1000 Miles Ahead is no more. After almost 4 years of fun, a couple of small tours, 2 demo’s and a bunch of line-up changes, we came to the conclusion that time has come to say goodbye to 1000 Miles Ahead.

We had great times on the road, on stage, in the studio and rehearsal room, but it’s only fair enough to say that the ‘Holy Flame’ was dying on some of us. That left us the choice; avoiding the inevitable (ending up frustrated and quitting sooner or later) or pull out the plug in time, so we can all look back on a hell of a time, without regrets. We opted for the last one…

There will be two farewell shows; one in Arnhem on October 3rd, together with Landmines (USA), our good friends Smash the Statues and some more bands. The second show will be in Leuven (Belgium) on October 24^th and that will be it for 1000 Miles Ahead.....

We sincerely like to thank everybody, who helped us out over the last years with shows, tours en ofcourse everybody who came to check us out… Thanks a million!!

Over and out,

1000 Miles Ahead. 

Day 8:  Montaigu, Ainu Festival

This was the day with the longest drive on paper, 6.5 hours. It turned out to feel not as long as some former drives we had on this tour so that was nice. Somehow the drive didn’t feel that long and we arrived at the venue an hour in advance of schedule.

This show was added to the tour only 2 days before we left and it showed. We were not on the posters or flyers so I guess nobody even knew we were playing this fest. It was a 2 days festival in a nice venue but the crowd wasn’t into our kind of hardcore. Other bands that were on the bill played all kinds of music like stoner rock, heavy stoner jazz core, instrumental groove core whatever…. Not our cup of tea sort to speak.  But at least we got some nice food and some drinks and even a small amount of change.

We had to leave early to get to our sleeping place, this meant that we had to miss This Routine Is Hell which kind of sucked. But we had a nice hangout together and we will play together on 23rd of may.  So we drove off to our stay for the night in Nantes. We slept in the apartment of a friend from the band, Hervé. We got in our sleeping bags early to get some nice rest before our last show tomorrow in Le Havre.

Day 9:  Le Havre

So last day of the tour!  Everyone is getting a little bit tired but we are all siked to play the last show! Our friends of New Pokerface told us that Le Havre was going to be a big party! So it was! The promoter Bertrand told us that after the show we had to come to a birthday party otherwise we would be the only Dutch band that didn't do so!  So after the first two bands played their set which both rocked it was our turn! We probably played better shows during this tour but we had a lot of fun on stage! After loading all our stuff in the van it was time to go to the afterparty! We drove in a small car through the city of Le Havre thinking this is going to be our last car ride ever! Somehow we got to the party in one piece. The party was at the house of Bouboul, a nice veteran punkrocker, and it was also his birthday!  We had a great time and saw some weird shit at the party!  Goodtimes… The car ride back to Bertrand was even more scary then the ride to the party, but again we arrived in one piece!

Day 10: Home

After a really short night and with kind of a hangover we drove back home! This tour has been more than great and beyond our expectations! We would like to thank everyone that came to the shows, checked us out, sang along, piled on and stage dived! Also thanks to all the other bands that played with us this tour! A special thanks to every person that helped us out with promoting the shows, giving us food and drinks and giving us a place to sleep! We love u all!

Thanks a lot and see you all soon!

1000 Miles Ahead

Day 5: Montpellier

We drove for more than 7 hours, off course with the hard needed stops during the route. There’s nothing really exciting to tell, just a long hard drive to the next town that was on our list. The strange thing was that the further we travelled down south the worse the weather got. BUT then we switched to Face to Face on the iPod and the sun came out!! The venue we were going to play was right in the center of town so we had a nice picturesque scenic route through the city. Montpellier turned out to be a real nice city with a lot of nice girls that seemed to live in every street and alley. The Mojomatic bar was a nice diner kinda bar which surprisingly had a fucking awesome rock and roll basement. The first band was a sort of new school noise rock band which sounded cool. After them we were up to rock the roof down.

Before we started we thought this would turn out to be a disappointment. This purely based on the kind of people that showed up, boy we were wrong. I think we played a tight set and although it looked during the day that Maarten would not make it to the end with his voice it only got better during the set, the body works in mysterious ways.  The public seemed to like it quite good because nobody left and they all moved their hip looking bodies to our even hipper tunes ;).

