Zappatika! is a British-born Frank Zappa tribute band.
(2008/08) McInnes adds:
"The
first album Zappatika! released was in December 2007, "ZAPPATiKA Live on
Stage", which is a raw, uncut, marginally mixed 100% Live album featuring
many of our tunes and FZ numbers....that album is available via our Myspace
(updated yesterday !) and also via LeapingCat Records.com.
My background
(McINNES) is as a guitarist/singer from the UK, grew up between Asia and
Liverpool so a lot of mixed influences....started composing at the age of 12 got
into Zappa at age 17 ...now an old bastard of 45 and i still can't play the
guitar !
I have played a lot of session stuff in the UK and own bands (Tarot, PurpleVoid)
before forming ZAPPATiKA in 1998 with Dutch-Indonesian drum-machine BATTATUTTI
who is also a big FZ fan and multi-instrumentalist. We live in London or
Amsterdam depending on our mood amd often take sojourns into India to absorb
more of that amazing musical culture .... We recruit and fire musicians according to their abilities and
performance and have a kind of line-up which is always in "flux" !
Some musos are ,however, fixed features nowadays , including BILLY BONGO,DOCTOR
LAU,WILLY WHIZZ and NICO-H but this year we are also working with various other
'guest musicians' ."
The picture above right is from the band's 2008 11 14 concert in Leiden, NL.
ZAPPATiKA currently comprises of the following musicians :
current and previous members
McINNES - lead guitars, lead vocals & arrangements
ZOMBY WOOF: rhythm guitar & vocals
BATTA-TUTTI - drums & other loud noises
BILLY BONGO - percussion & twiddly things
DOCTOR LAU - sequencing, keys, computers, sonology
various
artists: zappanale # 26
(2016, 3cd, ger, arf society) - incl. various frank
zappa compositions, feat. napoleon murphy brock, ike willis, denny
walley, jeff hollie, craig twister steward, ed mann, robert martin,
albert wing, ray white, tom fowler, robbie mangano, mats öberg
drum roll.......bringing in the
sheaves > wonderful wino man * space flipping * leroy *spanish
highwayz * rainy day dub * thru the wormhole * my guitar wants 2 kill
yourmomma * frankies tune
* evolution nation (hip hop) * everything must change (indian rag) *
city of tiny lites * black napkins * my little pony > dark room * it
aint necessarily so * crocodile smile * bamboozled by love > torture
never stops * watermelon in easter hay * titties n beer * cozmik debris
interview
& concert got broadcast on a local radio station
2008/11/26 ZAPPATiKA – concert London, UK
2009/03/18
Zappatika - concert Plough LONDON
2009/03/19
Zappatika - concert Vibraphonic Festival EXETER
2009/03/20
Zappatika - concert The Lodge Gwespyr, HOLLYWELL
2009/03/21
Zappatika - concert Zappateers, Chorlton, MANCHESTER
2009/03/22
Zappatika - concert The Diamond , Sutton -in- Ashfield,NOTTINGHAM
2009/07/04
Zappatika - concert 'The Rambler', Eindhoven, NL
from left to right:
Zomby Woof: rhythm guitar
& vocals * McInnes: lead vocal & lead guitar * Battatutti:
drums * The Kid: bass * Bongo Fury: percussion, xylo, tabla, vocals
set one
Wonderful Wino Man * My Guitar Wants 2
Kill Your Momma * We Are Not Alone * Sexual Harassment In The
Workplace * Bamboozled By Love * The Torture Never Stops *
Santana Variations * Love Of My Life * audience participation *
City Of Tiny Lites
set two
Sleep Dirt * Titties n Beer * Wormhole *
Cozmik Debris * Bobby Brown * Watermelon In Easter Hay * Leroy *
Dirty Love * The Slime * Muffin Man
encores
Muffin Man * City Of Tiny Lites
Zomby Woof, McInnes and a little piece of Battatutti
during the second set of 20090704 Eindhoven gig.
