Antillectual: Italy, Russia and Boy Sets Fire

Italy, Russia and Boy Sets Fire

As we promised before, we are gonna play our asses off in support of the release of "Start From Scratch!". We are going to Italy and Russia on our own and we will tour across Europe with Boy Sets Fire, over 50 shows in total. But first: have you checked our new album yet? Stream or download (pay-what-you-like) it here or buy a CD or LP from our webstore.

* Italian tour
* Russian tour
* Support for Boy Sets Fire across Europe
* More shows

Italian tour

We have been to Italy before, but never this extended. The guys at No Reason Records really did an awesome job getting us shows all over Italy:

24-03 SWI, Basel / Sommercasino
25-03 ITA, Torino / United
26-03 ITA, Castiglione delle Stiviere / Arcidallò
27-03 ITA, Bologna / Lazzaretto
28-03 ITA, Bologna / Acoustic (TBA)
29-03 ITA, Rome / Closer
30-03 ITA, Maddaloni (CA) / New Dream
31-03 ITA, Rende (CS) / B-Side
01-04 ITA, Molfetta (BA) / Macerie
02-04 ITA, L'aquila / Casematte!
03-04 ITA, Vicenza / Jack Hole
04-04 GER, Regensburg / Zimmer 4
05-04 SWI, Oberburg / Müllers `Place w/ Your All Time Favourites
06-04 GER, AVAILABLE!

Russian tour

Since our new album was released in Russia by Angry Chuck Records, that seemed a good excuse to go there. Neither one of us has ever been there, so we are excited as little kids:

27-04 RU, Ramenskoe / Slam
28-04 RU, Tula / Wekino
29-04 RU, Moscow / Democracy
30-04 RU, Vladimir / CB
01-05 RU, Ryazan' / Dom Kul'tury
02-05 RU, St. Petersburg / Vegan Club
03-05 RU, TBA

Support for Boy Sets Fire across Europe

Speaking of little kids: when we were young(er) we grew up on Boy Sets Fire's music and now we are extremely happy to announce we will be doing the support for their reunion tour. There are still some dates (without Boy Sets Fire) to be filled, so please get in touch if you can help us out:

08-06 AVAILABLE
09-06 AVAILABLE
10-06 GER, Sulzbach-Rosenberg / Youth Club Hängematte w/ Tim Vantol
11-06 GER, Weimar / Gerber 3 w/ the Toyotas, The Detectors
12-06 AVAILABLE
13-06 AVAILABLE
14-06 HUN, Budapest / A38 w/ Boy Sets Fire
15-06 PL, Bielsko-Biala / Backstage w/ Boy Sets Fire
16-06 CZ, Prague / Akropolis w/ Boy Sets Fire
17-06 AVAILABLE
18-06 GER, Leipzig / Conne Island w/ Boy Sets Fire
19-06 AVAILABLE
20-06 GER, Nürnberg / Löwesaal w/ Boy Sets Fire
21-06 A, Innsbruck / Weekender w/ Boy Sets Fire
22-06 ITA, Gorizia / Pieffe Factory w/ Boy Sets Fire
23-06 ITA, Milano / Magnolia w/ Boy Sets Fire
24-06 TBC w/ Boy Sets Fire
25-06 GER, Frankfurt / Batschkapp w/ Boy Sets Fire
26-06 NL, Amsterdam / Melkweg w/ Boy Sets Fire
27-06 UK, London / Islington Academy w/ Boy Sets Fire
28-06 UK, Manchester / Moho Live w/ Boy Sets Fire
29-06 TBA / TBA w/ Boy Sets Fire
30-06 NL, Breda / Mezz w/ Boy Sets Fire
01-07 GER, Frankfurt / Batschkapp w/ Boy Sets Fire - SOLD OUT

More shows

Is that enough shows for you? Not for us. We have some more:

