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Even though we are officially not a band anymore since a couple of months, we do still have a new album out. So here's a video to "Dysfunctional Disconnection". It's the second single/video of our fourth, and final album "All Empires Fall", released on Shield Recordings late 2023. Vinyl still available from our online store! The song deals with the fact that we are clearly disconnected from earth's ecosystem. The balance between us and our planet is damaged and fragile. We follow shallow urges to "make something of our lives" and to follow materialistic ambitions. In the meantime, the source that keeps us alive, nature, is visibly falling apart.

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As we won't be playing any shows any time soon we have made some special deals to get rid of our merch. You can find the deals here. Vinyl: All 4 records - €35 Our 3 previous records - €20 2 of our previous records - €14 1 previous record - €8 Our new album - €15 CDs: All our 3 previous records - €12 1 CD - €5 (please note our new album is only available on vinyl, sorry!)

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Last Friday we played our last show before going into an indefinite hiatus. We'd like to thank everyone who was there for making it the best send off we could have ever wished for. Thanks to Classic You! and Translated for sharing the stage with us, and thanks to Cafe Lokaal for providing the stage yet again. Moreover we would like to thank everybody who has supported our band in any way over the last 15+ years. It has changed our lifes for the better and provided us with the best memories and friends. We are forever grateful and will cherish it forever. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Though besides having played our final show, it was also our release show. This means we still have a bunch of records that we'd like to get rid of. Would you like a copy of our new album? You can order over here.

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The vinyl of our new album, All Empire Fall, has arrived! Come and pick a copy up at our final show on November 17th at Cafe Lokaal, Heemskerk (NL). And while you're at it, we will also have a second batch of rum available. This time with a special finish on Naranja octave casks. This will only be available at the show. Make sure you're on time, as it might sell out (read: be too full to let any more people in, entry is free obv). If you can't make it to the show and would like to have a copy of the album, pre-order is available via Shield Recordings: here.

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Our final show is approaching so we are happy to share some details with you. Besides it being our final show, it will also be the release show of our fourth (and final) album. We wouldn't like to leave you without a special gift of course. We do have some more specials gifts. For example, Translated will be reuniting for one last time to play our final show with us! They quit exactly 10 years ago, and in the same fashion we will doing: with a show in Cafe Lokaal. Let those good times roll one last time! Especially as we have Classic You! playing as well. That makes our local punk rock family complete. Classic You! will kick the night off with their energetic skatepunk. All will be happening at the venue that we have played a million times and we love dearly, Cafe Lokaal in Heemskerk. See you there.

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Our new and final album "All Empires Fall" will be out on all your favorite streaming platforms on August 25th. Find the useful links here or in the bottom right of this website. The album will be released on vinyl via Shield Recordings on November 17th, coinciding with our last show, which thus happens to be the release show. Pre-orders will follow in due time. For now, here's the cover artwork:

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Here's the poster to the last shows will be playing: There is also a new album on its way! More info soon, but here's the first single/video (more info below the video on Youtube):

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Very special announcement! The people who know us know we take our booze seriously. We decided it was time to release a special bottle of rum for our 15th birthday. For this rum Sweet Empire collaborated with Terschellinger company King Cask- Dam Dranken. This small batch Carribean blended rum consists of: 5 year old Barbados, 2 to 8 year old Venezuela, 3 year old Dominican, and unaged Jamaican rum. All non-chill filtered, unsweetened and without any additives. This blend will further ripen for a short period of time in a Woodford Reserve Bourbon barrel on Terschelling from 26-01-2023 till 21-05-2023. After tasting it, it was decided to bring it to down from 65% to a drinking strength of 52.2%. If you would like to pre-order a bottle please send a message to us or Rowald via PM (Facebook) or email and we’ll take it up from there. The costs are 35eu per bottle (excl postage). Disclaimer: the artwork will be different from this picture 😉 The ordered bottles can be picked up at our 15th anniversary gig @ De Groote Weiver the 3rd of june. It will be a very small batch of bottles available so don't sleep on it if you'd like to have a bottle of glorious SE rum. We hope you enjoy this release as much as we do and don't refrain from sharing it with others while planning the revolution. Sharing=caring. ( It's also okay not to drink – do what you want!) Sweet Empire out. sweetempire@gmail.com

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Besides 2023 will be the last for Sweet Empire (for a while), it is also the year that we will celebrate our 15 years anniversary! In what better fashion could we celebrate this than with a show at one of our favorite local venues, with our favorite bands from! We hope to see you June 3rd at De Groote Weiver (Wormerveer, NL) where we will be celebrating alongside Dissociates (UK), As We Go (DE), and Slekt!

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Sweet Empire - 2008-2023 After 15 years we have decided to put Sweet Empire on an indefinite pause. Though not before we have a few more occassions to celebrate with you: release of album #4, 15-years anniversary celebration, and some (final) shows! So let’s have the best of (last?) times shall we? Love and hugs - SE

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Unfortunately we will not be making an appearance at Haltpop this coming Saturday due to illness within the band. The festival itself will of course still be happening and the other bands are playing are terrific. Thanks to Haltpop for everything and have the best of fun at the festival!

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See you soon in the UK!

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Swill TV has been so very kind of turning our song Nihilist Nation into a music video and to feature it in their latest episde (around the 13:43 mark). Check it out below! Massive thanks to Swill TV!!

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Our next show is yet another online event. Stream on YouTube on May 29th we'll be coming live at ya from De Groote Weiver, Wormerveer (NL). More info here.

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Finally, after more than a year of doing nothing live, we can finally do something that can be considered a 'show'. Tomorrow we'll be playing a live set on radio. 9pm CET at Live & Puur on Zaanradio. Hopefully this is the start to everything going back to normal, and being able to do some good ol' fashioned gigs again. At least this show tomorrow is something we are very much looking forward to to start with. Tune in!

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Here it is, a new video! We have just turned 12.5 years old as a band and were hoping to celebrate it with all of you, but guess that's not happening anytime soon. So we have asked a bunch of our best friends to record a video for our song 'Grand Denial', which deals with fact-free politics. Check it out below and please do share!

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Hi everyone, We decided to do a little something and we need YOUR help…for a new video! It’s for our song “Grand Denial” (music and lyrics via the link below). The song deals with fact-free politics; things politicians say that are factually incorrect.We’d like YOU to write down your “favorite” fact-free/untrue/incorrect quote from a politician on a sign + politician’s name – then film yourself with this sign for 10 seconds (horizontally please). BE CREATIVE! Send the video to our Facebook or sweetempire@gmail.com by August 31st. Pm for more info. NB: Please check your facts – make sure your subject actually said/wrote the quote. We don’t want to be like them. Mega thanks Rowald/Jort/Rick/Koen https://sweetempire.bandcamp.com/track/grand-denial

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One year after its official release our album ‘A New Cycle’ is now available on cassette. Limited to 30 copies and made possible by Trilob Records. Available in our online store.

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Unfortunately our weekender in Germany for late April has been cancelled, due to reasons that have probably affected all of us: Corona. We will be back later for sure, but in the meantime please support those who are in desperate need due to the current situation. Look out for each other and hope we can all meet soon in good health.

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We had such a blast on tour! Thanks to everyone who made it happen. We love you from the bottom of our hearts. Now for some well deserved sleep... We'll be back soon, promise.

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We'll be going on tour again in September, of course we will have our new album with us. Hope to see you at one of the shows:

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We have been busy lately making a DIY video to our song 'The Hunter'. We now proudly present the video to you. About 'The Hunter': Some people think that trophy hunting is OK. We think it's not. There’s almost nothing as despicable as rich people killing trophy animals. We will also be playing this song at our release show next week, May 3rd, at the Groote Weiver, Wormerveer (NL). Our entire record is available for streaming almost everywhere. A physical copy can be obtained via our Bandcamp page. Give the video a like/share/comment if ya dig. X

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We'll be playing a release show for our new album 'A New Cycle' on May 3rd at De Groote Weiver, Wormerveer. We have invited our friends in Coral Springs and Slekt to play as well. Good times!

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Happy release day! Our new album, 'A New Cycle', is officially out today (not kidding!) The full album is streaming on all your favorite sites and devices. Find some links below. If you like what you hear you can order a physical copy on our Bandcamp page. We are extremely proud of our new record and are very much looking forward to hearing what you think of it. Hope you enjoy the listen! http://sweetempire.bandcamp.com https://open.spotify.com/album/1nxAx58MMFiRh4Sa0tbpVF…

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In order to celebrate the release of 'A New Cycle' we will be headed to the UK for a weekender of release shows: Thursday 28th: DIY Space, London Friday 29th: Out Of Key, Gloucester Saturday 30th: Ostrich Inn, Peterborough

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We are very excited to announce that our new record, 'A New Cycle', will be released on April 1st (seriously). In order to celebrate we have some more things to share with you: Pre-orders: Pre-orders for CD/LP are now available. We have also included a package deal with a great t-shirt! New song: Listen to a new song, 'Thoughts and Prayers', on Bandcamp or YouTube. Within this song a combination of problems concerning the gun industry and gun ownership are discussed. Release show: On May 3rd we will be playing a release show at De Groote Weiver, Wormerveer (NL). More info on that soon. Also, we will be doing a weekender in the UK late March for which we expect to have the new record with us. This weekend: Lastly, this weekend we are playing a home town show at Discovery, Castricum. Come hang!

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We are headed back over to Germany in June to play the migthy Booze Cruise in Hamburg alongside some of the best bands and friends. See you aboard!

