It has come to our attention that our soundmen went above and beyond the call of duty on our CD release, and recorded the whole thing! A surprise, even for us, and we thought we'd let you in on the goods. They've cut, copied, edited and whatnot, but the result is an impressive live album, which is downloadable for free! Now you can prove to all your friends that we really are that good live, or use as a mnemonic aid to remember the good times. The live set sounds awesome, so go HERE and download it for your iPod, or go old-school and burn it for in your car. Check out the music-page to listen the live CD, or Assiduity: the full length.
Don't be a Bogard, let all your freeloading friends know!
2010-01-21 - SHSH Video
All fans born in the 80s know that once upon a time MTV broadcasted music video clips instead of reality shows with sons and daughters of once famous people. Those days long gone, it was up to us to revive the days of music related video. We rose to the occasion and proudly present: our bunch of live hits on YouTube! They're instant classics, and you know you're curious, so check 'em out now, and leave a comment. Tell your friends that the days of music videos are upon us again! And that they look slightly fat from certain angles...
2010-01-03 - Photos of the Release Party & Speakers show
Yes.... we know, it took long, way too long. For your viewing pleasure: the photos of the CD Release Party & Andere Koek's Birthday party are online! Check them on the Photos page!
2009-12-16 - Happy birthday Andere Koek!
Andere Koek!'s 2nd birthday party, celebrated in the Speakers, was all christmassy and sparkly. We were the first band to play after the acoustic opening of the night and boy did we rock! For 30 incendiary minutes we rocked the pants of the audience, played some severely warped versions of our songs, handed Andere Koek! their birthday present (we gave 'em a website. Or a domain, which has the potential to store a website. We're nerds) and we have never talked less on stage. It was a fulltime rocking event. Frans Huxie gave a explosive performance and Andere Koek! themselves played a kick-ass finisher. All in all an awesome party!
2009-12-13 - Assiduity !
After our short media hiatus following our CD release (okay, we were slacking
a bit in the internet department), we do want to remind everyone of the
following facts:
- Yes, our cd is for sale.
- Uhuh, it's pretty great.
- Where? At our shows and by mailorder.
- Glad you asked, it's €7,- or € 10,- via mail.
- Alright, we do like people who buy our stuff better than the ones that don't.
- Check the merch page of the site for further details.
2009-12-04 - Supermarket
Den Haag. Not the capital per se, but Thursday it kind of was. At least it was
the place to be. We opened for the Defenders and played a heck of a show, while
outside de Supermarkt it rained cats and dogs (even small ponies here and
there). There were beers, rain, bowel movements, terrace heaters you could heat
a pizza with, bad jokes, relatives (with their own bad jokes) and lots and
lots of songs. Told you it was the place to be...
2009-11-30 - Kleine Geer: Mission Accomplished
Houten is insane! In a good way, but they're mental. Andere Koek opened
a night with all the potential for disaster (they were great, even their
soundguy was, the equipment in de Kleine Geer just couldn't keep up),
but knocked it out of the park, so there was little left for us to do
but continue the party with one of our longer sets, as in: we played almost
all of the stuff we know. We had a blast, Houten had a blast:
mission accomplished.
2009-10-18 - CD-Release Party!
Headaches galore within the ranks of the SecondHand SuperHeroes, so a more appropriate text will follow some time the following week, but until then we just wanted to say:
We had a ridiculous amount of fun yesterday at our CD release, so THANK YOU to all people who attended, and an EXTRA BIG THANK YOU to Andere Koek! for covering our song and making us look like rockstars!
Did you have your picture taken on our couch ? Download it here. Other pictures and movies will be online somewhere this week!
2009-10-10 - It's been a good week
Harro and yours truly (Frank) have been on a little roadtrip! We have ventured into the heartland of Brabant with a crazy band of comical misfits to make sure an accidentally mailed sex video will not reach...Eh, actually, it was just us and we went to pick up the CDs! But we went through the McDrive, which was pretty adventurous. Plus the Brabant bit was just as scary as it sounds.
The CDs look, feel and sound great, so everyone attending our release party is in for a treat. It should probably have been sort of sobering to see months and months of hard work reduced to 4 cardboard boxes filles with plastic, but still we felt like kids on Christmas morning (accept that instead of a from underneath a pine tree, we got our presents from a concrete warehouse in Breda)!
On a slightly unrelated note, I've just made my solo radio debut (internet radio). It was a short and sweet telephone interview in which I still managed to call the bassist fat, so everyone who wants to hear (totally worth it), go to HERE and listen to their archived shows(9th of October).