09-04 NL, Nijmegen / Onderbroek w/ Astpai, One Win Choice
06-05 GER, Bielefeld / AJZ w/ Iron Chic, Underparts
07-05 BEL, Itterbeek / JK De Zomaar w/ Iron Chic, The Real Danger, Underparts, Off The Charts
29-05 NL, Harlingen / de Lichtboei / Rock de Boei w/ Midnight Menace / Cold Blooded / So Called Celeste
30-07 GER, Bausendorf / Riez Open Air w/ Bouncing Souls, Strung Out, Stick to Your Guns, the Blackout Argument, Polar Bear Club, A Traitor Like Judas, Man Overboard, Tim Vantol

Alright, that's it for now. If you like to stay on top of things, follow us at our our website, facebook and twitter

 

We'll be posting updates every now and then in this topic
By the way: a little (well, rather big) report of our Russian tour is online here http://www.antillectual.com/2011/tour-r ... -may-2011/

Here goes!

A short newsletter to remind you of our summer tour throughout all of Europe. On most dates we will support Boysetsfire on their reunion tour together with Letlive. Please come early, we will play first! Get in touch for the “availables” through [email protected]. Check our new album and all other music at http://music.antillectual.com.

European tour with Boysetsfire
JUN 9 DE Ulm, Panda Bar
JUN 10 DE Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Youth Club Hängematte. w/ Tim Vantol
JUN 11 DE Weimar, Gerber 3. w/ the Toyotas, The Detectors
JUN 12 AVAILABLE!
JUN 13 AT Wiener Neustadt, Bandhouse
JUN 14 HU Budapest, A38. w/ Boysetsfire, Letlive
JUN 15 PL Bielsko-Biala, Backstage. w/ Boysetsfire, Letlive
JUN 16 CZ Prague, Akropolis. w/ Boysetsfire, Letlive
JUN 17 CZ Sedlcany, Rosa Festival w/ Queens of Everything, Just For Being (show time: 18h)
JUN 17 DE Zwiesel, Jugendcafé. w/ BHF (show time: 23h)
JUN 18 DE Leipzig, Conne Island. w/ Boysetsfire, Letlive
JUN 19 AVAILABLE!
JUN 20 DE Nürnberg, Hirsch. w/ Boysetsfire, Letlive
JUN 21 AT Innsbruck, Weekender. w/ Boysetsfire, Letlive
JUN 22 IT Gorizia, Pieffe Factory. w/ Boysetsfire, Letlive
JUN 23 IT Milano, Magnolia. w/ Boysetsfire, Letlive
JUN 24 DE Saarbrucken, Rites of Summer Festival /Garage. w/ Boysetsfire, Filter, Caliban, Parachutes
JUN 25 DE Frankfurt, Batschkapp. w/ Boysetsfire Letlive - SOLD OUT
JUN 26 NL Amsterdam, Melkweg. w/ Boysetsfire Letlive
JUN 27 UK London, Islington Academy. w/ Boysetsfire
JUN 28 UK Manchester, Moho Live. w/ Boysetsfire, Failsafe
JUN 29 BE Antwerpen, Trix. w/ Boysetsfire, Valient Thorr
JUN 30 NL Breda, Mezz. w/ Boysetsfire
JUL 1 DE Frankfurt, Batschkapp. w/ Boysetsfire - SOLD OUT

Check the Facebook event for updates about this tour.

Other tours/shows/festivals
Of course we have more plans and shows scheduled. We have some really awesome shows/festivals coming this summer. In October we will tour Europe with our old buddies in Static Radio and we will tour the UK around our first ever Scottish show in December. Get in touch for bookings!

Jul 30 DE Bausendorf, Riez Open Air Festival. w/ Bouncing Souls, Strung Out, Polar Bear Club, Stick to Your Guns, Man Overboard, The Blackout Argument, Tim Vantol, A Traitor Like Judas, more
Aug 8 NL Uden, De Pul. W/ A Wilhelm Scream
Aug 12 DE Hillentrup, Hillentroopers Festival (Papiermühle)
Aug 13 DE Dusseldorf, Philipshalle. w/ Rise Against, Templeton Pek
Aug 27 DE Trier, Jupitair (Exhaus). w/ Jupiter Jones, Bakkushan, Ghost of Tom Joad
Sept 29-Oct 16 Euro tour with Static Radio
Dec 1 Available UK
Dec 2 Available UK
Dec 3 UK Dundee (Scotland), Book Yer Ane Fest (Kage Nightclub). w/ Leatherface, Franz Nicolay, The Cut Ups, more tba
Dec 4 Available UK
Dec 5 Available UK

Fall tour with Static Radio NJ
We've already played a lot of shows together with New Jersey's Static Radio, but we figured we should do some more. From September 29th to October 16th we will hit the Snelwegen, Autobahns, Motorways and Autoroutes with them. We're very happy to work with No Decline bookings for this tour. For further booking information please get in touch with [email protected].