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We are extremely excited to tell you that our third full length, A New Cycle, is finished. Now it's time to share some things with you. Song You can listen to a first song of the album via Bandcamp or YouTube (or on the player on the right of your on the desktop version. The song is titled 'V.K.T.', or 'Viezen Kut Thierry' in full. It deals with the ongoing unfortunate rise of populism. Have a listen and we'd like to hear your thoughts on the song. Vinyl / CD Besides on all digital platforms the album will become available on vinyl and CD. The vinyl and CD's have been ordered and will be available via: Shield Recordings - (BeNeLux - CD/LP) Umlaut Records - (UK - CD/LP) Bad Wolf Records - (FR - LP) North Empire (NL - CD) A release date will be set soon! We are humbled that these great labels support us and help out with the release. Recording/mixing/mastering The album is only sounding this good because of the great work by Marc and Sven at Perimeter Audio for the recording and mixing and Pier-Durk Hogeterp for doing the mastering. We love you. Artwork The artwork has been made by the great Segolia Design. What a beauty, isn't it?! More news (e.g. a release date), songs, (release) shows, pre-orders, promo, spam, will follow soon!

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Happy new year to all of you! 2018 was great to us, we celebrated our 10 years anniversary and played a lot of cool shows. We also recorded our new album. We are in the midst of finalising the album and are planning the release at this moment. Keep a look out for more news and teasers on the new album. For now we wish you all the best for 2019 and we hope to see you at a show this year.

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The great people at Fairtrademerch have supplied us with some new t-shirts. Right in time for our 10-years-anniversary show and tour! 3 different colors in lots of different sizes. Shirts are fairtrade and made of recycled materials. Available as of this Saturday at our shows, after the tour we will put them up in our store.

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We'll be going on tour again, still celebrating our 10 years existence. Thu 20 Sep: McDaid's, Le Havre, FR Fri 21 Sep: La Comedia, Paris (Montrieull), FR Sat 22 Sep: Espace El Doggo, Limoges, FR Sun 23 Sep: Le Deep Inside, Dijon, FR Mon 24 Sep: Day Off Tue 25 Sep: Kreativfabrik, Wiesbaden, DE Wed 26 Sep: Klappe, Regensburg, DE Thu 27 Sep: Riveter, Nancy, FR Fri 28 Sep: Sonic Ballroom, Cologne, DE Sat 29 Sep: OT, Altenhundem, DE

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On September 15th we will be celebrating 10 years of Sweet Empire at Rockcafé Asgard, Beverwijk (NL). We will be playing alongside some of our best friends: As We Go (DE), Dowzer, Batwölf, and Stage Banter. It all kicks off at 8pm and of course there's free entry. Let's partay!

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We'll be hitting the UK for a weekender in July together with our buddies in The Disscoiates. Thu July 12 - London Ttw+rtzr> Beezewax/Sweet Empire/The Dissociates/Mean Caesar Fri July 13 - Bristol Dissociates & Sweet Empire at The Golden Lion Bristol Sat July 14 - Peterborough Sweet Empire (NL) / Dissociates (UK) / Sprainer See you there x (dates above are correct, flyer below incorrect)

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Due to illness we have to cancel our tonight's show at the Sugerfactory. Hopefully there will be a cool replacement band as support, and Get Dead is still playing, so please all still go to show!

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Today we have started recording our 3rd album. We've been working very hard on it the past 4 years and think it's bloody well time for us to have some newly recorded songs for you soon! More info will follow soon obviously. x

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During our 10 years of existence we've played with many different bands, listened to many different bands, and played a few covers of different bands. Now we'd like to share a Spotify playlist with you featuring some of these bands. Thank you all for an amazing 10 years and here's to the next 10 years! Check out the playlist here.

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We can't believe it, but we'll be playing our 300th show on March 10th. So far we've had 299 shows filled with fun and adventure and we hope number 300 will be the same, followed by hopefully another 300. Come celebrate!

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2017 has been great to us. Playing the Manchester Punk Festival, a wedding in Harrogate (UK), a German weekender with AS WE GO, two weekenders in FR/UK with The Dissociates... Lots of fun shows with lots of fun people! In 2018 we will be celebrating 10 years of Sweet Empire. We hope to make something special of it with all of you. New recordings, cool/special shows/tours, .... We'll keep you posted. At least we're sure we'll make it a fun year yet again. Please do the same! x S.E.

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In November we will be doing some shows with The Dissociates (UK). Good times! 

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Guten Tag! We'll be playing two shows in Germany this weekend.

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Here's what the hoodies turned out to look like. We're very happy with the result, but we're even more happy with everyone who ordered one. Thanks!

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We're super excited to tell you that we now have a second pressing of 200 yellow 12" vinyl available of our album Old Ideas Keep Fighting Us. Order a copy via http://sweetempire.bandcamp.com/merch

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We'll be on our way to the UK tomorrow: Thursday 20th - The Unicorn, London (Camden) http://www.facebook.com/events/171498740006706/ Friday 21st - Manchester Punk Festival, Manchester http://www.facebook.com/events/794284377381495/ Saturday 22nd - The Corner House, Cambridge http://www.facebook.com/events/1375552792495894/ To celebrate our little trip to the UK of this week we have launched a cool campaign via Mercht. You can now pre-order this one-time only Sweet Empire zip up hoodie. This campaign runs for 3 weeks and if there are at least 10 people who order the hoodies will be printed and sent to you. 25 pounds (excl postage from/in the UK), great deal huh? Incredible design by our friend Rick Beentjes. FOR YOUR ORDER CLICK HERE. (P.S. you don't pay anything if there are under 10 hoodies ordered and thus don't go to print)

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This will be happening March 24th. Cool bands, free entry.

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1st place - colouring competition Can you feel the tension!? The first place in the colouring competition goes to someone who is obviously a pro at this. With a great eye for detail and excelling colouring-skills it's impossible to not enjoy this picture. What can we say? It's just outstanding. So, without further ado, the 1st place goes to: Merel! A t-shirt and two tickets to our show coming Friday at J.C. Kompleks, Heerhugowaard: Del-Toros, Sweet Empire, Gulper Congratulations Merel, very well done! 2nd place - colouring competition This is all very exciting huh? The 2nd place in the colouring competition goes to someone who has taken a new angle on colouring. The creative use of digital colouring was something new to us. This was also the first entry to the competition, which has set a high standard for the rest. The entire picture just looks very happy and positive. 2nd place goes to Tim! Our split 7" with Fighting Fiction and 2 tickets to our show this Friday at J.C. Kompleks, Heerhugowaard: Del-Toros, Sweet Empire, Gulper Nicely done Tim! 3rd place - colouring competition Drumroll please!!! It's time to announce the 3rd place of the colouring competition. With his creative use of crayons and markers, the dragon-green dragon and the awesome yellow Sweet Empire... It's Coen who wins 3rd price! Two tickets to our show coming Friday at J.C. Kompleks, Heerhugowaard (NL): Del-Toros, Sweet Empire, Gulper Congrats Coen! Great job colouring.

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The deadline of the colouring competition has passed. The jury's/our feedback to all the entries is available via a Facebook photo album (click here!). We tried to give everyone feedback in their native language. Click on a picture in the album to read the feedback. We'd like to thank everyone so much for taking the time to contribute their beautiful creations. We love them/you all!! Winners of the prices (t-shirt/7"/tickets) will be announced tomorrow (Wed. Feb. 8th). All contributors can contact us for some free stickers and such.

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!!! - COMPETITION TIME - !!! Want to win something? Colour this picture the best you can and you might win: 1st price - t-shirt + 2x free entry to our show*. 2nd price - 7" + 2x free entry to our show*. 3rd price - 2x free entry to our show*. Depending on the talent we see we might even throw in some extra prices! Share your picture/entry on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter and tag Sweet Empire. Make sure the settings allow for us to see it. If you're not sure if we can see it please e-mail us... We don't want (you) to miss out! Competition ends on Sunday February 5th. Winners will be announced Wednesday February 8th. *Free entry to this show: Del-Toros, Sweet Empire, Gulper - Fri. 10/2 at Jc Kompleks, Heerhugowaard (NL).

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Happy 2017! Here's the first show of the year that we'll be playing... Exciting! Friday February 10th 2017 Del-toros + Sweet Empire + Gulper JC Kompleks, Heerhugowaard, NL (20:30h, €3)

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We like beer, we like whisky, we like live music. If you feel the same you should be here: Barley Fest, Saturday November 19th, Café Lokaal, Heemskerk, NL (8pm / free entry)

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In April 2017 we'll be playing the Manchester Punk Festival. As an early warm up they have released a compilation with lots of cool bands on it. You can download it for free as well. We're featured on it as well! Click --> here <--

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After 10 days, 10 shows, 4 countries, and driven around 4000km, we are back home from our most recent Euro tour. Thanks to everyone involved for the great times. Thanks so much if you've put the show on, cooked us a meal, gave us place to stay, watched us play, bought some merch, talked to us, drank with us, etc. We love you lots!  * Death metal band picture @ Ossuary Seblec, Kutna Hora, CZ - picture by Wouter Hoogland

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We'll head on tour again in the beginning of September. We can't wait to be back on the road again and to meet some old friends and hopefully to make some new ones as well. If you're in the area of a show please come by and say hi. See you soon! THU SEP 1: Lotta, Köln, DE FRI SEP 2: Private Party, Isny, DE SAT SEP 3: Buben, Prague, CZ SUN SEP 4: Ceska 1, Kutna Hora, CZ MON SEP 5: Vegalite, Brno, CZ TUE SEP 6: Sub, Graz, AT WED SEP 7: Kramladen, Vienna, AT THU SEP 8: Le Machine A Vapeur, Nancy, FR FRI SEP 9: Le Deep Inside, Dijon, FR SAT SEP 10: L’Imposture, Lille, FR 

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We'll be playing a local show tomorrow. Come hang out!