Stork On Air will probably kill me for saying this, but if like us, you just want to hear the interview, you can freely skip the first hour or so.(1:32)
2009-10-07 - Squatting in Den Bosch
We played in Den Bosch ('s Hertogenbosch for friends) last weekend, and it was a riot. Squatters don't pay rent = sweet deal. People had to ring the doorbell to get in, Too Loud for Granny pretended to be us and played the longest set since Pete Sampras quit tennis, Andere Koek! invented the Den Box and had a drunk guitar player. we all drank cheap, cheap beers straight from the crate and had an over-all good time.
2009-09-12 - CD Release party!
It's done! After months of hard work, hard rock and hard drinking, our very first CD is being printed! It's called Assiduity, and don't bother to look it up; we did that for you and put it on our album cover.
It's mixed by Mathijs, and Tammo did a cracking job mastering the whole thing, working at ungodly hours to insure we'd meet our deadline. For those of you who don't know Tammo: the only thing weirder than watching him work his magic on our songs is watching his paperwork system.
Our big unveiling/album premiere/release party is going to take place the 17th of October, and reliable sources told us that Andere Koek! will also be there. It's promising to become an awesome party at the Flora Theater Delft!
Be on the lookout for posters of this auspicious event in your favorite bars and college buildings.
2009-09-01 - Newsletter
Some questions have been asked on how to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to our newsletter! It's as easy as a 2-tone song, or a 5-step rehab-program: Subscribe by adding your e-mail to the box on the right. Unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the newsletter e-mail! We had some technical issues surrounding the unsubscribing the past days, but it's been fixed now !
2009-08-29 - Rocking Amsterdam
This tuesday we got our ass kicked by a tagteam of Jan Smit, the Venga Boys and Nick and Simon, which resulted in our shortest set to date. But it was sweet, because our bassist is funnier when he's sober than anyone of us could have imagined. He was a regular Don Ho, and we played the Specials' "Nite Klub" on stage for the first time, all in the same key and all. We liked us, MP3 liked us, sound guy liked us, NoNoMes likes "Going to Ibiza". Go figure.
2009-07-18 - Good evening The Hague!
Musicon has a large stage that makes people feel like a real rockstar, and even though there weren't that many people in the audience, we got our rock 'n roll on and played an incindiary show with (and in all honesty mainly for) Jaggery. Folks were dancing (Flip), jumping (Other Flip), shouting (Flip) and even stagediving/crowd-surfing (Other Flip again). And hell, we were there anyway, so we did an encore, because encores are what rockstars do. You may quote us on that. Thanks to the diligent bartenders, ancient Ado-affectionado's and Jaggery of course.
(PS: "Other Flip" also goes by the name of Robin. We prefer Other Flip.)
2009-07-05 - New Official Bandphoto
Now, it is known to many that the SecondHand SuperHeroes are a rowdy bunch indeed, but what makes them tick, individually? What is that great big drive behind each and everyone of them? To put it in reel big fishy terms: why do they rock so hard? Read our personal stories at the bio section!
And... how do you like our new official bandphoto ? It's us, a beach, and a couch.... what more can you wish for ?
2009-07-01 - Rocking Boskoop!
Saturday we played in café de Rooie Hoek in Boskoop. Don't worry, we initially didn't know where that was either... we had SlickSlack open for us with a smooth amalgamy of pop, jazz, funk and rock, and although their singer was a percussion adept and had a bag of rattling, clanking and maracca-ing tricks, we denied Rico the right to a woodblock. Thanks Fred for the beers during the show and thank you elderly couple for dancing like they did in 1950.
2009-06-25 - Photoshoot!
We are the SecondHand SuperHeroes, which implicitly means there's something wrong with us. So when we rented a van, hauled Harro and Rax's old couch in it and took it with us on a roadtrip, no one was really surprised, but our significant others instinctively knew we had to bring a fotographer! It was a hot day with many a revelation: Mike is actually a goat whisperer in his spare time, and Rico and Frank proved even fat white men can jump (take that, Woody Harrelson!). Oh, and Jo-Ska's flipflops made his feet all blue, but we tried to avoid taking pictures of that. Thanks to Brigitte for being so patient and for putting up with a lot of silliness.
2009-06-23 - Ska-Nite on Tour hits Pijnacker
Boy oh boy, did those young bucks from Andere Koek! outrun us all, running man style! We know for a fact that we are responsible for the severe loss of weight plaguing several members of Jaggery, just by playing our disco hit. As you might have guessed, the gang was back together for another Ska Night On Tour, in Pijnacker this time. We got to use the white backup guitar, and we were considerably less sweaty than we were yesterday. I'd say that's a win-win scenario right there.
2009-06-22 - Speakers and Wijnhaven foto's
Hey folks, SecondHand SuperHeroes checking in to tell you all that the foto's from our gigs at Speakers and the Wijnhaven are now online! So check 'em out and while you are at it, why not leave us a message on our guestbook page; we are SuperHeroes after all, so we take both compliments and criticism with the same lack-luster attitude...
