The Anacondas

Callin' all groupies

Calling all groupies. Guess what? You're too late!
Yes, the most handsome Anaconda Woody Stix got married on the 2nd of July with the lovely and talented photographer Isabel Nabuurs.
After the wedding ceremony there was a big party in north Amsterdam with all their friends and family while the band West Hell 5 kicked out their swinging spy tunes.
After their set The Anacondas took over WH5's instruments and backline to play 2 of our most rocking tracks to please the guests and to show the West Hell 5 (including Ir Vendermeulen and the Pep) who's the boss of course.
Later on Dr Bikini and Johnny Torpedo (The Anacondas)spinned their exotica, rythm 'n blues and soul records till the early mornin'.
This party was so cool that it was worth getting married alone just for that!

This friday 23 of July The Anacondas play at the "Rock 'n' Roll Surffest" in Amsterdam, with lots of cool bands and dee-jays. RnR Surffest is gonna happen at the Korsakoff and neighbour Maloe Melo. Check Tour Dates for more info.
Coming up: North Sea Surf Festival (Sept. 4th) with a.o. The Anacondas, El Ray, The Kilaueas, Speedball Jr, The Phantom Four, Los Venturas and the Spaceguards!

Johnny Torpedo - 17 July '10 - 21:46 - Surf's up!

Interesting shows

If you've read the 'News' articles on our tour you could have guessed that The Anacondas had a rockin' good time.
The other towns we hit after Landshut were Domazlice (Tsjech rep.), Stuttgart, Erfurt (!) and Berlin (!).

Our album Bad Buzz etc.is still in the works and is getting close to it's release. I can hear you thinking: Yeah I heard that one before. But now we really mean it , honest.

We also got some interesting shows comin' up like the Godzilla soundtrack show in Amsterdam. Yes, back again by popular demand.
And The Anacondas will play at the infamous Sleazefest in Wijk Aan Zee. Yes, finally!
But first we're gonna play right at the beach of Castricum this friday. Giving the shore and the audience the soundtrack it deserves.

In memoriam: Gonzo (The Pastrellis) and Kees Kousemaker (Lambiek).

Johnny Torpedo - 25 May '10 - 23:36 - Surf's up!

Landshut, Germany

Landshut is an old town in the middle of Bayern. The city centre is very well concervated with real nice houses in all kinda colors and a church in art deco/jugendstil style or whatever you wanna call it. After a pint of the local brew it seemed we were walking around in Disneyland.
We played at the Wintergarten, a music pub that looked like a classy night club. After some delicious Thai food we hit the stage. It was a small crowd, 50 people showed up, but that is not too bad for a monday night. We played 2 sets, 1 and a half hour in total, and the public just loved The Anacondas. It was nice to see all these smiling faces. We got a lot of attention, people were dancing and cheering and we almost were'nt allowed to leave the stage.
We just had a lovely breakfast at Kasi's (Wintergarten promoter) appartment. German breakfasts are great.
Later on today we're gonna leave for Tsjech republic.

Johnny Torpedo - 04 May '10 - 11:32 - Surf's up!

Chemnitz, Germany

After we left Lubeck yesterday we were heading for Chemnitz.
We had no show yesterday night, but the fine folks of Subway to Peter helped us out providing us an appartment to sleep and they gave us a lot of beers too. Thanks Subway!
Though we didn´t play any music, we did play a stupid card game (zwikken) Jack Stuka taught us. Needless to say there was some money involved and guess who was the big winner: Jack of course.
This morning we had a great breakfast at our friend Sebastian´s (vocals/guitar for Calaveras) new apartment.
Calaveras have a brand new CD out too. I haven´t heard it yet, but Woody made some illegal copies, so I guess we´ll be listening to it in the van while on the way to our next gig in Landshut, were we´ll be playing tonight.

Johnny Torpedo - 03 May '10 - 11:59 - Surf's up!