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At GROEZROCK we tried to hide our hangovers and did two acoustic songs for a session of Just like your mom and Punktastic. Enjoy.

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At the end of this month Dutch film museum EYE! is celebrating 40 years of punk. The museum is showing lots of punk related movies and there is a wide variety of punk bands playing live shows. As a little bonus a compilation of Dutch punk rock bands has been put online via 22tracks. And, we're on it! Go have a listen here!

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The last weekend of May you'll be able to find us in Germany together with our friends in AS WE GO. Friday May 27th: Tsunami Club, Köln (19:00h) Saturday May 28th: Live, Warstein (20:00h)

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We'll be playing Winston, Amsterdam tonight with the amazing PEARS (US) and our good friends in Smash The Statues. Doors are at 8. We're on first at 8:30. Last band will be done at 10:45. It's 12 euros on the door. That's enough numbers for now, hurry up to Amsterdam!

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It has been a bit quite lately. We're busy writing new songs and got some cool shows we're working on. This month we'll be hanging out at GROEZROCK and will be trying to play some sing-a-long tunes at the Groezrock Acoustic Punk Meeting VI. See you there!

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We'll be back in Germany in May with AS WE GO. We did a weekender with them a year back and we're doing it all over again. May 27th at Tsunami Club, Cologne and May 28th at Live, Warstein. We can't wait to drink many Kölsch and Warsteiner.

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Two shows in December! Friday December 18th: The Cave, Amsterdam, NL w/ X-Offenders, BEP Saturday December 19th:

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Saturday September 26th @ Hall Of Fame, Tilburg, NL  Tuesday September 29th @ Cafe Lokaal, Heemskerk, NL Wednesday September 30th @ ACU, Utrecht, NL

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Our tour with Irish Handcuffs has come to an end. We had the best time and can't wait to be back on the road. We'd like to thank everyone who has come out to a show! In particular we'd like to thank the following people for making this tour one we'll never forget: Kötti/Dennis/Flo/Claus in Irish Handcuffs for being the best tour buddies we could have wished for, Kyle/T Chances, Phil/The Sedations/The Shed, Shepherd Family/Retro Bar, Hastings Family, 13th Note, Deeker/MTAT/Redd Suite, Micky/1 in 12 Club, Jon/Andrew/The Cavern, Lee/Ryan/Drummonds, Ben/Underground, Steve/New Cross Inn, Astbury Castle, Erwan/Drunk Sincerity/Mc Daid's, and everyone who has cooked for us, shared a stage with us, or helped out in any other way! 

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On Thursday May 14th we'll embark on our 8th UK tour. This time we will be joined by the great German punk band Irish Handcuffs! Here are the dates incl. the Facebook links: Th 14th: T Chances, London http://www.facebook.com/events/664713663655825 Fr 15th: The Shed, Leicester http://www.facebook.com/events/1630162893870533/ Sa 16th: Retro Bar, Harrogate http://www.facebook.com/events/487548461392423/ Su 17th: 13th Note, Glasgow http://www.facebook.com/events/856127367793206/ Mo 18th: Redd Suite, Dundee http://www.facebook.com/events/1432367053744873/ Tu 19th: 1 in 12 Club, Bradford http://www.facebook.com/events/1587742128109769/ We 20th: The Cavern, Exeter with H2O!!! https://www.facebook.com/events/1444672162510985/ Th 21st: Drummonds, Worcester http://www.facebook.com/events/338215233035065 Fr 22nd: Underground, Plymouth Sa 23rd: More Of This IV, New Cross Inn, London http://www.facebook.com/events/1505328693067307 Su 24th: McDaid's, Le Havre, FR http://www.facebook.com/events/1646353948927838/ Presented by: North Empire Bookings Shield Recordings Trilob Records The Band Cruiser See you at the show! One last thing, we'll have a special release avilable for this tour. A tape containing both of the bands' current releases. Check out the 'releases' section for more info.

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We're playing a Sunday matinee May 3rd at Dynamo Eindhoven. Also playing are Banner Pilot (US), Not On Tour (ISR) and our fellow Dutchmen/labelmates The Real Danger.

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For our upcoming UK tour with Irish Handcuffs we'll have a sweet little new release for you all. Our newest album "Old Ideas Keep Fighting Us" will be available on tape. Irish Handcuffs' latest album "Hits Close To Home" will be the other side of the tape. It'll be available on our UK tour and if we have some copies left we'll sell it through our webstore as well. A total of 50 handnumbered tapes will be released by Trilob Records. Shield Recordings will also have a few copies available.

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We have some new t-shirts! Available at our shows and at our store. Designed by our bass player Rick and printed on fairtrade shirts by Fairtrademerch.com. Also, some news about a new release coming soon.

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We'll be playing two shows in Germany coming weekend. Both shows will feature the German punk rockers of As We Go. Friday April 17th at Live, Warstein. Saturday April 18th at Tsunami Club, Cologne.

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We'll be playing a show in one of our four hometowns this weekend; Beverwijk (NL). Come and dance along at Rockcafé Asgard on Saturday (9:30pm / free). Joining us are some great Scottish acts: Get It Together and Tragical History Tour.

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To all Brazilian people reading this: you now have to chance to win both our albums on CD via Weliveinhell.com. What you have to do? Simple, just leave your name, e-mail, and city at the form here. Coming Sunday we'll be playing Swaf, Hoorn (NL) with some of our favorite acoustic acts from the UK: Ducking Punches, Bad Ideas, and The Lion And The Wolf. Starts at 8pm and it's a free entry show.

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Happy 2015! We hope you'll have the best year you've ever had. Lets celebrate the new year with some reviews of our new album: Rockfreaks (English) Massmovement (English) Kindamuzik.net (Dutch) Out Of Step (English) West Point (Dutch) Handle Me Down (German) Also, due to an epic on our behalf we have accidently messaged everyone who has ever ordered something via Bandcamp that 'it has shipped'. If we're not mistaking those orders have been shipped out months ago and should all be with those who ordered now. Sorry for any confusion/inconvience. We will try to click the correct buttons from now on.

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This weekend we'll be playing two shows in Germany. Both with the lovely Resolutions. Hope to see you there! Friday November 21st: AZ, Aachen w/ Resolutions, Nerveguns Saturday November 22nd: Synop, Saarbrücken w/ Resolutions

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There are some things we'd like to share with you: 1. We've been featured on a Brazilian compilation made by We Live In Hell. It's got bands on there from all over the world, you should definitely check it out. 2. We've had some reviews of our new album: - Fok.nl (Dutch) - Punx.nl (Dutch) - RockXXL (Dutch) - Underdog Fanzine (German) 3. We're playing a show on November 9th at De Bakkerij, Castricum (NL) during North Empire Fest 2. 4. We made a short promo video for the new album:

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Yet again we had a great time being on tour throughout Europe. We'd like to thank everyone who booked us a show, fed us, had us stay for the night, or came to the show. Or whatever way you were involved; thank you! Now it's time to get back to the normal boring life, we hope to be back on the road soon! In case you're interested, a full tour report will be printed in the next issue of DOWNPOUR Fanzine. A new video to our song 'Wire', featuring footage of this tour, can be viewed below. x - Rowald, Jort, Rick, Koen, and Joris (and also; Wimpie, Ian, and Van Der Meulen)

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Our next European tour starts next week! Th. Oct 2nd: DE - Sabot, Wiesbaden http://www.facebook.com/events/662923863763192/ Fr. Oct 3rd: DE - JuZe, Offingen http://www.facebook.com/events/349988645165341 Sa. Oct 4th: CZ - Orion Club, Tabor http://www.facebook.com/events/334437783378389/ Su. Oct 5th: SL - Kavarna AVE, Ajdovščina http://www.facebook.com/events/284370455092069/ Mo. Oct 6th: AT - Das Bach, Vienna http://www.facebook.com/events/326474800843600/ Tu. Oct 7th: CZ - U Vočka, Opava http://www.facebook.com/events/1485048328403190/ We. Oct 8th: CZ - Auto Da Fé Music Pub, Kladno http://www.autodafe.cz/program/?month=oct&yr=2014 Th. Oct 9th: AT - Sub, Graz http://www.facebook.com/events/749606831754361 Fr. Oct 10th: CH - Taverne De La Republique, Geneva http://www.facebook.com/events/354590298039820/ Sa. Oct 11th: DE - KTS, Freiburg http://www.facebook.com/events/1525513421019048/ Su. Oct 12th: BE - Le Phoenix, Mons http://www.facebook.com/events/258614084349089/

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A few weeks back we recorded a new video to the song "The Breakfast Club Revisited". Check it out below, and don't forget kids; it's okay to be gay! Thanks to: Rick, Wouter, Yaniev, and Sander.

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Our new album is officialy out as of today! You can now stream the entire album over here, or via the player on the right of your screen. Don't forget we're playing two release shows this week as well: Friday September 5th @ ACU, Utrecht, NL (8pm / €5) w/ Social Disturst (DE), Harsh Realms Saturday September 6th @ De Bakkerij, Castricum, NL (9pm / €4) w/ Social Distrust (DE), Different Homes Social Disturst had to cancel both shows unfortunately. So Different Homes has been added to the Friday show as well, and on Saturday JunkYard Safar isi playing.

