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After a relatively easy summer we are ready again for action! Touring Europe, getting our new bass player ready; there is hope for the future!

Euro tour with Static Radio

We reunite the team that did the Transatlantic tours in 2007; together with Static Radio we will be hitting Europe this October. Facebook event and dates:

• 30-09 NL Sneek, Het Bolwerk. w/ The Get Up Kids
• 01-10 UK Manchester, Night and Day. w/ Leagues Apart, Chief, Deecracks, Murderburgers
• 02-10 UK Edinburgh, Banshees Labyrinth. w/ Shields Up, First Step to Failure
• 03-10 UK Leeds, The Well
• 04-10 UK Swansea, Mozarts. w/ Nozzle, Hangmen
• 05-10 UK Bridgend, Hobo’s
• 06-10 FR Le Havre, Mac Daid’s. w/ Without Skin
• 07-10 DE Cologne, Aetherblisment
• 08-10 NL Arnhem, The Stage.  w/ Wanderlust
• 09-10 DE Trier, Exhaus
• 10-10 DE Minden, Hamburger Hof
• 11-10 DE Berlin, Lovelite
• 12-10 DE Kiel, Schaubude
• 13-10 DE Hannover, Chez Heinz. w/ Red City Radio
• 14-10 DE Wiesbaden, Kreativfabrik
• 15-10 DE Bergkamen, Jz Yellowstone. w/ Eskimo Callboy, Distance in Embrace, Monstars get Loaded

Music Video Buyer’s Remorse

Our Italian friend Claudio Stanghellini shot our show with Boysetsfire in Milano last June and made a music video from the footage. The result can be seen here. Share it till you can share no more!

New bass player

Last but not least at all: we found a new bass player! During the last 1,5 month over 30 people from all over the world responded to our call. We are incredibly thankful for all the applications, kind words and other support! Our new member’s name is Glen and from December  on we will be doing shows with him. He has been playing bass and singing in bands for over 10 years, with a background in punk, hardcore and hiphop and experience as a full time promoter. In stead of the usual high-fiving on the deal, we forced him to sign a contract for life.

Below you can find the rest of the shows to come. Feel free to help us out with our UK tour in December or other shows!

• 30-11 – 6-12 UK tour: Get in touch for dates!
• 03-12 UK Dundee, Book Yer Ane Fest (Kage Nightclub). w/ Leatherface, Franz Nicolay, Bangers, the Arteries, the Cut Ups, the Living Daylights, Mikey Erg, ONSIND, many more.
• 08-12 NL Utrecht, Tivoli / De Helling. w/ De Heideroosjes
• 09-12 NL Zwolle, Hedon. w/ De Heideroosjes
• 23-12 BE Herselt, Jh De Choke *Acoustic*

That’s it for this time! As always: check our music, merchandise (we’ve got new designs/colors!) and most recent stuff at antillectual.com

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Remember those cool Canadians called High Five Drive? We spent a week on the road with them last year and played the Groezrock festival, the UK, Naaldwijk, Belgium and France together. During that tour, their friend / film maker Randy Frykas shot a lot of video footage that was edited into this short film called ‘The ones who make it through’. After being broadcast on Winnipeg on Demand, the complete film is now available from Randy’s vimeo channel. In randy’s own words:

When it comes to bands on tour most people think huge buses, sold out arenas and partying but independent touring is a whole different world. Sleeping on floors, days without showering, broken down vans and sinking more and more in debt are common occurrences for this kind of touring.

To us, the story told in this film is very familiar, and if you’re in a band yourself you’ll probably recognize a lot of situations. If you’re not in a band yourself, this film is the ultimate way to see what it’s like to tour independently. Enjoy!

THE ONES WHO MAKE IT THROUGH – Full Length Documentary from Randy Frykas on Vimeo.

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It’s been a while since we updated, for various reasons: we’ve been very busy preparing our set with “new guy” Tim, went off for a few shows in the UK and, well, we’ve been busy updating our facebook status and twitter messages.. Which is exactly what we wanted to talk about!

Besides playing a very enjoyable showcase at the Eurosonic festival in groningen (video below), we were featured in Niels Aalberts‘ Noorderslag panel titled “successful use of social media for bands”. Basically it was a panel about the use of the twitters, facebooks, bandcamps and whatnot. Members of other Dutch bands Blof and Only Seven Left also shared their experiences in this panel, which you can watch further on. It’s all in Dutch, but definitely worth watching if you’re in a band and wondering what the h*ll to do with all those social media. Enjoy!

CMC 1 Noorderslag: succes met nieuwe media from iMMovator on Vimeo.

We also spent some time with Niels and Gert-Jan from NCRV’s Ongekendtalent, who shot a little feature about our (lack of?) preparations for a show. No noisy, sweaty content, just a little more conversation (little less action)

And a tiny reminder: if you happen to be in the Utrecht / Amsterdam area tomorrow, come out and join us at the ACU for Tom’s goodbye show. Tim will be playing a solo set, Utrecht’s Break Character will hurl you back into the 1990’s and a few Swedish guys by the name The Indecision Alarm will probably drink your beer.

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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.

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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!

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