Balkan tour coming up!
New Merch
yo, we got some new shirts and sweaters, artwork done by Raph Gordon.
some oldies left:
Shirts are 10,-, sweater is 20,- excl. postage.
Send an email to or get it at the following shows:
18/03/2009 MTC, Cologne w/ SNFU
24/03/2009 Winston, Amsterdam w/SNFU
24/04/2009 Projekt 42, Mönchengladbach w/ Citizens Patrol/ Abfukk
13/05/2009 Available, Bratislava
14/05/2009 Filter, Budapest w/Think Again, PFA
15/05/2009 Osijek United, Osijek
16/05/2009 Akademija, Belgrade w/Let's Grow
17/05/2009 Castro, Skopje w/SMARTxBOMB, Backstab Warning
18/05/2009 Street Attack, Thessaloniki
19/05/2009 Tunel, Kumanovo w/ Smack Attack
20/05/2009 CK13, Novi Sad
21/05/2009 KSET, Zagreb
22/05/2009 Mladinski Center, Krsko
23/05/2009 Triebwerk, Wiener-Neustadt
18/06/2009 De Buze, Steenwijk Trashfest!
29/07/2009 Zakk, Dusseldorf w/Adolescents, The Dickies, D.O.A., SNFU, Channel 3
12/09/2009 tba, Duisburg Light In The Dark fest
18/09/2009 ZXZW, Tilburg
Small update
Hello oipunkers, koalas and other mutants, here's a small update!
Shirts:
We got new shirts! We got this Stalag 13 ripoff shirt and a revisited version of an old shirt! Shirts are available in s,m,l,xl and will cost 10 euro excl. postage. Send an email to
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We're pretty psyched to support the Adolescents on two of their european dates. Check us out in Cologne and Temse at the end of the year! Amsterdam based koalas Gewapend Beton and Sick Mormons will play on the Temse show as well, nie normoal! Besides that we'll do two shows with, one of our all-time favorites, SNFU. Get their latest record 'in the meantime and in between time', they're still great! A five-day UK minitour is booked for January and in May we'll finally go to the Balcans for a twelve-day tour. Currently we're pretty busy practicing new stuff, it's gonna be recorded somewhere 2009. Hope to play some new stuff in the near future.
Dec. 20 w/ Adolescents, Gewapend Beton, Sick Mormons @ Nartist- Temse
Dec. 21 w/ Adolescents @ Underground- Cologne
Dec. 27 w/ a lot of bands @ Moshball Festival- Bergeyk
Jan. 14 @ de Pits- Kortrijk
Jan. 15 @ Hobgoblin- Brighton
Jan. 16 w/ Riistetyt @ 1in12 club- Bratford
Jan. 17 @ tba Reading
Jan. 18 w/ State of Mine, Griptape @ OHK- Oostende
Feb. 07 w/ Gewapend Beton (releaseshow!!), Antidote, Citizens Patrol, Adolf Butler@OCCII- Amsterdam
Feb. 13 ? Frostpunxpicknick @ AZ- Mullheim
Febr. 14 @ tbc- Paris
Febr. 15 @ Nijdrop- Opwijk
Mar. 18 w/ SNFU @ MTC- Cologne
Mar. 24 w/ SNFU @ Winston- Amsterdam
May 12- 23- Balcans tour (get in touch with HA-KO Bastards for bookings)
Jun. 19 @ TRASHFEST
Tourphoto's online
We've put some photo's of our minitour with Gewapend Beton online, check 'em out!
Update
Long time since you've heard from us, sorry 'bout that!
So what's going on? We did some very cool shows lately, check out the video Darcy made of our show at the Melkweg in the videos section. We're booking some weekend trips for the end of year, so get in touch if you can help us out!
The album is doing great and we've been getting some really cool reviews. You can check 'em out on our myspace blog.
That's it for now, hope to get back to you soon with some new merch!
New website and tourphotos online
Hey! As you can see we've got a new website and myspace layout. Check it out!
We've also put some photos online from the European tour we did last month, so take a look at the photos page!
Update (new album, tour, shirts etc.)
NEW RECORD COMING UP
Yeah, it's gonna happen! Our first full-length called 'Hate the Neighbours'is gonna be released by Crucial Attack (NL), Dirty Faces (GER) and HA-KO Bastards (SERB) on both cd and vinyl. 13 raging punkrock songs produced and mixed by Menno Bakker and mastered by Nico van Montfort. You can check out two songs on our myspace. Artwork is done by Ronald Huiskes. The release is due for May 6th.