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The pre-order of our new album 'Old Ideas Keep Fighting Us' is now available. Click here to pre-order your copy. If you don't have paypal and would like to pre-order please send us an e-mail and we'll make it happen: info@sweetempire.nl The pre-order is limited to 30 copies and will include lots of extras (poster, buttons, stickers, etc.). Also to celebrate this we put another song of the album online for you to stream. Listen to 'Rosa' over here.

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We are super excited to tell you we're releasing our second album on September 1st! The album is called 'Old Ideas Keep Fighting Us' and contains 13 new songs. The album will be released by Shield Recordings in the BeNeLux, Gunner Records in Germany, and LaserLife Records in Austria. We will let you know when pre-orders are up. It'll be available on coloured gatefold LP and on CD. For now you can head over to our Bandcamp, or click 'releases', to check out one of the songs on the album 'Unsolving Problems (In The Animal Kingdom)'. We also made a video for it. Check it out: Of course we need to celebrate the release of our new album, which we will do by playing 2 release shows: - Friday September 5th: ACU, Utrecht (NL) w/ Social Distrust (DE), Harsh Realms (21:00u, €5) - Saturday September 6th: De Bakkerij, Castricum (NL) w/ Social Distrust (DE), Different Homes (21:00h, €4) A European mainland tour will follow in October, see the dates on the right. Here's the artwork (made by our great friend and artist Ingwar Perton) and the track list for the album: Old ideas keep fighting us A 1 Wire 2 The Abattoir 3 The Breakfast Club Revisited 4 Rosa 5 Soapbox 6 Business Bastards 7 Black Crops & Green Seas B 8 Army Boys 9 Unsolving Problems (In The Animal Kingdom) 10 Pretty 11 Prometheus 12 A Place In The Sun 13 Burning Bibles

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We've been quite for a while (ejoying holidays, and planning the rest of the year) but we're back to work! First thing we'll do is playing a festival coming Sunday (July 27th). At 19:30 we'll be playing 'Het Koffiehuispodium' at Uit Je Bak Festival in Castricum, NL. It's a free festival and some of our friends will be playing too (Die Vers, Starfish, 18 Miles) so get on your dancing shoes and we'll see you there! The festival will be held at Willem De Rijkepark from 12:30pm till 22:30pm.

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We're very happy with these new t-shirts. You can get yours here. Color: White Print: Turqouise/black Brand: Stanley Acts Men's Organic T-shirt Design: Mark Bell - www.facebook.com/mark.fatwreckchords Printing: fairtrademerch - www.fairtrademerch.com Sweatshop free / fair trade.

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We'll be playing our last show before the summer (hopefully) hits. So be sure to get to Kompleks on Friday May 23rd! Doors are at 8:30pm and it's €3 to get in. Besides us our friends in Different Homes and Insomnia will be playing too. You can find Kompleks on Beukenlaan 1 in Heerhugowaard.

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We're playing Winston, Amsterdam coming Thursday April 17th. Alongside two cool US acts: Elway and Joe McMahon (of Smoke Or Fire). Needless to say this is going to be good, so we'll see you there. Warmoesstraat 131, Amsterdam - 8pm / €9

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We're playing two shows in a lovely country called Belgium this weekend with Lay It On The Line (UK). Zele on the Saturday and Balen on the Sunday.

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Punx.nl has asked us to keep track of what we did in the studio. So we did, you can read part 1 over here, part 2 over here, and part 3 is over here. It's in Dutch though... Now we're done recording our upcoming album it's time to start the mixing, and eventually the mastering, process. We'll keep you posted on this process and will let you know when we have more info on the release! 

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Coming weekend we will start to record our second full length. 13 songs are ready to be recorded by our all-time favorite producer Nico van Montfort at XPZ Sound. In the first weekend we'll lay down the drum tracks at The Stage in Arnhem. Needless to say we are really excited to start recording and can't wait to let you listen to the result. We'll keep you posted on the process. Ow, and if you have any good suggestions for an album title, please get in touch! And as an extra The Stage has asked us to do a show on the Saturday, which we happily said yes to. So, on the Saturday at 11pm it's show time! See you there!

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Coming Friday we'll be playing our last show before we hit the studio to record our second full length. We'll be playing one of the best spots in Holland: De Onderbroek in Nijmegen. Besides us Crazy Arm (UK) and The Liberation Service (AT) will be blasting their tunes as well. 8pm, 3 - 5 euros.

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We'll be playing Patronaat Cafe, Haarlem (NL) coming Friday. Besides us our fellow bands/friends of The Priceduifkes from Belgium and Different Homes will be playing as well. Come celebrate the weekend with us. Doors ar at 9pm and it's free to get in.

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We'll be playing our first show of 2014 tomorrow at De Flux, Zaandam, NL. Joining us on the line up will be the pop punkers in Call It Off and our hometown friends Different Homes. Doors are at 9pm and it's €5 to get in.

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So 2013 is coming to an end. Lets recap! We played 50 shows this year, 2 UK tours, 1 EU tour, some weekends in Germany and Belgium, and of course plenty of cool shows in our home country. At those shows we got to play with a whole bunch of great bands (see our past shows list) and hung out plenty of cool people. We also released a split 7" with Fighting Fiction, released a compilation tape, and recorded a video for 'Emma'. It's crazy that we can summerize such a great year in a few sentences. We'd like to thank everyone involved for making 2013 such a great year for us. Of course we have plans for 2014! We'll be recording our second full length and hope to play as much shows as possible. We hope to see you all back in 2014.

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So we're back from our 5 day tour throughout the UK. Every show turned out the be a success, which we are very grateful for. We'd like to thank everyone who was involved in any way. Either promoting a show, feeding us, letting us stay over, attending a show, dancing, etc. Thanks you! Special thanks go out to: Antillectual for being great tour buddies, Ester/Asbury Castle Crew, Dan @ The White Rabbit, Pete/No Contest @ The Matrix, Deeker/Make That A Take Crew @ Kage Club, Brian/Pauline/Dogs, Micky @ 1 in 12 Club, Crazy Arm, and The AA. Now look at this picture of some handsome fellas on tour with Brian and his amazing dogs. We tried to make it look like a stereotypical hardcore band photo, guess we nailed it. 

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We'll be over in the UK end of November together with our fellow-country-men Antillectual. Here are the dates: 

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We'll be playing North Empire Fest 1.5 this Saturday at De Bakkerij in Castricum (NL). Alongside some really cool bands/friends: Broadcaster, Muncie Girls, All Aboard, The Windowsill, Ride The Fader, and The Lost Noise. Doors are at 5.30pm and it's €6 to get in. Drop by! We'll also be releasing a compilation tape called 'Cause Vinyl Is For Hipsters this Saturday. Released by Trilob Records, the tape contains The Flood EP, SE/OJW Split, Soapbox, and Torches (acoustic). So get your tape deck out and listen to this bad boy, for only €3 ony of the only 50 copies can be yours.

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We're playing our split 7" release show tonight at Cafe Lokaal, Heemskerk. The split is with Fighting Fiction from the UK, and of course they'll be playing too. Doors are at 8, and it's free to get in.

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We'll be playing two (local) shows this week but first we'll be haning out at Cafe Lokaal tonight to see our friends in Elway (US) play alongside Eat Defeat (UK). Should be good! Thursday we're playing LUA, Beverwijk. With ИO///sé (US) and The Lost Noise. Can't wait for that. ИO///sé's album has been one of our favorites of the last time. On Saturday we're a little said for having to play this particular show, as it's the last ever show of our very best friends of Translated. We're gutted to see them leave, but we're happy to party with them (as a band) for the very last time. And a party it will be! Also be sure to check out their 'say-goodbye-release', as it is an amazing EP. (click here!) Saturday October 12th: Translated (last ever show!) + Sweet Empire + The Hearted @ Cafe Lokaal, Heemskerk, NL (20:00h, free entry)

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The split 7" has been out for over a month now but we're happy to give to you the first review. We're glad it's a positive read. Thanks to Two Beats Off for taking the time to listen and write.

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So tour is over, but not before we thank the following for making the tour a lot of fun: Günther/Live Warstein, Markus/Jugendcafe Zwiesel, Radim/Patrik Orion Club Tabor, Harry/Das Bach Vienna, Levi/ R33 Budapest, Flo/Sub Graz, Kevin/Cafe Decentral Innsbruck, Attila/Bunker 108 Lahr, Erik/ AZ Aachen. And all the people who fed us, let us stay for the night, shared a beer with us, or/and attended the show! THANK YOU! A quote for every night, which only we will probably understand: Warstein: we didn't catch legionella. Zwiesel: chairs do not break easily and burn even worse. Tabor: a church doesn't move to the other side of a building. Vienna: we were not allowed to leave. Budapest: a beautiful city with lots of bionic arms. Graz: first time ever sleeping on the ground floor. Inssbruck: international party city. Lahr: we are not Swedish. Aachen: we can do magic with our van. Some group pictures for your 'pleasure':  * on our way from Zwiesel, DE to Tabor, CZ  * Nice view in Tabor, CZ  * Enjoying the city. Budapest, HU  * After having a shower and breakfast, still fresh. Graz, AT  * Day off in Vienna, AT. With our dear driver, Wouter.

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We're going on a european tour tomorrow. If you're in the area, come hang!

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We're super excited that our split 7" with Fighting Fiction is released today. If you'd like a copy or a free download please click here. We'd like to thank Fighting Fiction, Shield Recordings, LaserLife Records, and Lockjaw Records for helping out with this release. Also, our tour starts this week, check the dates on the right!

