland Lucerne, Treibhaus. w/ Dead To Me, Face the Front
Oct 2 AVAILABLE
Oct 3 AVAILABLE
Oct 4 Belgium Zele, ‘t Verdriet

We know this is LAST MINUTE so we’re not picky anymore …

After the release we will pack our bags and cases to tour France from November 4 to 14. Our French label Effervescence Records will be booking the tour. In case you want to help us out with a show anywhere in France (or western Italy) please get in touch with booking@effervescence-records.com.

In December we will celebrate our new album with a release show in our hometown Nijmegen and “tour” through Holland and Belgium. In the new year we will be going to the UK and the rest of the universe. Get in touch with us if you want to help out somewhere somehow.

New Album Stream ep. 3: The Hunt Is On!

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:00:28 +0200

The third song on our new album is a song some of you might already know. We played it a lot live, recorded a demo version of it (featured on Shield and No Reason Records’ label samplers) and it appeared on our (in)famous acoustic “Pull the Plug” EP. The lyrics could have been inspired by current affairs like the Wikileaks scandal, if it weren’t written before that time.
This week’s guest writer is Nab, our friend from Madrid who runs “Just Say Yo Fanzine”. We met him years ago when he booked a show for us in Nice, we stayed at his mom’s house and ate oranges from the tree. This year he took us to a Hare Krishna temple to feed us; interesting!
Please read on, enjoy the song and feel free to share it with your friends.

Keep on reading: New Album Stream ep. 3: The Hunt Is On!

Just a quicky

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:30:26 +0200

We got the chance to do 2 cool shows and are looking to fill the dates in between. If you can help anywhere on the route, please: info@antillectual.com

Sep 29 AVAILABLE
Sep 30 AVAILABLE
Oct 1 (Swi) Lucerne, Treibhaus. w/ Dead To Me, Face the Front
Oct 2 AVAILABLE
Oct 3 AVAILABLE
Oct 4 (Bel) Zele, ‘t Verdriet

New Album Stream ep. 2: Buyer’s Remorse

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:00:44 +0200

In this second episode we present (surprise surprise!) the second song of our new album: Buyer’s Remorse, a bittersweet song about consumerism. The song features a good friend of ours doing guest vocals. People who saw us at the Groezrock fest will know who. This weeks Special Guest is David Finke. He runs Fairtademerch.com, prints all of our merch and is the designer of the artwork for our album. Curious to know what he has to say about this song? Please read on, enjoy the song and feel free to share it with your friends

Keep on reading: New Album Stream ep. 2: Buyer’s Remorse

New Album Stream ep. 1: Every Crisis Is a Moral Crisis

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:00:42 +0200

In this first one of 12 weekly episodes, we present the first song off our new record “Start From Scratch!”: Every Crisis is a Moral Crisis, with lyrics, liner notes and a sneak peek of the artwork. Greg Rekus, singer and guitarist of Winnipeg Canada’s High Five Drive and day job sound engineer, is our guest this week. The first time I (Riekus) met him was a midnight encounter in a Paris gay bar, don’t ask! We got to know each other better when High Five Drive and Antillectual toured the UK, Belgium, France and our home country this April. In this week’s episode, Greg talks about the sound of our record, veggie beef and Uma Thurman. Confusing, isn’t it? Read on, figure out what Greg is about, enjoy the song and give us your feedback.

Keep on reading: New Album Stream ep. 1: Every Crisis Is a Moral Crisis

Bring it on!

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:00:35 +0200

At this very moment Dutch right-wing politicians are working on a new coalition. It will include the most xenophobe party ever to participate in a government; the Partij Voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom; which doesn’t seem like a bad idea, right?). If stuff doesn’t suck already, stuff will suck harder if that coalition comes into power. Now it is time, time for plan B.

At this very moment we are finalizing our own new coalition as well. Almost a dozen labels all over Europe and the USA have gathered their forces to release our new album “Start From Scratch!”. The release is set for November 1st, pre-orders will be taken earlier. Next Monday, August 16, we will start to stream a song from the new album every week. Next to the music we will post lyrics and accompanying liner notes of each song. On top of that we will post a contribution to each song from people that helped recording the record, wrote songs, did guest vocals, designed the artwork; but also from people who helped the band the last couple of years: supporting us on tours, behind the screens or on stage.

After the release we will take the world by storm through endless touring. If you want us to paint your town red, get in touch and we will work it out.

So, next week we will post the list of cooperating labels, the first song on our new album (Every Crisis Is a Moral Crisis) including lyrics, liner notes and comments from a punkrock celeb and the front of the artwork. See you next week kids!

Tourreport and Facebook integration

Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:00:58 +0200

While we were out on our last tour, we had the pleasure of sharing some of our experiences with you. Right now, we have finally managed to wrap up the whole report, including some lovely pictures by Rudy. If you wonder what it’s like to be out on the road for 3 weeks straight in a hot and smelly van, go and check it out!

For all you facebook likers: we’ve noticed that you really enjoy liking and commenting on our updates. So we decided to give our own site a little facebook flavor. From now on, you can easily leave comments on our site with your facebook account. Just hit the blue “connect” button below any post, and you’re logged in to our site through facebook. No need to leave an email adress, and don’t worry: we don’t collect any private information. Also, when you comment on our updates on facebook, your comment will be added to our site. Hope you “like” it! As always, we are open to your suggestions how we can make this work even better.

And last but not least: the new record. We still can’t give you a releasedate, but please rest assured that we are working our asses off behind the scenes to make this our best release to date. And we’re cooking up some spicy plans to introduce our new songs and lyrics to the outside world that is you.

Now go out and catch some sun!

Spotifying

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:45:33 +0200

So it has been a week since we landed home after our tour. Thanks go out to everyone who made it such a blast! Especially Thomas and Rudy for helping out on the road and at the merch table. Tom is working on a tour report, which will be finished soon. At this moment we are working hard on the release of our new album “Start From Scratch!”. Expected release date is sometime in September/October. More real news when there is confirmed news.

Keep on reading: Spotifying

Tourreport april / may with High Five Drive

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:09:17 +0200

While we’re out on the road in the more eastern and southern parts of europe, we finally managed to wrap up the report of our last tour with High Five Drive, covering the Groezrock festival, the UK, France, Belgium and Naaldwijk.

If you wonder why Riekus got married, how cold the Groezrock camping was, or why those jolly good english gentlemen prefer to drink their beer from the floor, read on here. We truly hope you enjoy the stories as much as we did! In the meantime, come and say hi if you are in or around one of these cities we have yet to visit on our current tour:

JUN 5 Payerbach EntroP’s
JUN 6 St. Johann im Pongau Casino Rockbar
JUN 7 Graz Sub
JUN 8 Zwiesel Jugendcafé Zwiesel w/ Punchers Plant
JUN 9 Hradec Kralove La Putika
JUN 10 Wroclaw Wagon Club w/ All Wheel Drive
JUN 11 Berlin Subversiv
JUN 12 Holzminden U-Rock w/ Call Me Names, Enesty
JUN 13 Heerlen Café Bluff w. Ravedigger
JUN 14 Antwerpen Trix w/ Hot Water Music
JUN 15 Arnhem Willemeen w/ Down By Law, Brat Pack

We’ll be posting updates about the current tour as we travel on. Whether or not the stories will be better, we can’t promise.. If you’d like to know how someone outside the band experiences our tours, check out Rudy’s blog. He’s also documenting this tour.

From Vienna with love,

Riekus, Tom, Willem, Thomas and Rudy