We'll do two releaseshows.. On May 6th we'll play with Dead to Me (USA, Fat Wreck) and Gewapend Beton in Dollars, Nijmegen. Be there! We'll keep you updated about this one! On May 8th we'll play with Strike Anywhere and Antillectual at the Bitterzoet.
Hailing from the eastern part of The Netherlands comes a band that you would expect from the western and sunny side of California. The band started in 2006 and not long after that they recorded a demo which was well received by critics and fans. Playing festivals such as Light The Fuse/Trashfest and also attending the 5 year anniversary for Punx.nl shows that this band is not just a punkrock band but lots more. With ex- and current members of Beans, Antillectual, My Reply and Citizens Patrol they have a wide variety of musicians in the band and that's something you distinctly hear in their sound. Influences vary from the melodic sounds of Nofx ( take note off the melodic guitar intros), Bad Religion, No Use For A Name but with a harder edge than any of these bands using influences of hardcore bands such as RKL, Stalag 13, 7 seconds en old New York and DC hardcore bands like Minor Threat and Urban Waste. In 2007 their demo was re-released by Gummopunx/Misspelled Yuoth and Pick-up records. Not long after that they started to record a full-length album which is now ready to be released and to be played all summer. Brat Pack delivers 13 songs of full excitement and loads of melodies which will have you dancing in no time and also set a standard for the next generation of punkrock bands to come.
TOUR
Thursday morning we'll leave for what's going to be our second European tour. We'll play shows all across France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic and Poland. You can check us out on the following dates:
20/3 Bar Balthes- Ravensburg (GER)
21/3 Pinky Bar- Nommay (FR) ---canceled (get in touch!)
22/3 Grrrnd Zero Gerland- Lyon (FR)
23/3 Lazaretto- Bologna (IT)
24/3 Tuewi- Vienna (AU)
25/3 Muzak Club- Brno (CZ)
26/3 CRK- Wroclaw (POL)
27/3 Jet Club- Prague (CZ)
28/3 Café Marat- Munich (GER)
29/3 Club Exzess- Frankfurt (GER) - RKL tribute party
*Unfortunately our show on Friday March 21st got canceled due to reasons beyond the control of the promoter. Get in touch if you can fix an additional date somewhere in France, South Germany or Switzerland on VERY SHORT TERM.
SHIRTS
We got new shirts available in S/M/L/XL. Get in touch at
SHOWS
05/04/2008 Baarmoeder, Amsterdam (The Big Abortion festival)
18/04/2008 OJC Maddogs, Groesbeek (w/ Bambix)
20/04/2008 Mukkes, Leeuwarden (w/ Nightstick Justice, Citizens Patrol, Room 13)
25/04/2008 Steppin-In, Horst (w/ Nightstick Justice, Citizens Patrol)
26/04/2008 DB's, Utrecht (w/ Nightstick Justice, Citizens Patrol)
30/04/2008 Perron 55, Venlo (Queensday festival)
01/05/2008 Cafe Tinus, Helden
06/05/2008 Dollars, Nijmegen (Releaseparty w/ Dead to Me, Gewapend Beton)
08/05/2008 Bitterzoet, Amsterdam (Releaseparty w/ Strike Anywhere, Antillectual)
11/05/2008 JUZ, Mannheim (JUZ fest)
07/06/2008 Scheune, Ibbenburen
New recordings, guitarplayers and tours
Hello Bastards!!
We got some news for you!
New Recordings:
We're finally done!! We recorded 13 songs at the Bunt Studios with our buddy Menno Bakker. It's for our first full-length album and it's gonna be called "Hate the Neighbours". Sansamp Nico took care of the mastering. Artwork will be done again by our friend Ronald Huiskes. You can check out 2 brand new songs under MP3 or on our MySpace page! At the moment we're busy checking out labels. We'll keep you updated about stuff like that!
New guitarplayer:
Since Antillectual is becoming a full-time thing Willem will leave the band. We had an amazing time together, but due to future schedules of both bands, it was inevitable this was gonna happen. Antillectual's approach of doing a band is inspiring to see, and we wish him all the luck for the future! Check out their upcoming record! Is this the end? No way, we're lucky bastards! Our friend Jeroen from Amsterdam will join us on guitar! You might know him from Frightening Fiction. Great guy, great style!
Tours:
Yeah, last tour was a blast and we totally like to be on the road. Till summer 2008 we got two tours scheduled.In March we'll go on tour for about 11 days. We'll play shows in Germany, France, Italy, Czech Republic and Poland. We're almost finished booking, but in case you can help us out on an offday, get in touch! Check out the dates below. From May 16th till May 24th we'll hit the Scandinavian roads with Dutch Pogopunx Antidote. No dates yet, in case you can help us out, drop us a line!!
