Backbone of the band, bassplayer Thijs and his girlfriend bought a house… Tim is not longer living in the same city (Knokke-Heist) as Jasper and me. He’s now just as Tim a Mariakerke/Ghent resident.

Also Kris and his girlfriend did the same move, but they’ve chosen to stay at the countryside and bought a house in Moere. Don’t try to look it up in the map… yep it’s that small.

Drummer Munchie also bought a house with his girl, he prefered to stay at the seaside and Oostende is the place you can find him.

Jasper & me are still loyal to the seaside and surfing… and we still live in the town where the magic happens every Sunday night.

It’s no secret that we in MAUDLIN are slow songwriters. Some explenations:

1) we’re perfectionists
2) we use the principe ‘if one bandmember doesn’t like it, it ain’t good enough’
3) we do not make 3 minute songs
4) all the above mentioned houses and amazing kids might have brought a slight delay in the writing process

On the other hand we’d like to state that as far as we are now, we’re fond of the result of the new songs… but we’re not even halfway what we want to achieve. And the recording process still needs to follow after the writing, so be patient.

We still play live every now and then, simply because we love that feeling. Last time we did we played one new song, but that song we played will be used for something else then our new full-length.

We’re still fond of touring and no houses or kids can keep us from this, so if you want us in your country get in touch!! Cause we will be on the road as much as possible with the new album.

Ow, keep checking our friends in amazing bands as CITY OF SHIPS, TEPHRA, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, AMEN RA, BRAVEYOUNG, CONSTANTS, ROSETTA, YOUR HIGHNESS.

sorry, hopefully some serious updates will follow soon.

rock
MAUDLIN

So there is no need to be dramatic or anything alike. It’s nothing more then a slight name change. There were some troubles with a name like ‘band’ and we had 2 options… doing this name change or delay our plans for the North American release until after a trial, which would have cost us money and time and obviously we lack both of them. And since we feel so welcome and home at the FORGOTTEN EMPIRE RECORDS family, we didn’t had the urge to delay our plans.

Speaking about our plans, “Ionesco” comes out for Northern America somewhere in June 2009. It will have some layout changes, so if you’re European and into the “Ionesco” concept you might want to become an owner of one of these. If you’re an American, then this might be your exploration of .maudlin

Other plans… the limited “Ionesco” Mexican tape release is about to see the day of light. It has very cool and fitting artwork especially made for this release. The tape will be available in 4 different colours, 25 items of each colour. I don’t know what you think, but as being a collector myself my mind starts tripping with just the thought of this.

Oh, cultivate yourself and check the bands at FORGOTTEN EMPIRE, you’ll be amazed and also check our OFFERANDUM labelbuddies CARNEIA, who receive amazing reviews all over!

Rock.
.MAUDLIN

Label - links:
www.myspace.com/offerandumrecords
www.offerandumrecords.be
www.myspace.com/forgottenempirerecords
www.forgottenempirerecords.com
www.myspace.com/genetrecords
www.genetrecords.com
www.myspace.com/zomerkamprecords

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

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

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

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. 

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!

Here is the tape cover of the “Ionesco” Zomerkamp Records tape edition:

Ofcourse we still got the limited digipacks on our own label and the double LP’s who come on GENET RECORDS.

Rock!
davy.