Meaning bandname: Maquiladoras are free-trade zones in Mexico. ‘Free’ means free to exploit, the workers in this kind of places don’t have any rights. At the Drive In made a song about the Maquiladoras and especially about the many women that were murdered when they were traveling to their job. Most of us love deathmetal, so we could have chosen a name like Decomposing Carcasses, but this name is a lot scarier when you know what it means.

History: in the spring of 1999 the guitarplayer of the Hoogeveen band Venders of Smut got converted to christianity. His punkrocklive was over, but the rest of the band decided to continue. The line-up was Dennis (drums), Rick (bass), Michel (guitar). At first they wanted to do the singing themselves, but a flexible-walk-by-substitute-worker from Groningen (Eva) is much easier. Dennis left, came back and left again for good in the spring of 2001. In this time we also had a second guitarplayer: Martijn. The gap that Dennis left was filled with Bart in the summer of 2001.  Recorded in 2001 7 songs in the Bunt's Studio in Utrecht and this was released as a 10" in the beginning of 2003 by a cooperation of several labels. New plans are a split 7" with RADIO BIKINI and a thematic LP about gentechnology. In March 2004 they will be the first Dutch diy band to tour Israel!

Lyrics: they are a way to get rid of frustrations.They are about things like social inequality; people that force you to be nice and friendly; work (our national religion); Maxima (our national daughter-in-law) and racism (our new national passtime). Most lyrics are in dutch, the native language of Bart and Eva.

Description: Metalpunk Line-Up: Bart (drums), Eva (vocals), Michel (guitar), Rick (bass) Bart – Nekschot, Lomb Dennis – D.R.A., Venders Of Smut, Absorbed, Born Suspicious Eva – No I.D. Michel – Absorbed, Antibitch, Venders Of Smut, Gabriels Despair, Delta Clone Project Rick – Venders Of Smut, Delta Clone Project Tours: December 2001 - January 2002: Germany, France, Spain (+ PCP) April 2002: Germany, Denmark, Sweden (+ NARCOSIS) September 2002: Denmark, Sweden (+ EXECRADORES) February 2003: Germany, France, Belgium, Luxemburg (+ MIHOEN!) October 2003: Germany, Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic November 2003: Ireland (+ THE DAGDA) February 2004: Belgium (+ SKINT) March 2004: Israel Discography: "Makiladoras"TP (Selfreleased, NL, 2002) 10" (UPS/ DP/ Malinke / Svaveldioxid/ Squawk/Pozoin Banaketak, 2003) V/A -”Maximaal Onthaal”compilation CD (1 song: Royal Blood, NL, 2001) Contact: Postbus 752, 9700 AT Groningen Webpage: http://www.makiladoras.cjb.net Email: cavia [at] bacteria [dot] nl