A small note...

What a lovely weekend.

20.05
Thursday we had June in December (NL) and The Casting Out (USA)
playing fantastic shows in the Mukkes. Cool guys to hang out with and saw lots familliar faces. And Nathan... what a nice guy.



23.05
Last night I had the best of times with friends.
I was in the Mukkes watching some nice hardcore/metal bands
And had a really great time with Liza :)
With a afterparty in the Gloppe! One word: Awesomly drunk.
A good night out just before the tour.

Video

I made a video of me through the years as a musician.
Turned out ok for someone without any skills :P



Have a nice sun(ny)day ya'll!

The Ultimate Sjaak Afhaak Week!

Hey there folks,

Finally I found a bit rest this week. After weeks of too much stuff to do I now am resting a bit. I had a show with Pro Pain last week (which was awesome, eating delicious chinese food while watching Pro Pain from the balcony tearing the place down) We played an awesome show too!






The Recording Days on 15th/16th of May..

Me, Wouter, Joris and Aldert were locked up in the studio to record some tracks. Within 3 hours the drums were down on tape! Awesome Wouter! The rest of the days were spend on guitars, bass and ofcourse my favourite.. the overdubs. It was lots of fun hanging with these guys and the people who came by for coffee or a good laugh. At the end we were all a bit tired and stuff but that's how the cookie crumbles.









The Movie

Before I go on european tour we are screening some actrices (young looking and able to dye the hair to black) this coming friday. If you are interested.. mail us: wearedeadwood@gmail.com

European Tour with Antillectual

Furthermore am siked to go on tour! One of the last shows are with Hot Water Music!!! FUCK YEA!

Here are the tourdates:

May 26 2010 Haus der Jugend GER: Freiburg, DE
May 27 2010 PMK w/ Traktor Innsbruck, AUSTRIA
May 28 2010 MT Beer Festival Poirino, ITALY
May 29 2010 Leoncavallo (Dauntaun) Milano, ITALY
May 30 2010 AVAILABLE Italy, ITALY
May 31 2010 New Lazzaretto Bologna, ITALY

Jun 01 2010 AVAILABLE Italy, ITALY
Jun 02 2010 Club Baza Ajdovščina, SLOVENIA
Jun 03 2010 Tovarna Rog Ljubljana, SLOVENIA
Jun 04 2010 EKH Wien, AUSTRIA
Jun 05 2010 EntroP’s Extended Wiener Neustadt, AUSTRIA
Jun 06 2010 Casino Rockbar St. Johann, AUSTRIA
Jun 07 2010 Sub Graz, AUSTRIA
Jun 08 2010 Jugendcafé Zwiesel, GERMANY
Jun 09 2010 La Putika Hradec Kralove, CZECH REPUBLIC
Jun 10 2010 Wagon Club Wroclaw, POLAND
Jun 11 2010 Subversiv Berlin, DE
Jun 12 2010 U-Rock Holzminden, GERMANY
Jun 13 2010 Plu Heerlen, Limburg, NETHERLANDS
Jun 14 2010 Trix w/ HWM!!! Antwerpen, BELGIUM
Jun 15 2010 Willemeen. Arnhem, NETHERLANDS
Jun 16 2010 Finally HOME! Leeuwarden, NETHERLANDS

Other things on the program

But first The Casting Out (ex BoySetsFire) in the Mukkes tomorrow, Friday screening for actrice and saturday beer, beer, beer with Miss Avalon :)

Have a nice one...

Last week in a rush...

Hanging out with friends (Denise/Anne-Nynke/Chantal) on tuesday for a walk through the city, a nice cup of coffee and some fine tea. Some time to relax before the madness begins.