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We're very proud to announce that our next release will be a split 7" with our good friends of Fighting Fiction from the UK! On September 2nd United Kingdom’s Fighting Fiction and Holland’s Sweet Empire will be releasing a split 7” together. The vinyl will contain two new songs of each band. As Fighting Fiction and Sweet Empire are both melodic punk rock bands, writing songs conveying their opinion about this world the two bands fit together perfectly on this release. After the bands had played a few shows together, and probably shared a beer too many, the idea to release a split record felt very natural. This promise has been kept and will see the light of day on September 2nd. Fighting Fiction’s side of the release contains two songs. ‘The Long And Short Of It’ is a song about feeling trodden on; resenting your placement at the bottom of a pyramid shaped food chain. ‘The Trials And Tribulations Of A Talent Show Contestant, “Tonight Matthew I’m going to murder somebody else’s song and pretend that it was the kindest thing to do”.’ This is a song about the depressing rise of the cult of TV personality, and the degradation of art. It features guest vocals from Corbin Parsons of thekidisfireworks, one of UK’s finest bands. This is the longest title the band has given a song ever; thanks go out to Stillbust for goading us into that, with their inventive and hilarious song titles. On the other side of the vinyl Sweet Empire deals with the Soviet revolution and how that went totally wrong, on a song called ‘Soviet Deception’. The second song of the Dutch band is called ‘Business Bastards’. This song shows a typical example of how some CEOs manage their companies without any empathy and doing anything to make as much money as possible. The 7” will be released by three record labels: Shield Recordings (Holland), Lockjaw Records (UK), and Laserlife Records (Austria). The 7” can be ordered directly from the bands or the labels. Also for a stream/download/order of the record please go to http://sweetempire.bandcamp.com/album/fighting-fiction-sweet-empire-split For our local friends: we will do a small release show for the 7" on October 22nd in Cafe Lokaal, Heemskerk. Fighting Fiction and us will be playing. Alongside with new band and friends of Different Homes.

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We're stoked to say our holidays are over and we're getting back on stage again. On August 5th we will say goodbye to Rick's immense place by putting on a final show/party there. We'll be playing too, along with Crazy Arm (UK) and The Cut/Up. Party times!

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As of tomorrow we will enter the studio again, finally. We'll be recording two songs with legendary producer Nico at XPZ Sound, who has also recorded/mixed/mastered our previous 7" and album. We'll keep you posted on the progress of the recordings and what we will actually be recording for. For now it's enough to say we're very excited to finally hit the studio again!

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We'll be playing a show in our hometown Castricum this weekend. Together with allround awesome French guys Wank For Peace and One Thousand Directions. It'll be at the Discovery (right across the station, so travelling there is easy!), doors are at 8 and it's €3 in. As we'd say: komme potdomme!

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We will spend coming weekend in Germany. We'll be playing 4 shows: Thursday May 9th: AZ - Mülheim an der Ruhr - 7pm / €5 w/ Air Raid (Swe), Screamer (Swe) Friday May 10th: Büro - Regensburg - 8pm / €6 w/ Social Distrust (DE) Saturday May 11th: OT - Grevenbrück - 8pm / €5 w/ Smile and Burn (DE), Frozen Acid (DE) Sunday May 12th: Baracke - Münster - 8pm / entrance fee uknown w/ The Slow Death (US), The Arteries (UK) Hope to see some old friends and to make some new friends!

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Coming Sunday it will be Liberation Day in Holland, which means party time. We'll be playing a show at our beloved venue De Bakkerij in Castricum together with Perdition (US) and our good friends in Het Brein Dat Kwam Uit De Ruimte. Doors are at 8pm and it's €4 to get in.

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We've made over 1,000 pictures, so here are some including animals:    

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This week we'll be playing a show in Diest, Belgium on Wednesday and one in Aachen, Germany on Thursday. Both will feature the great guys/band All Aboard! from Germany, among others. Click the flyers for the Facebook events, containing more info.

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We're playing two shows this week. First it's Winston, Amsterdam on Thursday. Rene SG and Last Advice (DE) will also be playing. On Saturday we're playing our beloved De Groote Weiver in Wormerveer. Alongside The Minority and Luther (US). See you at the show!

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This is next week. It's a local show so hope to see lots of you locals! All the info is on the flyer, made by our dear bass player Rick. You can see where we get our inspiration from.

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We're proud to present to you our first ever music video! It took us a while finish but it's finally online. 'Emma' is off our 2011 album 'This Season Needs Torches' which is out on Shield Recordings. We'd like to thank everyone involved. Credits have to go to: Produced by: Bolognese Producties Director: Jerry Kong A Sam 1st Assistant Director: Niels Straatsma Camera & Edit: Stephan Tax Floor Manager: Ruud Hoefakker Lightning Technician: Stephanie Lesson Producer: Danitsja Koster Production Assistant: Yvette Luhrs Continuity: Dwarka Berloth Make-up & hair styling: Carla Koster Lips & Lashes Visagie Model agency: Myrthe Scharn & Mitch de Ruijter SQ Models Location: Melody Line Thanks to: Lidewij Hoiting, Dalischa de Kok, April Braspenning, Amorzinha da Costa, Julliette Lammers en Jeanine Bhagwandin.

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Our song, Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice, has been featured on a free download compilation to celebrate Cats? Aye! Records' one year anniversary. You should all check out the label and download the compilation. Other bands/friends on the compilation include: Cheap Girls, Woahnows, Throwing Stuff, Wegrowbeards, Turtle Lamone, and A Great Notion.

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Check it ou!

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Our music is now available for streaming/download via Spotify and iTunes. Go have a listen to 'This Season Needs Torches' or 'The Flood'. Please use these for streaming only, 'cause the music is available for free download over at Bandcamp. Our music is also supposed to be available via Amazon, eMusic, and Rdio soon.

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We had a great time again on tour. This tour took us trough England up to Scotland, which was our first visit to this great part of the UK, and all the way back trough England and Belgium again. Too many fun things happened, maybe some stories and/or picture will surface somewhere on the Internet soon... We'd like to thank everyone who has been involved in any way with any of the shows! We're honored to be able to play places far away from our homes which feel like home. Our next show will be one in our home country, in Nijmegen. We'll be playing with Fighting Fiction (UK) and Bad Ideas (UK) on the 16th at De Onderbroek. Also check out this great compilation, Make Yer Ane Comp IV, by Make That A Take Records. This Scottish label/collective showed us a great time in Scotland and were kind enough to include us on their new compilation. Torches is on there, alongside songs of lots of great bands. Stream it, and dowload it for only two quid. Which is about 2.40 euros or 1000000 dollars.

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We're going on tour to the UK this month. We've lost count on how many trips we've had over to the UK but we know for sure it's going to be the first time going up to Scotland. We'll also be playing a show in Belgium on the way home. We really can't wait to play some shows, meet old/new friends, have some beers/whisky, and all of the other random greatness that comes along with a tour. If you can make it to a show it would be great to see you there. Check out the tour poster made by our lovely bass player Rick:

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So 2012 is coming to an end. It has been a fun year to say the least. What have we been up to? After releasing our album late 2011 we have been busy doing shows throughout this year. 2012 saw the longest Sweet Empire tour to date, through Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Italy, France, Wales, England, and Belgium. One of the things we're really proud of is opening for Hot Water Music and La Dispute in Prague. We were also lucky to have met some great new friends/bands in the likes of: Social Distrust, The Kabeedies, Ants!, Irish Handcuffs, The Liberation Service, and lots more. So yeah, besides some hospital visits, 2012 has been very kind to us. What will 2013 bring us? Probably a lot more shows and hopefully some new recordings. The first show will be in our hometown and will be with Kepi Ghoulie and Sons Of Buddha. Two days after that show we will head out to the UK for 11 days, this time going all the way up to Scotland for the first time. We're pretty stoked to say the least. Whisky and (vegan) haggis! We're also very busy writing new songs and are keen on doing some new recordings in 2013. What format or how many songs still needs to be decided. Of course we will keep you posted. Last but not least we are still working on a video for 'Emma'. It's taking a long time but we hope to be able to show you the end result pretty soon. Let's hope 2013 will match up to 2012, or maybe even top it! In good tradition, we wish you all happy holidays and a great 2013!

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We're proud to present to you our new t-shirts. Design made by Sophie Porter and printed by Fairtrademerch on fair trade/sweatshop free t-shirts. You can get a shirt at one of our shows or order via our webstore. Details: - Grey shirt - Anvil Organic Ringspun - Heather Grey - Green shirt - Anvil Organic Sustainable - Heather Green

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Unfortunately we had to cancel our shows for North Empire Fest (17th), Aloys (23rd), and Germany (Dec 1st) due to Koen's condition. It's not serious or anything, but playing shows is not possible at the moment. On a brighter note we are booking our UK tour for January next year. It's coming together quite nicely. Check out the dates on the right or click 'shows'.

