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Antillectual We're a punkrock trio from Nijmegen, the Netherlands: Willem, Riekus and Glen. We've toured and released albums worldwide since 2005. We like our punkrock political and melodic, combining the best of ’90’s skatepunk, ’00’s emo and ’10’s orgcore.

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19 January 2012 ~ 1 Comment

Update: Weekends in Germany

The first weekend has passed and we have been having a sweet time in Münster, Aachen, Lindern and Mainz. We met some crazy new people and some good old friends. One thing keeps surprising us: the amount of people that come to our shows after seeing us play with Rise Against and Boysetsfire. Playing in [...]

16 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Volkskrant article: Antillectual in top 30 Dutch music export

Holland’s biggest “decent” newspaper featured us in their article about Dutch music export in 2010. We made it to the top 30, 3rd year in a row. We did even more than 60 shows, but having our name in the Volkskrant, we can die a happy band now. But we won’t. DIY! The rest of [...]

05 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Looking back and forward: what a year it was & will be!

Looking back on 2011 proves we had a busy year. We did around 110 shows, including the support for Boysetsfire on their reunion tour, for Rise Against on their biggest German show to date, and for De Heideroosjes on their farewell tour. 2011 brought us to new places like Russia, Greece, Hungary and Scotland, and saw us play at Eurosonic/Noorderslag, Riez Open Air and the Jupiter Singfest for the first time. Read on for more looking back on 2012 and forward to 2012

27 December 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Greece trip 2011 report

Our trip started in a rather unorganized fashion: we almost missed our flight from Düsseldorf. Don’t ask how, but we heard our names being called over the speakers on the airport: “mr Ten Haaf, Heijmans and Van Montfort, you are delaying your flight”. Pretty strange, but we made it by a close call and besides that [...]

06 December 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Heideroosjes or HR (déjà-vu)

When I was 13 de Heideroosjes were maybe the first band I saw playing live. They are from the same region I grew up in. It made a big impression. I had no idea what to do and learn at the time, so I picked up playing guitar as a hobby. In my first band [...]

28 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

One UK tour, ready to go

12 shows left for this year, 6 of which will happen in the UK, 3 in the Netherlands, 2 in Greece and 1 In Belgium. All dates in the UK are filled, awesome shows with lots of other cool bands, most dates with our friends from The Living Daylights! Spread the word, bring your friends, [...]

21 November 2011 ~ 0 Comments

More video and “punkrock in the galleries”

After having played our first show with Glen, we stumbled upon this great youtube channel by Arjan van Geel. He has a huge archive of videos from cool punkrock shows and he was kind enough to put up almost the entire set we played at the W2 in Den Bosch. Check it out and make [...]