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Scandinavia we need you

August 18, 2010 - 19:24

Scandinavia pay attention: We’re coming over. Since there’s some good shit cooking over there right now we want to get in on the action. We’re hooking up with Upright and we want to hit Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Oh and Germany on our way back too.

This is what we had in mind, but we’re open to anything, just let us know what you’re thinking:

Bands:
Said And Done | www.myspace.com/saidanddonehardcore
Upright | www.myspace.com/uprighthardcore

Period:
25th of March / 3rd of April 2011

Fri. 25th of March – Denmark /w Upright
Sat. 26th of March – Sweden (Malmo area?) /w Upright
Sun. 27th of March – Sweden (Gothenburg area?) /w Upright
Mon. 28th of March – Sweden (Jönköping area?) /w Upright
Tue. 29th of March – Finland /w Upright
Wed. 30th of March – Finland /w Upright
Thu. 31th of March – Finland /w Upright
Fri. 1st of April – Sweden (Nyköping area?)
Sat. 2nd of April – Denmark
Sun. 3rd of April – Germany (as close as possible to the Netherlands)

- 11 people (2 bands, 2 drivers)
- We’ll have a backline with us.

Get in touch if you want to know more specifics:

Use our contact form or mail us @ info [wedontlikespam] saidanddone.org

Please spread the word and get in touch if you can help us out or know people that might!

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In other news

August 17, 2010 - 09:53

Those of you who know us (or at least Stef) personally probably know already, but for everyone else:

Last week Stef and Line became the proud parents of a little boy: Ferre.

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He was born on Monday the 9th of August (the day after our show in Hengelo that Stef didn’t play) at 10:54 in the morning. Awesome. We wish all three of them all the best of course. Feel free to send them your congratulations or something.

Now for something completely different… Sjef, our friendly, lazy, our beer-drinking, pretending-to-be-roadie and most importantly friend was part of  a TV-show. Not your usual TV show either. It’s called Blootgewoon. (Bloot means nude, gewoon means usual/regular) With a couple of friends they posed nude. Why they hell would you do that? (The same question we asked). Apparently it’s for a good cause. The program is going to make a calendar and with the sales of that calendar they support good causes. In the case of Sjef and their friends it’s the Reuma foundation. A good friend of theirs is suffering from it and this way they hope to help a bit (and give it some attention at least). He wore a Said And Done shirt (at the end of the program, earlier on you can spot him in a Tenement Kids and a Backfire! shirt) too. Such a good boy.

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You can check the episode online right here if you’re interested:
http://blootgewoon.kro.nl/afleveringen2010/aflevering3/Vriendinnen_en_vrienden.aspx

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August update

August 7, 2010 - 17:25

So I guess it’s about time for an update again. Let’s see.

First of all, Sunday (tomorrow) we’re playing the Innocent in Hengelo (NL). We’ll be celebrating 25 years of Innocent. That’s quite a milestone. I’ve seen so many cool shows over there and we played some  great shows ourselves (Light The Fuse fest, Earth Crisis, Merauder etc. etc.) at that place.  No to mention it’s run by some amazing people too. Big shout out to Serge and co. It’s going to be a special show anyway. Icepick is doing a final show and you all know you want to see that (also releasing their last 7″). Bitter End is playing (Will they be doing that Only Living Witness intro again?), New Morality, etc. etc… We figured, since it’s a party and we’re playing the Innocent again next month (Come see us with Blacklisted and This Routine Is Hell) we should do something different this time. So we’re going to play mostly covers. If you saw us throughout the years you kinda now what covers to expect, but there’s one surprise in there. ”You are all pawns. Devil or angel, come on over and do the twist. Memories of the times you had, just uncomfortable“.

There’s also some big non-band news, that’s actually band-related. Stef (& Line) are expecting a baby anyday now. Yes, Stef’s going to be a daddy. Can you imagine? While that is great news it also means that it’s quite possible that Stef isn’t playing with us in Hengelo. No worries, we asked Goran (from Make Them Suffer) to step in, in case that’s needed. More about him later, but it’s not the last time you’ll be seeing him on stage with us.

