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People come and people go

September 5, 2010 - 17:48

So until this year we had been playing more than four years with the same lineup (about eight if you count the pre-Said And Done years). This year things are changing quite a bit though. First, in February Joep played his last show and Toby joined us on bass. And now it’s time for change once again. Some of you probably already know but Remco’s leaving the band. No juicy details or fights this time either. It’s just the way the cookie crumbles. That’s life. We only want to thank him for the good times and wish him all the best with whatever he’s going to do next.

He’ll play two more shows with us. Up first is the show with Blacklisted and This Routine Is Hell. Next Tuesday (7th of September) @ Innocent in Hengelo. His final show will be in Brabant. At the Bunker in Gemert on the 24th of October. Also with This Routine Is Hell amongst others. We’re not going to do anything special for this show (upon his request) but it would be cool if we can give him the sendoff he deserves.

People might come and go, we’re not going anywhere though. The good news is that we already found a replacement. We didn’t had to look far either. Goran, who went with us on a couple of trips already (and replaced Stef at the 25 Years Innocent show last month) is going to be our new guitar player. You might know him from his other band, Make Them Suffer, too. He’s an awesome guitar player and a great guy, so needless to say we’re stoked to get things going.

As for now, like we said when Joep quit, full speed ahead.

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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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