“The place was packed. Lots of confetti. Party hats. Joep in an Elvis suit. A disco ball. Joost wearing a princess crown. Stef wearing a furry pig head costume. Picture slideshow on a beamer (about 10 years of pictures). Joep smashing a (prepared, we’re not that rich!) bass to pieces to give him the feeling of a true rockstar. A long set. A good old “pull-and-push” mosh pit, sing-alongs, dives. Throw some some injuries (one guy even had to be brought to the hospital to get some stiches) in the mix and you know it was a crazy show. ”

Needless to say, I think I can speak for all of us (including Joep) that we had a blast. It sucks to see him go, but atleast he went out with a bang. Thanks to all of you for showing up and giving him a great goodbye. He loved it. As did we. Big time.

I’m pretty sure this isn’t the last we have seen of Joep though. If we ever need a substitute bassplayer, we know where to find him. And he still owes us some free burgers anyway

4 brand new songs. Recorded in January. Pre-orders up now!

GET IT @ CARRY THE WEIGHT RECORDS (UK)

Check the title song on our media page, Myspace, Facebook, wherever.

SPREAD THE WORD!

There’s some news though that’s been in the making for quite some time now and some of you probably already know… but I guess it’s time to make it official now.

After 8 years of making music together with our bassplayer, Joep’s now leaving the band. Due to recent changes in his work situation he simply can no longer commit to the band. No juicy details here I’m afraid, there are no hard feelings whatsoever. It just sucks to see our friend go. The only thing we can do though is thank him for the good times and wish him all the best. We’re quite sure he’ll keep coming around. It’s not like he can put his ‘discosuit’ away for good, can he?

Joep’s final show will be on the 26th of February in our hometown Sint Anthonis. Place to be is ‘t Hert, a small bar. It can’t get any more ‘local’ I guess. Our friends from Make Them Suffer will play as well. The shows we played there before have been a blast and totally packed, so get your ass over there and let’s give Joep the sent-off he deserves. Entrance is free. Party hard.

Our trip through Europe in March and the other shows that are booked right now will go on. We’ll have Rick (who also replaced Joep on our releaseweekend in Germany) on bass for those. This is a temporary solution though, since he’s not able to join us either.

This means we’re now looking for a new bandmember. Preferably someone on bass, but if that’s not going to work out we might switch one of the guitarists to bass, creating a free spot for a guitarplayer. We’re not going to say we’re looking for someone with “loyality, dedication and commitment”, because that would be a cliché right? It’s simple. If you have the time, like what we’re doing and think you can play these songs: Get in touch! We have our own rehearsal space in Sint Anthonis, a small town in the Northern part of Brabant. Just look it up. Full speed ahead.

2009

January 2009 started with the return of Joost. As you might know he was off to Taiwan for the last half 0f 2008. Wiser (we hope that is) and a great experience richer he returned to our small town. Quite a bit different from the hectic surroundings he was used to in Taiwan to say the least. He quickly took back his seat behind the drum kit and it was like he never left. To get fully back into gear we decided we would do all the remaining shows in January with Henri. Aside from that it gave us some time to organise a kick-ass goodbye show for Henri. Those shows in January were cool, especially the one in Hamburg at Rota Flora. An amazing venue (and old theater I think?) and Joost was enjoying the show from the crowd (something we don’t see that often haha). So in February Henri played his final show with us in his hometown Boxmeer. Just a small bar filled with friends. It was a blast to say the least. Just check the video below to see the end of the set (some covers and “Into The Distance”):

Between February and June we worked on new songs and played some cool shows like the Shield Showcase @ the Stage in Arnhem, the AZ (another amazing venue!) in Germany with No Turning Back, again @ the Stage with Bitter End and in a town nearby on our friends from Make Them Suffer their releaseshow etc.

In July we were invited by mister Alex (Remember Hoods Up?) to come play 2 dates of the 3 day weekendtour of Cold World in Germany he was organising. It brought us back to the Rota Flora in Hamburg and made us play Essen too. Two totally different places, but both were really cool. Needless to say we had a blast and so did the people visiting these shows (including the one in Rosswein) I think. It was, amongst other things, cool to talk to some people again we haven’t seen for quite some time, to see Cold World 2 nights in a row, to see Dirty Money tearing up the place and No Turning Back showing why they’re so big right now. Good times.

In August it was time for our trip through Europe. Since Joep couldn’t make it to the trip we welcomed back Henri, this time as our bassplayer (dude’s like a local Dave Grohl!). Together with Goran (from Make Them Suffer) who acted as merch-man-roadie-’the-guy-who-you-can-call-names-all-day-and-nightlong’ dude, we set out for a trip that brought us to 5 countries in 6 days. Highlights include playing 3 shows with Trash Talk (Those dudes are c-r-a-z-y. Destroying everything in their way.), playing France again (Always good to see our friends from France. Check out Wank For Peace people!), getting a great welcome in Poland (Kuba, Kasia and co, thanks once again!), visiting Vienna (most beautiful city ever? Good schnitzel too haha) etc. But that whole trip was pretty much one big highlight. You can read all about it in our trip report.

