I guess I would like to see some more music from my side of the spectrum (what ever that may be) on here, but I guess that’s not going to happen any time soon. ;)
I really dug the ‘Life As A Mixtape’ articles AsIce once had, they were always a good read, would be cool to bring something like that back here.
An interview with Striking Justice, one of the hardest working bands in Dutch HC would be nice. Otis would be cool as well.
Your music: You like Make Do And Mend, No Turning Back and All For Nothing right? We do cover that Nah, we’re open to any suggestions. Just give us some hints in bands etc. Striking Justice & Otis are good suggestions. And if you would like to see news featured: Submit it : http://www.swnk.org/submit-news/
Life As A Mixtape: Yeah I loved those too. I even suggested it to the crew and asked for suggestions on how to improve it, give it a little twist. Because I’m not a big fan of simply copying concepts. But that wasn’t picked up and we forgot about it. Any suggestions are still welcome, but yes, that’s something I can see happening again on this site for sure. Thanks for the reminder!
Columns: We’ve got a column coming up this Saturday. But I agree, I would love to see more of those too. So if anyone’s reading this that would like to write one, get in touch!
I like the life as a mixtape idea!
what about a spin-off of the collection topic on asice and that video thing where someone shows his record collection and talks about his favorite records. can’t remember where I saw that, I believe taht was on asice as well?
That’s an idea I loved as well. Dirk Trilob does those, but he’s doing them for Punx.nl. I would love to see something like that on SWNK. Anybody with a video camera that likes to pick this up, you’re welcome?
@Jonas: I don’t know if you know, but just in case: Those “Life as a mixtape” posts were more than a mixtape. We would approach someone and let them make a mixtape telling their life story.
And would be cool if you could do the Striking Justice interview, might be interesting to let someone not from the Netherlands interview them, to get that outsider perspective ;)
I think I mentioned them in the new bands topic before, but TARANTINO from Breda could be cool for a New Breed interview. Fast and furious hardcore punk, think Black Flag vs Negative Approach with some more modern touches here and there. Saw them live twice recently and they really surprised me. I really think things could take off for these guys, now that some of the members quit Righteous Kill.
And as for reviewing other styles. We got a big list of reviews we ‘need’ to do, so as long as we don’t have that covered we might have to wait with expanding our territory. I’m not that interested in reading metal reviews myself either.
I think i mentioned them on here somewhere before, but I saw Rott n Damned again last weekend and those young kids are awesome. 4 dudes younger than 18 (one of their dads is their roady/driver haha) playing a mix of modern hardcore/metalcore old school and crusty punk. So musicwise this is all over the place, but their relentless energy and enthousiam make them one of the coolest new bands around. So hit these kids up with a New Breed interview!
Because the old Dutch messageboard, AsIce, was a total riot, in my opinion. There were a lot of people posting sexist, homophobic and racist bullshit; behaviour I think doesn’t belong in hardcore.
- ‘Life as a mixtape’ is something we still want to do.
- ‘Record collection of’ thing is in the works. More about that soon.
- Classic reviews. This will happen. We’ll get a couple of reviewers discussing a record. We’ll probably start with No Warning – Suffer, Survive since opinions are all over the place on that one.
- Striking Justice / Tarantino interviews happened.
- SWNK is still pretty politically correct.
- We added the bookers / promoters section. Add yourselves!
- We would love to feature more columns, if you want to submit one, get in touch!
Seriously?! As far as I can tell right now, the majority of the posters on this board are Dutch. Although I have no problems with English whatsoever, it feels pretty forced to post in English.
Jan said:
It’s pretty forced to post in English while most readers are Dutch though, no matter what your opinion on the Dutch language may be.
To give you an idea, in May the amount of English speaking visitors was almost double the amount of Dutch speaking visitors.
PS > Quote button is in full effect now (you may need to do a hard refresh to make it work though). So that’s one wish granted ;) PS2> Scratch that. Need to fix something minor first.
PS3> Now working ;)
if i click a link i forget it opened in the same screen and i click it away. than i have to go back in history to open the swnk page i was reading. so i would like to see links open in a second tab
Jan said:
It’s pretty forced to post in English while most readers are Dutch though, no matter what your opinion on the Dutch language may be.
To give you an idea, in May the amount of English speaking visitors was almost double the amount of Dutch speaking visitors.
PS > Quote button is in full effect now (you may need to do a hard refresh to make it work though). So that’s one wish granted ;) PS2> Scratch that. Need to fix something minor first.
PS3> Now working ;)
TRILOB said: if i click a link i forget it opened in the same screen and i click it away. than i have to go back in history to open the swnk page i was reading. so i would like to see links open in a second tab
Pim 6 months, 3 weeks ago.
Nah, we’re open to any suggestions. Just give us some hints in bands etc. Striking Justice & Otis are good suggestions. And if you would like to see news featured: Submit it : http://www.swnk.org/submit-news/