That's it for now. All our music, more detailed info and our webstore including new T-shirt designs can be found at www.antillectual.com. Talk to you soon, see you at one of our shows! The next newsletter might involve more touring, even transcontinental to places we have never been before! Who knows ...

 

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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuJBrMljfEs), 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. The year started with our van passing the 500.000 km mark, and we ended the year with a steady 545.000 on the meter. This does not even include our trips to Russia and Greece, which we did by plane.

We sure made a lot of miles in 2011, literally and figuratively. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped make this possible: promoters, people coming to the shows, helping hands on tour, and in special Sylvia and Jacho at Destiny, Glenn and Sandro at Mighty Vision, Vladimir and Sergej at Play It Loud, Apostolis at WAK, Etjen at Just Like Your Mom for always thinking along and our steady tour-help Thomas.

Something we are neither proud nor ashamed of: this year we played with 4 different bass players (thank you Tom, Tim and stand-in Koen!), resulting in Glen as our steady new bass player. In 2011 we also released our first ever music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j0PJpUmU50

2012

While we can look back happily on a busy and hectic 2011, we prefer to look forward and focus on what is yet to come. Here’s what we have planned for 2012 so far. More to come!

New Website

On January 1st we launched our new website at http://antillectual.com, something we’ve been looking forward to for a while. If you want to know what is going on with us, listen to our albums, check our tour dates or just get in touch, our website is the most trustworthy place to go. Subscribe yourself to its feed (http://antillectual.com/feed) and be up to date all the time.

Brazil

More new territory: On February 1st our latest album “Start From Scratch!” will be released in South America through Undermusic Records (Mute, Forus, End of Pipe). South America has been on our radar for a long time now, and we’re very glad to get our music out there. A South American tour will follow.

Upcoming shows

In the first months of the new year we will be playing in Germany a lot. These are our upcoming shows:

JAN 11 GER Münster, Lorenz Sud
JAN 12 GER Aachen, Headquarter
JAN 14 GER Lindern, Teestube
JAN 16 GER Mainz, Kulturcafe
JAN 25 GER Frankfurt, 11er
JAN 26 GER München, Glockenbachwerkstatt. w/ Grizzly Tours
JAN 27 AUT Innsbruck, PMK. w/ 7 Years Bad Luck
JAN 28 GER Regensburg, Alte Mälzerei. w/ Glorious Thieves, Red Button
JAN 29 AVAILABLE!
FEB 15 AVAILABLE!
FEB 16 GER Saale (Halle), VL Ludwigstrasse
FEB 17 GER Kamen, JKC
FEB 18 GER Braunschweig, B 58
MAR 3 NL Zeist, De Peppel. w/ The Living Daylights, Sidewalk, Life's Too Short For Us
APR 14 GER Köwerich (Trier), Rock im Kabuff (Jugendheim). w/ Finding Faith, Corman, A Hurricane's Revenge

Not close enough? Want to book us in your city? Email us: [email protected]

New album

Maybe the most exciting news for 2012 is that we will be working on a new album. We are currently writing new songs and playing them into shape. Recordings will follow next winter the soonest. We’ll be playing these new songs on stage too, so come hear for yourself at a show and let us know if you like it!

Support

If you want us to stay an active, recording band in 2012 please support us through our merch and albums available at our webshop (http://antillectual.com/store). Other ways to make the world go round for an independent band: follow us on www.facebook.com/antillectual , www.twitter.com/antillectual or spread the word by mouth about all our music on http://music.antillectual.com (for free or pay-what-you-like). Much appreciated!