In September Korneel, a Dutch comedian (or something like that) wore one of our shirts on a Dutch improvisation program called “Badgasten“. Cool to see our shirt on national TV.

In the last months of 2009 we played the Some Hardcore Fest in Belgium, featuring an exclusive show by Guns Up! amongst others. A cool location with less people than expected but it was a good day anyway. Our friends from France (Simon and co) made it out to Belgium as well, so it was cool to talk to them again. We also made a little trip to Weisswasser in Eastern Germany together with Strike First. Something we should do more often, always cool to hook up with Emiel and co. I don’t think those Germans knew what the fuck was happening when two groups of Dutch men were screaming at the top of their lungs outside of the venue. No worries, just a small “megabombe” fight as patented by those dudes from Strike First.

To close the year off and to celebrate Joost and me making music for 10 years already we released a 7″ at the end of the year. The tape we self-released at the end of 2008, was pressed on a limited amount of 200 pieces of vinyl by German based “My Fist, Your Face” Records (Thomas is one of the friendliest Germans ever) as the “Feel It EP“. We released it during a short weekend trip in Germany, getting to play Rosswein (and seeing Greyli again who we did meet as the Trash Talk driver during the Euro trip in August, top dude) and the AZ in Aachen again. We need venues like this in the Netherlands people. Damn. We have the Innocent and that’s cool, but Germany is way ahead of us. On this trip we had Rick on bass instead of Joep (who couldn’t make it due to work commitments). He learned our songs in just a week. Dude’s a hero and you’ll be hearing more from him soon without a doubt.

Maybe less interesting, but being the little nerd I am I have to mention it; 2009 was also the year of changes on the web for S&D. In October we started to use this new website (based upon Wordpress) and during the year we witnessed the growth of Twitter and Facebook (Myspace is more like a sinking ship at the moment or so it seems). We opened accounts on both and it gave us another cool way to interact with people and give them updates on what we’re up to. Check us out on those social networks if that’s your thing. Follow/join us!

2010

All in all 2009 was good to us once again, let’s hope 2010 will be good too. A short glimp into the future already shows some nice things:

This weekend we start the first day of recording the “Weight Of The World” 7″ for Carry The Weight Records from the UK. We’ll be recording with Nico van Montfort once again. We’re aiming for a release at the end of February / early March. Just in time for our Euro trip in March. This time we’re hitting Belgium, France, Spain and probably Portugal. Keep an eye on our showlist to see if we’re coming close. We can’t wait. In May we’ll do a weekendtrip to the UK and that’s just what already is in the pipelines.

Let’s get this year started. Are you doing a show? Hook us up!

First of all we got a message at the end of November / early December letting us know that our planned studio time (29/30/31 Januari) for the “Weight Of The World” EP wasn’t going to work. Luckily we could reschedule (thanks to Nico and Cheating Death for helping us out here!). They’re now spread over 3 separate dates and pushed forward 2 weeks. Nothing big, we’ll just have to shift gears a bit. We’ll still be done in time for the European trip.

Then we got notice from Joep last week that he couldn’t do the release weekend (the one we’re leaving for tomorrow) because of job issues. It’s not his fault or anything, but it sucks. So we had to drop working on the new songs and find a replacement fast. Enter our saviour Rick. You’ll more about him later, all you need to know for now is that we focused entirely on learning him the songs for this weekend. And he managed to do just that, so give the dude some credit.

Aside from that there were final preparations to be done for the “Feel It” EP that we’re releasing this weekend. The last couple of days have been spend finishing and printing the lyric sheets, programming the download system and printing the download cards and stuff like that. Oh and there was a van to be picked up and between all of that we had some regular work to do too.

So in case you wondering why we didn’t mail you back yet about your pre-order (still a couple of copies left by the way)… We just didn’t have the time yet (the same reason my Some Will Never Know #2 zine is pushed back for an early 2010 release). They’re all noted though, no worries. After this weekend we’ll get to all of you as soon as possible. And I would like to take this opportunity to say, once again, thanks to you guys (& girls) for the support. It’s appreciated.

But in the end it all comes down to the shows this weekend. We’re hoping to close off the year with a bang, so we hope to see all of you there:

First up is JUHA, Rosswein:

We only heard good stuff about JUHA and we’re siked to see Michael (Greyli) again. Awesome dude.

Sunday we’re hitting Aachen again, to play with our friends in Goldust and World Gone Mad:

Come on over and do the twist.

Brought to you by My Fist Your Face Records from Germany.

So what’s the deal?

