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  • Genre: Garage / Surf / Thrash

    Location Graz/ Vienna, Please select your region, Au

    Profile Views: 846957

    Last Login: 9/6/2011

    Member Since 4/24/2005

    Website www.thestaggers.at

    Record Label Bachelor Rec., Soundflat Rec, Wohnzimmer Rec.,

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... The Incredible Staggers - Zombies of Love / Director: Judith Recher - Rocking Pony.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .... The Incredible Staggers Movie Teaser / Director: Candee Beat ...... THE INCREDIBLE STAGGERS … Zombies Of Love (Wohnzimmer/Soundflat 2010) .... DEUTSCH:.... Zombies Of Love? Sind wir das nicht alle? Ist das nicht unser aller Album? Für all die Untoten der Liebe, die ewigen Wiedergänger der Liebe? Was für ein geiler Titel, was für ein schönes Bild! Picken wir nicht unsere gebrochenen Herzen immer wieder zusammen, um sie neu und für jemanden anderen schlagen zu lassen? Verarzten und pflegen wir nicht unsere wunden primären und sonstigen Lustorgane immer wieder, um sie wieder zu ihrem Recht kommen zu lassen? So wie Musiker, die einfach immer wieder spielen müssen, die es geradezu auf die Bühne treibt. Wie diese 2002 in Graz als The Staggers gegründete Band. Im aktuellen, seit gut 5 Jahren stabilen Line-Up hat sich das Sextett den sprichwörtlichen Arsch abgespielt (Du kennst den Ortsnamen? Sie waren dort!), sich eine Reputation als Killer-Liveband erarbeitet, deren Wirken längst weit über Österreich und Europa hinausgeht. The Incredible Staggers machen ihre Rock..n..Roll-Garage überall dort auf, wo Menschen bereit sind sich mit Leidenschaft auf diesen Sound, dieses überschäumende ass-kicking Feeling einzulassen, die Luft bald gesättigt mit Adrenalin, Exzess, Hormonen und Körpersäften, eine Haltung im Raum, die sich nicht zuletzt im Look der Menschen vor und auf der Bühne manifestiert. Get dressed up to get messed up! Verlier die Kontrolle. Mit Style!.... Legen wir doch einfach das neue Album dieser Band auf, forcieren den Lautstärkeregler (born to go up, bound to stay there!) und hören Lightning Iris (Farfisa Compact), Shakin Matthews (Guitar), Los Fixos (Guitar), The Earl Of Krigor (Bass) und Candee Beat (Drums) dabei zu, wie sie mit dem Instrumental „Alive“ den Boden für die kommenden 13 (okay, 14 – sometimes they call it „hidden track“) Garagen-Stampfer bereiten. Sänger und Frontmann Wild Evel kommt – wie sich das gehört – ein paar Takte später und steigt mit Song 2, „That..s The Beat“ mit seinen Stimmbändern voll (v.o.l.l.!!!) ins Geschehen ein. Während sich die Band in die vor Energie berstenden Songs sprichwörtlich hineinkniet, sich aus einem 60ies/Rock..n..Roll/Punk/Trash-Referenzhimmel stilsicher und beseelt den eigenen Sound herleitet, mit faszinierender und pointierter musikalischer Ökonomie, kein Schlag zuviel, kein Ton zuviel. Von Herwig Zamernik (Naked Lunch, Fuzzman) in seinem Fuzzroom so live wie möglich eingefangen. Evel vokalisiert dazu ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste und ungeachtet des Umstandes, dass sein natürliches Habitat die Bühne und nicht das Studio ist. Aber Studio hin, Studio her, das alles hat schon beim dritten Lied, dem Titelsong (gleichzeitig die erste Single) „Zombies Of Love“ einen solchen Nachdruck, dass der nicht völlig verstockte Mensch selbst im rauch-und alkoholfreien Wohnzimmer beginnt Evel..s oft unterleibsrabiate, manchmal elegante Stage-Moves zu imitieren und ein paar lustvolle Urlaute auszustoßen, die Luft-Orgel anzuschmeißen und überhaupt den grauen Alltag einen guten Mann (oder eine gute Frau) sein zu lassen. Frau Nachbar – wanna shake to some incredible Staggers with me?.... Hier ist eine Band, die kein Interesse am perfekten Popsong hat, aber nicht das geringste. „Wann überhaupt, dann sind wir auf der Suche nach dem perfekten Garagensong“ sagt Wild Evel. Nicht nur „Unlike You!“ oder „Trip With Me“ aus der Staggers-Songschmiede sind würdige Anwärter auf diesen Titel, ihre enthemmte und enthemmende Aneignung von „Little Latin Loopy Lou“ (Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels) ist ein geiler Berserker von Song, nicht zuletzt wegen Richie Klammer..s wüster Trompete. „… Zombies Of Love“, das Album, (auf LP und CD), dessen Special Edition-CD mit einer DVD von „The Incredible Staggers Movie“, der 75minütigen Filmversion der Sex, Drugs & Rock..n..Roll-Saga dieser Band kommt, tut das Maximum dessen, was ein Tonträger einer solchen Band tun kann. Wenn Du ihn auflegst und aufdrehst (ned schüchtern sein!), bist Du mitten in der glorreichen, manchmal