Southern Surf StompFest! 2021

 

Presented by THE SURF KING Surfwear, featuring:
The Exotics (Milwaukee, WI)
Genki Genki Panic (Chattanooga, TN)
The Mystery Men?
El Capitan and Reluctant Sadists
Creature Preachers (Warner Robins, GA)
Outersea (Athens, GA)
The Compartmentalizationalists
Chad Shivers & the Frigidaires

 

MC Jet Powers

 

Little Tree Art Studios (2834 Franklin St, Avondale Estates, GA 30002)

 

This event will be held outside, is family friendly and FREE!

Southern Surf Stomp! presents The Crimson Ghosts, ELZIG, El Capitan & the Reluctant Sadists

The Crimson Ghosts (MA) offer up instrumental surf covers of Misfits tunes, ELZIG is "the demon Elvis" straight from the strip of HellVegas, just south of Memphis, and across the Georgia state line, and performing aggressive spaghetti-surf is Atlanta's own El Capitan & the Reluctant Sadists.

2017 Southern Surf StompFest

Presented by The City of Avondale Estates and THE SURF KING Surfwear, Southern Surf StompFest! is an annual festival featuring the best surf, instro, and beyond that the South has to offer. This free, all ages event takes place September 16th at Little Tree Art Studios in Avondale Estates, GA and will also host an artists market and food trucks.

lineup:
8pm Aqualads (NC)
7pm Genki Genki Panic (TN)
6pm The Mystery Men? (GA)
5pm The Out of Limits (NC)
4pm El Capitan & The Reluctant Sadists (GA)
3pm Rondo Hatton (LA)
2pm Caroline & the Ramblers (GA)
1pm The Reverburritos (AR, reunion show!)
12pm The Surge! (GA)

with special guest DJ Dusty Booze

A kickoff party, also a free and family friendly event, will be held the night before on Friday, September 15th at Trader Vic's Atlanta with entertainment from:
Aqualads (NC)
The Johnny Zoom Hi-Fi Show (FL)
Dangling Tassels (AR)

Southern Surf Stomp! presents The Delusionaires, El Capitan & the Reluctant Sadists, Kitty Rose

Florida's kings of the high sleaze, The Delusionaires, will be once again be taking over Kavarna for a night of drunken debauchery and tomfoolery.  They'll be joined by the raucous El Capitan & the Reluctant Sadists and newcomer Kitty Rose, performing some classic style rockabilly.

Find the Facebook event page here.

Southern Surf Stomp! presents Midnight Larks, The Flying Faders, El Capitan and the Band With No Name, Antarcticats, DJ Dusty Booze

Highlights from Southern Surf Stomp! on April 18, 2015

The Penetrators with (left to right) Jet Powers, Stix Stechkin, Eddie Katcher, Richard Hawes, and Trace Luger

El Capitan on guitar

Johnny McGowan on guitar

Trace Luger

Stix Stechkin

Rodeo Twister

Jay Murphree

Chad Proctor

Matt Sprague

Eddie Angel backed by Richard of The Mystery Men? and Trace and Stix of The Penetrators

MVP of the evening goes to Richard Hawes for coordinating the whole evening

The evening's veritable museum of amplifiers

Highlights from Southern Surf Stomp! on February 21, 2015

James Freeman (A.K.A. El Capitan, right) and Johnny McGowan (left)

Elliot Dangar (A.K.A. Sticks Stechkin, drums), Jamie Galatas (bass)

El Capitan and the Band With No Name

Jeff Senn tuning up his Teisco

Kiwamu Stewart

Sonny Harding of MOONBASE filling in on drums for the Crazy Aces

Jeff and Kiwamu always look like they're having so much fun on stage

Fogging up Kavarna

Crazy Aces

The band was kind enough to have me on stage for a couple of tunes

Playing with some of my favorite musicians

Southern Surf Stompcast, episode 6

Episode 6 features an interview with Jeff Senn of Crazy Aces.

Tracklisting:
The Spoils - "A Test Of Character"
The Flying Faders - "Kathy"
The Flying Faders - "One Too Many"
Vacations - "Off The Grid"
The Woggles - "Los Angeles No Niseimaturi"
The Squares - "Untitled 4"
Fez - "World Domination On 3 Dollars A Day"
Crazy Aces - "Boogie Bored"
Crazy Aces - "Busted & Broken"
El Capitan & The Band With No Name - "The Man With No Name"
The Carvers - "Over The Falls"
Reverend Organdrum - "Moovin' & Groovin'"
The Martian Denny Orchestra - "The Warmth Of The Sun"
The Mag Seven - "Lahaina"
Thee Phantom 5ive - "Bustin' Suds"
The Ramrods - "Slee-zee"

Intro and outro music, "Southern Surf Syndicate Theme", provided by The Penetrators.

Southern Surf Stomp! presents Crazy Aces, El Capitan and the Band With No Name, Flat Cat, and The Fringe Factory DJs

Crazy Aces are an instrumental quartet from Nashville, TN who's been featured in Guitar Player and Vintage Guitar magazines and I believe are slated to perform this year's Surf Guitar 101 convention in Los Alamitos, CA.  The band is comprised of seasoned professional musicians who have performed on stages with some big name acts all over the world, and it really shows.  Not only are they top instrumentals but I believe their songwriting to be unparalleled in the modern times, and when they hit the stage they look as if they're having the best time ever.  I first saw them at Douglasville Surf Fest in 2013 and they seemed to come out of nowhere and completely floor everyone in attendance. They've released two absolutely phenomenal records, "Greatest Hits Volume 2" (their first) and "Surfadelic Spy-a-Go-Go", the latter along with the Barbwires' "Searider" make up my favorite instrumental records of the past decade.  Needless to say this show should NOT be missed!

El Capitan and the Band With No Name is one James Freeman and a revolving cast of outlaws that play a sort of aggressive spaghetti-western influenced surf.  The group has released a fantastic album, "Death of a Tiki" with great production complete with horn section and opened for the likes of Dick Dale and Reverend Horton Heat.  El Cap is quite the showman to boot, having destroyed quite a few guitars along the way.

This show will be a reunion of sorts for Atlanta's Flat Cat, which features Amy Arnold from Stomp alumni The Cherry Bomb.  Each member of the group shares songwriting as well as singing duties, culminating in a veritable power-pop stew.

We're also proud to have yet again The Fringe Factory DJs spinning the best rock 'n' roll from the past 60 years.  Please be sure to check out their radio show at 8pm Wednesdays on WFMU.

Second annual Surfin' Saturday at Atlanta Food Truck Park

This excellent event, organized by Jamie Galatas of the Mystery Men? and sponsored by our very good friend The Surf King Surfwear, takes place before the next Stomp and features seven of the best surf groups the Southeast has to offer.  All ages are welcome at this free event, where you can sample eats from the finest food trucks in the city while sipping on your favorite beverage you brought from home.