Limited to 200 pieces of vinyl in total.
50 of those will be pre-order editions (with linol print).
50 of those will be “Germany-themed” (haha) release editions.
100 of those will be regular editions.

All of them will include a downloadcode, so you can enjoy it on your PC/Mac, iPod or whatever too. Although we recommend portable record players, just to look cool.

Pre-orders will be shipped after the release weekend (see below).

GET IT

We’ve put up the preorders in our online distro (also including zines, selected vinyl, S&D merchandise etc):

http://www.saidanddone.org/distro/preorders/
http://www.saidanddone.org/distro/preorders/
http://www.saidanddone.org/distro/preorders/

There’s a “pre-order” + “regular” edition package up too that includes free shipping to the Netherlands / Germany.

Orders from Germany will be shipped from Germany. Orders from the Netherlands will be shipped from the Netherlands. Makes us look like a multinational isn’t it? But just pick up whatever you want from the distro, we’ll make sure the label gets that stuff as well.

RELEASE WEEKEND IN GERMANY

Celebrating 10 years of making music (Joost & Pim), we’ll be releasing this during a weekend in Germany. Closing off the year with a bang.

26 December @ JUHA, Rosswein /w Born From Pain, Zero Mentality, The Setup and more.
27 December @ AZ, Aachen /w Goldust, World Gone Mad & Sundowning.

Keep an eye on our site for all the other news (Recording a new 7″ in January to be released in March, Euro trip in March, Uk weekend in May(?) and all that.).

Take care,
Pim

www.saidanddone.org
www.twitter.com/saidanddonehc
www.facebook.com/saidanddone
www.myspace.com/saidanddonehardcore
www.myspace.com/myfistyourfacerecords

PS > Listen to the new Blacklisted. On repeat.

That…  And a show coming up this weekend with our friends of Strike First:

We’ll be driving to Eastern Germany cosily packed together in one car. Not much room, so if you want to make sure we take your size with us, get in touch.

NEW RELEASES

FEEL IT 7″

In December Joost and I (Pim) are jamming for 10 years already. Time flies. To celebrate this we’ll be releasing the 3 song promo tape on vinyl as the “Feel It” EP. “My Fist, Your Face” Records from Germany approached us to make a limited edition of 200. There will be no represses. Nico re-mastered the songs for the vinyl edition, free downloadcards will be included. Pre-orders will go up early December. Keep an eye on our website.

We’ll be releasing the record in December when we’re doing a German Blitzkrieg weekend:

SATURDAY 26TH OF DECEMBER
@ JUHA, Rosswein /w Born From Pain, Another Breath, Turn Away & Way Down

SUNDAY 27TH OF DECEMBER
@ AZ, Aachen /w Goldust & World Gone Mad

SHIELD RECORDINGS: 5 YEAR SAMPLER

Shield Recordings, who released “Everyday” and “Endless Roads” are celebrating their 5 year anniversary in December. To celebrate this they’re releasing a sampler, including two of our (previously released) tracks. Go pick it up because there are some damn good bands on that disc. On to another 5 years Gert-Jan and Fieke, keep this up!

WEIGHT OF THE WORLD 7″

A bit farther away, but not that much: At the end of January we’ll be locking ourselves away again with Nico van Montfort. We’ll be recording a couple of new songs for a 7″ on “Carry The Weight Records” from England. Estimated release-date is February. Right in time for the following trip we’re planning:

MARCH 2010 EURO TRIP

In March 2010 we’ll be hitting the road again. At the moment the plan is to hit the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal in this period. As always though we’re open to anything, so get in touch.

SATURDAY 13TH OF MARCH until SUNDAY 21TH OF MARCH

6 persons. We’ll be having our own backline with us.

If you can help us out, get in touch!

NEW WEBSITE, NEW MERCH

You might already have seen it, but we launched a new website not too long ago. We’ve added another layer of communication by adding comment functionality. Talk to us.

Aside from various zines and selected records and tapes (we like it oldschool) we added some new S&D merch to the distro. Zipped hoodies, longsleeves, shirts. The works. Design is done by our friend Sieb (www.siebdesign.nl – hire him!) . Check our distro for a bigger version of his drawing. Dude’s awesome.

Guess that’s all for now. We’ll be back in December. Stay classy internet people.

PS > Check out Ignorance Is Strength, LIFERS, Heat, Effort, At Both Ends, Twisted Wrongs & Crooked Rights, Just Say Yo, Milkshake, Malfunction, Against The Haze etc. etc. etc. Read. Support zines.

Amongst other things you can now comment on most posts, pages etc. Communication is the key. Oh and you don’t have to register to order stuff from our distro anymore.

Let us know what you think!

PS > Everything should be working smoothly, but if you notice any bugs, get in touch.

Korneel (remember Fairfight?) wearing our shirt on Dutch improvisation TV show “De Badgasten“.

Click the link below to watch the show.