After our show the last band to wreck the stage was Illegal Process. This was the band of the guy who arranged the show, Charlie. They rocked really hard with their Refused kinda noise-core. Got damn they played loud!!!!

Then an in-house after party began while the regular visitors got kicked out by the owner of the place. Roundabout 3 am we walked out of the club and to the place we slept for the night. After arriving there it seemed another after party, a so called after after party, was scheduled. Casper, Maarten and Micha decided they had enough and turned to their sleeping bags. Sander and Jasper went on to party and consumed some more liquids. We don’t know what happened exactly but Jasper is planning to move to Montpellier during this life…….seemed he lived in a lot of other places in the lives before this one……..After sleeping for about 4 hours we put our shit together and started driving again.

Day 6: Nothing because our Barcelona gig got cancelled

Today we have a day off but we decided to at least drive for some hours just to shorten the drive to Portugalete. We stayed at a Formula 1 hotel in a town called Séméac. We discovered it was near Lourdes so guess what we did…..right we drove to Lourdes :D. Tomorrow we drive to Portugalete and we are very siked for that. Stay tuned.

Day 7: Portugalete

Thanks to our nice stay in the whereabouts of Lourdes we arrived quite early in Portugalete, a nice town under the smoke of Bilbao. It was quite busy everywhere and we found out we had to play in the middle of town. Clouds seem to gather over our heads. Weeks before the tour we were looking forward to play and tour in France and Spain longing for that nice weather and ditto sunshine, boy were we wrong again. The one pair of trousers we each brought with us on this tour really need a washing machine while the shorts we packed can be put back in our closets directly when we arrive back home L.

Because we had plenty of time we thought it was wise to check out where to play this night in advance. And our thoughts seemed right, middle of the town, nowhere to park……

At 19:00 we were to meet with Carlos the promoter for this show. The guys from the first band, Tetric Paradise, were there already and helped us out to get our stuff out of the van as fast as possible. After that it took us I think an hour to finally get that parking spot we were so desperately looking for. Everything just got better from that moment on J.

People started coming in and that was a nice thing for us because we didn’t had any guarantee money-wise for this gig. We would get paid depending on the entry fees that got collected. But as I said things got better and better and people kept coming in. Before it was our time to hit the stage Tetric Paradise (a young and enthusiastic band playing punk/hardcore) warmed up the crowd. Then the guys from Aggressive Combat (Street punk) did the same. It was time for us to get the stretching and warming up the voice routine going because our time was almost up.

This was insane. So far from home in a club in Spain and from the first second the crowd went berserk. A lot of 1000 Miles Ahead shirts in front of the stage and all the kids sang our songs front to back. It was madness!! We played our set with full passion sparked by the energy given by the crowd, it felt awesome. If we had more songs under our belt we would probably still have been playing right now. To everyone that was at Club Dink on the 30^th of April 2009: THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Carlos obviously also had a great time. He arranged 3 hotel rooms for us and on top of that he also gave us a nice amount of money for our expenses. Carlos YOU RULE, THANKS MAN!! Completely siked we went over the gig a 1000 times before turning to our rooms. We had to drive for another 7 hours tomorrow to get to Nantes on time so there was no time for a nice after party. Life on the road is no pick-nick!

