For Booking a wyld Incredible Staggers show write to:
Austria: schurli@easylistening.at
Germany: walter@pingpop.de
Switzerland: info@crazyeventik.ch
Spain: elbeasto@elbeasto.com
Italy: booking@blitzstudio.it
Netherlands: jaap@rocknrollhighschool.nl
Norway/ Sweden: borterik@besbooking.com
Rest of the world: matzecane@gmx.at
Line Up 2002-2005:
Current Line Up:
Wild Evel (voc)Lightning Iris (farfisa compact)Shakin Matthews (guitar)
Los Fixos (guitar)
The Earl of Krigor (Bass)Candee Beat (Drums)
Influences
Screaming Lord Sutch, Back from the Grave comps, The Novas, The Wailers, Casey Jones and the Governors, Ronnie Cook, The Snobs, Gerry Lewis and the Playboys, The Trashmen, Dick Dale, Link Wray, Las Vegas Grind comps, Teenage Shutdown comps, The Animals....... Lot..s of 5ts & 6ts garage, frat rock..n..roll, surf, r..n..b bands!!
newer bands: The Kaisers, The Chesterfield Kings, The Neanderthals, The Gruesomes, The Mummies, The Gravedigger V....................................
The Staggers Live 7" out on Bachelor Records Ltd. edition 500 black- 300 red vinyl(2007/A)
Get our Album "Teenage Trash Insanity":
Vinyl out on Soundflat-Records(2006/Ger) & CD on Wohnzimmer-Records (2006/A)
Be My Queen 7" on Copasetic Records Ltd.edition(2005/ Ger)
Spilt LP with Skeptic Eleptic on Brocken Heart Records Ltd.edition 500(2005/A)
The Strandet 7" released by G.R.A.M. Ltd.edition 500(2005/A)
Wild Teens 7" Released by us Ltd. edition 500 (2004/A)
Multo beno!! Los Incredibilosos STAGGERS!! Jesus!! This little monster took ages to come out!!!! But of course it was worth all the wait!! Released on the tiny little Hey Girl! Records label from spain this 2-tracker is fueled with so much fuzz, your ears will explode!! Pressed on black shiny wax this 45 includes on Cara A the spanish sung bandoriginal "no como tu" and on the flip a superb version of THE SOUND BARRIERS' 6ts punk classic "hey hey"!!! Grab a copy before they're gone, only 600 pressed!!
Order at:
Germany: www.soundflat.de
Spain: www.myspace.com/heygirlrecords
or grab it at our creepy live shows!!
The Staggers - Teenage Trash Insanity (Wohnzimmer/Sound Flat Recordings) by Robert Rotifer:
You won‘t find Farfisa organs, amps or fuzz pedals in the tidy garages of respectable Viennese mansion blocks (that‘s where the keep their Mercs), and there‘s definitely no surfing in Graz. The spiritual home of garage punk this clearly isn‘t, and yet there is a band that has set out to turn their Austrian hometowns into unlikely breeding grounds for undomesticated, irrepressible teenage noise. And we‘re not talking about ringtones.
In case anyone should doubt the sincerity of six young Austrians choosing to look like American teen delinquents from the mid-sixties, let it be said that, far from being some sort of post-modern practical joke, Teenage Trash Insanity is a highly charged, primitive yet effective counter-reaction to the 21st century‘s disappearance up its own bland backside. As anyone who has been to one of their shows will attest, The Staggers don‘t do polite retro-by-numbers. Their raucous gigs usually culminate in frontman Wild Evel (in varying states of undress) drinking beer from his winklepicker boot, and by the end of the night nobody gives a toss if they‘ve just seen the future, the past or indeed the undead face of rock‘n‘roll. Zombies don‘t care about revivals.