Lubeck, Germany

Howdy folks, here's a little tour report from our trip through Germany.
Yesterday evening we arrived in Lubeck (north Germany) to play at the annual May party.
The first of may is a holiday in Germany, so lot's of people showed up at the festival, which had a lot of diversity.
There were reggae, punk, electro bands and of course a great surf band: The Anacondas. The show went very well and it was great to see so many people had a good time during our set.
We also met Manna, an old friend from Amsterdam who's living in Lubeck now. Though she is expecting her second child any moment now, she still went to the show to check us out for 15 minutes or so.
Right now we are hangin' out at her place in the historical centre of Lubeck. We are trying to find a last minute gig for we have no show tonight. But the wheather is fine and we are very relaxed so we just see what's gonna happen.

Johnny Torpedo - 02 May '10 - 13:27 - Surf's up!

The Anacondas on Tour

The Anacondas will be on tour from april 30th until may 8 and will hit cities like Stuttgart, Erfurt and Berlin.
The trip will be kicked off at the Queens Day festival in Castricum. Watch the Tour Dates for more info.

Our upcoming 3rd album "Bad Buzz - Lost In The Space Age" will be released end of May/beginning June.
It took a long time to release it, cause we had to do everything by ourselves, which is way beyond our league. It will be put out on CD, MP3 and vinyl on our own new label Surfgalactic International.
Cool pictures by renowned Amsterdam photographers Rene Nuyens (artwork) and Isabel Nabuurs (band pictures) will be all over the cover.
We're planning a big release party, so stay tuned!
Below a sneak preview of the stuff we used.

Also watch out for a full time King Kong versus Godzilla live soundtrack show in Amsterdam-north soon! All organized by the fine folks of Amsterdam Beat Club. Check out Tour Dates every now and then.

Johnny Torpedo - 08 April '10 - 22:50 - Surf's up!

Merry Christmas from The Anacondas

First off we have to announce some cancelations:
The Anacondas' shows for new years eve in Alkmaar and the show in Bassy (Berlin) on January 2nd are canceled.
The Anacondas show on new years eve in Amsterdam is going to happen though, so no worries about that one (see Tour Dates for more info).
End of Aril/beginning May 2010 will be on tour again so German fans keep your patience, we'll be back!

Our old friends from the south of the United States Daikaiju just got in touch with us. They're doing a European tour in April 2010, and we are making plans to do some shows togther here in Holland, watch out for that.
Summer 2010 The Anacondas will be touring the USA again with Daikaiju after seven long years.

We had some troubles with releasing our upcoming album Bad Buzz- Lost in the Space Age.
Due to the credit crisis alternative record labels are willing to take no risks signing new bands.
We decided to put it out ourselves and start our own record label. We were thinking to name it Anaconda Records, but unfortunately a Spanish metal label carries that name already so we have to come up with something else cool. Release is set early 2010.

Meanwhile the show must go on and that's why we're rehearsing every weekend. The Anacondas came up with a couple of new tracks..
Besides some originals we're working on, we got some new workouts on "Amapola" by The Spotnicks and "Goulash" by Satan's Pilgrims.

Merry Christmas to everyone and hope to see you soon.

Johnny Torpedo - 20 December '09 - 23:38 - 1 big wave

Rocket Cinema

The Anacondas did the final mixes and mastering for their upcoming album called: Lost in the Space Age (or Bad Buzz, we're not really sure yet). Right now we're working on the record sleeve, which will contain artwork by Amsterdam photographer and filmer Rene Nuyens. We still haven't found a label for release, but we're in it much too far, so it's got to come out.
One of the album tracks "La Danza de los Muertos" is accompanied by a crazy video clip directed by Aart Kramer.

The Anacondas will perform at the "Rocket Cinema" festival on October 29 in Amsterdam.
During this festival old monster movies will be shown at different locations through out the city for a week.
Several bands and dee-jays (including The Anacondas) are making a new score for these movies. The Anacondas' film music for "King Kong versus Godzilla" (Japan, 1963) can be experienced live during the screening, with the help of Ir Vendermeulen (sax & theremin) and Juan Pablo Pepito (percussion). Not to be missed! More info at "Tour Dates".

Johnny Torpedo - 18 August '09 - 23:16 - Surf's up!