creepy, manchmal twisted, immer aufregenden Welt der incredible Staggers. Just listen and see! .... ENGLISH:.... Aren’t we all Zombies of Love? Doesn’t that heading unite us all? All of us that love left undead to become the eternal revenants of love? What a wicked title, what a perfect picture! Haven’t we died from a broken heart and glued the pieces together just to make it pound for the next lover along the way? Aren’t we constantly mending our wounded love organs in order to have them ready for duty whenever they’re so unconditionally needed? Like serenaders, who cannot but perform and seem to be forcefully driven towards stages. Just like this band from Graz, called to life as The Staggers in Graz in 2002. In a stable current line-up for the last five years this six-piece literally gigged their asses off (name a town - they've been there), gained themselves a reputation as a killer live band that hails way beyond the physical boundaries of Austria and even Europe. The Incredible Staggers unlock their Rock’n’Roll Garage doors wherever people are ready and most passionately willing to enter and enjoy the Sound, that infectious ass kicking feeling when inescapably the air is charging with adrenalin, excess, hormones and other juices; an attitude that manifests itself to a large part also in the performer’s as well as in the audience’s look. Get dressed up to get messed up! Lose control. With a Style! .... Let’s just put their new record on, turn the knob that says “volume” up (born to go up, bound to stay there!) and listen to Lightning Iris (Farfisa Compact), Shakin’ Matthews (Guitar), Los Fixos (Guitar), The Earl of Krigor (Bass) and Candee Beat (Drums) strumming their instrumental intro “Alive!” and preparing the ground for the coming 13 (okay, it’s 14 – they call it “hidden track”) Garage-Stompers. A few beats later, but only the more thorough, singer and front man Wild Evel joins into action with Song 2, “That’s the Beat”, and his vocal chords on full (f-u-l-l) throttle. Every section of the band is at its most powerful level literally leaning into the songs and bursting from energy, spirited and impressively deducing their very own sound from that sea of 60ies/Rock’n’Roll/Punk/Trash references, with a fascinating to-the-point economy where no beat or note is wasted or goes unnoticed. Recorded as live as possible with Herwig Zamernik (Naked Lunch, Fuzzman) at his fuzzroom. Evel’s vocalizations come regardless of any consequences and albeit the fact that his natural environment are stages, not studios. All that said, by the time their third song, the title track “Zombies of Love” (also the first Single) starts off, even the most reserved listener in a smoke- and drink-free living room will get infected by Evel’s loin-grooving, sometimes even elegant stage-moves and imitate the lustful primal screams and howls, kick-start the air-organ and let the daily grind behind. Hey neighbor lady – wanna shake to some incredible Staggers with me? .... Here’s a Band that shows no interest in your perfect Pop song, not at all. “If anything, we are looking for the perfect Garage-song” claims Wild Evel. Not only are Staggers-songs like “Unlike You!” or “Trip With Me” candidates for that caption, their unconstrained adaption of “Little Latin Loopy Lou” (by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels) is one berserker of a song, including the furious Trumpet by Richie Klammer. “Zombies of Love”, the album on LP and CD, with a limited special edition CD including a DVD of “The incredible Staggers Movie”, a 75 minute trip along the band’s Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll Saga, is the maximum that anyone can expect from a band’s release. When you play it and turn it up (don’t be shy!) you are amidst the glorious, if creepy and twisted, but ever exciting world of The Incredible Staggers. Just listen and see!.... The Staggers - Teenage Trash Insanity (Wohnzimmer/Sound Flat Recordings 2006) 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..... ............ ...... .... .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..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....

  • Members

    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 Incredible Staggers - Go-Go-Gorilla 7" out on Squootch Records 2010 Ltd. edition 500 ...... The Incredible Staggers - No Como Tu 7" out on Hey Girl Records 2008 Ltd. edition 300 ...... 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)

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    Teenage Garage Trash

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