2009-06-19 - Live @ Ciccionina: we are Pornstars!
Hot damn, it was damn hot. Ciccionina is a smallish venue named after a pornstar, so you know we just had to play there. The place was packed, the crowd was wild, but unfortunately, clothes stayed on. No nakedness in the porn venue. Speaking of porn, we might just launch our upcoming album in an old nudie flic theater, and speaking of might, we might just bring the couch! But anyway, playing in Ciccionina was like being fried in the best sense of the word. Props to Andere Koek, because staying true to the theme, those silly kids actually had hot and steamy sax on stage.
2009-06-06 - Rocking the Wijnhaven
Our Pentecost performance was something to behold; we opened for Jaggery (because at some point we had to return the favor) outside for the terrace of the Wijnhaven and blew the heavy drinkers, weather enjoyers and innocent bystanders away with one of our sing along shows. We could most likely be heard from about a mile off. Free beer, great weather loud music and people shouting "it's a pirate's life for me". Did they not want us inside you ask? Answer: probably not.
2009-05-30 - Amster-damn, what a night!
Lots of bands, lots of booze, lots of under-aged groupies (okay, in all honesty they were there for Andere Koek, but still...) If we keep this up, the Ska Night on tour could become one of the big successes named alongside greats as sliced bread, lunar landings and the little plastic thing at the end of shoe laces. We even saw the chance to play the medley again! Of course, much thanks go out to our tour-homies Jaggery and Andere Koek (who, as we found out, do have a Peter, but no Joey, at least not intentionally) for giving such kick-ass performances and keeping the Delft pride real, yo. 'Aight? Gone.
2009-05-15 - Feed Band, Receive Show!
JJ Music House has got it all figured out. A band is like the infamous "press button, receive bacon" machine; Feed Band, Receive Show. We had a groovy time playing with SideKickBob and I Wanna Be And The Wannabees, we shared our feelings, the stage and a vanilla smoke machine, hell, there even was a campfire. Needless to say it was hip and far out.
We'll be checking in with Aad's cooking around December for a Ska Night, so be sure to check our tour dates.
2009-04-25 - Rico in the Stadskrant Delft!!
We wanted to write something really witty and fun to let you know that Rico, our esteemed drummer had made it to page something of the local newspaper, but we decided to let the facts speak for themselves: Check page two! His glorious mug represented the SuperHeroes for the Ska-Nite on Tour, which is a D11lftmusiq project. Aren't they the cool cats? Rico is availbable for autographs after our shows, so come see us on the Ska-Nite and see "the Red Thunder" in action. That new nickname is so going to stick...
2009-04-15 - Live footage
The Heroes' super advanced software programming skills finally pay off. Check out the video section for a long due update: SHSH live in Speakers Delft, bitches!
2009-04-05 - Pimp my ride!
We did it! We finally made it big by selling out completely! Who needs billboards or TV commercials when you can have a slightly dented Toyota advertising our band? So we would like to take this opportunity to notify the proud owner of our very own moving advertisement of the fact that U2 called to say they're jealous. From what we've heard, Bono has only ever had a Panda with his band logo on the hood...
2009-03-18 - Launch of the NEW WEBSITE!
Welcome to our new and improved website! In 2009 you will see more of the SecondHand SuperHeroes than you would ever expect: when everything is up and running, we'll be looking into Hiltonesque video features, but until then you'll just have to make do with our New and Official monkey logo, as a token of our brand new awesomeness.
It has been said before, but this time we really, really mean it, like, really: our album is due mid 2009. Our very first full-length will feature all of the following songs, in no particular order:
- The Flawed Introduction to the Bay City Rollers
- I Snitch
- Bob
- Office Space
- Peter, Meet the Captain
- Indigo
- Have You Scene the Kids?
- Blues with a Minor
- And in Other News...
- Just because it rhymes(doesn't make it a good idea)
- Frankly, My Dear
- Understand
So stay tuned, in touch, digital and check back here for more updates!
2009-02-27 - Live @ Wolpop
Wolpop at Wolbodo is an auspicious event. Question: what can possibly be more rock 'n roll than being kicked off the stage? Answer: a full house of drunk and happily dancing people, a slightly inebriated band and a troublesome bass amp. All the ingredients for a rocking show. Some of our best jokes were made that night. Some of them even made it to the punchline. We're a funny band. Sometimes.
2009-01-29 - Live @ Speakers
We rocked Speakers again, and this time we did it with Jaggery and Andere Koek! In a kick-ass show, premiering some new songs, we made the scene kids dance. Hell, we even saw some regular people dance, so it must have been awesome! We are really not the kind of people that brag about stuff, but this time I think we really deserve the credit for at least 1/3 of the entertainment that evening. Thanks to our Jaggery friends and Andere Koek (who feature either a Joey or any combination of Peters) it was one of our best shows this year.
