Die Punk-a-billy / Psychobilly / Ska Night - starring The Peacocks, Paddlecell & Support
THE PEACOCKS
Founded in 1990 in Stammheim, Zurich as a student band, The Peacocks have since toured around the world and released 10 studio albums, various singles, and best-of compilations.
In November 2024, the current work "And Now What?" was released on the Nuremberg label Concrete Jungle.
About 2000 concerts: The Peacocks have toured throughout Canada and the United States multiple times, were regulars in England, played two tours in Japan, and of course, all over Europe. From Tromsø to Granada, from Galway to Kiev, from Rimini to St. Petersburg. Naturally with stops for concerts along the way.
They shared stages with all legends (except Fats Domino and The Clash), but also with the local blues band. On the biggest festival stages, in a small café, the trendiest club in the city, or in a community center. They were number 1 in the Japanese indie charts, slept on filthy flat-share carpets, or in the band bus at below zero.
The Peacocks love what they do. Their style, originally influenced by the rockabilly revival and the psychobilly of the 80s, is now a perfect mix of what the London underground scene had to offer in 1981. Still modern and current.
PADDLECELL
A wild mix of energetic old-school psychobilly and fast offbeat, with clattering double bass and fat brass instruments. The cheeky ignorance of the six Wuppertal members towards subcultural boundaries pays off, as the dirty dozen self-written songs on the new album "Sometimes we come back!" sound unique and also as if the band could have drawn on the oeuvre of countless other bands. But they don't exist. Of course, one or the other Billy band has experimented with ska (the other way around is rather less), but Paddlecell is well on their way to creating their own genre. They even have a name for it: Horror-Ska – clear given the themes they lyrically address. The experimental band is interesting for anyone who has grown tired of 2-Tone and ska-punk but doesn't want to completely give up uptempo. And for psychobillys particularly if they like vocals à la Sparky (frontman of Demented are Go). Because frontman Marc sounds almost like that.
In summary:
The unique style between psychobilly and their own created horror-ska promises variety and entertainment! With a deep, atmospheric, and goosebumps-inducing voice, peppered with rockabilly guitar riffs, a driving slap bass, crazy drums, and rounded dark brass arrangements, the listener is transported into a deep yet unrecognized psychosis.
Doors open at 7:00 PM
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