Frighteningly fun events in Liverpool UK, run by a small collective of Cramps fans under the guise of a time-travelling haunted hotel. If you like garage, rockabilly, gothic, punk or outsider music, you'll love PSYCHO MOTEL was the club for you! Psycho Motel, 2009-2012
The spirit of Psy Mo lives on in the band it spawned, the great, all knowing WHITE BLACULA whiteblacula.bandcamp.com
Don't have £66? Come to SLIME CITY, an AIRSPACE/ POST-MUSIC mini festival featuring the best in Scouse (and Yorkshire) musical curiosities. Have the slime of your life!
Tickets on the door! Just £5 weekend / £3 day
FRIDAY 2nd May
Harlequin Dynamite Marching Band The Royal Wedding Cavalier Song Leather Cow
SATURDAY 3rd May
Cowtown White Blacula Wizards of Twiddly Concrete Island Claire Welles Esa Shields Rat Bit Kit
Good Guy Joe and Phlegmings the Singin' Bellboy have been mooching around the Wilderlands in search of Doc Horror from Zombina and the Skeletones, who had been off living the life of Bigfoot, in order to capture him and force him to play at Psycho Motel XV "The Killers Clash Halloween Party" at the Kazimier on November the 3rd. Here's a story all about it...
Saturday 3rd November - We're coming back to the Kazimier with another of our legendary Psycho Motel Halloween parties! Since we have a such a dam killer line-up, it shall be called... "Psycho Motel XV: Killers Clash!" - with ZOMBINA AND THE SKELETONES (turns out XIV wasn't quite their only UK show of 2012), DICK LIMERICK ACADEMY (more on them later), SUPER FAST GIRLIE SHOW, JIMMY LIGHTFOOT AND THE DISCIPLES, PHLEGMINGS, THE PSY-MO DJ's and... you!!!
Wednesday 23rd May at The Lomax - it's Psycho Motel time again!
That's right - The Primitives! That excellent psych-punkpop combo known the world over for this unforgettable mega-hit...
...and Morrissey's fave t-shirt!
They've been gone a long time, but they're touring again in support of their new album! We're incredibly excited that they're coming to the Motel. If you don't already know their work outside of "Crash", here's a couple of our favourites to give you an idea...
...and in the red corner, we have Psycho Motel champions - Zombina and the Skeletones, for who this will THE ONLY UK SHOW OF 2012, so if you don't come along, you won't get to see Zombina and the Skeletones again for who knows how long. Is that what you want!?
Here's the latest ZATS video, in case you haven't seen it yet...
...on top of all that, we've got The Primitives tour support - The School, Phlegmings the Singin' Bellboy doin' his thing and a bunch of wild DJ sets from GoodGuy Joe and Becky Boneshaker!
Get them £5 advance tickets right now from Curious Orange (basement of Grand Central, Renshaw St.) or from seetickets.com or it's £7.50 on the door on the night.
Greetings, Earthlings. This Friday night at the Kazimier it’s time for "Psycho Motel
XIII: The Dutch Space Rock Invasion" at the Kazimier, so put a rocket in your pocket, wrap yourself
in tinfoil, and hitch a UFO down to the Curious Orange on Renshaw St. to get one
of them sweet £4 tickets (it’s £6 on the door, the crazy saving speaks for
itself)...
For the first time in the UK we have SANTA CRUZ – Den Haag’s
loudest, most acid-damaged, least stoppable spacerockers with their endlessly epic cosmic ritual and policy of 'no normal songs' beware, for they are so loud you could literally hear them in outer space, where science tells us sound cannot travel! Science is wrong. It's Santa Cruz, gang...
...but before that, we’ve got the surf-tastic 2 piece,
BEACH SKULLS with some of their excellent twangy experiments…
…then
it’s time for the mysterious galactic supergroup, STOCK FOOTAGE (starring folks
from The International, El Toro!, After the Massacre, Horse Bastard, Noise Club
and Freddy’s Nightmares) performing a one-off psychedelic rock composition that
will blow your mind and do your head in!
Plus we’ve got the return of THE BRUTES! Classic garage
powered punk, straight outta Glasgow. You may have seen ‘em at the Go Go Cage,
or at Useless many moons ago, and noticed that they ruled. They still rule to this
day…
…and as a smashing bonus feature, Zombina from Zombina andthe Skeletones will be joining the Psycho Motel DJs, to spin her favourite
spaceage robo-records.
Oh, and we have lift off!!!