Ok, that’s all this weekend, but we’ve got more cool shows lined up. As mentioned above we’re playing with Blacklisted next month, but there’s more: a trip to the UK again and playing our friends Strike First their last show in November and early next year we’re playing with Supertouch in Germany. From 25th of March / 3rd of April we’re planning to head over to Denmark / Sweden / Finland with Upright (Finland), but more about that later. If you wanna hook us up feel free to get in touch. Good times.

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If zines are your thing, we had some interview published recently: Cudown Lata (Polish / The Wonder Years (English) features an interview with me about Said And Done and Some Will Never Know etc. Get it in our distro. There’s also an interview in the second issue of Spanish zine The Chapter, but I haven’t seen the final result of that yet. If you do a zine, you can always get in touch. For an interview or to get your zine in the distro.

That’s all for now. It’s August. Vacation time you know. In the meantime we’re mainly writing new songs for a full length. But there’s not much I can tell you about that yet.

Oh and as always – Follow us on Twitter and/or join us on Facebook to stay up to date between these updates.

Take care,
Pim

PS > Support new(er) bands: Upright (Finland), Foreseen (Finland), Twitching Tongues (USA), Soul Search (USA), Enforcers (CA), Youth Avoiders (France), Tremors (UK).
PS2> Check out Striking Justice’s tourreport. They went to the USA without any shows planned, and started to arrange everything there. They ended playing Sound And Fury etc. Just check out their videos!

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Big in Japan

June 18, 2010 - 14:20

No, no… Not yet ;)

But… Takeo from Positive Outlook recently opened up an online hardcore merch store in the land of the ninja’s and has some of our merch for sale over there.
He already put some of the stuff up there, but there’s more to come. So keep an eye out for that.

Check it out for yourself!

Japan promo

To introduce the Japanese people to the band we made a special promo CD-R (as seen above) that has two tracks of every record we did so far. It’s unavailable elsewhere.

Pretty cool to see our stuff reaching out that far.

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June update

June 14, 2010 - 19:47

So let’s see…. England was great! It was cool to hook up with the classy lads of Never Again and play some shows in the UK again. Going back to Le Pub in Newport, wandering around in Nottingham again… Felt good. Our first time in London was like home: Rainy. Thanks go out to Never Again & Carry The Weight, Alex, Alan, Caroline, Charlie, the No Reality guys (Birmingham! ;) ) and everyone else that helped us out or came to the shows. Here’s a video of us doing Leeway’s “Rise And Fall” @ Le Pub in Newport, Wales (the beginning is cut):

We’ll be back in November. We’re playing Canterbury on Sunday the 7th of November. More info on that show later, you’ll want to be there though. If anyone can hook us up with a show on the 6th (Saturday) please get in touch! That weekend will start with a show in Lendelede, Belgium on the 5th by the way.

It’s out. Our record is now officially out, go pick it up. Get it straight from our website or from Carry The Weight Records (get in touch with them for wholesale prices too).

This is what Aversionline.com had to say about it:

… (Weight Of The World) sees the band continuing to improve upon their unique style of hardcore. The driving midpaced rhythms and sincere vocals (which combine a gruff edge with vague hints of actual singing) are still the driving force, but there are a few more tempo changes happening this time around – lending both a little more crunch as well as a little more melody to the songwriting. There are a lot of quick little lead riffs going on, and the basslines feel more active here as well, which is always a plus and makes perfect sense given the band’s solid sense of groove. It’s the vocals that really give the material a different energy than a lot of what’s out there, though, and that makes a huge difference for me. I guess European hardcore bands still tend to fall on the underrated side of things, ’cause if Said and Done was from the US and signed to a label like Deathwish Inc. or something, I can’t help but think more people would be all over this shit… – Andrew (Aversionline.com (USA) – May 2010)

More reviews here. If you want to do a review too, get in touch.

In other news: Working on new songs, chilling in the sun, playing some shows here and there (Sweden/Finland next year? Maybe…) and being siked Restless Youth is playing a show again.

As always, get in touch if you want us to play your show. Oh and follow us on Twitter and join us on Facebook. Because you can.

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