Surf Daddies (Wellington, New Zealand)

https://www.facebook.com/SurfDaddies

TREMOLO BEER GUT

https://www.facebook.com/thetremolobeergut

https://www.discogs.com/artist/265427-The-Tremolo-Beer-Gut

They are here to put the URF! back in surf! They love tremolo, they love beer and they've got guts! The Tremolo Beer Gut is the premier retro-surf-rock band on the planet. Their records explodes with original yet classic compositions, recorded boldly in mono, dual stereo and whichever way the band damn well pleases. Live the band kicks some serious butt. Always a dangerous, sexy encounter with tons of smoke from their industrial strength smoke machine. The TBG are cool, sexy, evil (good evil, not bad evil) and drunk! Old school style!

On the surf and garage rock scene TBG has made a quite name for themselves after 3 amazing album releases and tons of shows all over the world – from USA to Russia and back. They opened the 60.000 capacity main stage of the Roskilde Festival in 2000 with added male choir, mandolinplayers, thermins and organ, but for maximum enjoyment catch the band at a sweaty, packed club. Grab a tall drink and your main squeeze and that's the most fun you can have outside of a double bed. Yessiree – The Tremolo Beer Gut is IT.

The Tremolo Beer Gut plays old school surf & western, a genre they've thought up themselves, which draws inspirations from the ultracool rough twangy guitar sound of 50s’ and 60s’ surf as well as the great film music of Mancini, Barry and Moricone. The songs are short and instrumental (apart from occasional shouting and carrying on). Almost all the material is original but the Beer Guts also play surf versions of songs from Kraftwerk, Sonic Youth, Beta Satan and more.

Old school is the key words for The TBG. They were the first band to release a MONO album in the new millenium when they released their second album in 2000. The band loves the old exotic ground breaking productions of Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, Joe Meek (and many others) much more than the clean, dry hi-fi stereo of today. And deep in our hearts: Don't we all?

As the intelligent music fan will notice the artwork for all the TBG releases are more or less the same. Under the motto: ”don’t fix it if it ain’t broke” they decided that their first 7-inch was so beautiful that they only changed the colours for their subsequent releases.

The Surf Mist (East Victoria Park-Perth, Australia)

https://www.facebook.com/thesurfmist

https://thesurfmist.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/thesurfmist

The Blair Pongracic Band (Surf USA)

https://www.facebook.com/theblairpongracicband

The Blair - Pongracic Band
https://hillcountry.com/dc/music-calendar/single-event/1470962/blair-pongracic-band-washington/

The Blair-Pongracic Band are four guys with impressive musical resumes from the contemporary surf instrumental scene. Led by guitarists John Blair from Jon & The Nightriders and Ivan Pongracic from The Madeira and The Space Cossacks, The Blair-Pongracic band was formed in 2015 for a short tour of Italy and Spain. Their appearance at the Surfer Joe Summer Music Festival in Livorno, Italy, led the event promoter to report, “It is without any doubt that the highlight of the festival was the Blair-Pongracic Band...Ivan and John managed to put together a superb show, very heavy, direct, powerful, playing many songs that people in the surf community remember and appreciate." With over 17 combined LPs and CDs from Blair and Pongracic’s respective bands, there is plenty of material to fuel a strong, combined setlist. They are joined by drummer Dane Carter (also from The Madeira) and Jeremy DeHart (from The Aqualads and The Monterreys) on bass guitar. In June, lucky fans from Georgia to Indiana will have the opportunity to witness the power of The Blair-Pongracic Band as they head out on a nine-city tour.

The Stingrays Surfband (Berlin, Germany)

https://www.facebook.com/stingrayssixtiessurf

Biography (From Facebook page)

THE STINGRAYS ...sixties surfbeat

In 1997 The Stingrays were washed up by a Typhoon to the cold coasts of good old Germany to bring the hot surf beat of the sixties from California to their home country.
Live on stage wearing their red jackets of 60–ies design they come over authentically. Their vintage sound à la Pulp Fiction is penetrated by the typical Stingrays-style, which makes dudes and chicks dance the whole night trough.
The album “ The First Wave “ has been released in summer 2015.
Surf's Up!

Dave & The Customs

https://www.discogs.com/artist/758556-Dave-The-Customs

Old 60's group -

Molokai Cocktail (Ravenna, Italy)

https://www.facebook.com/Molokai-Cocktail-1453130161381137/

The Jokers (Belgium)

https://surfguitar101.com/forums/topic/17519/

The Splashdowns (Hamburg, Germany)

http://www.bandmine.com/splashdowns

https://www.doublecrownrecords.com/the-splashdowns-rocket-tales-cd/

The Splashdowns - Rocket Tales CD (Double Crown)

The Splashdowns, one of Germany's finest surf/instro combos, are back after their acclaimed LP release Back To The Moon In 2022 with a twelve song set of interstellar stompers. They got their start in 1999, and inspired by the sixties style of surf rock, along with the emergence of NASA and the Space Race, the Splashdowns are ready to take on the world with their latest batch of recordings!

Tracks: Return Of The Splashdown Men - Point Of No Return - X15 - Micrometeorites - Joe Cuba Meets The Splashdowns Uptown - Pulsar - Saturn 5 - Gene Kranz's White Waistcoat - Baikonur Stomp - Springboard Into Space - Apollo 1/4 to 8 - Apollo 8 - Moondust

Black Valley Moon (Central-Florida, USA)

https://www.facebook.com/blackvalleymoon/

Central, FL Retro/Surf/Instrumental/Garage/Horror Punk/Guitar Rock Awesomeness featuring members of Down By Law, Madcap, Murder Suicide Pact & Phantom Trail Riders. EP forthcoming.

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