Winter tour - November 30, 2011
We took some time off this autumn, but in the coming months we'll be back on the road! We had a great start of the series of gigs, playing the Club Canapé festival with the fabulous Dazzled Kid. The coming weeks we'll explore the north and the east of The Netherlands. Not too familiar territory for us, but we heard pretty good things about the place we'll play. We're looking forward to the experience and well, norhterners and easterners, it's up to you to prove those good stories are true.
More good news. The Bellevue Theater asked us to play on their Club Calotte evening on February 27th. We'll be there. It simply is one of the best places in Amsterdam for us.
Website makeover - September 5, 2011
If you've been here before you probably noticed. The PQ styling team has been working very hard on a new website layout. Our webmaster wants you to know that your more than welcome to mail him all your comments, complaints and compliments.
Summer note - July 11, 2011
Just a short summer-note... We are happy to announce that in august we'll start rehearsals and recordings for a new album. And...we published a new short video that you can watch here. Most of all we wish you an inspired summer!
June 20, 2010
The good people at VPRO/3voor12 selected Anchors And Birds for their Hollandse Nieuwe compilation this month. We're proud of that!
April 2010
On April 16 we did a live radio session in Stork on Air on Radio West. Our multi instrument wizzard Jan couldn't make it that evening, but we think we managed to do pretty well anyway. So, we want to share the recordings with you. Hats off to Bas Martinius, who did a fabulous job on the live radio sound.
March 2010
Our new album will be released by Continental Records Europe and distributed by V2. We expect to announce a release date very, very soon.
February 2010
White Sands is now Point Quiet. Yes, we changed our band name. For reasons far too complicated to explain to you.
This is our new website, still very much under construction. For now, there's a biography, some pictures and, far more important, the news that's right ahead of you in the middle of this page! If you want to know more about our history, visit our old web site. We'll keep it online for a while.
Feel free to mail us with your questions or remarks. We're nice people. Or at least, we try. Most of the time...
April 7, 2009
Culminating in a 5-part harmony vocal session, we completed the recordings for our new album. The mixing phase will now start and we'll keep you posted about it regularly (we might even put 1 or 2 takes online at some point, but we don't promise anything... keep watching this space though...).
Apart from that, Rotterdammers should write down april 14th in their agendas, since we'll be hitting the town on that day (see gigs section).
We thought you'd like to know that.
January 27, 2009
Want to know a secret? Yes? OK, here it is: we're working on our second album. Even better: we're making good progress. Still better: we really like what's happening in the recording process. We're in the final stages of recording now, aiming for a release this summer.
We can hardly wait to play our new songs on stage. So we started working on that part as well. Keep an eye on our “gigs” page. A date in your local venue may be added shortly.
March 29, 2008
We’ll have the pleasure to play again the Binnenach festival in The Hague on april 29th. We got great reviews for our debut CD Deseronto (apart from a single one actually, so we won’t complain...) which probably helped a lot...
This year, the Binnenach program is particularly attractive with (among others) performances by the Hans’own personal hero Johnny Dowd, The Hague’s brilliant altcountry combo John Dear Mowing Club, and a guy who's probably the best upcoming singer-songwriter of his generation (I know, it sounds overcooked, but trust me, it’s true!) Hayward Williams (I’d put him on a par with Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony Dekker, to give you an idea). In other words, be there. If you please.
December 23, 2007
Our debut album 'Deseronto' is out! 12 tracks of americana noir, we're very proud of the result. In this christmas period, do your CD collection a big peachy favor and order it from Plato (Benelux, Europe in general) or CD Baby (rest of the world!). Oh and more reviews to be read on the press page.