The shows in Heist & Ghent were off the hook! Intense audiences banging their head like it was 1998. Thank you so much!!

Inbetween those 2 shows a lot happened:
-Davy toured with our friends ROSETTA & CITY OF SHIPS
-Andrew Schneider (CAVE IN, UNSANE,…) mixed our upcoming album
-Our friends in AMENRA got signed on Neurot recordings.
-Our friends in OATHBREAKER (where Thijs is the regular substitute bassplayer when Gilles can’t make it) released their record on Death Wish recordings. Brutal stuff!! A must have!!
-NEUROSIS toured Europe.
-CITY OS SHIPS released their truly astonishing ‘Minor world’ album!! Pick that up, it will end up high in album of the year/decade.

We play one more show this summer: 27th of August in Westkapelle @ JH ‘t Verzet. MORDA also plays there… so this is an good old fashioned mixed up styles show with great hangouts and local bands!! Show up on this one!!

We’re looking into mastering our album right now, do some stuff layoutwise, search a label that fits the profile we’re looking for & are all time nice dudes.

Listen to Morrissey, Joy division, Leonard Cohen, Neurosis, Unsane, Black Mountain, City of ships & maybe even some Nirvana!
Good night.
D.

The shows with City of ships, Narrows, Steak number eight rocked hard. We would like to thank all of you who showed up in masses on these shows!!

Support the amazing guys of City of ships who reign all over Europe. And we look forward to hang out with our friends again on 14th of July and whole August! Maybe some special things will happen! Keep an eye open!

Hope to see you on our upcoming shows:
14th of July in Heist (bel) @ Ravelingen with Rosetta, City of ships, Your highness.
24th of July in Ghent (bel) @ Kinky Star club with Cloon.

Rock.
D.

inbetween our writing/recording process we miss the live mics to much, so we got some cool upcoming shows booked, hope to see you faces and taste your sweat over there. new songs combined with older ones are on the setlist…

7th of May - Joc Ieper w/ Steak Number 8
17th of May - Frontline Ghent w/ Narrows (usa/uk), Grizzlyncher
4th of June - Jc De Klinker Aarschot w/ City Of Ships (usa), Musth, Versa
14th of July - Ravelingen Heist w/ Rosetta (usa), City Of Ships (usa), Your Highness
24th of July - Kinkystar Gentse Feesten w/ tba

yes we are in a writing proces and no we don’t talk about this website.

sorry, hopefully some serious updates will follow soon.

rock
MAUDLIN

Okay since it has been a while since our last update here is some info about what we’re up to these days.

We’re very happy to announce that we are in a very creative period with the band. The creation of new songs goes smooth, and to my humble opinion, the best MAUDLIN songs aren’t recorded yet… so I hope you’ll get as psyced as we do. Don’t expect them live very soon, we got about 30 minutes of new music and we will set up a “try out” sooner or later.

We also started booking our 4th European tour. If you are interested to get us in your city, get in touch! We’ll be touring all over Europe from 31st of July until 16th of August.

We keep you up to date!
Rock
.MAUDLIN

I think I said we had the luck and the privelege to see these arms are snakes & russian circles 3 times live this tour. Well, we couldn’t resist to wave them out, jumped in the car, drove to London and said bye again. What a hell of a show it was!! It’s always fun if the bouncers are overworried about Steve… it was a hell of a show from both bands!

Do yourself and our friends a favour and buy yourself these early Christmas gifts:
Carneia - white coma light - cd
Sensual Noise - psychedelic bugtown - demo

Ow, when I’m less stressed out then nowadays, the tourreport will be up!

Rock!
Davy & MAUDLIN

Okay, first things first… This weekend the 15th we play Eernegem with lots of cool bands, be sure to check CARNEIA also!

If you’re looking for a reason not to visit your family this Sunday… then the Heartbreaktunes & Genet crew offer you this show: GRIEF, TRAP THEM, MAUDLIN, ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK in the Frontline at Gent. Doors 17h00 sharp!

Ow man, are we lucky bastards, we saw THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES & RUSSIAN CIRCLES perform 3 times this tour, and each time it ended in a party! It’s great hanging with these guys! They each released a brand new album on SUICIDE SQUEEZE, so go and check it out. Both bands have shitloads of other cool releases, and we recommand you to give it your attention.

Our tourreport got delayed, we seem to miss a lot of pictures, so here we are asking you for help… any MAUDLIN picture of the tour is welcome. Of course we’d love to see those pictures from not-tour-shows also!

Keep mailing us, we love this shit!
MAUDLIN

We know out of the mails that we receive that a lot of people are curious after our tourreport, but please be patient on this one. Yet again it was a hell of an adventure and we’re still looking for the right words and images to capture it and tell our story.

