Kickass Records Newsletter 0701

Welcome to 2007 and this year's first Kickass Records Newsletter. We don't hand out envelopes with money but we do bring news about cheap punkrock, cheap shows, cheap bowling and cheap sheepfucking!

Fresh Meat!
Being the young, handsome, ambition-driven go-get'em-ers that we are, we signed not one, not one and a half but two new bands to our already fantastic label-line-up. Completing the roster are the Funky Fresh Stage Destroyers of Milk The Fish! and the Liegeous punkrock heroes of Hangin' Out.

Not only does Hangin' Out hang around our website (haha, I made a funny), but we will be releasing their first (and our first) full length, called In Common Solitudes. It features ten tracks of blistering hardcore punkrock, remeniscent of early Rise Against/Big Wig, providing the perfect soundtrack for pumped up skatesessions. Release shows are planned on 19 January in JC Horizont and on 9 February in Liege.

Cheapness!
Another first is the release of Live Fast Die!, our very own compilation cd. It contains 78 minutes of quality tunes by Second Base, Milk The Fish!, Sketch The Sun, Hangin' Out, Appendix, Straighten Things Out, Antillectual, The Jux Junction, Pushed Too Far, Durai, Skyrocket John, Gino's eyeball, Dad's Amp, Kump°Hoven, The Wisecrack, W.R. 3, Toxis, Rampage, Seven Oaks, Bad Rulez, Fading Moments, The Donuts, 40Waysfromsunday, Short On Time, Decreto 77, Dead System and Oil & The Seagulls. We've included nudity, naughty words, alcohol and embarrassing pictures free of charge. Available around February/March.

Shows! Tours! Sheepfucking!
If you can't wait for Kickass Fest with a line-up that puts a certain Meerhout festival to shame, you can get a quick cheap fix at Punkfest, with 3/5 of the Kickass roster being present. Durai(UK) will play one of it's 3 belgian shows there, so don't miss out. This punkrock extravaganza will take place 3 March, at JH Animoro in Sint Genesius Rode, BE.

The UK/Scotland tour with Gino's Eyeball will be our first adventure abroad. Not only is that little island going to be confronted with belgian heroes Gino's Eyeball, Pie & Petit are tagging along for the ride, spreading their reputation of "roadies of death" across the glenns and hopefully surviving many round-a-bouts and junctions. Because of this, we've named it the Sheepfucking on the wrong side of the road tour.

Ofcoarse we are bringing plenty of filthy foreigners into Belgium every month with Drunktank(NL) in January, Straightaway(FR) in February and, seeking revenge for steeling all their women, Durai(UK), Sick Trick(UK) and Mistake us For Friends(UK) in March, April and May.
www.kickassrecords.org/shows for all the dates and details.

Kickass HQ
To wrap this newsletter up, the state of Kickass Headquarters. It's winter, it's cold and RumCoffee Special Blend ™ only gets us so far. So if you want to save us from freezing to dead, check out our distro and buy some cool shit from the likes of Funtime Records, Fat Wreck and Powered. It's the only thing that stands between us and unplugged shows, so drop by at shows or mail to distro@kickassrecords.org. You'll even get a printed version of this newsletter, with a jerk-off-worthy picture of your favourite punkrockidols on the back.

If you're in a band and you want us to release/distribute your demo/ep/lp/poems or set you up with some shows, don't be shy and contact us. Don't forget to give us some background information and a demo. By the way, did I mention I love tapes? You know, plastic little cases with a brown thingy that they said would kill the musicindustry? Well, use 'em.

For those of you who aren't afraid of some social contact, the Kickass Crew will take out those Wallon Wussies from Hangin' Out in a game of bowling. If you want to feel the sensation of certain victory, let us know and you can be part of our team. And if we don't win, we won't release their album, moehahahaha.

To further satisfy the internet heroes among you, we've put a messageboard online. You can find it at www.kickassrecords.org/board. Use it to talk shit about those fat gino's or those fashion faux-pas's commited by MTF! and to promote your own shows/bands/demo's/releases/websites. Be prepared however to back your shit up, or else we'll hunt you down for some old fashioned Balen Beatdown Brawl.

That about wraps it up. Support hometaping.