2009/12/04 "A Celebration And Commemoration Of The Life,
Times And Music Of Frank Zappa"
ZAP McINNES - lead guitar
BATTATUTTI - drums
ZOMBY WOOF - rythm guitar
BONGO FURY - percussion-xylophone, synths, animal noises
Ingo 'THE KID' Oosterbaan - bass
KE - violin
Zappatika! at the 'Exit' in Rotterdam, 2009/12/04, performing
"We Are Not Alone".
YouTube video by LudzNL
Zappatika! at the 'Exit' in Rotterdam, 2009/12/04, performing
"Whippin' Post".
YouTube video by LudzNL
2010/08/14 concert Zappanale, Bad Doberan, Germany
special guest: Ike Willis
setlist
The Torture Never Stops, I'm The Slime, Space Flip, Wino Man, The
Secret Word, Dirty Love, My Little Pony, Sleep Dirt, Cosmik Debris,
Wino Willie's Montana Hop, I Have Been In You, Broken Hearts Are For
Assholes, Spanish Highwayz, band intro / Sexual Harassment In The
Workplace, Titties & Beer, Lazy Gun, Through The Wormhole,
Leroy, My Guitar, Whippin' Post, Watermelon In Easter Hay, ...
Pictures by Steffen Schindler.
2010/12/18 concert 'Q-Bus', Leiden, NL
Dirty Love, My Guitar wants to kill your momma, The Slime, Wonderful Wino, Carlos Santana Variations, City of Tiny Lites (Air Guitar contest), Titties n Beer, Broken Hearts are for Assholes, Cozmik Debris, The Torture never Stops, Whipping Post, Black Napkins, Muffin Man
2011/01/21 concert 'The Rambler', Einhoven, NL
2011/02/18 concert 'Musicon', The Hague, NL
2011/06/18 concert 'Q-bus', Leiden, NL
Cozmik
Debris, Ooh
the way you love me, Guitar
wants to kill yer momma, Tiny
Lites, Chunga's
Revenge, Leroy,
Peaches
en Regalia, We
are not alone, Titties
n Beer, Dirty
Love, I
am theSlime, Broken
Hearts are forAssholes,
Santana
Variations, Whippin'
Post, Black
Napkins, Muffin Man
Zomby Woof-Guitar & Vocal // Bongo
Fury-Percussio,Synth & Vocals // Ke -4 & 5 string
Violins & Vocals // Batta Tutti -Drums & Vocals // The
Kid-Bass & Vocals // Zap Mcines-Guitar & Vocals // special
guest on Harmonica -Patrick Galvin
setlist
That Ol' G-Minor / Santana Thing, Magic Fingers, Wino Man,
Chunga's Revenge, The Slime, My Guitar Wants 2 Kill Yer Momma,
Sexual Harrassment, Dirty Love, Cozmik Debris, Peaches En Regalia,
City Of Tiny Lites, Sleep Dirt, Titties n Beer, Stinkfoot, We Are
Not Alone, Broken Hearts Are For Assholes, Watermelon In Easter
Hay, The Torture Never Stops, Whippin Post, Black Napkins / Muffin
Men
2012/12/01 concert 'c.c.café', amsterdam, NL
2012/12/14 concert 'Q Bus', Leiden, NL
Zap McInnes (guitar vocals), Maarten van Zeijl
(drums), Tal Wilkins (guitar vocals), Ingo Oosterbaan (bass),
Jeroen van Dam (percussion) Annemarieke Schoonderwaldt (violin)
2013/10/05 concert 'Musicon', The Hague, The Netherlands
2013/12/21 concert 'Musicon', The Hague, The Netherlands
random notes
2008
The message on the Zappatika! MySpace page says:
"you can now hear the first offerings from our new album
THE SHORT BUT LEGENDARY FLIGHT of the DODO which will be released at the end of
July
The main part of the album is very much beat orientated as the idea of
this project was to mix FZ style Stunt guitar with modern "accessible"
Dance rhythms. There are 18 tracks on the album including a number of experimentations utilising
various Frank Zappa compositions. There are also many completely new pieces by
ZAPPATiKA."
