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!

In the mean time please give our older albums another spin. For the people in Holland who are able to enjoy Spotify since last month, our album “Testimony” and acoustic EP “Pull the Plug” can be found over there. Anyone in the know of how they ended up there? Please, enlighten us! We would love our other stuff to get up there too.

Enjoy the sun and hope to see you at one of our upcoming shows:

Jul 9 GER Verden, Break the Silence Fest.
w/ Brat Pack, Oi Polloi, Vitamin X and many, many more.

Jul 17 NL Vlaardingen, Open Air Skate.
w/Drunktank, Gino’s Eyeball, Maybee, Roadsign, Parkiet On Speed

Aug 5 NL Meppel, Cafe Clouso, donderdag meppeldag!
w/ Bivouac, Ravens

Sep 4 NL Zwolle, Rock ‘n’ Roll Festival.
w/ Peter Pan Speedrock, Fakkelbrigade

Sep 17 NL Zeist, De Peppel

Sep 18 NL Tilburg, Incubate Festival.
w/ A shit load of bands

Oct 8 NL Goes Café de Vrijbuiter, BoemTikFest 2010.
w/ The Real Danger, John Coffey, Starve, State Of Affairs, Audiofungus, Hard Rain, Broken Dentures

Oct 16 GER Wemelskirchen, AJZ Bahndamm

Jul 9	Verden	Break the Silence Fest	w/ Brat Pack, Oi Polloi, Vitamin X and many, many more.
Jul 17	Vlaardingen	Open Air Skate/punkfestival
Aug 5	Meppel	Cafe Clouso, donderdag meppeldag!
Sep 4	Zwolle	Rock ‘n’ Roll Festival	w/ Peter Pan Speedrock, Fakkelbrigade, more tba
Sep 17	Zeist	De Peppel	w/ Rentokill
Sep 18	Tilburg	Incubate Festival
Oct 8	Goes	Café de Vrijbuiter	BoemTikFest 2010
Oct 16	Wemelskirchen	AJZ Bahndamm

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

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

Check us out, listen to us, watch us, follow us, like us, befriend us, hate us on:

http://www.antillectual.com

http://www.myspace.com/antillectual

http://www.facebook.com/antillectual

http://www.twitter.com/antillectual

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 Ajdovščina 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

• 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!

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.

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!

So last week we managed to record all the drum and bass tracks in just over 4 days. We will be returning to the Erock studio to work on guitar and vocals next week and the week after that. We have not planned a release date yet, as we are still figuring out details on who will release it. Recordings should be done by the end of March, hopefully it will not be too long before you can get your hands on this album.

To put it mildly, we are absolutely stoked to finally get these songs recorded. If you want to keep up with what we are doing in the studio, consider ‘fanning’ us on Facebook or following us on Twitter. We will be sending out updates regularly.

Below is a little video that summarizes the first 4 days (including English subtitles). Hope you like what you hear.

video on youtube

I could imagine that our stories bore you as much as my stories bore the rest of the travel crew, but we’re still with Willem, Riekus, Maltix, P. Titty and me. This last part contains our four last shows, all in France, featuring more police, Burlesque strippers… The complete tour report with videos and pictures is right here

Thursday February 11th 2010 – Bayonne, Basque country (the French part)

Pasaia to Baiona, should be 60 kilometers, so not that long. Luckily we left in time, cause it was snowing, slippery roads and a car crash on the peage highway, meaning: a traffic jam. It took us a couple of hours to get there. When we arrived, we could hang out at Manux’ place. Got some coffee and had some good conversations about punkrock. The show this night was part of a music festival in the city at different locations. We played at bar Embuscade. Sounds like a place for Dutch punkrock! Marnix and Manux got the van to drive it to the street, but they didn’t seem to find the right way. I have been waving for half an hour at the corner of the street and they passed me 3 or 4 times. Aaaaargh! I thought I was blind!

