Death Squad!

As we mentioned last week, we have some amazing new t-shirts coming.

A lovely white one telling you very loud and clear what our band name is again, and an awesome black one with a fabulous Death Squad design, made by our great friend Paul. The shirts will be for sale at our Tilburg show next week in 013 with Follow You Home (which by the way, is a free show, so you should all come and say hello), and at the shows after that.
If you can’t wait that long, or if you wanna save a few euros, from today till next tuesday, when checking out, enter discount code NEWSHIRT to get a 20% discount on the shirts!

Let us do the math for you; that means you only pay 10 euros for a shirt when you order it in the next seven days!

NTFA!

We will ship out the shirts somewhere next week, and will include some brand new stickers with all orders.

There’s a few sizes S and M left of both the classic logo in white and red. We’re selling them for only 8 euros, but when you enter CLEAROUT in the discount code box when checking out, you’ll get an extra 20% discount on those too. Check out our beautiful store here.

Clearout!

We have just ordered some new merch, which we’ll be selling through our webshop and at shows later this month. While cleaning up the virtual shop we found some old shirts. We’d like to call the design “Classic Logo”.
We have very limited quantities left of the men’s shirt with both white and red print on the front. Also found some girly shirts, so they’re available too.

For all of those items though: when they’re gone they’re gone. We hold no plans to reprint any of these designs.
If you head over to our store, and enter the code “CLEAROUT” on the checkout page, you’ll receive a 15% discount on shirts.

For those that just want to buy our CD, we have some nice bundles.
When ordering a CD you can get a single or EP with it at a reduced price, by just selecting the option you want in the drop down menu.

Whenver I’d be in my bedroom jamming along to all those great albums, I’d always think about how cool it must be to be in a band, write songs together, record them and play them in front of an audience. An audience that would maybe even sing along occasionally, and be happy to see you, and actually buy your shirts and cd’s.
I’m very lucky to have four amazing friends that grew up just like that.
The five of us played music in bands. Did shows, had fun, and eventually those bands broke up. We didn’t even know eachother back then.
Except me and Wouter. Eventually we found eachother, and we became really close friends. Shared a passion for music. And we got along. Really well.
We started writing songs, started to play shows, did some amazing supports and eventually recorded an album (Midnight Arsons/Morning Ghosts) of which we are still to this day extremely proud.
Ever since it came out last June, we’ve been doing some really cool shows, and getting amazing reviews.
Makes you think back about being that spotty teenager with the beat-up guitar, jamming along to Bad Religion and Green Days songs. Today I can add something else to the list that I’ve always dreamt of.
I’ve been going to bigger festivals for as longs as I can remember. The last few years with my Note to Amy friends. And every time I’m at one of these festivals, sitting on the grass, beer in my hand, sun on my face and listening to music, I think the same. “I’d love to play on a big stage like this one day”.

Well. Today we are extremely proud to announce that this year we’ll be playing on Paaspop.
An amazing festival in Schijndel, that draws over 40,000 people. Not bad for five boys that share a passion for music huh. So we’re super stoked, and we hope to see many of you out there on April 7th, to share this with us. We’ll rock as hard as we can, and after that we’ll have a beer with every single one of you.
That’s a promise. And our way to thank all of you for your support!

Eelco, on behalf of all of us.

Some of you might have heard of these guys when they did a European tour with Rise Against and A Wilhelm Scream. Maybe you’ve even seen ‘m live in one of the shows they’ve played all over the world during the last couple of years.
Or maybe you’ve heard their other albums, which were produced by icons like Ross Robinson and Steve Albini. Or maybe you’ve heard some of the tracks that featured Tim McIlrath of Rise Against.
Anyway, you get our drift. We are extremely excited about this great opportunity, and we can’t wait to play in front of their fans, and turn it into a true Note to Amy party.

The following shows with Berri Txarrak have been confirmed:

Sat – March 10 – Sala Apollo - Barcelona
Fri – March 16 – Sala Totem – Atarrabia
Sat – March 17 –  Sala López – Zaragoza

If you are able to help us find a show somewhere between the 11th and 15th, or if you have any hints or great advise, please get in touch. It’s hugely appreciated.