The following pieces are / were on Zappatika!'s MySpace page:
Animal Thaang vs Dirty Love
Son Of Slime
It Ain't Necessarily
Ballad Of Leroy
Wino Willie Goes 2 Montana
Screaming Digit
Over at ReverbNation, there's even more songs to listen to:
our
dear friend Dr Dot recently made a comment in a video about Accordions which set
us to thinking about what would have happened if Joe had been born into a Cajun
family in Louisiana.......growing
up with washboards,mandolins,geetarz and of course...accordions
So
here (especially for Dot; )
..........Joes Cajun Garage
(dont worry, this is just a bit of fun and NOT a new direction for
Zappatika !)
Sorry
to hassle you with mail but you MUST see this dude.... Fernando Miyata ...a
fat,lonely boy in Brazil who can play guitar like NONE of us have ever seen !
I
mean this kid is off the fuckin planet !http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATub40Npxik&NR=1
PAY
PARTICULAR ATTENTION to the phrasing he uses just to bring his Solo in between
0:40 - 0:52 ....that shit is too difficult for words !
after that it kinda just blows your head off !Seriously ...take a deep breath & check it out -someone has GOT to sign this dude !
DODO
title Video -see it now - you'll see a DODO fly !!!
The
new album is done ,dusted and sent to the Press ! It will be launched at the
Party, as promised ,on Friday 26th September in Paris -France. If YOU ARE THERE
YOU WILL GET A FREE COPY !!!
This
is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER... again. Hi!... It's me again, the CENTRAL
SCRUTINIZER...
La
soirée Zappatika du vendredi 26 septembre chez Aris est confirmée et
s'enrichit d'un set acoustique dédié à la musique de Zappa. Le répertoire
devrait grosso modo être le suivant :
-
The Torture Never Stops
-
Black Napkins
-
Cosmik Debris
-
Watermelon in Easter Hay
-
Joe's Garage
-
What's New in Baltimore
-
Dirty Love
-
City of Tiny Lites
Tentant,
non ?
A partir de 20h, 115 rue Oberkampf
2008 09 26
About a week ago, I received an mp3 of Zappatika's 'Finally Got It
Right'.
Previously entitled 'Boris the Jazz Dog', 'Finally Got It
Right', is laid-back, jazzy guitar tune.
M. adds:
"Sorry if you
don't like it.... But this is the way I have always heard it...errmm...
it's not what you expect... but I guess it's still Jazzzzzz
Oh... This is on the new DODO album by the way..."
2008 09 26
a message from Les Fils de l'Invention
This
is the CENTRAL SCRUTINIZER... again. Hi!... It's me again, the CENTRAL
SCRUTINIZER...
La
soirée Zappatika du vendredi 26 septembre chez Aris est confirmée et
s'enrichit d'un set acoustique dédié à la musique de Zappa. Le répertoire
devrait grosso modo être le suivant
The
Zappatika night next Friday, September 26, at Aris has been confirmed and
will contain a set of acoustic music, dedicated to the music of Frank
Zappa. The setlist might look something like this:
The
Torture Never Stops
Black
Napkins
Cosmik
Debris
Watermelon
in Easter Hay
Joe's
Garage
What's
New in Baltimore
Dirty
Love
City
of Tiny Lites
Tentant,
non ?
A partir de 20h, 115 rue Oberkampf
From 20h on, at 115 rue Oberkamf in Paris, France.
2008 10 03
The
Short But Legendary Flight of the Dodo - 16 tracks - 55 minutes :
is,in
the words of chief composer ,Mcinnes, a "very badly disguised tribute to
Frank Zappa" and brings a lot of that great Rock composers ideas and
concepts very much into the 21st century -
The music is eclectic Guitar rock ,but then blended to very "fat"
modern beats and cross-cultural (indian,mongolian,slavic) melodic influences.
Like their hero Zappa, the band have also included a lot of humour in the
process and snippets of 'interesting' conversations are spattered throughout the
album.