Liberty Day was totally awesome. A bad night sleep. Early in the morning soundcheck.
Very un-rock & roll but sKa3 had to do it. After waiting quite long we were done in an instant. Our mates from The Hûnekop payed a visit and Elske DeWall finally introduced herself to me. A good start of the day actually. The show went good but could have been much better.. but people enjoyed it as I heard. After the show I hung out with friends (names? Birthe, Liza, Chiel, Suzy, Jessica, Patrick, Jeljer, Frank, WD, Denise, Afke, Zhenya, Niels, Job and Maaike just to mention a few) in the park. Went backstage with New Killer Stars to help out Chiel with important stuff (huh-huh). At 18:00 we drove off to Dokkum to play a full sKa3 show. Very nice stage but not as much people as a few hours ago. Still there were people dancing. Even my mom and sister were watching! Talked to some old friends. I had a nice time on stage. After the show we went back to Leeuwarden. I spinned records in the Gloppe and THE DOTS played a fantastic show. Good crowd and lots of dancing! Bedtime: 5 in the morning.. You can imagine I was sleeping in no-time.

Next day up at 10:00. Shower!
Two things on the planner today. My uncle's funeral and The Forrester Soundtrack playing in Simplon, Groningen with Tommy Ebben and Achter Gordijnen van Vrijheid. The funeral was beautiful and really worthy. Too bad we see the family only at funerals lately. But there's a wedding coming up so a good enough reason to pay a visit and catch up with everyone. After coffee with our own family it was time to take off to Groningen. No soundcheck. Suprised bij Achter Gordijnen van Vrijheid and so good to see my friend Tommy Ebben again! Played the best Forrester show so far and had a great time in the venue. Catched up with Richy from Ortega. Good stuff!

Friday me and Wouter finished the Deadwood songs
for 98% in the practiceroom.
Some still need some minor adjustments
but I think we are quite there.

Saturday Kensington Arms played in Popfront, Zwolle. It was so good to see Heleen again among other friends like Gijs, Martheun, Jeff, Ton (real short), the Estate Drama guys, Geert and the Sparky's. Played a nice show and before I knew we were already heading home. Time flies by when yer having fun!

On Sunday I went to my mother for Mother's day. After that I had rehearsals with sKa3. Chantal made a lovely dinner, had some icecream in the city and walked through the park.

What a week it was!

How sudden things can change...

After my blog, some things have changed.

Mostly positive.

Deadwood is going great. We found the locations. Now were looking for the right actrice. The design needs to be done and the recording has been moved a week because of difficulties. But everything is still on schedule so no worries here.

Kensington Arms quite the same. Weekly rehearsing. Planning a tour through Denmark with a danish release show of our full length record. Writing new songs, Doing shows with Gosse (who fills in for Hidde) and ofcourse planning the recording of the album. We had a nice line of shows the passing months and still 2 to go before I will go on European tour with Antillectual. Straight from tour we will be playing on CesarFest 4 so I will be having an awesome homecoming!

The Forrester Soundtrack didn't make it through the first ten for Liet 2010. so un-very-fortunately I must spam you with a request to vote. I hate these things. But as friends tell me to just do it I shall listen to them. Not that am demotivated but I realised this is not how I rool the dice with my music. Other news: Slightly making plans to record the album with Kris Vesseur (June in December / www.myspace.com/krisvesseur) in de lovely woods of Appelscha. I can tell you it will be a nice mixture of old and new songs. Songs like Embrace Spencer, To catch burdens out of sea and Calling me home will be recorded again and added to the album. Designwise I haven't made plans yet.

Yesterday sKa3 played the new set with the new sKa3 girl and it was awesome. We played near Utrecht and had an amount of 100 people standing before us. The vibe witin the band was very good. The sound was crappy. We even met the booker from Ijsselpop where we play in september. Nice guy!

For me things turn around a bit fast as I had some missed calls from the family. Still in the rush of playing a descent show, my sister told me over the phone that my uncle passed away that morning. It was like going from high to low. I was speechless. My thoughts are with the family. Thankfully I had/have a group of fine people among me. That's also a strong point within sKa3. I feel privilged to have that. The sKa3 showlist is still growing! Great shows are coming up. Check sKa3.nl for a show in your neighborhood.

And last but NOT least:

20 days, 7 countries and Antillectual. May 26th till June 12th I will be driving the awesome punkrockbandits Antillectual through Europe! Germany, Slowakia, Poland, Italy, Austria, Switserland and Tjechrepublic (or somethin') Nice way to network, getting my ass out of the mess here for a few weeks and enjoing some fine punkrock/people. Really looking forward to that.

That's it for now folks!