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Politics

Hands Off My Riot

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2007.09.24
Our song " Single Thing " tops the independent chart at Free 40, and is highest new entry in their overall chart !
B e l i e v e t h e h y p e !
Politics reviews
July/August 2007 Politics top the Ondertopper hitparade at OOR !! "Weird monologues like in Import Kiwi Monologue, or hilarious love songs like Racevardriver, Politics can do anything. They manage to sound like themselves, are of a high quality, and are able to songsmith very catchy tunes. A dream debut!"
"Since approximately 5 years I’ve been actively searching the internet for small and unknown bands, and I’ve managed to find a couple that match the musical abilities of top bands like R.E.M., U2 and Oasis. I’ve been wondering for quite a while however, why there are almost no Dutch bands with these qualities. {...} Now Hands Off My Riot by the Rotterdam band Politics lies in front of me and I know that there is at least one." File:under (in Dutch)
"The performance in Zaal De Unie is very convincing and the numbers from the debut album "Hands Off My Riot" make a lasting impression. Nothing stands in the way then for the revelation of "Rotterdam’s Best-Kept Secret": Politics can make it big." 3voor12 May 2007 (in Dutch)
Get this month’s LiveXS for another rave review
"Unconventional, but in the end always accessible. Excelsior has been warned." - LiveXS June 2007 (in Dutch)

Read on: Politics from Rotterdam were a long time coming. But the men spent this time in the practice space: a few years have passed between when we first heard from them and their first album. "Hands Off My Riot" is the name and plenty of work has gone into it. All the boxes have been ticked: the Amsterdam studio, the guestrole for Caesar’s Roald van Oosten, and the production of jack-of-all-trades Remko Schouten (Coparck, Voicst and Bettie Serveert, a.o.). Politics balance on the edge between pop and indie. Their guitar pop is definitely unconventional, but in the end always accessible. Sometimes they sound a bit nonchalant (Railroad Song), sometimes quite intimate (Racecardriver). The musical comparisons? Like The Shins with a shot of Pavement, a dash of Kamino plus Alamo Race Track, and a sprinkle of Coparck without electronics. Always, however, themselves. Excelsior has been warned. Anton Slotboom.
Like all good boys, Politics have played in several bands before. The effort with DL Bucket and Stuttgart resulted in an EP and a split EP respectively.
Summer 2006 saw Politics record their debut CD, working with producer and engineer Remko Schouten (Coparck, Voicst, Caesar, Taxi to the Ocean, Devandra Banhart, Bettie Serveert, Mono, Pavement). This CD will be released May 19 2007 on the Laterax label.
Politics play songs. Songs that may go any which way, mind you. "Ranging from serious to silly back to ’deep shit’ this band plays to impossible combination of ’broken rock’ like Pavement and ’stadium rock’ like U2, but still manage to sound like Politics." (note from the editor: i forgot who said that, but somebody did anyway.)
Politics have played Local Heroes on Rotterdam TV, two Live in your Livingroom’s, de Melkweg, and together with other up and coming bands like Moss and Alamo Race Track.Their first single, "Borders (Even if it Takes All Night)" was chosen Rotterdam’ single of the week on Megastad FM.
Here’s a video of us playing a new song called "Always Something"
at Paradiso, Amsterdam:
Here’s our video for "Waiting for the Summer":
and some photos:


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Member Since: 1/20/2006
Band Website: politicstheband.com
Band Members: Griffin Stuip, Dries van Oosterhout, Sjoerd van Assendelft, Jorg Schiffers
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Record Label: Laterax
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

"Single Thing" tops Free40.nl indie chart!

Dude.2007.09.24Our song "Single Thing" tops the independent chart at Free 40, and is highest new entry in their overall chart!B e l i e v e t h e h y p e !what?...
Posted by Politics on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:54:00 PST

Review on File:Under

"Since approximately 5 years I've been actively searching the internet for small and unknown bands, and I've managed to find a couple that match the musical abilities of top bands like R.E.M., U2 and ...
Posted by Politics on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:21:00 PST

Releaseparty "Hands Off My Riot" 19 May 2007, friend 666

Hello,I'm gonna take our 666th friend as an opportunity to spam our own blog. We invite you to attend the releaseparty of our album, called "Hands Off My Riot", this Saturday, May 19, 9pm, a...
Posted by Politics on Tue, 15 May 2007 03:23:00 PST

"Hands Off My Riot" releaseparty

Hello, The releaseparty for Hands Off My Riot is finally planned. It will take place May 19th in De Unie in Rotterdam. Stringjazzband Crooks will re-uinite especially for this night, marking their fi...
Posted by Politics on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:07:00 PST

Actionpacked blogpost!

Hi. First of all, never listen to Dries when he tells you a blogpost is about nothing specific really. It's about something very specific all the time. Take this one for instance. We've just signed a...
Posted by Politics on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 05:53:00 PST

Nothing specific really

So, a blog then, on myspace because, as Jorg says, we don't much use the blogging space on own site anymore.What's up?It's tropical outside and so it was last saturday when we played Oldtimer in Rotte...
Posted by Politics on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 06:46:00 PST

Blog.

Blog.We have a blog. I suppose we maybe should put it to use and start blogging? Maybe we could use this blog instead of the one on our site? Because we don't really blog there anymore.Mmmmmmmwwwwwwee...
Posted by Politics on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:30:00 PST