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Some bands do things in the strangest order. There seems to be no logic behind anything they do. But hey, things work, so why would they stop? Emo-core loudmouths San Andreas (Rotterdam/The Netherlands) are the absolute limit if it comes to being bang out of order. They booked a U.K. tour before they even had songs! Half a year later they booked the longest U.K. tour by a Dutch band in 2005: three consecutive weeks, checking out every pub and club in Albion. They applied for the South by Southwest music conference and got an invitation to go there before anybody at home in Holland had ever even heard of them. After touring 2½ years straight, they took time off to write their next masterpiece. Vocalist Sopo: “When our first album ‘The Lover Kills’ was released in 2005, we got a lot of positive responses and played about 125 shows that year. For our next album, we felt that we wanted to follow a natural progression: to create a more grown-up and evolved record.” Thus San Andreas teamed up with producer René van der Zee (Cooper/Kung Fu records). Sopo: “René told us basically to follow our hearts and make the music WE wanted to make. All pieces fell in place shortly after this and now we feel like we’ve made the best album we possibly could have made at this moment and we are all extremely proud of it.” Their debut CD ‘The Lover Kills’ was released through Squash Records. Sopo: “For this new record, we really wanted to step onto the next level”. They struck gold hooking up with the U.K. based label Lockjaw Records (Tribute To Nothing, Muse, A New Day). ‘Man Or Monster’ will be released 3rd of November in the U.K. A European release date is set for 7th of November. Sopo: “In order to get it to sound exactly how we wanted it to sound, we decided to record everything ourselves and also to be very involved in the mixing and mastering process. We found that the hardest part in recording was capturing the vibe and the energy that we have on stage. We feel that we definitely succeeded in reaching the goals we’d set for this album. When you close your eyes while listening to it, you can actually feel like you are ‘inside the band’.” To finish this monstrous sound, the record was mastered in the U.S. by Alan Douches (Mastodon, Converge, Ben Folds Five, Thrice, Sepultura, Fall out Boy etc) who made the record sound like the band wanted. The record sounds great, the band has 11 brand new tracks coming out, what will the future be? The band is ready for this, are you?

Latest bulletin 02.25.09

Februari update

So we have a lot of news shows coming up. The last shows we did were a blast. People traveled from all kinda places to see us a again. Thanx,&nb...

So we have a lot of news shows coming up. The last shows we did were a blast. People traveled from all kinda places to see us a again. Thanx, that makes us proud. So here is some new news and new shows for you.

UK
In march we are going back for the 5th time in our history! This time we do a tour with our label mates Resonate; great band check their MySpace www.myspace.com/reso Of course it would be great to see all UK fans again. If you know a good record store in the towns we are playing, let us know if we can do an acoustic in store. We would love to do that.

24/03 Saphire, Bridgend
25/03 Bullingdon, Oxford
26/03 Evolution, Worchester
27/03 The Mist, Derby
28/03 Keystone Escape, Kettering

Holland
We are now booking new shows for April - June and of course for the fall of this year. We still are looking for good support bands. So if you play in a band, drop us a line and let us know that you wanna play and from which town you are so we can set up a show together. Check out the show section. We have a lot of good shows and we are playing with some nice bands (According To You, Fire In The Attic etc)

Free downloads
If you are member of www.reverbnation.com/sanandreasmusic you can login and download for free 3 old tracks of ours; Brand New Day, It's Always You and Shot The Broken Heart. If you go to www.last.fm/music/San+Andreas/The+Lover+Kills you can download our old CD (released in 2005) completely for FREE. But hurry, we are only doing this for 1 month.

Plug Your Band (Dutch only)
Normaal doen we niet zo snel mee aan een 'wedstrijd' maar omdat we de omroep LLINK (voor een betere wereld) tof vinden nu een keer wel. Vooral nu omdat ze voldoende leden moeten hebben per 1 april, anders gaat daar de steker er uit. Wat moet je doen? Ga naar http://llink.nl/plugyourband/index.php zoek naar San Andreas en stem op ons. Als je nog geen lid bent van LLINK moet je eerst lid worden, je krijgt dan een code (lidmaatschapsnummer) en dan kan je stemmen. Lid worden kost € 5,73 per jaar. Wie vrijdagavond voor 23.00 de meeste stemmen heeft wordt gedraait bij het programma Move Your Ass en wie op vrijdag 20 maart de meeste stemmen heeft mag een optreden doen bij Move Your Ass. Dus niet alleen steun je dan San Andreas maar ook LLINK. Ken je mensen die al lid zijn, vraag dan hun lidmaatschapnummer. Daarmee kan je ook op ons nummers stemmen. Doen!

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