Concerning our tour we already would like to make this statement. It wouldn’t have worked out or have been that cool without these people taking care for us. And by taking care we mean the whole package like lending us a venue, promote the show, feeding us, give a drinks, a good sleeping place,… Yes, this one is for Sam & Jelle from Antwerp, Stijn from Poison My Blood, Jana Prague, Vendel from Vostok Room, Boco & Ideal Bar, Mia Zlatarog, Ingo from I corrupt shows, Arthur & Under the pledge of secressy. This “thank you very much” is very deep rooted in our hearts!

We received some crazy mails on thursday. Asking us if we could play Saterday 8/11 in Koege, Denmark and 9/11 in Merksplas, Belgium. We hoped to play both shows, unfortunately we received the vital information for Koege too late, sorry guys!! Hopefully next time! But, more luck for Merksplas as we will play there tonight at JH Zigzag.

Oh, 21st of November our friends in SENSUAL NOISE release their demo, check out our myspace and look them up in our topfriends to find a solution on the what-when-where questions.

The next MAUDLIN tour will take place in July-August 2009, so organisers from all over Europe, we would love to hear from you as MAUDLIN still is 100% DIY.

Rock and keep checking us!
MAUDLIN

As we’re getting pumped up for our upcoming European tour, we bring you more news. Next to the amazing response from fans & labels (lp version, usa version, mexican version,…) we also got a lot of press attention, so did we receive a 81% from the famous Dutch zine Aardschok, but next to that we got more a-m-a-z-i-n-g reviews!! Here are some short contents & links:

**…MAUDLIN does not only remind me of the dirt-squirting sound of pioneers like EARTHRIDE or DOWN, they mix it with the confused emotionality of MUSE, with the unpredictable outbreaks of the PIXIES and the cold darkness of CULT OF LUNA and NEUROSIS. This album is a topper, a difficult definable gallopp ride between different styles and feelings like depression, hope, pain and emptiness…

by Christian @ www.metal.de

**…there is no other option then to remain fascinated from the very first note untill the last note & even longer this album brings…

by Giusseppe Guilane @ www.babylonmagazine.net 

**…MAUDLIN is more experimental and psychedelic orientated than DOWN, CROWBAR, MELVINS and without that much Southern influences, they are heavier than early NEUROSIS and harder than late ISIS. CULT OF LUNA might be the most meaningful guideline assistance…

by Dirk Bengt @ www.burnyourears.de

**…and so Maudlin succeeds with their concept. Once again Belgium proves to raise the bar a little higher and I can’t wait to see how these guys will develop in the future…

by Maurice @ www.asice.net

**…Another list this album is on, is that “Best Albums Of 2008″-list of mine…not because I feel this is indeed one of the best offerings within the genre, but because these guys are darn good at what they do, away from musical genre! That, and the fact that even after having listened to the album for a certain amount of times, and me needing to get along towards reviewing other band’s stuff, I’m still reluctant about closing this one off…

by Tony @ www.concreteweb.be

**…NEUROSIS and CULT OF LUNA are the comparisons which can be expected, the ones which MAUDLIN must live by - a comparison, which they can easy fullfil, because this album convinces over the whole line, each musician will understands…

by Lars Heitman @ www.metal-inside.de

**…Ionesco is dark like only their friends of CULT OF LUNA and MOUTH OF THE ARCHITECT can bring. You should risk to give this a try, because this album is without reinvention of the wheel nevertheless somehow refreshing. Or simply outstanding…

by omerta @ www.partyausfall.de

Next to those reviews we’d also would like to let you know that we’re in the middle of a creative period again. New songs are written at the moment of speaking, I guess we have the foundations for 4 songs, but as usual those songs still have to grow. We’re not planning studio-time immediately, but we’re not sitting on our asses also, you’ll notice if you check our myspace and see our upcoming showlist… but need we to say that we still want more shows?!!

Rock. 

Last weekend we played the releaseshow of our labelbuddies CARNEIA. What a hell of a show it was… the place was sold out & CARNEIA proved to be an amazing band! Really, check out their album “white coma light” you will love it… at least we do.

Next month we start our 3th European tour, and we’re filling in the last gaps, so if you think you can help us out, get in touch here! Anyway, the booked & confirmed shows you can find on our myspace. And we’ll be playing with bands as THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES, THE BLACK HEART REBELLION, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, HKY,…

Also recently confirmed, a show with Boston heroes GRIEF from the respected SOUTHERN LORD label,  worth to check that show, November 16th that is… yep a Sunday in the lovely Ghent!