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.

ENDLESS ROADS

Maybe you’ve heard about it already, maybe you didn’t, but our upcoming release is called “Endless Roads” and will be released by the great people at Shield Recordings again. We’ve recorded 6 songs at De Studio in Asse (Belgium) on the 16 and 17th of February. 4 of those will end up on a lovely 7″, all 6 of them will end up on the MCD. At the moment we’re working on the mastering and artwork. Pre-order information and MP3′s will follow in April. Expect a release in May.

For now we can only offer you a small preview/teaser from our trip to the studio. Nothing special, just a compilation of some shots from the studio with the recordings mixed in (please note they’re NOT the final masters). It has to do for now though.

UPCOMING SHOWS / INVADING EUROPE AGAIN

We’ve got the following shows coming up.

2008-03-15 @ Die Volksschule, Moers (GER) / Break The Chains Fest #3 – Day II
2008-03-16 @ De Stage, Arnhem (NL) / Remain LP Release show
2008-04-11 @ Sirkonflex, Zedelgem (BE)
2008-04-19 @ De Wissel, Mill (NL)
2008-05-01 @ Mechelen (BE)
2008-05-02 @ Brugge (BE)

We’re working on some other shows, but since they’re not confirmed yet there’s no point in listing them here, keep an eye on our site or Myspace. Aside from that we’re planning a short trip through Europe to visit Spain again. We’ve had a great time on our first trip and we’re hoping for the same kind of experience. Below you can find what route we’ve got in mind, something like that.

SAT JULY 05 – NETHERLANDS / BELGIUM
SUN JULY 06 – NETHERLANDS / BELGIUM / FRANCE
MON JULY 07 – FRANCE
TUE JULY 08 – SPAIN
WED JULY 09 – SPAIN
THU JULY 10 – SPAIN
FRI JULY 11 – FRANCE
SAT JULY 12 – FRANCE / LUXEMBOURG / BELGIUM
SUN JULY 13 – BELGIUM / NETHERLANDS

Get in touch if you think you can help us out or know people who might!

DISTRO

You might have seen that the Pressure Release tapes (a small tape label I’m running) were available from our site for quite some time already, but now we decided to give the whole online distro an update. Aside from the Said And Done & Pressure Release Records (Maaswater Veenlijk tape out! Get it now so you can sell it on E-Bay when they’re sold out) stuff we also carry a selection of zines. Get in touch if you want to see your stuff up there. Check it out at www.saidanddone.org/distro.

Take care and keep thinking,

Said And Done
info [ at ] saidanddone.org
http://www.myspace.com/saidanddonehardcore

PS> Reflections is putting out the Only Living Witness records on vinyl. We’re siked, you should be too. R.I.P. Justice. I’m working on the first issue of my “Some Will Never Know” zine. Keep an eye out for it somewhere in 2008. In the meantime make sure to pick up Clocked In #3 zine.

Show we played on the 23rd with Cro Mags

We got some great reactions to our show, thanks a lot! We had a great time, hope you all had as well. We went to Essen (Germany) the day after to see the Cro Mags again, that show was even cooler. Restless Youth and World Collapse were amazing as well.

Shop

Since we are getting questions about our merchandise… We’ve added a shop to the site. You can check it out here. Shirts for 10 euro each (without shipping that is).

Be sure to have Javascript turned on by the way. I tested the shop in Firefox 2.0, Internet Explorer 7.0 and Internet Explorer 6.0, so it should work. If not, just contact us through mail and we’ll work something out!

Shows

We’re always looking to add shows to our list, especially for next year. We’ve got a couple coming up. Amongst others, we’re hitting Spain, playing Light The Fuse 2007 & playing with Merauder so we can’t complain. But the more, the better, hook us up! We’ll work something out, we don’t ask for much. We just want to play!

Studio

Yeeha, almost… We can’t wait to record these songs and let em out into the world. We’ve been repeating it over and over again but on the 8th of December we’re finally heading to Studio 195 to record our full length “Everyday”. I guess we’ll do a studio report or something after it and post a MP3 as soon as possible. Just keep an eye on it.

That’s all for now folks, take care! Keep thinking.

NEW SITE
Well, if you were here before you probably notice already, it looks a bit different. The previous version was thrown together in a hurry and this version is a bit easier to manage and will be more up to date. If you notice any bugs let us know!

NEW SHIRTS
Since the first shirts are almost completely gone, we’ve got like 4 left or something, we thought it was time to get ourselves some new shirts. People liked the “panther” design a lot so we did print that one again, different color this time though. Check out the image below to see the different designs, colors etc. Pick it up at our shows.

SHOWS
The show on the 27th of October @ De Stage, Arnhem with Iron Age, Restless Youth and Bratpack was cancelled but we’re playing another show with Bratpack on that date. Come join the party @ Hiernaast, Wijchen instead. Be sure to check out Bratpack by the way, they’ve got a great demo coming up. Check out some songs here.

We’re also pretty siked to announce we’re playing Light The Fuse next year! More details later on.

We’ll not be adding a lot of new shows before we’re hitting the studio in December. Just keep an eye on the list. If you want to book us for shows after the studio dates don’t hestiate to contact us! We want to play, like any other band, as much as possible!

That’s all for now I guess,
HOUDOE!