Thanks a lot for bearing with us in the past year. See you in 2012!

- Willem, Glen and Riekus

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http://www.antillectual.com
http://music.antillectual.com
http://www.facebook.com/antillectual
http://www.twitter.com/antillectual

 

ANTILLECTUAL – NEWSLETTER APRIL 2012
Transatlantic tour and fresh old releases

While it may seem that we are laying low (our last tour was in December) we are actually planning more than ever: tours, releases and new recordings!

* Fest 11 + USA Tour
* Re-releases “Start From Scratch!” and “Testimony”
* Pre-production, recordings and EP
* New zippers and shirts

Fest 11 + USA Tour
Can we get a drum roll please? The biggest and best news by far is the tour that we have planned for October and November. After 4 years of absence, we will finally return on American soil. We have been confirmed to play the almighty Fest 11 in Gainesville, and we will be touring the USA on our way down to Fest. Details to be confirmed.

Re-releases “Start From Scratch!” and “Testimony”
Since all LPs of “Start From Scratch!” and all CDs and LPs of “Testimony” are out of stock, we decided to run a second pressing of both albums together with our friends at Shield Recordings. The 350 gatefold LPs of “Start From Scratch!” will be “seein’ red” and “Testimony” will see a reincarnation of 250 LPs in the “grey area”. The 500 “Testimony” CDs will be a jewel case edition.



Pre-production, recordings and EP
Having written half a new album already, we decided to book some studio dates. In May we will record these songs to prepare ourselves for the recordings of our fourth full length album next winter. 2 of those new songs will end up on an EP which will be released later this year. Details to be confirmed.

New zippers and shirts
No re-release here! Freshly designed zipped hoodies and T-shirts! Stay up to date and support us by ordering a shirt, zipper, a repressed album or a nice package of shirt+album.



Shirts have the King Kong print on the front. A limited amount of these shirts, with a red and black print on white, will be sold by Fairtrademerch at this year’s Groezrock Festival. Speaking of Groezrock: make sure to stop by Shield Recordings and No Reason Records on the market, and treat yourself to one of Mom’s Veggie Burgers.

Shows
MAY 04 Brussels (BE) - Garcia Lorca w/ The Arteries, The Octopussy’s, Black Sheep
MAY 05 Utrecht (NL) - DB’s w/ Cobra Skulls, Wanderlust, The Windowsill
MAY 16 Ysselsteyn (NL) – Jera On Air w/ No Turning Back, This Routine Is Hell + more tba
MAY 18 Arnhem (NL) - H80 bult theater festival
MAY 27 Tienray (NL) - Gaellus Open Air w/ Sunday Zombies & The Brain
JUN 01 Münster (DE) – Baracke Benefit show for Don Quijote Intercultural Center. w/ Mononoke
JUN 02 Heilbronn (DE) - Ex Stereo w/ Planet Watson
JUN 23 Oostende (BE) - Skatefest (Skate Bowl) w/ Madsin, Ostend Powers, Funkyfresh, Windub
JUL 20 Südwinsen (DE) - Südwinsen Festival
JUL 23 Drachten (NL) - Iduna w/ Ignite, Sparky’s Revenge
JUL 27 Langenau (DE) - Pfleghof Open Air w/ Benzin, Settle Down
AUG 10 Bunsbeek (BE) – Kloemprock w/ MXPX, Voodo Glow Skulls, Atlas Losing Grip, Gino’s Eyeball, Off the Charts, Left Alone
NOV 24 Erkelenz (DE) - Plug In Let’s Rock Festival / Auditorium w/ Not Available, Face the Fax, Ginos Eyeball, Ten Tons of Glory, Middle Finger Salute, 51st Degree, Cause for Confusion

USA Tour
OCT 15 – 25 USA – East Coast Tour
OCT 26 FEST 11 – Gainesville, FL
OCT 27 FEST 11 – Gainesville, FL
OCT 28 FEST 11 – Gainesville, FL

Thanks a lot for reading, keep in touch!
- Willem, Riekus and Glen

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