Glory Days 7 inch up for pre-order
Angry Youth records is now taking pre-orders for the Glory Days split 7 inch, which features, besides us, The Real Danger, Union Town and Tenement Kids. Order now and get a special pre-order colored vinyl version, limited to 100 copies.
Just send an e-mail to .
Postage paid prices:
Single copy - € 5,50 (Holland) or € 6 (Europe)
Two copies - € 10 (Holland) or €10,50 (Europe)
Three copies - € 14 (Holland) or € 14,50 (Europe)
When using paypal, please add 5% paypal fee!
We've also organized a releaseparty, which will take place on the 10th of November at the smallest bar in town, the Plupub. All the bands on the comp will be playing and the entrance is totally free! For more info see: funfunfun.brtpck.com.
Tourphotos
We've finally put some tour photos online! Check 'em out!
Update
Dutch Kids on LSD tour:
Cause our Russian/Finland tour due for September, got delayed till spring 2008 we immediately started booking an European trip for this period. We booked 11 shows in 12 days over Germany, Poland and Austria. Pretty psyched about our first tour!! Big shout out to everyone who helped us out!
New LP/CD:
In May we recorded 7 new tracks for our upcoming full length at Bunt Studios. Recording with Menno was funny as hell, and we're pretty happy with the new tracks. Currently we're busy writing and practicing the other tracks. In November, we're gonna record another 10 tracks, and will pick the best tracks out of it for approximately 30 minutes. I guess it's safe to say that the new recorded is gonna be called "Hate the Neighbours". Pretty Brattish, huh?
Compilation 7":
We're pretty happy to contribute a brandnew track to a compilation 7" with Tenement Kids, the Real Danger and Union Town. The 7" will appear on Angry Youth Records somewhere October this year. Stay tuned for some releaseshows with these bands!
New shirts:
After exploiting the demo cover for shirts, flyers, buttons and posters, it was about time to come up with some new crap. Our friend Photomike helped us out! 10 euros (excl. postage), available in S/M/L/XL
More touring:
It's quite on long-term but we're scheduling another two week European Tour for early 2008 and a Scandinavian tour with Antidote (NL) for spring next year. If you're interested in booking a show, get in touch!
Demo 7 inch
The 7" vinyl version of our demo is finally here! This contains all songs from our demo, plus the bonus track 'State Of War' and is a split release by the Amsterdam based labels Gummopunx, Pick-Up and Misspelled Yuoth. Order it from us, or directly from Marcél Gummopunx.
Some shows without Willem
Hi Brats... Willem is acting like a rockstar in the USA next month, and medio August he's in Germany recording a new demo with his hobby-project Antillectual. So, our dear friend FrietHaar from Beans is trying to rip off Propagandhi riffs at the following shows:
15/07 De Affaire/ Nijmegen: No Means No (Brat Pack show at 5 pm)
20/07 De Baarmoeder/ Amsterdam: 7 inch Releaseparty
20/08 Bitterzoet/ Amsterdam: Leftover Crack
22/08 Bibelot/ Dordrecht: Casualties, Antidote, Time Again
European tour
Unfortunately our tour of Russia/Finland got cancelled by our booker. Instead we're trying to book a european tour from 29/8 until 8/9. Please get in touch if you can help us out: . Thanx!
Update
We got new shirts!!
Available at our shows or by email:
Price is 10 euro excl. postage
Our demo will be released on 7inch by Gummopunx Records, Pick Up Records and Mispelled Youth Records. More info soon!
A few weeks ago we spent six days at the Bunt Studios with Menno Bakker. We recorded 7 songs that will appear on our first full-length. We're pretty psyched about the recordings and can't wait to finish the rest of the record, somewhere September/October this year!
Compilation tape and cd
They have arrived!
The Pressure Release European New Breed compilation tape contains 30 great songs by some of the best new European hardcore bands! Check out the Pressure Release site for a complete song-listing.
Music of the Streets is a Russian compilation CD, containing bands from all over the world. Space Rebel Records put this out.
New website!
As you can see, we've got a new website! Check it out!
So, what else is new? We're planning to record a full length record in May/June. This record will also be released on cd in Russia, by Space Rebel records, who have also released the Music of the Streets compilation, to which Brat Pack has contributed the song 'State Of War', and are also going to book a tour for us over there in September! Lots of thanks go out to Alexander @ Space Rebel for this!
We've got a LOT of shows coming up, so check out the gigs section!
Our song 'State Of War' will also appear on the upcoming Pressure Release compilation tape, which will be released at the Light The Fuse festival next March!
So, that's it for now. Hope to see you soon at one of our gigs!