Day 1: Paderborn

And we’re off! Today we drove to our first show of the European tour! After a long drive, thanks to a lot of “stau”, we arrived at our first show in Paderborn, Germany.  We had to unload our stuff quickly because we were an hour late, the first band had to begin in half an hour and they had to use our backline.  The other bands that played were ok! Especially the second band, we liked because their drummer used a wireless headset microphone and it looked like he could be in a Britney Spears show or some bad karaoke.  Our show went ok, the crowd seemed to like it as they were shouting “zugabe” when we were finished.  Seeing a lot of Nofx shirts in the crowed, it only seemed right to play a Nofx cover. Which went terrible but the crowd loved it! Sold a nice amount of merch and even got to autograph our DIY demo for a fan. During the evening we found out that we weren’t going to sleep at the promoters place but with Holger, the co-promoter. When we saw him we had our doubts because he drank a bottle of whiskey, smoked a lot of pot in the evening  and was pretty  wasted as a result. Also when we heard he had 40 to 50 snakes and other reptiles we were wondering in what kind of zoo we had sleep .  After a lot of waiting we finally went to Holgers place and sure enough there were snakes!  To make it worse, he told us we had to be careful because in the living room where we slept were two deadly black cobra’s!  So after listening Holgers band: “Gods will be done” demo (fast aggressive  trash metal) at 4 o clock in the morning we finally went to sleep, with one eye open checking if the cobra’s stay in their cages.  The next morning we all were still alive and had no bite marks, the guy showed his other snakes, and man, he did have a lot! Of course jokes like the trouser snake and cobra commander were present!  Up to the next show in Ulm Germany!

Day 2: Ulm

No stau this time and we got to the nice city of Ulm nice and early. There we met the promoter for the show, Marion. Marion showed us the river Donau and the difference between new Ulm and old Ulm. New Ulm apparently sucks.  We were kind of worried after Marion told us that the hardcore/punk rock scene is kind of dead in Ulm and that most of the kids listen to emo. After a nice meal, chili in club Schilli ;),  we still had a lot of time so we checked out the city of Ulm, which was awesome! Although it got bombed in the WW2, there were still a lot of old buildings and a huge cathedral. So after a nice big beer at a big square we got back to the club and saw that there were still not a lot of people.  Across the street there were a lot of kids, but they all went some big hip hop show.  When the first bands started (Society off), the crowd got somewhat bigger  and eventually there were 40 to 50 people at the show (including Rudi Fuller), which was ok! Too bad a lot of them left after the second band which was a local band.  Enough people hung around out to check us out, which was pretty nice. There were a lot of drunk people dancing (including some band members) and somehow we ended up with me playing bass and Jasper on the floor of the club playing Bro Hymn. The after party was nice and we had a lot of laughs. We slept at the club which was kind of hot because they could not shut down the heaters … Eventually we all got to sleep and had a nice breakfast! Next stop Messancy in Belgium,  where we meet up with our buddies from Smash the Statues and This Routine is Hell.

First gig with Micha will be March 20^th  with Smash the Statues and Gewapend Beton at Ojc Maddogs in Groesbeek (NL)! So if you like good music and party, you know where you are the 20^th of March!

In the meantime, go check out the new songs and tourdates for our Eurotour in April (for which we are still looking for a show in the Barcelona/Zaragossa area; if you know someone who can hook us up with a show over there, plz contact us!).

Rock on!

1000MA

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1000 Miles.. Ahead, back on track!

New line-up

After a long period of silence around ..1000 Miles.. Ahead, we’refinally back with some news. A lot happened over the last few months. Both oursinger Gijs (aka Gradus d’n Woalvis) as our guitarplayer Tom (aka ome Kor)decided to quit the Miles Ahead. We would like to thank them for the time wespent, in the bus, on stage and in the rehearsal room; Thanks guys, we had ablast!

Meanwhile, we found Maarten (ex Press For Go)to be our new singer, and we’re also working on a new guy on the guitar. Withthese new guys we will be ready to hit the stage soon!

New recordings

As a goodbye to Tom and as a welcome toMaarten, we recorded 2 new song, under the strict regime of “ome” Nico (vanMontfort). These new songs are available on our myspace.

New tour

And still, there’s more news! Since we’re alsoworking on a new tour. This time, Germany, France and Spain.We’re already pretty siked to drive into Europe and spread our music!

Fri       April24th       Paderborn(DE)
Sat       April25th       Ulm(DE)
Sun      April26th       OPEN (DE)
Mon     April27th       Nevers (FR)
Tue      April28th       Montpelliers (FR)
Wed     April29th       Barcelona/Zaragosa area (ESP)
Thurs   April30th       Portugalete(ESP)
Fri       May1st           Nantes(FR)
Sat       May2nd         Le Havre(FR)

Since we didn’t play a lot in Holland. too over the last few months, we’re also looking for shows here! Get in touch!

Grtz

1000MA

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