Driving to Groningen!

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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as Italy, where I live again since 2 years, now the right to demonstrate in favour of the people of Palestine has been revoked!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.

POST TOUR NEWS AND REFLECTIONS, NEW MINI TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT

AFTER TOUR NEWS, UPCOMING NEW MINI TOUR 

' il vero volto del capitalismo ' has finished and we are grateful for all the gigs, the laughs , the talks and the food & drinks we got. 

Py is officially not in the band anymore and it was our choice.


MatraK AttaKK goes on, with people that believe in this project.

MatraK AttaKK is now based in Lille (fr) and Florence (it)

It is now Roman Eli and Cristina.
the 4th member is coming soon. but it will be a friend.

NEXT UP : 

31.10 GRONINGEN
1.11 ROTTERDAM
2.11 ACHEN
3.11 BRUSSEL

Moldova and Eastern Europe Tour

 Finally! In some days I got my flight to Beauvais and my practices with Matrak Attakk in Lille ( oh we never been back so close to Belgium as now!) and we are ready to start on August 19 until September 7!

We will play you again an old cover we did and hopefully someone that was singing that when I was still a minor, and made that song will come sing it with us in one of those dates!🤭🤞🏽

Also we prepared another cover! In polish ahha so sorry I tried to learn it but it ain't a easy language to learn!

Also, we'll make a old song of ours that in Poland people seemed to enjoy from some videos we found on YouTube!

I hope this will be a staying formation, because we really like it how it is right now!  😅 We love how Elie plays and as a person, so we hope he'd be enjoying our long tours as Roman could do!

We have others that would like to try, but I hope his tour and playing crust mania will grow ;) 

Next year we have been invited to a festival in Georgia and, to Indonesia! 

And also to a UK festival in London ! So surely England will be again! 

Will we be able to do go in the other continents? We still don't know! But ofc we will try! 

🥂 Cristina 

 Hello!!! Matrak Attakk is going on tour again in August! In the meantime, Me and Py are going on tour in the basque country and Madrid with the reformed ORTIKA (ortika.bandcamp.com) and our Roman and Ellie are playing a weekend with KHLORE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEew0zw1ARw) and Migou left the band.
About his reasons, he said ' he had no time with other projects', honestly I can say in my own blog, that I am happy that he left. Nothing really bad happened, but I don't think that Matrak Attakk ethics, music and people, really fit him, nor he was really fitting in the band. I say this just because I'd like to normalize stuff like this happening : Sometimes people dont really fight but just, are not friends. And honestly I don't want to play with not friends anymore, and when people make you feel awkard and you just sense bad feelings, is just good that people split in ANY KIND OF RELATIONSHIP.
My, and I must say, our, only problem, is that we are not used to say to people to leave and we mostly leave or stay in those relationship.
So I can just say, thank you Migou for leaving on your own :)
Our extended collective, was already bringing Ellie from Khlore with us in August to Moldova and back!
And who is going to play with us in Aachen, for KRACHFEST in November, is a tba!
For now our Roman has been already promoted to guitar player :)

As you see from the tour poster, we need a place to play or sleep in Cluj or anywhere in between KOSICE and IASI !! Mail us at 
matrakattakk at gmail . com if you think you can help!

THE SOUTHERN AFRICA TOUR IS OVER!!!

we had a lot of fun, touristic moments (for once, many) weird moments and great moments. We discovered scenes and people we wouldnt have meet otherise. We met the local punks and metal heads, we heard different stories. We visited the apartheid museum, we ate in an ethiopian restaurant, we got asked for money really often, we slept in small hotels, big hotels, we climbed and had panic attacks, we saw many, many many animals. We met native people in Namibia, Koi Koi people speaking clock languages, we met local metal cowgirls and boys in Botswana, we slept at SkinFlint mansion in Geborone, we met lovely people and bands, we met bad people too, we spent days in aereoports and we risked a cancelation that we luckily  avoided . We met elephants, rhinos, springboks, squirrels, babboons, sealions (otaris), zebras, and many other animals. Check the pics on FB if you want more national geographic.

No, what we do is not easy, but what else should we do ;)?

thanks to all those that made this tour possible and the lovely people playing with us, organising, cooking and attending.

Always welcome on our side of the world.

 

Damn me and this blog: a bit of updates!!!!

 Well I'm really not so much on this blog but I should for the few of you reading it, still prefer ING a blog to a social media. You are so right.

When I connect to ShitBook I'm like wtf we are only 30plussers here and everyone just want to show up what they are eating what is nice when it's vegan, or showing off political knowledge, or even try to bash others for tiny reasons.

Well , my last post was about Philippines. That tour went ACE. It was just more than awesome. No words to describe those amazing punks and anarchists there. Their food not bombs is huge and they cook and sing greatly♥️

After, Philippines, we went 9 days to south of France and Italy, this was June 2023

Afterwards in July,our split LP with Persona Non Data from Groningen was out, so we went again on tour to catch up with them and make a kind of release party, taking our LPs. And we profited to go back to Sweden and Norway after many years.

This was the last tour of Antoine with us. That said he temporarily left the collective to dedicate to his new house project.

After we had a 3days mini tour to say bye to him, with Ripoll at the bass. As we were invited to a lovely festival.

November 23 was the time to welcome another member of the collective, Roman, ready to catch the bass and come on tour with us and the friends of RAN. This was his first ever tour and gig. But we didn't know. We are so happy to have him now.

In January 2024, we had some more days on tour to end in Grind here right now.

In February 2024 we were invited to frost punx again, so we welcomed ELI in the collective  at the guitar .

🤸🏼‍♀️ What's next🤸🏼‍♀️

March April 2024  : 

' the wrong Amazon is burning ' south America tour, including some Brazil, Argentina, Chile , Paraguay and Uruguay.

May 2024

'African tour' including South Africa and Botswana and maaaybe Namibia 

August 2024

Borderline fest and some tour around. More info tbc

💥 Matrak Attakk is an anarchA punk band and  collective and so it will stay 🫶🏼💥