P.S. Thanks to everyone who came to see Legendary Shack Shakers
at the Hoe Down. That was pretty much the greatest thing we’ve ever been
involved in. We may have to do it again next year ;)
Aw, yeah! It's Motelevision time again, magnets! Dare you enter Rupert Tinglebottom's Toolshed of Fear?
GoodGuy Joe and Tinglebottom have hired ace detective Gil Spanner to solve the mystery of who keeps covering up the "Psycho Motel XII: Psycho Mo-Hoedown with the Legendary Shack Shakers" posters with posters for some sort of fish-night... but does Gil have the necessary moxy to crack the case?
Buy a Legendary Shack Shakers ticket now... before the Lobster people get to you!!!
Maybe it will help to mentally prepare you for it if you come along to our lil' Micro Motel event at Basement 20 this Wednesday...
We'll be selling Shack Shakers tickets on the door here, too. And we've got two to give away to the first people to recognize a Legendary Shack Shakers record when we play it!
It's also the official single launch for THE TREEMAN, who you may know as "The Angriest Guitarist in the World" from Youtube...
...so get there early if you want one of those sweet "Tree Coloured" vinyls he's gonna have with him; also so you don't miss DICK VENOM AND THE TERRORTONES, those garagebilly monsters from Nottingham...
...and Liverpool's mighty SALEM RAGES, spooky punk rock from ex-Cold Ones and SSS people...
...and of course, the icing on the cake, all the way from Los Angeles, Calivania, the eerie horrorpunk/psychobilly stylings of REZUREX...
...The Psycho Motel DJs promise to play only the scariest, most Halloweeniest rock n' roll we can muster all night. So come on down. It's only three quid, like.
Tune in tomorrow night for the next episode of Psycho Motelevision, and watch this space for the Psycho Motel volume 2 compilation (can anyone recommend a good file hosting site?) and news about Psycho Motel XIII...
GoodGuy Joe has been let loose once again in the Psycho Motel TV studio; he's very eager for you all to come and watch GoodGuy Records' 1st signings, El Toro! live at Psycho Motel's first "Micro Motel" event, at Basement 20, Hardman St., Liverpool, THIS FRIDAY!!!
Also appearing are The Dead Class, Raw Bones, DJ Riggy, DJ Becky Boneshaker, and Phlegmings the Singin' Bellboy, an' it's just £2, stupids!!! Don't break Joe's heart by not attending.
Go fast, turn left!
We should mention - this show doubles as a release party for issue 10 of Sideburn Magazine; unfortunately not a magazine about sideburns (although, if there are any magazines about sideburns, Psycho Motel will absolutely host your launch parties) but about the exciting and dangerous world of dirtbike crashing! So expect even more rubber suited people than usual! Here's the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/355776191114313/
Psycho Motelevision Episode 3, coming later this week...
Wednesday 25th
April 2012, Psycho Motel
Presents:“The Legendary Shack
Shakers in Psycho Mo-Hoedown!”
Psycho Motel sacrifices it’s usual weekend slot to bring you
an incredibly special performance from one of the finest goddamn rock n’ roll
bands in the world right now! We’re excited to reveal that TH'LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERSfrom
Nashville Tennesseeare checking in
to the Motel to promote their new album “AgriDustrial”. The Shack Shakers play
an awesomely varied mixture of country, gypsy, blues, punk and rockabilly, and
are literally so ‘legendary’ that bullet points have suddenly become necessary…
Their
guitarist, Duane Denison was a founding member of two other classic US
alternative acts - The Jesus Lizard and Tomahawk! And before he joined the
Shakers he was playing guitar for Hank Williams III (who once called them the
best band in America)!!!
Jello
Biafra of The Dead Kennedy’s called their lead vocalist/blues harpist, JD
Wilkes “The last great rock n’ roll frontman”, and made a guest appearance on
their 2006 album “Pandelerium"!!!
Robert
Plant of Led Zeppelin named their “Believe” album his favourite of 2005, and
took them on tour as his support band!!!
Their
track “Swampblood” appears on the soundtrack of top vampire soap, Tru-Blood!!!
…and if that weren’t exciting enough, we’ve got support from
El Toro! (The Ventures meets post-punk from Liverpool and San Diego, feat. Members of Zombina and the Skeletones
and Pete Bentham and the Dinnerladies) and TheLoose Moose String Band (traditional scouse bluegrass and skiffle) and all
the usual Psycho Motel sundries, such as the inimitable cabaret oddness of our
accordion slingin’ bellboy – Phlemings! …and we got southern gothic flavoured DJ sets
from the Psycho Motel gang! Plus the inevitable barndance dresscode = MOST EXCITING
PSYCHO MOTEL EVENT EVER!!!
