Being the arrogant, self-centered superior jocks** that we are,
we skipped 2 months in our newsletter schedule. And there is nothing you can do about it!
Releases
Pick On The Fat Kid Discography: Before Gino's Eyeball and Milk The Fish, there was Pick On The Fat Kid, Old School Halle Punkrock. We'll be releasing a very limited run (50) of this disc containing the two long out of print demo's and some never released stuff. Handmade & numbered digipacks, details will follow.
Life Fast Die Part Deux!: Yeah that's right, the first compilation was such a success that we just couldn't wait for number 2. This time featuring: sketch the sun, jet market, wash out test, drunktank, mid air collision, bouvier, sellfish, mighty midgets, pukin' monkeys, all I know, second base, priceduifkes, gino's, dash, brickbat, smash the statues, overweight, life giving waters, by no means, n3kst, miss take, hot panty boys, richie don't die, axxident, pickle juice, skinny pride, progress and cranck. If your band wants to be on the next one, just send an email to lfd@kickassrecords.org, but don't sleep on it for too long, because due to the massive demand, we had to put several bands on the third installment because part deux was already full!
Shows
Durai will be on tour in France, the Netherlands and Belgium from July 2 untill July 11. Check out myspace.com/duraipunk for all their tourdates. Petit will be performing roadie-duties, so come and say hi. And if you happen to know a place where they can play July 8th somewhere in Belgium, let us know as soon as possible, we still need a gig then.
And now, the moment everyone has been waiting for, KICKASS FEST. Be ready to get your socks rocked straight off on July 7th by:
- Drunktank: Dutch beer fueled punkrock
- Gino's Eyeball: Belgium's punkrock hope in desperate times
- Hangin' Out: Melodic Liege Punkrock
- Durai: Technical a-typical hardcore punk rock from Manchester. Support touring bands!
- Dad's Amp: Mol Skatepunk
- Second Base: Osschot punkrock pride combining the raw power of NOFX with the lyrical structure of Rival Schools
- Milk The Fish: Punkrock & Groll
- Skyrocket John: Last show of these loud, fast and especially snotty punkers! Don't miss out!
- Fading Moments: Gischbergen punkcore
- Short On Time: Melodic Hardcore
- Goddamn Hippies: punkhardcore
All this in "Feestzaal Balen" at Bevrijdingslaan 1, 2490 Balen, Belgium.
Doors at 2:30pm, damage 5 euro and beers 1 euro. If you need a place to stay after the fest, contact us at hq@kickassrecords.org and we'll work something out.
If you have/run a distro, don't be shy and bring it along, but try and let us know in advance.
Kickass HQ
Everybody who thinks music means big money is completely wrong. We are more broke than ever, but that's partially to blame on Pie and Petit adopting a bear (and calling him PiePie), Tom his fines for destroying small poles, legal fees due to certain bandmembers doing "stuff" with underage girls and heavy gambling.
So if there are "Idols" or "X factor" or "Supertalent Vlaanderen" candidates reading this, get in touch, we are willing to take your creativity, rape it and run away with the merits of your hard work, just like the big labels, but with the added bonus of a box of cookies. But all those small bands out there, send us your demo(tapes). We are always looking for new bands for our compilations, shows, fests, releases, splits, whatever. We've discovered some promising bands the last couple of months and we just know there is more out there.
While on the subject of good belgian bands: if you haven't picked up "Hangin' Out - In Common Solitudes" by now, don't wait another second and mail us for your copy. Only 10 euro for 12 awesome melodic punkrock tracks by these Liegeois heroes. Hell, they supported Big D, Reel Big Fish and No Fun At All the last couple of months.
And while on the subject of good belgian bands who have been at it for a while: STOP STOPPING! I mean, 2007 has gotten Hiroshima proportions when it comes to cool bands splitting. I mean, Face The Fax, guys, come'on, don't leave us. Skyrocket John, WHY OH WHY? And the worst part is that the most shitty bands just keep going! The first band that dares to split up will get a visit from Pie, Petit and their awesome bear PIEPIE, so beware!
If you run a distro, contact us for wholesale prices or trades, we're are always up for stuff like that.
Also, our "come say hey at a show"-policy no longer applies. From now on, we're in it for the money, so if you don't have some cold hard cash with you to buy half our distro, don't even bother.**
As always, our HQ was filled with quality tunes 24/7:
Into Another: May I, Powered
Second Base: Punk Is Trash No More
Justice: I Need Air
Blood For Blood: So Common, So Cheap
Slapshot: Crossover Sucks
Satanic Surfers: Sunshiny Day
Lagwagon: Coffee & Cigarettes
Better Than A Thousand: Alternative Nation
Gorilla Biscuits: Better Than You
** (Unsubstantiated rumours. We don't know where these are coming from, but who are we to argue?)