“We‘re doing a style of music that has been going for a long time!“, Wild Evel freely admits, “I‘ve got nothing to say against that! But for a lot of the young kids who don‘t know about this music we might be their introduction to the world of garage punk! We don‘t want the wildest, most primitive, most creative and most partying of all musical genres to be forgotten!“ As you can tell, Wild Evel is the sort of in-your-face character who ends each sentence with at least one exclamation mark. He writes unashamedly stupid lyrics about Black Hearse Cadillacs, mental breakdown, Wild Teens, silly dances and characters like The Jaguar, The Ripper and The Wolfman, he looks and behaves just like the mop-topped monsters in his cartoons, but only wears his black-rimmed glasses if he can still find them the day after the gig, and his seam-splittlingly tight made-to-measure suits regularly fall prey to his onstage antics.
All band members have played in various garage punk, surf and psychobilly outfits. At one point Evel was asked to join the surf beat combo The Pat S. Syndicate as a singer, and The Staggers evolved from there, with Evel and guitarist Los Fixos as the only remaining Syndicate members in the current line-up. Between them, Los Fixos and fellow guitarist Shakin‘ Matthews exchange some pretty nifty surf and rock‘n‘roll licks, but rest assured they‘re still primitive at heart, which just so happens to go very well with the primeval rumble supplied by Earl Kri on bass and drummer Candee Beat, altogether adding up to just about enough masculine energy to balance out the overwhelming presence and piercing shrieks of Lightnin‘ Iris on her nasty Farfisa organ.
Over the last couple of years of tireless gigging all over Europe, The Staggers have accumulated a fan base going far beyond the limited, if growing, numbers of the international garage punk community. They have supported legendary acts such as The Sonics, The Monks, The Music Machine, The Monsters, psychobilly heroes Demented Are Go! and pioneers of neopsych The Fuzztones...................
“We‘ve played three times with the Fuzztones already!“, says Evel, „And we recorded ‚Cellar Dwellar‘ for a tribute album which came out on Rudi Protrudi‘s label Sin Records (‘Illegitimate Spawn‘). Obviously they‘ve been influential, but like The Fuzztones we prefer to stick to original sixties garage no-hit-wonders.“
There‘s a charmingly purist streak about The Staggers which sets them apart from all those H&M-clad opportunists who have come out of the woodwork in the slipstream of bands like White Stripes, The Hives or Mando Diao: „To me those are just normal rock bands who are more related to seventies rock acts than sixties garage!“, observes Evel, „They‘ve got more in common with AC/DC (who I like, incidentally) than The Wailers, Trashmen, The Sonics or ? & The Mysterians... By the way, Mando Diao were in the crowd when we played in Hamburg!! Hehe...“
As far as Evel‘s concerned, his home country Austria is „completely infested with indie, emo, guitar pop, hardcore and ska. Everything is wishy-washy nowadays, anyone is anything! Sometimes I almost wish there were clear lines again and people would declare their colours instead of being a mod, a rocker and some electro-techno-type all at once...“
Too true. And Teenage Trash Insanity by The Staggers is just they kind of record that should help the kids make up their minds.
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Infected - Denim Fever!!! By Shot Shot Shot!! Cinema Comercial 2009!!
