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!

So the Twitter thing (www.twitter.com/saidanddonehc) is working great but it kinda replaced these entries and that wasn’t our intention, so here we go again. Let’s see what is going on in the S&D world recently:

First of all, maybe not that band related: Joost and me (Pim) were in our final year, so most of our time was spend on graduating. Luckily it was time well spend because we both managed to graduate. We can call ourselves bachelors now. Hooray. Now we can work until the end of days. Day in, day out.

But let’s talk S&D. Last weekend was amazing! We played 2 of the 3 Cold World shows in Germany. Hamburg and Essen were invaded and good times were had. It was good to be back in Hamburg, Rota Flora is such an amazing venue. Would play there every week if possible. There was a big demonstration (by the St. Pauli guys) in the city and there were cops everywhere. Impressive to say the least. Essen was cool too. Huge venue and we expected the worst sound ever when we walked in, but we were proven wrong. Sound was dead on (on stage atleast). It’s always interesting to see how a show like that goes (with that many bands on the lineup) but heads were bopping, lips were moving and people got moving. All in all, a great weekend. Good to talk to some people again too. Thanks go out to Alex and Worship Records and the guys from the St. Pauli hooligans for letting us stay at their place in Hamburg

So when Joost switched places with Henri (from Maaswater Veenlijk, who filled in on drums for half a year) again we told you guys it probably wouldn’t be the last you would see of Henri… Yesterday we rehearsed with Henri again. Joost is in India at the moment and the show must go on. We’re playing an outdoors show this Sunday in Cuijk and Henri will be beating the drums.

Talking about Henri filling in again, brings me to the next subject. In August we’re doing a short trip through Europe. Henri will be filling in on these dates as well. Not on drums though, but on bass this time. The boy’s talented Aside from that we’re taking Goran (Make Them Suffer) along with us. In the future he might be filling in on guitar when needed. Dude can play. We’re hitting up Germany, Poland, Austria and Belgium for sure, including 3 shows with Trash Talk. Hopefully France will be added to the list as well. We’ll see. It’s a shitty period to travel with a lot of clubs/youth centres being closed, but it was the only period we could do this. We’re siked anyway, come on over and do the twist with us.

Aside from that we’re currently demoing / doing pre-production for a couple of new songs. I purchased some recording equipment not too long ago and it’s cool to figure it all out. We recorded drums for 6 new songs last week and will be adding guitars and stuff next week. No idea what we’ll be doing with these demos, all depends on how they’re going to sound like. Stoked to work on them. Releasewise we’ll see what the future brings, hopefully we can put out something by the end of the year, or early next year. Nothing solid yet.

A bit far away, but we’re looking forward to Some Hardcore Fest as well. We´re playing the Saturday (5th of September), same day as the exclusive Guns Up! reunion show. Get your tickets here. The more tickets they sell in presale the better since they have to pay the plane tickets for Guns Up! etc.

Guess that’s all for now. Just keep checking back or… follow us on Twitter.

Pim
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PS2 > Some Will Never Know #2 still in the works.