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.

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.

As you might already know (considering the great feedback we’ve got already), we recently recorded 3 new songs together with Nico van Montfort. We uploaded one of those songs to our Myspace and site. Aside from that we also planned to have tapes ready for our trip to the UK, but since we’ve got em ready to go already, you can order it from our online distro right away. Go listen to “Today”.

UK TRIP

We’re siked to get over to the UK again at the end of November, we had a blast last time. We can’t wait to return to Le Pub in Newport, to play Guitar Hero with mr Bob Royce (from Reality fame) and check out the country. Aside from the tape mentioned above, we’re also making some limited UK covers for our “Endless Roads” 7″, because we can.

Come check us out at:

28th of November – Brighton
29th of November – Birmingham
30th of November – Newport

Keep an eye on the site for the exact venues, other bands playing etc.

ZINES

Keep an eye on the next issues of Too Much To Say (#2, in French) and UK based Mass Movement Magazine (#23), we recently did interviews with them. Good stuff. Communication is the key.

While we’re speaking of zines. Some Will Never Know #1 is still available and as soon as I can find some time again I’ll start on issue #2… Also pick up the Lifers zine if you get the chance, great read and looks stunning too. (We’ll get some in our distro as soon as possible, they’re taking quite a while to get here from Canada, have patience).

GET STUFF

S&D DISTRO (Distroing zines as well!)
Shield Recordings Distro
Interpunk (For all you US heads!)

Of course there are various other distros accross the globe, just Google it.

That’s all for today,
Pim

PS > Feel free to spread the word.
PS 2> We’re kicking off a new season of shows @ OJC de Box in Boxmeer (NL) TODAY. Henri’s hometown. So come hang out.