Tickets £6 from Curious Orange or £7.50 on the door. Doors
open 8pm.
If you're not familiar with the work of the Shack Shakers, here's our top picks...
...that's the tune we mentioned that features Mr Biafra (though you'll have to listen hard!)
This one demonstrates their more laid back gothic country style...
...and here's one that's been on the Psycho Motel playlist since the beginning! Maybe you recognise?
Just thinking about it makes us feel all funny. DO. NOT. MISS. THIS.
Great Scott! On Friday the 30th March 2012, Liverpool’s finest haunted hotel/rock n’ roll
trash night returns to The Kazimier with a multi-faceted theme party featuring a 3-pronged dress code
that includes nautical, 50’s high school prom and 80’s time travel movies all
at once! With appropriate live garage/surf/rockabilly music from The Cedar House Band, Pete Bentham and the Dinnerladies and The Witches - all introduced by that
accordion wielding carnival freak – Phlegmings the Singing Bellboy! Plus the
exclusive Motel DJ team of GoodGuy Joe, Becky Boneshaker, Doc Horror (Zombina
and the Skeletones) and Ida Ghostique spinning punk, gothic, outsider and
oldies… and some lucky boy and girl will get the dubious honour of being
crowned king and queen of the underwater 50’s 80’s… if you put your mind to it,
you can accomplish anything!
Tickets £4 from Curious Orange (Grand Central Basement,
Renshaw St.) or £6 on the door!
Hi, gang! Do you ever feel like there's just not enough Psycho Motel type action going on in Liverpool? Get bored waiting for the next Kazimier party to roll around? Well, check this out, kids! On Friday 16th March, we invite you to join us at Basement 20 (below 'The Lyrics Lounge' on Hardman St.) for the first of our streamlined spin-off events that shall henceforth be known as... PSYCHO MOTEL MICRO!
Garage Surf monsters (and Psy Mo regulars) EL TORO! return for their first gig of 2012, and they've finally got that drummer problem sorted! Enter Gabrielle Dos Santos (Town Bike, Dinnerladies) on the hot seat. This will also be the first chance to hear a bunch of their new tunes before their E.P release this spring!!
"El Toro! A Liverpudlian quartet who cross Link Wray and the Ventures with the Sonics and The cramps for a sweaty set of '60's snarl and grind rockers. Anthemic shouters like "I wanna Know" and "The Note" mingle seamlessly with the big phat twangin' instro "The Boss Sound", while "Vendetta" wears it's white punks on surf charm on it's sleeve..."- SHINDIG MAGAZINE
...plus - we've somehow managed to pin down punk rock renegade globe trotters THE DEAD CLASS, check out the video below to get some sort of clue about how these rowdy bastards do business!!
...and that's not all... oh no! Those demented rockabillys RAW BONES will be opening the festivities with their twisted rock n' roll noize!!! Roll on!!!!
...an' we got DJs, of course, in the form of Psycho Motel's resident artist BECKY BONESHAKER and our pal RIGGY, a collector of unusual sounds, will be blasting you with all the best in garage, psyche-billy, weirdo and scary 'til the wee hours!
People always ask us, "How do I keep up with the latest Psycho Motel developments if I'm not a Facebook user?"
We finally have the answer! Psycho Motel - the blog! Here, we'll post info about our events and the bands involved, photos, DJ playlists, podcasts and all the rest, all in one place, with no 'like' buttons or other such trappings...
Anyway - first order of business = PSYCHO MOTEL X: The Cross Dressing Valentines Ball
Tomorrow night... Psycho Motel is throwing a cross-dressing valentines weekend shindig with the following special attractions:
KURT DIRT - Extraspecial guest DJ (Excorsisters, Bad Taste Barbies) plays us his favourite Dragrock classics http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bad-Taste-Barbies/165616483457671?sk=wall + The Psycho Motel DJ's, Phlegmings the Singin' Bellboy, "The Last Days of Ed Wood" re-enactment society... etc...
--------------------------- Tickets £4 from Curious Orange or £6 on the door... it's your last chance to grab those cheap tickets, so don't delay!
Here's a wacky little piece of television we composed to get you in the mood...
So yeah, video killed the radio stank. The Psycho Motel Radio Show is dead, long live Psycho Mo television!!!