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This tour report of our EU/UK tour in June/July 2012 has been written over a long period and it has never been edited. So it probably is very boring and full of spelling mistakes and such. Also, I’ve probably forgotten all the amazing and cool stuff already when I wrote this. I guess touring and all the things that happen is something you got experience, it doesn't translate well onto paper (or computerscreens). So if you really like to read, go ahead. For me this is just a post so it’s kind of a back up of this file… - Jort June 15th 2012 : Baracke, Munster, Germany We fortunately managed to get a van on the morning of the start of the tour after being fucked over by a van rental company just a day before. We picked up the van, loaded in, picked everyone up and headed to Munster, Germany. We arrived quite early. We hung out at the Baracke for a while and made a little lap around the city. The show went well, was well attended, and we got to see some friends again (Goodbye Fairground, Social Distrust). Of course every German had to tell us how much the Dutch football team sucked. Fair do’s, we know. After the show we went to a midnight flea market, which was not a good idea. It was raining like hell so all the stands had already closed. We headed back to the venue to quickly go to sleep. June 16th 2012 : KaosKeller, Langenau, Germany After a rude wake up call (Jort played the drums that we’re still set up at the venue), we packed our gear and headed to Julia’s (Goodbye Fairground’s drummer) for a nice breakfast and a shower. We headed to Langenau after a small detour to pick up Rick’s phone. That guy forgets everything. Halfway trough the ride to Langenau the weather cleared up and it would take at least a week before we’d see some rain again. Not too bad. When we arrived at the KaosKeller people were already chilling outside. We were surprised to see some familiar faces again (Still Bleak). We loaded in and had a walk around the town. Langenau is a really nice German city with matching buildings. A carnival was going on in town so we got to see some typical German bands and beer. Back at the venue we got served a great vegan bbq. After chilling out in the sun it was time to play some football. We saved some of the Dutch honor by beating the Germans 10-8. The show started and people were starting to get drunk/dancing. Irish Handcuffs killed it this night! Some new friends were made. Meanwhile some of the Sweet Empire crew were playing Flunkiball (?!) outside, a drinking game. This meant we got on stage too drunk. This also meant we had a great after party. Rowald decided to literally break the place down; he tore down a drainage pipe when trying to get the flunkiball from the roof. After a lot of beers and great conversations it was time to head for bed. June 17th 2012 : EKH, Vienna, Austria. The next day we headed to Vienna. With such good weather outside it was a nice day to travel (with air conditioning in the van). When we arrived at the venue Andy greeted us. He showed us the squat, EKH, which is one the most impressive we’ve ever seen. They had a huge dragonfly hanging in a huge hall. Andy told us the dragonfly could flap his wings and even spit fire, unfortunately we didn’t get to see the proof of this. A little later Heinz arrived to make us some food. Jack arrived a whole lot later, as usual. After a very long sound check we finally got to get to eat some dinner. After dinner Rob and Jort ran out to watch the Dutch football team loose to Portugal. The show was well attended. The venue, promoter, and bands were happy. That’s all you need on a night! We headed back to Jack’s place, where we also stayed for a night on our previous tour, to get our hands on some ‘insanity sauce’ again. Nobody dared to touch it except for our hero, Rowald. He took a teaspoon of that hell fire. Nothing too bad he said, but it turned out there still was something left on his finger and rubbing your eye after is not a good idea. The rest of the guys went ‘haha’. We all went to sleep. Heinz made friends with Van Der Meulen and used him as a pillow.  - Van der Meulen and John were with us on tour again, as always. June 18th 2012 : Sub, Graz, Austria. The main reason why we stayed at Jack’s place was (besides Jack being an idiot and kicking his laptop out of his bed) to get some cheap pizza for breakfast. And so we did. Absolutely full as can be from the pizza we (incl. Jack) headed to Graz early because we wanted to go swimming. We found this lake near Wiener Neustadt. After a cooling swim we were told that we were in a private area. Punk as we are, we didn’t give a shit. We arrived at the Sub in Graz to meet Hammers (UK) and Iron Heel (AT) there. We loaded in and were served to a great vegan meal cooked by the promoter of the night, Tom. The Sub is a great place but as it was a Monday, with absolutely amazing weather outside, not many people turned up. We played first and after our show we went for a stroll around the city. Graz is beautiful. We went up on the mountain in the centre (some by a spacey elevator, others by the stairs) to have a great view over the city. When we got down again Jort saved a hedgehog that got stuck in the centre, loaded in, and headed back to Tom’s place. We went to bed almost right away ‘cause we had a long drive and day coming up. Jort slept on the balcony ‘cause it was so warm. June 19th 2012 : Lucerna Music Bar, Prague, Czech Republic. The next day we left quite early for Prague to play one of our biggest shows to date. After driving through beautiful Austria and Czech Republic for a while, seen some foxes and deer, we arrived dead centre Prague. The venue we had to play was huge, and that was not because of us. We were supporting Hot Water Music and La Dispute, a real dream come true. We were being treated like rock stars. We had our own backstage, got restaurant food, got towels, etc. We arrived quite early so we had enough time to walk around the beautiful city centre. If you’re ever doing a city trip Prague is the place to go. This night was a night to remember. The show went well and we got to see the other bands play. When we played the room was already quite full, I guess we played to a couple hundred people. The other bands were really nice, and we got to hang out for a bit. Also some of the crowd thought Jort was Chuck Ragan so there were some very confusing conversations going on. Unfortunately we had to leave early because we had to do an overnight 12 hours drive to the next show. Fortunately we didn’t earn that much weird Czech money so we could all spend it on fuel for the long drive.  - Koen enjoying the beautiful scenery in Prague June 20th 2012 : Blue Rose Saloon, Bresso/Milan, Italy Taking turns driving the drive to Milan wasn’t too bad. The only bad thing was that Koen was stung by some kind of insect and he’s feet were swollen. Really swollen. We decided to go see a doctor near the Garda lake, with the idea we could chill out at the lake for the rest of the day as Milan was just two hours away and it was 10am. It turned out to be completely different. After waiting for a few hours in a hospital (cause we couldn’t find a doctor) we met some Dutch people who were waiting as well, only they were there a few hours longer. Some people suggested us to go to a different, smaller, hospital in the area. We thought this might be a good option. So we arrive at the next hospital. Different hospital, same problem. In the end we spend about 10 hours in hospitals just to get some antibiotics for Koen. We thought we were finally done, but no. We still had to go to a pharmacy to get Koen’s antibiotics. It turned out that there are about 100 pharmacies in one Italian street, but none of them had the antibiotics. It was not until the next day that we found the drugs. Anyway, we went to the venue. We were greeted by a whole lot of Italians who all helped out loading out the van. A nice venue and nice people, but the whole of waiting really broke us. After the show we went to the hostel that Fra, the promoter, had got us. We had one more beer and went to sleep, which was the easiest we’ve ever done. June 21st 2012 : C.S. Terra Di Nessuno, Genova, Italy The next day we were woken up by Rick who spend the night in the van. He was in a fight (verbally) with an Italian guy. Rick doesn’t speak Italian but it was clear it was about our van being parked in a wrong way, so just to be sure we moved the van. We had a brilliant breakfast and headed for a music store to buy some gear. Gear always seems to break down when on tour. The weather was still really great so instead for going to Genova right away we went to a beach in the area called Recco. Rob and Jort decided to go swimming, Rick was reading, and Koen and Rowald went to a tattoo shop to see if we could get a tour tattoo. This turned out to be the case so after an hour Rowald, Koen, and Jort walked out with a nice new tattoo. We took the van and headed for Genova. We arrived at the C.S., which is some kind of Italian squad. The place was amazing. Up on a mountain in the middle of some woods. We were treated very well and had the best food ever. Made by a woman who absolutely adores cats, has about 50 of them. She promised if you got a new cat to call it Sweet Empire. The show went well and was a lot of fun. We got to see some fireflies too. After chilling out for a bit Gippy and his brother brought us to the house we were staying at. We had one more beer and went to sleep.  - On the Italian side of the Mont Blanc Tunnel. June 22nd 2012 : Deep Inside, Dijon, France Italy is the best for breakfast, and Genova is known for its focaccia. So we had some, which was not a bad decision at all. We headed to Dijon, which was a beautiful ride. It took us through the mountains and trough the Mont Blanc tunnel. Dijon is a really beautiful city. We were welcomed by Matt, who does Bomb The Gig together with his roommates. We loaded are stuff in and went to Matt’s place to have dinner. Our good friends of The Early Grave were also playing so it was going to be a fun night. The show was in a cellar, which was quite cool (unfortunately not temperature-wise). After the show we hung out, drank beer, made friends, told stories, just had a great time. Later that night we went to Matt’s place again where we had some more hanging, beer, friends, stories, great times. We even did some acoustic songs for the Bomb The Gig youtube channel. Don’t look it up please. June 23rd 2012 : Le Rivoli Bar, Epinal, France This day we had a short drive to Epinal, so we got to hang out in Dijon for a while. We walked around, bought some great Epoisse cheese and bread. Bought some mustard. Went by a ‘food not bombs’ stand. Just had a really relaxing day in Dijon. We arrived in Epinal quite early. We loaded in and just sat at the bar. Not much later promoter Nico and the rest of The Early Grave arrived. Also some weird Belgium guys were there too, called Dear Hearts. We played the same bar as last time so it was fun to see some familiar faces again. We had a great party with good friends, and they all went back to Nico’s place for some more partying. Not much to tell about this day besides we had a great time partying. June 24th 2012 : Le Juke Bocks, Abbeville, France Our next stop before we went to the UK was Abbeville in France, near to Callais. It was a Sunday so we arrived in what seemed to be a ghost town. We knocked on the door of the venue and the promoter/owner Romain let us in. There was a huge language barrier here. We speak little French and Romain spoke little English. Fortunately we managed to get by. As it was a Sunday the show was to be really quite. Quite when it comes to people attending but also when it comes to volume. We set up and hung out at the venue. Some of our girl/boyfriends were in Abbeville to visit us, so that was really nice. We all headed out into town to get some kebab or pizza. When we got back we played our show and drank some more beer. Romain showed us where we were staying. This was a dark room on the second