Mcinnes
continues , "The album has a kind of theme in which the Dodo takes on the
role of Music , or the Human Race- depending on how deeply you look- and a lot
of influence has been taken from Franks way of putting an album together...there
are one or two 'commercial' numbers -but essentially the album will appealto a quite 'particular' audience "
Upon
listening, the Flight of the Dodo is almost intense, and at others light and
relaxing, and then again complex melody or driving dance beat , or funny -
truly
an interestinglistening experience
and ,for a debut album, this is an accomplished project .
More
information and tracks from The Short But Legendary Flight of the Dodo--
In
the beginning there was a secret word...and the secret word was......Mudshark !
For
the full half of one hundred years the Mudshark reigned supreme as the secret
word – defying all other denizens of the deep for that top-spot , and
educating the virginal minds of the masses to look at things from the other
angle , teaching pre-programmed zombies to crush boxes and other interesting
things..........until ,eventually so much time had passed that the Mudshark
began to turn Yellow and he decided to move onward and upward into the cosmos as
a Yellow Shark, thus expounding his influence to a universal level......
However,
in his wake, there was a void......a world bereft of the musical wit &
experimentation we had come to know from the Mudshark ,.... a world destined to
wear its pants around its knees and tobelieve
that music is simply a background noize for reality TV and.......supermarket
shopping
The
family of the Mudshark tried its best to maintain the powerful legacy left with
the secret word ...but failed to understand its true meaning.....they remained
focused only on the supermarket shopping and became fixed on the question of
whether of not the Fish could also be seen as a Mudshark !
but then,
as time moved into another realm and the Mudsharks family became so swollen and
self-appreciating that is was unableto focus any more, and then....in a small corner of the world
....first of all very faintly ...but growing ever in stature as a strong tall
tree.......there was a new secret word.......and the new secret word was .......
DODO
could this be zappatika, live in paris, doing an acoustic
Zappa set?
2008 10 08
Re:
November ED MANN PROJECT
Hi
folks- nice that you are following this ...just so you know ..all the CONFIRMED
dates at this moment are on our Myspace page ,as is the new album THE SHORT BUT
LEGENDARY FLIGHT of the DODO that we launched last week at the Acoustic FZ Gig
in Paris- you can get the album now via Paypal from our Myspace for the Launch
price of only 11 Euros or wait til next month when its on i-Tunes...but that
will cost more !
N-y-way ....the first 5 free dowloadable tracks are also posted on Myspace
We
are playing Holland first on the 14th November in Leiden ,then again in December
in Eindhoven. Right now we are busy auditioning a new bassist -
bye for now !
Zomby
Woof ZAPPATiKA
2008 10 09 - ZAPPATIKA - NEW BASS PLAYER
Meet our NEW BASS PLAYER ! a strangeman who has spent years playing in oddly noizy bands pushing the outer
limits of experimental Rock music ! Recognizable by his enormous Blue Bass Stack
and twisted idea of humour this is THE PRINCE of SODOM !
The Prince of Sodom will join ZAPPATiKA on stagein November at the Dutch and UK gigs and he is now working furiously like
a eager little beaver under the merciless regime which he has gotten himself
involved with ! However, if he continues to develop as he is doing - we may even
let him plug in his Bass guitar !
On
14 November the British band ZAPPATiKA will perform for the first time ever in
The Netherlands , performing a set consisting mainly of Frank Zappa music and
some "own material"from
their new studio album
The
Short But Legendary Flight of the Dodo, which they launched at their last
concert ,recently in Paris.
The
upcoming show (the bands ONLY gig in Holland this year) , will be at QBUS in
Leiden ,Friday 14 November, and will be recorded Live for a current DVD project
the band is making. It is a subsidised show and so the entrance price is ONLY 2
euros !!
The
show will feature lots of the "wackier" Zappa numbers, like Titties N
Beer, Winoman, Cozmik Debris and much, much more !
There
is a limit of 250 people so , be early !The
show starts at 9pm !