The Staggers - Little Sister, Directed by Hannes Rossacher (DoRo), 2007
The Staggers - Wild Teens / Video Directed by Lightnin Iris 2005
.... The Staggers - Black Hearse Cadillac / Video Directed by Greame Pearce 2005
.... The Jaguar!!! / cut by lightnin iris, 8mm camera by OchoResotto
The Staggers - Little Latin Lupe Lu live @ Primitive Festival (Rotterdam 2007)
The Staggers - Wild Teens live @ Primitive Festival (Rotterdam 2007)
"DJ Monkey …soul-stirring, excitingly edgy music…just disturbing (read ‘mind-f**king’) enough to demand attention. There is a whole spice rack of auditory flavors here, served up like fractured poetry on a collection of intensely listenable Hallmark cards from Hell." Bill Margold, Cinema Seen, L.A. X..Press
J'sais pas si t’es au courant mais en 2010 c’est la fin du monde !!! Alors profites en vite, sors toi les miches de ton canapé et viens assister à nos messes d’enfer. Une chance ultime de sauver ton âme d’un paradis chiantissime
>>> FREITAG: 13.11.2009: LOMBEGO SURFERS (CH) live im Balthes, Marktstr.31, D-88212 Ravensburg - 21 Uhr
LOMBEGO SURFERS - eine der bekanntesten und geilsten GARAGEN-SURF-BANDS der Welt. "Gimme, Gimme the Shakes", schreit Sänger Anthony Thomas kraftvoll ins Mikro. Der gebürtige Amerikaner weiß, wovon er singt: Vor bald schon 20 Jahren er sich mit dem in seiner Schweizer Wahlheimat gegründeten Trio auf den Weg gemacht hat, um den Rock 'n Roll zu retten. Und seitdem werden die LOMBEGO SURFERS immer wieder als die bekannteste und erfolgreichste eidgenössische Garage-Surf-Punk-Band bezeichnet, doch bekannt sind sie weit über die Grenzen des Alpenlandes hinaus. "Wir lieben das Rohe und Gewalttätige aus den Pioniertagen des Underground-Rock'n'Roll, wir verehren THE STOOGES, DEAD MOON, LINK WRAY, MC5 und die RAMONES", hat Tony einmal erklärt. Und das hört man ihrer Mischung aus Surf, 60's-Garage-Rock und Punk auch an. Bei den LOMBEGO SURFERS gilt die Devise "weniger ist mehr" und ihre Musik strotzt vor dreckigen Garage-Rock-Riffs, angelt teilweise in surfigen Gefilden, lässt es aber in der nächsten Sekunde krachen, dass der Putz von der Decke bröckelt. ALSO KOMMEN IST HIER EINFACH PFLICHT! See you in Rock 'n Roll hell...yeah!
Es lohnt sich ins TRICKSTER zu kommen :) (Oberbaumstr. 11, Berlin-Kreuzberg, U1-Schlesisches Tor)
KOMMT ALLE!!!
TRICKSTER:
06.11.2009 RONNY MONO (Rock..n..Roll, Braunschweig), SHIRLEY BEANS (Punk Rock, Berlin)
Hut Ab geht in die 3. Runde
Lieber Freund und Besucher unseres Kleinkunstwohnzimmers,
das war nun auch die 2. Runde der Veranstaltung “Hut Ab“. Das gemütliche Ambiente lud ein weiteres mal zum verweilen, zuhören und genießen ein. Annika Hein und Band überraschte das Publikum mit einer vielseitigen multiinstrumentalen Performance. Mit leisen Tönen verzückte uns Dana Shanti und ließ uns den lauten Alltag vergessen. Last but not least, Sid der Liedermacher zauberte mit gesungem Wort und Witz allen ein Lächeln ins Gesicht. Nicht zu vergessen die Leckerein von unserem buchhaltenden Chefkoch Rudi. Es war wieder ein schöner runder Abend. Wie immer gilt ein ganz besonderer Dank an die Künstler und die vielen fleißigen Helfer.
Hoffentlich bis zum 06.11.09, wenn es wieder heißt „Hut Ab“ im ORWOhaus.
The new True Margrit CD - The Juggler's Progress - is now available for pre-order, along with t-shirts and artwork, photo and drumheads, check it out here: http://bit.ly/7Cu8J
Next shows: October 30, Mississippi Pizza in Portland, OR October 31, Nana's Irish Grill and Pub in Newport, OR November 1, Muddy's Hot Cup in Arcata, CA November 5, Molly Malone's in West Hollywood, CA November 12, Fox and Goose in Sacramento, CA
Our tour wraps up with the big show at San Francisco's best rock club, Bottom of the Hill! For the complete show schedule, check here: http://bit.ly/1UgGqQ