We were supposed to be the only band playing at the bar, but after two and a half song, the police thought that it was one band too much. Again the police showed themselves your best friend! Result, we had to quit. So we decided to get the acoustic guitar from the van and play some acoustic songs. After all, there were people that came for the show and we didn’t want to let the filmcrew of the local Basque TV channel down. Willem and Riekus were used to playing acoustic songs with Yvo. For me it was new, so I focussed on drinking whisky and eating peanuts and do an ocassional vocal harmony. Kinda weird, but fun. We drank some local Basque alcoholic drinks, got our picture taken with the bartenders and went back to Manux’ house, got some food and had a good night sleep.

Friday February 12th 2010 – La Rochelle, France

Today we were heading north again. The van took us to the beautiful city of La Rochelle. On our way we passed Cognac and since we got used to drink local schnapps, we got some this night! We arrived at Barbarella and saw two showposters for this night. One was the Antillectual tourposter, second was a Burlesque strippers poster. Huh? We went inside, got a beer from the bartender and he confirmed that there was going to be a Burlesque show that night. We got picked up by Antoine from Mel Team Plugs to eat at his place. After the food we were back in time for the first Burlesque show. Imagine you’re in the 50’s with pin-ups. Was weird to see that at the punkrockshow, but I guess there was a double booking. There were two local punkrockbands on the bill and after them, there was another pin-up show. We played as last on the small stage. Willem stood in front, I wanted to do the same, but people were standing in front. I decided to play on stage and during the first song, I fell off. Fail! I got up and continued the rest of the show as if nothing had happened. We got great responses during and after the show, which is always nice. We said goodbye to the rock ‘n roll bar and got back to Antoines house to spend the night. Drank the Cognac, busted the water reservoir in the toilet and went to sleep.

Saturday February 13th 2010 – Brest, France

We got up and took off to Brest, the most western part of France. I did not realise this city is more to the west than the largest part of Wales. We found the venue and met promoter Plume, the singer of Speedball. Unloaded the van, got some cheap gas for the van and had great food. The dessert was a vegan banana kiwi pie. Yummie! Petit sstarted to drink most of the wine and got a little drunk I guess. Firsts band played streetpunk with a couple of more influences. Not really my cup of tea. Speedball played melodic hardcore that reminded me of bands like Bane and O’Hara. Actually, Plume and his outfit reminded us all of Pitter O’Hara. When Riekus sent Pitter a textmessage, he turned out to be in Brest. We hooked him up with a guestlist spot and Pitter was right in time for our show. We played after Last Exit To Brooklyn, who played more modern hardcore. I was really impressed by the amount of people at the show. It’s always nice to play when there are lots of people. I saw some people dancing and we had to play two encores. Didn’t know my old body was able to do that. After the show we said goodbye to Pittter, met another Dutch guy who was a t the show and tried to get away from drunk girls. We slept at a friend of Plume and had to wake up really eraly. Tomorrow was going to be the last day of tour, meaning a 750 kilometer drive to Lille and after Lille the drive home, with stops in Lembeek, Breda and Nijmegen.

Sunday February 14th 2010 – Lille, France

Today was the last day of tour and the trip was tough. First we had to go from Brest to Lille. We drove through Bretagne and Normandy to get to Lille. On our way we past Dinan and Caen, reminding me of bad music. We arrived a little late in Lille, but we were in time for the soundcheck. Shared some backline with Fast Motion and Foolish and the show started almost in time. First band played music that sometimes reminded me of Swedish Smalltown. Like! Foolish was the second band and although the guys played pretty well, I will bever be a fan of ska music. Third was Fast Motion, a band that I really like. It had been a year since I saw them, so it was good to see them again. The guys told me they were going to tour Japan, awesome! We played as last and I guess we were a bit tired from the tour and longing to go home. There were not that much people, but we gave it our best shot. After the show, we quickly loaded the van, got some food and left for Lembeek, Belgium, where Petit lives. We heard horrible stories about the weather forecast and it started to snow when we left. Belgian roads are always bad, but this night they were even worse. We made it to Lembeek, dropped off Petit and continued our way to Breda. I got out there and waved goodbye to Willem, Riekus and Marnix who had to finish the last part to Nijmegen. After 16 days on the road, we were home again. Don’t think this will slow us down, this week has 3 more shows and next week we will be recording our new album. Oh, were also planning new tours. One with High Five Drive from Canada to France, Belgium and the UK and another one through a large part of Europe in spring. See you on the road!