International "Frank Zappa influenced" band
ZAPPATiKA (UK) will play just ONE show in Holland this year, in Leiden-
which will also be recorded as part of a 2009 DVD release.
The band has just released a new studio album , The
Short But Legendary Flight of the Dodo at a launch Concert in Paris, and
this only 2008 Dutch gig ,on Friday 14 November at QBUS in Leiden, will
feature some of those tracks plus many of Zappa's most popular
compositions !
As with all ZAPPATiKA concerts this will be a
"wild and unpredictable affair ,with a LOTS of fun and LOTS of
musical notes !"
Do
You Have A Second To Help Promote A Song?
Wanna help push a ZAPPATiKA song up the chart?
Just click the link and listen to at least 30 seconds of our new single SNAKEMAN
!
ZAPPATiKA
recently took on one ofHollands'finest as its new bass player and he is only 19 years old - ( his dad is
FZ freak so he grew up listening to the right stuff!)!
Ingo
a.k.a. The Kid was discovered when seen playing with his own local Blues band
RED FRIDGE and he has just performed his first concert with Zappatika (Video
below) which went extremely well........
The
Kid will be joining ZAPPATiKAon
his first tour in the UK in March and is already fitting in nice and greasy to
the music and the rest of the band!
when
we released the recent studio album ,Flight of the Dodo, we said we wanted to
get to some wider,younger audiences with this stuff.....
one of the tracks (Mysterious Masala)is
already doing pretty well at Soundclick ...in the Electronica Acid Dance genre !
click to listen .....
Whilst
ZAPPATiKA is working on the next "big" studio album STRICTLY FRANKLY
to follow on from their September 2008 release THE SHORT BUT LEGENDARY FLIGHT of
the DODO ..... they are releasing what they call a "coincidental cheep and
nasty Live CD" ,called LIVE AND KICKING on Monday 16 March to coincide with
the forthcoming UK and German tours.
The CD will be on sale at all gigs and also thru the bands Myspace and
Reverbnation sites from next week....and the price ?
A
staggeringly cheeeep and nasty -FIVE
...yes,... 5pound-euro-dollars
only !!!
The
track list on the LIVE AND KICKING CD is as follows;(all 100% Live)
ZAPPATiKA
trax: Spanish Highwayz,Thru the Wormhole,Mahavishnu Mind,My Little Pony,Dark
Room,Rainy Days,Space Flip,Leroy
Frank Zappa trax ; City of Tiny Lites,My Guitar wants to kill your
momma,Bamboozled by love, The Torture Never Stops,Winoman, Black Napkins &
Cosmik Debris
2009
03 31 - the astonishing Zappatika CREDIT CRUNCH SPECIAL !!
For
a limited period (until April 30th) YOU can now take advantage of this
wacky offer from ZAPPATiKA -
the
amazing Credit Crunch KICKING A LIVE DODO 2-in-1 Special-
Album
1 - THE SHORT BUT LEGENDARY FLIGHT of the DODO -Studio album released
Sept 26 2008
Album 2 - LIVE n KICKING (Live Stage album) - released March 2009
You
can buy BOTH of the above albums for only 12.50 (we know...its
crazy...but true)
by clicking theKICKING A
LIVE DODO button at www.myspace.com/zappatika
(This
deal is only available to Paypal account holders)
2009 06 29 - ZAPPATiKA's
Strictly Frankly Show hits the road this week in Holland
On
Saturday 4th July ZAPPATiKA will play the first in their 2009-2010 series of
Frank Zappa Musical Revue Shows which they aptly call STRICTY FRANKLY - a live
album of the same name will be released in 2010....
The new show is over two hours long and consists 99% of FZ material ranging from
WE ARE NOT ALONE, thru TITTIES N BEER, BLACK NAPKINS,CITY of TINY LITES,a little
COZMIK DEBRIS, WATERMELON in EASTER HAY ,SLEEP DIRT,some DIRTY LOVE and a bit ofSLIME and a good serving of TORTURE,all of this and much more Howie, all
of this and more....
