Highlights from Southern Surf Stomp! on 1/9/16

Dick Dave and the Scavengers: A Tribute to Dick Dale

David Northrip

Mitch Laue

Tyrone Steele

Senator Artie Mondello w/ Dwayne Jones (drums) and Lars Espensen (sax)

The Original Shake Charmers

with the Senator

Jeff Waites

Ronnie Lee Gipson

Southern Surf Stompcast, episode 17

Episode 17 features an interview with Lars Espensen and Jeff Waites of The Original Shake Charmers.

Track list:
The Surge! - "Anasazi"
Crazy Aces - "Modelo Uno"
Banzai Bay - "The Rip"
The Cavefish - "A Boy Named Tsunami"
Cutback - "Voyage Around The Moon"
Crazy Aces - "Surfin' Simon"
The Man From RavCon - "Bounce"
The Man From RavCon - "Competition Stripes"
The Original Shake Charmers - "Phenix City Shake"
The Original Shake Charmers - "I Can't Lose"
The Delusionaires - "The Regrettable Act"
Dick Dale - "The Wedge"
Larry and the Loafers - "Lets Go To The Beach"
The Starliners - "Thunder"
The Ramrods - "Night Ride"
Buddy & the Squids - "Perlita"
Gold Dust Lounge - "Adventures In Tourism"
Daikaiju - "Double Fist Attack"

Incidental:
Banzai Bay - "Ishigaki Island"
The High Fidelics - "Mondo Rondo"
Dick Dale - "Esperanza"
Buddy & the Squids - "Low Tide"

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

Southern Surf Stomp! presents The Original Shake Charmers, Senator Artie Mondello, Dick Dave and the Scavengers (Dick Dale tribute)

The Original Shake Charmers are from Tuscaloosa/Birmingham and feature member from rock n' roll legends The A-Bones, The High Fidelics, The Zaratans, and many more.  They're a high energy, sax driven surf and stomp combo with great instrumentals and vocals alike.  I had the pleasure of sharing a bill with them in Birmingham a couple of years ago and couldn't help but dance and sing along, I'd dare anyone to try and not do the same (so it's not just a clever name!).

Atlanta's own purveyor (or is that pronounced pervert?) of sleaze, Senator Artie Mondello (of the Delusionaires) is sure to get your ears drunk, take them home, show them a good time, and may or may not call them back again.

Guitar wizard David Northrip is back with Dick Dave and the Scavengers: A Tribute to Dick Dale and will be performing classic hits from "The King of the Surf Guitar".

Southern Surf Stomp! and The KBK presents Mini Surf Fest II

Friday, September 18th brings Mini Surf Fest II to The Syndicate Lounge in Birmingham, Alabama. This long overdue follow-up to the first Mini Surf Fest in 2012 will feature some of the best surf, instro, and psychobilly the Southeast has to offer.

Lineup:
The KBK (Jacksonville, AL),
Ouroboros Boys (Asheville, NC)
The Go-Go Killers (Huntsville, AL)
The Original Shake Charmers (Tuscaloosa, AL)
The Maja Dunes (Debut…Birmingham, AL)

Entrance is $10
Door time is 8:00pm
Ages 21+

Syndicate Lounge
433 20th Street South
Birmingham, AL

The first Mini Surf fest was held in 2012 and featured Daikaiju, Kill Baby Kill, The Monterreys, Necronomikids, The Mystery Men?, and The High Fidelics. Originally put together as a last minute effort to provide some traveling bands a warm-up show the night before Clarkston Surf Fest in Atlanta, Georgia, the event ended up drawing an unusually large crowd, bringing the venue Das Hause to near capacity. With the success of the event, intentions were to turn this into an annual event. However, efforts to do so never proved fruitful, as schedules with venues and bands never seemed to match up. But with the newly cemented Birmingham, AL venue Syndicate Lounge, the stars have aligned allowing for a continuation of what began so many years ago.

Once again thrown together as a last minute effort to provide a warm-up show for traveling bands playing a Saturday festival, Mini Surf Fest II is a bit of a gorilla effort. Thanks to a supportive venue, street team, and bands, we have been able to pull this lineup together in a few short weeks.