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We're a punkrock trio from Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 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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02 September 2006 ~ Comments Off on back from summer break

back from summer break

hey there all of you! survived your summer vacation? we did. and we have great news to announce, well yvo has: his son "jippe" got born on august 23, healthy and all! so we congratulate yvo and suzette and jippe, and wish them a happy and cosy family with the three of them. we're very curious whose musical talents jippe inherited! perhaps he screams louder than his father?

as for the band, we actually started writing and praticing new songs and they are working out quite alright, we think … someday they'll make it to a record. if you want to hear them, book us a show … we want to play them live ourselves as well! at that we have a new show to announce in charleroi, belgium for a small trip to belgium and france, check the shows. more t.b.a. soon.

we're pretty much running out on some t-shirt and sweater models, if you want to order check the merch-section.

if you want to combine listening our songs with songs from other bands, don't go to our purevolume or myspace sites but listen to blitzkriegpop at kink f.m. it appears there is a radio show willing to give us some airplay!

hopefully some more "important" news soon! to be continued. how you doin'? 

01 August 2006 ~ Comments Off on the world is on fire and we make music …

the world is on fire and we make music …

fucked up, if you think about it. but try to keep that negativity down, the economy is recovering! and in emo capital of holland amersfoort you can get suspended from school if your sister wears pants. who cares about israel if you have issues like these in your own country? (inter)national politicians don't. that's for sure. on a more or less similar note, you can watch riekus' pants on this website now. his profile is online. click on "band" if you want to know more about our new drummer.

23 July 2006 ~ Comments Off on big f’ing news!

big f’ing news!

have we got shit to announce? oh yes we do. after forming antillectual, 6 years of being in a band together, having shitloads of fun in studios and vans, bob has decided to quit antillectual. even though it is not a complete shock coming out of the blue, the last year he has been focusing on his study, it was still an important and heavy decision to make. below you can read the statement bob asked us to put online:

 "hi everyone, bob here.
 after a good talk yesterday with willem and yvo i've decided to leave antillectual. it was a hard decision but with a busy next year coming up i'm just not able anymore to just pack my stuff and go on tour. cause that's what being in antillectual is all about, playing as many shows as possible. i think we all agree on that. so after a nice talk yesterday i decided that it would be a good time to step out now instead being on tour and suddenly realize it isn't working out. so i'm sorry, no fights or whatever just a good talk. it could've saved metallica a lot of money! but enough lame jokes…
 i want to thank willem and yvo for just everything, irina angry & peter youth, suzette, riekus for filling in for me. and everybody else that i've ever met/played with. i also wish suzette and yvo all the best and happiness with their own angry youth.
 this is it. i'm signing out. thanks everyone for the last 6 years.
 toedeloe!" (july 16, 2006)

well, there you go … we want to thank bob enourmously for everything he has done for the band, all the time and energy he has put in the band and for putting up with us. there's no way we can thank him enough. as said, no hard feelings, pressure or arguments influenced his decision. neither do we criticize his decision, this is the best for both bob and antillectual. we wish him all the best for the future and his work as a sound engineer. if you want to send him a message you can do so through bob@antillectual.com, beware: do not disturb him during dinner.

fortunately enough antillectual will not be without a drummer now. a logical next step seemed to be asking riekus, being the replacement drummer for bob already, if he wanted to join the band for real. and he wanted to! so we can also introduce our new drummer rightaway: riekus. also famous from bands like brandnewday, stars overnight, straight a's and almost every band coming out of friesland. he already played around 30 shows with us the last months replacing bob and we're very happy he's willing to replace him permanently.

we're somewhere in between sadness of bob leaving the band and hapiness of having riekus as his replacement. fact of the matter is though, that we're still as strong as ever and more ready than ever. we'll be writing new songs this summer and hopefully playing a lot in the new season. got shows? keep 'em comin'! and in the future new releases will follow for sure. releases? schmeleases!

furthermore: we want to thank everyone that showed up at the show we played last friday at the valkhof affaire in nijmegen. it was a blast playing at such a big festival in front of so much people appreciating what we do. thanks! you can read a nice review of the show at 3 voor 12.

also; being three years late with every hype, we put some new songs on our purevolume and myspace sites.

unfortunately we have some less positive news as well, our show in boxmeer has been cancelled. hopefully we'll be playing the box some other time, but certainly not on september 23. but on the other hand, we have a new show for october 1st. in winterswijk that is. hope to see you then and there! keep 'em comin'!

04 July 2006 ~ Comments Off on another one

another one

we've had some excellent shows lately, the speak out fest in arnhem, our trip to austria and slovenia with the triebwerk sampler presentation and the donauinselfest, good times all over! thanks to those helping us out with that stuff, etjen of just like your mum tour up front. especially meeting our friends of rentokill and 7yearsbadluck was awesome, meeting joni from annie mae bookings for the first time and seeing and hearing in-sane play for the first time as well was amazing too! unfortunately the triebwerk sampler is not in yet, hopefully it'll be in our hands soon. you can find more info about the sampler here, tracklist and stuff.

we have made some pictures of this trip to slovenia and austria. check them out here if you want. don't expect anything this time, it will make it so much better.

this is only a small update, nothing much to inform you guys on unfortunately. hopefully we will have something to say about future plans sometime soon. there will be plans though, don't worry. we don't. sorry, but that's it for now … 

 

05 June 2006 ~ Comments Off on and finally

and finally

the tour report of our euro tour last april is online! both words and pictures. expect a lot of sleep and pets, and sometimes even combined. check here to see and read how much fun we had, and you didn't. embarrassing pictures included! thanks again for those helping us out on this trip!

also, we have a new sampler online. the ashcan records sampler is up in our shop, you can get it for 5 euro, along other merchandise. check "merch" for info and stuff. the triebwerk sampler is coming in soon as well.

speaking of which. we'll actually be playing on the release party of that sampler in wiener neustadt, austria. a cool trip that will bring us to slovenia and a huge festival called the donauinselfest in vienna too. we're very excited to go to a new country and finally meet up with joni from annie mae bookings. and we're scared playing the big angry austrian festival. but hey, it's all part of the job …

www.bosab.nl has made our song "because we can" sampler of the month. you can check it (and the recently done interview) here (or at this actual page too).

well, despite all the bands and other relationships that have quit recently, we dare to tempt fate and say "until next time!"  

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