floor of the venue. We were tired as hell so we said goodbye to our friends and went to bed. June 25th 2012 : Mozarts, Swansea, Wales We woke up to find one of the French visitors of the bar still drinking beer and coffee downstairs. He said he wanted to say goodbye to us, what a nice guy. We loaded out and headed to Callais. It was the first time we took the tunnel to the UK, which fucked a little with Rick’s mind. He was (and still is) convinced he had an extra hour to sleep the coming night. Not true of course, but Rick was happy with that thought. This was also to be our first gig ever in Wales. We got to Mozart’s quite early to find Pillai (promoter and drummer in the amazing The Arteries) already present. He let us in and we had our first pint of the tour. After we unloaded the van we went to the house we were staying at. Lets say this is Arteries HQ. We dropped off our sleeping gear and went to pick up the PA for the night. This was at a skate park. When we arrived lots of kids were skating, already better than we will ever be able to skate. We got the PA back to Mozarts and greeted to other bands for the night: The Kidsisfireworks and Dividers. It was great to be back in the UK and see so many familiar faces. I guess we played quite a good show. After the show we went back to Arteries HQ and drank some more beers. There was this cat that was drinking out of the toilet. This cat came down to the house quite often but didn’t belong there. The cat was nice. Rob went to bed early because he wanted to go surfing the next day… June 26th 2012 : Portland Arms, Cambridge, England Rob woke us all up at around 9, super stoked to catch some waves. We all got in the van to go to Jamie’s mom’s place to get Rob a wet suit. It turned out there weren’t any waves, so Rob (fighting his tears) couldn’t go surfing. In stead we went to a ruin on top of a hill with a great of over the cost line. With typically UK weather, rain, this was a beautiful sight. Also to dogs who came with us had a great time running around. In the afternoon we left Wales to get back into England, to Cambridge. We went to the promoter’s place, Robert, to leave our sleeping stuff and pick him up. We already played the Portland Arms before so it was a familiar place. Last time we played with a shit load of bands, and we quite sucked, so we were keen on playing a good show tonight, as we were headlining too. Guess we played a good show. On the bill was It’s Not OK. This band is the full electric version of Oliver John Ward’s acoustic music. We toured with Olli the year before so, again, it was good to see him. We were to see him more often the coming days. An other band playing that night was new to us; Victory Points. A great band with male/female vocals. These were also some of Robert’s housemates. After a great night at the venue we went back to the house to have a great after party, incl. crisps, whisky, beer, nudity (by some people), and dino baby. When most people went to sleep Rob was still having such a great time that the others couldn’t really get to sleep. Fortunately everybody was able to fall asleep with Rob upstairs and Robert downstairs with the band.  - Part of the ruin on top of the hill near Swansea. June 27th 2012 : Karma Kafe, Norwich, England This was to be a beautiful day. We were asked to come by a studio and record some music. So we headed down to this small village in the area of Norwich to be greeted by Adam. We met Adam when he was on tour in Holland with Norwich-based band The Kabeedies and he invited us over at his studio when we were over in the UK. The weather, the views, the studio, it was all too good to be true. We set everything up, Adam checked the sound and we were ready to record. After having some coffee of course. We decided to record one of our newly written songs called ‘Soapbox’. After four hours we were done. We thanked Adam for one of the best experiences ever on tour to date and left for Norwich. When we got to Norwich we had some time left and went for a stroll around the city. Norwich is a typically English city, with a cool castle on a hill. The original promoter of the night was on tour himself so he left the show to one of his friends. I guess he didn’t know that about 15 people needed food (It’s Not OK was playing as well, besides French punk rockers Nina School). One tupperware box of pasta wasn’t enough. So we went back into town to see if we could get something to eat. It took forever to find an American Hamburger bar (with bean burgers). The waitress thought we were rock stars so we had a laugh. We played the show, unfortunately the sound wasn’t the best ever, but we’re a punk band so that’s all right. We also didn’t have a place to stay for the night but after asking for one on stage we were sorted. We could stay at Sophie’s place. Back at her place we had a good chat, looked at the ridiculous amount of empty bottles, and found out Sophie is a great artist (new Sweet Empire shirts coming up soon!).  - In front of the studio (fltr: Rick, Rowald, Koen, Rob (our tourbuddy), Adam (producer extraordinaire, Jort) June 28th 2012 : Kraak Gallery, Manchester, England The next day we had to go to Manchester to play a show with Leagues Apart and Apologies I Have None, amongst others. We were stoked to the max, and the weather was great. Until somewhere in the middle of the drive we hit a hailstorm and things got rowdy. It was one of those small storms you get into every five years, but are so heavy that you think something’s going to break down. Fortunately, we survived. We stopped by a field to take a picture with James the horse and went on to trying to find the venue in downtown Manchester. After quite some time looking for the tucked away venue we found it, unloaded, and went back onto an adventure of parking the van somewhere. This all cost us quite some time, but that’s what you get when playing a city. We met Kieran, the promoter, told him he smelled and we went for a stroll around the city. Manchester has some amazing street art and some great shops with lots of stuff everyone would like to buy. We had to resist ourselves not to buy miniature trucks. After getting some of that delicious Crabbies, we went back to the venue to have some food and to do a little sound check. We found out our friends in Crazy Arm were supporting Lagwagon in Manchester on the same night. We tried to get in but that story would probably take up some more pages, it ended in us not getting in. The show was really great because we got to see lots of our friends again. Crazy Arm did get in to our show, so we got to say hi anyway. We went on to stay the night at Andi’s (Leagues Apart) place and played the SEGA Megadrive for a while before getting to bed. June 29th 2012 : The Empress, Harrogate, England The drive to Harrogate was one of the shortest on the tour so we had some time to get breakfast in Manchester and visit a record shop. Manchester is a really cool city, especially when the weather is fitting to the scenery (rain!). So after having Mexican food for breakfast and picking up some new vinyl we dropped Andi back off at his place and headed for our beloved Harrogate. On all of our trips to the UK we played Harrogate almost every single time (we skipped playing there once when we were over for only two days of Crash Doubt Fest). So we knew what to expect. We arrived at Callum’s place and he showed us where we were staying. After putting our sleeping gear in the house we left to the dinner place because Callum can’t cook. Fortunately the girls at the dinner place could. We were treated to a great vegan dinner, with real or even vegan cheese as an option. We also enjoyed the beers we bought at the liquor store before. I still don’t know why the bars in England serve such shitty beers whilst England really has some tasty stuff, but that’s only being sold at the liquor stores. Anyway, the beers were good. After chilling out for a bit and watching TV we went to the venue. Every time we played Harrogate it was at a different venue. So this time we played the Empress. Again we had to play an upstairs place that didn’t look like a typical punk rock venue. Fortunately we knew better, it was going to get crazy! Hardcore act Eric Bana, hailing from the Harrogate area, was playing their last show this night cause the legendary Cooper was going to move to New Zealand. Also the almighty Dogfight was playing. We were on last and had a little surprise ready for the crowd. We brought this hardcore band called Crack David to play a little set too, it rocked. We were running late so we had to cut everything short so it ended in singing Bro Hymn with everyone in the room. Again Harrogate proved to be amazing. After the gig was done we headed into town to the legendary Retro Bar. I can’t really remember what happened that night but it sure was fun/weird/cool/strange/etc. June 30th 2012 : The Birds Nest, Deptford/London, England Callum had to kick us out early, which wasn’t a problem cause we had quite a drive to Deptford. We just left Harrogate when we saw a sheep in a ditch. We pulled over and ran towards the sheep to find out the poor thing was already dead. There went our opportunity to do a good deed. So we got back into the van and drove to Deptford. This night was to be recapture of some of the days we had in the UK. It was also the second time for us playing the venue. Last time was great so we were stoked to play! Bands on the bill included: It’s Not OK, Nina School, Victory Points, Darko, and James Choice. This was probably the day we were really tired the entire day but thanks to our friends at the venue we got back into party mode again. And a party it became. After watching all the bands (great stuff, every single one of ‘m) and foolish dancing we got in the van to get to the place to stay for the night, Nina School was staying over too. This place is known as Asburry Castle. We didn’t know what to expect. Fortunately the promoter and good friend / split CD mate Olli forgot his key so we could hang around outside for some longer. One of his roommates came to the rescue and let us in. Soon the entire place was filled with drunk punk rockers. Another night of partying, can it ever be enough? No. When Rick finally went to bed he grabbed a bottle of water and went upstairs. With his teeth all brushed he laid his head down, but first he took a sip of water, which turned out to be pure vodka. Rick is the party champion, not drinking water but vodka. Some of us got to stay in Giles’ room (Great Cynics) so we left him a thank you note. And a bottle of vodka.  - The front of the great Birds Nest. July 1st 2012 : JC Horizont, Meerhout, Belgium Last day of tour, and a big travel day as well. We got up super early to get to the tunnel in time. We stopped by a Tesco’s to get us some breakfast. Most of us just bought some bread and cheese, but Rob had to buy Scottish eggs and that kind of stuff. After breakfast he wasn’t feeling too well, but fortunately he could manage. We arrived at the tunnel and could take a train early, just like on the way in. After driving through France we entered the world in which people could understand us again: Belgium. We were playing Meerhout, the same place as where the great Groezrock festival takes place every year. It was a birthday party of Sander and Daan, two of the most enthusiastic young promoters we have ever met. After loading in and fixing some stuff with the PA it was time for Violent City to play. To our surprise Daan was filling in on vocals. After this we had to play. Playing the last show of tour always gives that little extra special feeling of playing a foreign show. Closing band was The Priceduifkes, last time we played with these guys was two years ago. This band is one the best and most fun pop punk bands in the Benelux (at least). Totally broken and tired we left Meerhout and headed back home. We wanted to buy some more beers for on the way but when the first petrol station turned up we were in Holland already. In Holland they don’t sell beer at petrol stations. Yes, we were home again.

