Spain and Portugal was intense!

 

Yes we are back! And we are leaving again xD we loved to be again in Spain and Portugal and to see old and new friends. We played with some amazing bands like Queimada ( PT ) and Trholz ( Toulouse ) and many others. We discovered places we didn't know yet like cosa Esquirla, and Disgraça. 

We have been participating to a benefit for Palestine where we contributed from Lille to Lisboa, we had some days with the almighty Dischavizer from Brazil and it was a pleasure to see them back.

Hope we can have another amazing tour soon, away from anti Deutsch and bad vibes ;) 

Alive and busy, maybe as ever!

Our UK tour was amazing.

Brighton: It was great to see Christine and all the people that work with her and that they support, playing together with us and coming to the gig.

Seems like there's some good in UK social work and therapeutic works, that is not seeing neurodivergent people as problems, but as people. And trying to include everyone when anarchist ethics should be integrated, as in (anarcho) punk shows, is what we are all supposed to do.

Afterwords we played in Trowbridge thanks to Neill we met lovely people of the Pump and Rene and Jay hosted us so warmly! We played with great bands and our drummer Elie got the name he deserves : Otto :)

Bristol Monochrome Festival was amazing. As I'm more and more interested in noise I had the time of my life in the small room. I loved so many acts and it was such a nice festival.

London was great. Amazing bands and friends and we slept in a squatted church!

The 4 days down to Switserland were amazing as well.  Strasbourg has a new awesome collective embracing different anarchist ethics and putting the points on a lot of important but forgotten issues. I loved to be there and seeing old friends 

Freiburg , KTS was fun and messy with the friends of Gummo and so was The Kuzeb! So the Kuzeb is on sale and thanks to many donations, the punks will buy it. What means that it will stay ❤️🖤

It was nice and cosy ilon Sunday in Luxembourg and we saw again many lovely people.

We just played with MDC, Barackcka , Burning Lady, Balm Squad and Bavure in our beloved Au bout de nos rêves in Tournai, Belgium, as in Charleroi they decided to cancel the gig a couple of days before as they trust only or sale. Well, bad for them cause we had a full house and a lot of fun.

Next with Matrak Attakk: 

A tour to Spain and Portugal starting in Lille with the mates of Dischavizer from Brazil 

Never stop roaming! 

New posters of upcoming tours

 Just new posters of new upcoming tours of the first part of the year!

January and February Updates

 Leaving tomorrow for this amazing show in CCL Lille. 

Sorry I've been very busy and forgot to update the few readers of this blog about our gig at Au bout de nos rêves last January!

We made many new songs , going for a full house ;) 

There will be an Indonesian tape for out south east Asia tour.

Here the flyers of the past January gig with our friends of Cheswick , K.D.G., and the new lovely  punk as fuck band Habenmeuf.

Since then Adri joined us at the bass! There will be some shows without him but mostly , he'll be with us!

In march Billy and Roman are touring with Khlore for the first time in France. You better go see them!

Adri will be touring with Utopie and I'll have a couple of shows with Fatal Session.

The calm before the storm of the many tours to celebrate 10 years of Matrak Attakk!

Be prepared for Ttraumatiser, Oust, Short Days and us in Lille soon!!!

🎄UPDATES🎄CELABRATING 10 YEARS OF MxA

 

✨✨ 2025 WILL BE ACE! ✨✨

We keep on been invited and honestly we cannot be more happy to still feel loved after so many years of (hyper)activity.

So here's plenty of updates about the gigs we will do in 2025. 

We decided to take a more positive feminine and feminist image : no more bossy guys are allowed in the band. Nor, guys that don't fit our ethics. That's why we asked the really talented @viande_triste to draw something about , cit. victors not victims feminism. No more boring Charcot's old drawings, no more taking from the web with little modifications.

There will be another friend collaborating with us, I'll publish her drawings as they are ready ♥️ her name on insta is @tenebrarum_art

@Viande_triste design will become shirts, LP Cover and ... Pins! 

We are a trio for the moment, but the bass amp will be on stage and our Roman has a switch pedal. So we will have a bass sound anyway!

Our next gig will be with our mates in Tournai BNR, cause Cristina misses karaoke and some people in Belgium ;) and we are making new songs for a fresh, new set with some musical changes, surely at the drums, but also in the tuning, the guitar riffs, and even the vocals.

The tour in Spain and Portugal is almost fully booked and things are taking form thanks to your lovely invitations! 

We cannot be more happy!

Stay tuned and writes on on matrakattakk @ gmail. com when you want x

Driving to Groningen!

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Coucou

Nous sommes en route pour Groningen, notre dernière tournée de l'année et on voulait clarifier pourquoi Py ne fait plus partie du groupe. Nous avons décidé d'éloigner Py car certains de ses comportements ne représentait plus les éthiques que Matrak Attakk a toujours représenté. C'est une décision collective au sein du groupe.

On ne souhaite pas faire des histoires, on souhaite repondre aux articles, curieux et aux conclusion attive! 

A bientôt a Groningen, Rotterdam,Aachen et Brussel!

Cristina Roman Elie

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Hello! We are leaving on tour and wanted to clarify that we decided to remove Py from Matrak Attakk because his behaviour didn't represent the ethics that Matrak Attakk always represented.

It was a collective decision and with this clarification we don't intend to make stories and we don't want to create false stories. It is just the reason why and we want to answer to friends , bloggers and followers of the band that ask themselves why we collectively decided this.

Cristina Roman Elie

TAKING AWAY WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS A HUMAN RIGHT

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We were so taking for granted to have the right to demonstrate for anything that was unfairly going on in the world.

We may not speak of some factions anymore, and others are already been declared terrorists in some countries. Whatever are your ideologies. It would be so great to keep it rational at least outside our minds, and talk about governments not people. As the little kids that die in every hospital when military forces of the other factions bring them down, are everything but terrorists. Just like your lil white babies you are taking care in the smooth calmness of your middle class house.

There's no life that should be considered less valuable than any other, and theres still need of feminism in a world where rape is STILL a strategy to annihilate people during war! 

Because that we like it or not, we are near a total war. And in countries as Italy, where I live again since 2 years, now the right to demonstrate in favour of the people of Palestine has been revoked!

Protesting for any genocide is not a crime, hating people based on their religion or role in history IS to condemn. 

Hating Jewish people because you hate what their government is doing is a bad thing as much as hating any other group of people just because they are mis-represented from false biases!

Condemning right wing corporational governments, that kill innocent people and expand conflicts in far away countries with the help of a MORE POWERFUL Nation, born from colonialism, that already exterminated natives as they were born, that because they 'liberated' some countries in Europe that were occupied by the Nazis, still keeps them on a leech, and makes them pay their high financial war depth, Should be tolerated. Should be protected.

No life should be sacrificed for any rich person.

This world is turning to a catastrophic mess.

And we are witnessing this all. Mostly with our blank eyes and hearts.

Let's meet soon in Holland and Germany for a nice night, because we should cherish the good moments, and the lil pieces of freedom we got left to enjoy, before conflicts will reach us too.

Just like when you feel like ' it will never happen to me' and when it does, you realise why that person suffered so much.

Unless you are the EXECUTIONER.