Be sure to check out Berri Txarrak. You can find their music on Spotify.

Note to Amy on your radio!

Tonight – Tuesday January 17th, Marco and Remco will be guests at Bang Your Radio.
The show will air live between 10pm and 11pm (that’s local time here in Holland for all of you living in other time zones).

You can listen to what they have to say live thru the station’s website, or by looking up “Omroep Zuidplas” on your mobile phone in the free application TuneIn.

Don’t feel sad if you don’t get a chance to check it out, some of us will be guests next Friday (January 27th) on the program Local Popscene. You can hear our sweet voices, some funny stories, deep insights and of course some of our tunes between 7pm and 10pm there. You can tune in virtually by heading over to this page!

Let us know if there’s anything you want to hear us talk about, or if you have any questions you absolutely need to ask us!

NtA at #9 in the 2011 list

The Dutch music webzine MusicFrom.nl asked their visitors to vote for their favourite Dutch albums of 2011.
After everyone’s votes were counted the total list contained 85 records. A lot of really good records.

We are very proud to say that our album “Midnight Arsons/Morning Ghosts” made it to spot number 9!
We’d like to thank everyone that voted for us, we didn’t expect to make it to the top list.

See the complete list here!

We are also featured on the websites first digital compilation, which is downloadable here.
You need to be a subscriber to the site for that, but through this link you can get a free trial, and download the compilation for free.

Good news, good reason to have a little drink and celebrate!

Our favourite 2011 album

As some of you might know, all the boys in Note to Amy love lists. And music.
Combine those two and you get a list of music. A list of our favourite records of 2011 even!

We all sat down and listened to all those amazing records that came out in 2011 over and over and over again.
In the end we all made our personal top 10 lists, and we’d love to share them with you, get your feedback and, very important, your lists!

Our joint favourite record, the only album that actually shows up in all five lists, is none other then the amazing “Asylum Cave” by “Benighted”. If you don’t know it, check it out, it’s Note to Amy approved!

Tell us what your favourite  records of 2011 were. Cause let’s face it, discussing music is just one of the best things in the world isn’t it!

See below for our lists.

Remco (Vocals)

01. Touché Amoré – Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
02. Austin Lucas – A New Home In The Old World
03. Death Wolf – Death Wolf
04. Josh T. Pearson – Last Of The Country Gentlemen
05. Benighted – Asylum Cave
06. Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
07. Crazy Arm – Union City Breath
08. Samiam – Trips
09. Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones
10. All Pigs Must Die – God Is War

Eelco (Guitars)

01. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
02. Touché Amoré – Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
03. The Cave Singers – No Witch
04. Oathbreaker – Maelstrøm
05. All Pigs Must Die – God Is War
06. The Head And The Heart – The Head And The Heart
07. Benighted – Asylum Cave
08. Mister Heavenly – Out Of Love
09. Blood Ceremony – Living With The Ancients
10. Rival Schools – Pedals

Guy (Guitars)

01. Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
02. Samiam – Trips
03. Oathbreaker – Maelstrom
04. Crazy Arm – Union City Breath
05. Dave Hause – Resolutions
06. Benighted – Asylum Cave
07. Touché Amoré – Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
08. Set Your Goals – Burning At Both Ends
09. Chuck Ragan – Covering Ground
10. Title Fight – Shed

Marco (Bass)

01. La Dispute – Wildlife
02. Screeching Weasel – First World Manifesto
03. Benighted – Asylum Cave
04. Face to Face – Laugh Now, Laugh Later
05. Mute – Thunderblast
06. Defeater – Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
07. Touché Amoré – Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
08. Set Your Goals – Burning At Both Ends
09. The Wonder Years – Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing
10. Title Fight – Shed

Wouter (Drums)

01. Benighted – Asylum Cave
02. Defeater – Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
03. The Black Dahlia Murder – Ritual
04. Frenzal Rhomb – Smoko At The Pet Food Company
05. Fleshgod Apocalypse – Agony
06. Chuck Ragan – Covering Ground
07. Machine Head – Unto The Locust
08. Unearth – Darkness In The Light
09. Exhumed – All Guts, No Glory
10. Rival Sons – Pressure And Time

Our thoughts go out to the them, their friends and families and everyone at De Gooth.