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Unfortunately we have had to cancel two shows, Schwerte (DE) on the 26th and Krommenie (NL) on November 10th due to Koen, our drummer, needing surgery. Fortunately nothing really serious, so we can play all the other shows that were already confirmed. In Schwerte you can still see Social Distrust play and No Contest (UK) will be replacing us. The show on November 10th will also still be on, please go and show your support for this Duchenne benefit.

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Welcome, you've just arrived on our first official website. As of today we will use this website as our primary source of communication to you all, fancy ey!? This website has specially been made for us by Bert of Rock De IJmond. Thanks Bert, you'll get your whisky soon.

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On our recent tour we stopped by somewhere in the country side near Norwich to record a song on a beautiful day in a beautiful studio called The Saints with a great guy called Adam. The song, called 'Soapbox', is now streaming on our bandcamp profile, as well as the studio's website. Check out Soapbox: here. Also be sure to check out the studio: Website Adam's site Facebook Twitter

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We're doing some sort of weekender this weekend. We've got two shows with our friends in Social Distrust and one show with our friends in The Liberation Service and Soey. This Friday we will be playing Panic Room, Essen, DE (w/ Social Distrust). On Saturday we're playing a festival in Rüthen, DE called With Full Flunky (w/ Social Distrust a.o.) Sunday we're back in Holland and we will finish the weekend off by playing Hans' Crust Venue in Diemen-Zuid (w/ Liberation Service, Soey, The Minority). Facebook event Friday. Facebook event Saturday.

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We've been featured on a free digital compilation by No Panic! Records called 'Don't Panic'. Our contribution, Torches, goes alongside some great bands incl. After The Fall, Fights And Fires, Dividers, Static Radio NJ, Rust Belt Lights, The Snips, Rebuke, Protagonist, and many many more. Check it out by clicking here!

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On our recent tour we stopped by somewhere in the country side near Norwich to record a song on a beautiful day in a beautiful studio called The Saints with a great guy called Adam. The song, called 'Soapbox', is now streaming on the studio's website. Check it our here and click music: http://www.thesaints-studios.co.uk/ Follow the The Saints Studio on Facebook and Twitter.

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We're going to record a music video for 'Emma' tomorrow. Stoked/siked/etc.! It will be released in September probably, of course we're doing some kind of release show for it. More info soon!

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We just spent 17 amazing days on the road. We had the best of times. Pictures and such will follow but for now we'd like to thank the following people for making this an unforgettable journey: Julia/Benjamin @ Baracke, Chris and all @ Kaoskeller, Heino/Jack/all @ EKH, Tom @ Sub, Fra @ Blue Rose, Gippy and all @ Terra Di Nessuno, Matt/Bomb The Gig @ Deep Inside, Nico @ Rivoli Bar, Romain @ Juke Bocks, Rhys/Jamie @ Mozarts, Rob @ Portland Arms, Jack @ Karma Kafe, Sophie for the place to stay in Norwich, Kieran/Andi/James @ Kraak Gallery, Calum/John/Cooper @ The Empress, Ollie @ The Bird's Nest, Sander/Daan @ Horizont. Further we'd like to thank all the bands we got to play with: Victory Points (2x!), It's Not OK (3x!), Nina School (2x!), The Early Grave (2x!), Hot Water Music, La Dispute, Social Distrust, Just Like Rats, Irish Handcuffs, All Bricks, Remedy, Blind Of 69, Hammers, Iron Heel, Chronos Is Gone, Porna & The Kokots, Beata Ignoranza, Cocks, Polar Sun, Dear Hearts, Dividers, The Kid Is Fireworks, Beverly Kills, Apologies I Have None, Leagues Apart, Speedboat Salesman, Dogfight, Eric Bana, James Choice, Flat Earth, The Priceduifkes, and Violent City. Most thanks to all of you who came and watch a show of ours! We can't wait to get back on the road again.

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We're going on tour this Friday. Of course we don't have to tell you we can't wait... See you at the show! Facebook event, with links to all the separate facebook events: here.

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‘Punk is dead’ is a saying often heard. That’s not true, at least in Holland it is not. To prove the Dutch punk is vibrant and alive non-profit label North Empire will release an online compilation called 'Say Cheese!' This compilation features 18 Dutch punk rock bands, each contributing one song. Varying from established to upcoming bands, every single one of them hardworking and delivering top quality songs. Making it obvious the Dutch punk scene is alive, varied, and offering a lot of great music to listen to. Because punk is known as a socially concerned genre all the revenue made with this compilation will go to a good cause. Wakker Dier in this case, a Dutch organization fighting for the welfare of animals in the bio industry. Please help out when you download the compilation. The compilation is available on a ‘pay what you want’ basis via: http://northempire.bandcamp.com

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This Saturday we will be playing an in-store acoustic set (some songs) at the Etnies store on Damrak, Amsterdam. Hope to see you there at 2pm. This will be with Versus The World. Both bands will be playing the Winston that evening alongside the great Cobra Skulls. Hope to see you there as well, this time at 8:30pm. Also, we've been just been told there is another review of 'This Season Needs Torches' somewhere on the web, on FrostClick to be precise. It's a pretty positive one. Have a read!

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Emma, who made our design for our new merch, has posted a lovely story about how she made it. We are still blown away by the result. Have a read here and be sure to check out her other work too. Thanks lots Emma! http://emiloumakes.co.uk/sweet-empire/

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We've got some new merch! 2 different types of girlies, 2 shirts, and tote bags. All fair trade and sweatshop free. Check it out! Order from our webstore (click!) (the girlies are very limited and only available at shows) The design features extinct animals like an Irish Elk, a Mammoth, and a Dodo. And it has been made by Emiloumakes, we think it's stunning. You really should check out her website.

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Our song "On Fake Borders" has been featured on an American compilation CD which has been released to support the making of a documentary called "Tikkun Olam". This documentary will be about the relation between Judaism, punk rock, and radical politics. We'd like to thank Matt for putting us on the compilation and we wish him the best of luck with the documentary. We're looking forward to seeing the end result. You can download the compilation or order a copy (incl. zine!) over here. Read more on the documentary here. Also check out their associate website PunkCDSampler.com. Besides this great news we've also been featured in Proefdiervrij's magazine. Proefdiervrij is a Dutch organization which fights against testing on animals. We played a festival last February which had 'science' as the main theme. We thought it would be a nice idea to get Proefdiervrij some attention, and so we did. They supplied us with promotional material and even gave us some awesome shirts! Besides talking about the good cause we asked people at the show for a donation and ended up raising €135. Thanks so much to the people who donated! We are happy we could help out Proefdiervrij, and what they stand for, by doing this show. Check out the article:

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We've got some stuff up for sale. Special offers! Discount! etc.! Get a (fair trade, sweatshop free) t-shirt for €7,50 and include a 'This Season Needs Torches' CD or LP to make a total of €15. Get on this! Go to our webstore.

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Yet another review of 'This Season Needs Torches' has surfaced. This time on Rockfreaks.net. Check it out over here.

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This Friday, March 23rd, we will be playing a show at Café Peanuts in Julianadorp, NL. Please come by and party. Besides that we're still busy with sorting out our EU/UK tour for June. If you can help please get in touch: info [a] sweetempire . nl . This is also the address to send other (gig) requests, fan mail, hate mail, etc. to.

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Coming Thursday we will be playing an acoustic show at Café Lokaal, Heemskerk. Show starts at 21:00h (doors at 8pm, free to get in) and it will be broadcasted live on Café Acoustique - Radio Heemskerk. Click the link to get the frequencies or to stream online. Get ready for a few stripped down versions of our own songs as well as some covers.

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We will be playing Punk For Sale III at JC Enter, Houten on Saturday. We had a little talk and we think you should all be there.

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See you there! Sorry if you get sick of the flyer... (deleted the flyer 'cause it made me sick)

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Another review of "This Season Needs Torches" surfaced. This time it's a German one, on Poisonfree.com. We do speak a bit of German, but not enough to completely get it. Please let us know what it's about if you can understand. Read the review here. Download the album for free here.

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We'll be playing at Breinfest today. A festival organized by our local fellow band and good friends Het Brein Dat Kwam Uit De Ruimte, to celebrate their fifth year anniversary (congratulations guys!). The theme for today is 'science'. As we're a real punk band we thought it would be nice to get some attention for a good cause. We'll be supporting Proefdiervrij (anti animal testing) today. We think animal testing isn't necessary in todays world. With science on such a high standard we should be able to do testing in various, more kind, ways. We'll be donating the money we make on sales, as well as our fee, to Proefdiervrij. So you should all hurry and come down to Cafe Lokaal, Heemskerk today. Starts at 4pm.

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We are very sad to have to bring you the news that we have to cancel our upcoming UK tour due to family reasons. We are devastated and can’t choose the right words to say. Unfortunately some things are just out of our control. The Living Daylights have cancelled as well, as we were in this tour together. We hope to be able to reschedule soon though.

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Happy new year to all of you! We hope 2012 will bring nothing but good times. We're getting ready to head out to the UK again at the end of this month. This is the routing: January: Th 26: The Cavern, Exeter Fr 27: TBA Sa 28: TBA Su 29: The Croft, Bristol Mo 30: Mozart's, Swansea Tu 31: Old Angel Inn, Nottingham February: We 1: Karma Kafe, Norwich Th 2: The Earl, Sheffield Fr 3: The Empress, Harrogate Sa 4: The Shed, Leicester If you could help out with any of the tba's, please get in touch! If you live in Holland and would like us to rent your van or borrow your car, please get in touch as well! Also we have a lot more great plans for 2012, including some fun shows. We'll tell you more soon.

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