The
band has just finished rehearsal of the new show and will perform the first show
in the series on Saturday 4th July in Holland at THE RAMBLER, in Eindhoven ~ Dates in France(SEPT09) , Belgium/Holland (OCT09) ,Germany(OCT09) and the
UK (NOV09) will be announced soon....
2009 07 03 - One
off DUTCH show ZAPPATiKA -Saturday 4th of July !!
This
Saturday (4th of July) ZAPPATiKA will play the 'warm-up' show for the
forthcoming STRICTLY FRANKLY MUSICAL REVUE tour ,featuring a gruelling new
2-hour set including couple of ZAPPATiKA 's own songs and for the rest ,100%
Frank Zappa !
Frontman Mcinnes ,"The tour will be in the Fall (Sep-Nov) and we hope to
fit dates into France,Belgium,Holland and the UK ,but for now we just want to
see that it all slides smoothly, stays greasy and goes down easy .This is a nice
little venue with a great sound and we didn't play in Holland for about a year
,so the whole band is really looking forward to Saturday !"
The
show starts at 21:30 , door open at 20:00
Venue : The Rambler Music Cafe - Eindhoven-Stationsplein
Bring a set of clean ears and a sense of humor !
2009 07 28
Mainstream side-project from ZAPPATiKA composers
Mcinnes and Dr Lau
The
two major architects of ZAPPATiKA music, Mcinnes and Dr Lau have also been
working for "about the last two years on this project which is
definitely non-guitar based and certainly much more mainstream than the
music we normally release with the band"
An
album release, aimed chiefly at Club audiences ,under the name RANDOMATIK
is set for release later this year but the first pre-release 'preview'
track DO U FEEL ME? , which also features Japanese pianist Kouji Ohsumi,
can currently be heard on Mcinnes' own Myspace page :
www.myspace.com/zapmcinnes
Definitely NOT rock music but very spaced out ! Give it a spin...you
might even enjoy it !
2009 08 27
Join us for the Zomby Woof Birthday Bash in Holland-October 17
Our guitar player (the big scary one,as opposed to the
cute small one) Zomby Woof will be celebrating his birthday on Saturday October
17th and to commemoremmorate this momentous occasion we will do a show at a nice
music venue called De Pul in a place
called UDEN in Holland.
We expect to have one or two guests up on stage as well during the evening...more on that later....
As it is his day ,Zomby Woof will choose the set list so there will definitely be a lot of Zappa and we will certainly all do our best
to play well, have a damn fine time,drink lots of damn fine beer, meet some damn fine women, have at least 2 hours of damn fine live music played by and listened
to by some damn fine people !
YOU ARE ALL, OF COURSE, INVITED !
cheers
mcinnes
ZAPPATiKA
2009 10 18
it
is rumoured .....
that
ZAPPATiKA will perform their studio album
The Short But Legendary Flight of the Dodo
for
the first time ever LIVE , on the main stage ,at midnight Saturday , August 14th
2010,
at ZAPPANALE #21 - Bad Doberan -Germany
......we
can now confirm that these rumours are true !
-- ZAPPATiKA
2010 02 10
ZAPPATiKA's
latest assets
Since
the end of 2009, ZAPPATiKA live shows have regularly featured the
talents of Dutch violin-lady KE, who also has appeared with Sheik
Yerbouti and ,for some years now,with Dutch FZ tribute The Foolz. She
has slotted into ZAPPATIKA-World very ,very well,despite being the only
girl ! (Or maybe because she's the only girl ?!)-but seriously folks,this girl can play that damn thing ! KE has
now been made official "keeper of the Pony" and will join
ZAPPATiKA onstage for all their main 2010 shows.
The
latest development within ZAPPATiKA, however, involves the addition of a
3rd (yes THIRD) guitar player !
DADDO
is a young,but gifted, Jazz Fusion guitarist/singer born in
former-Yugoslavia with a penchant for good music and high level audio
production. He takes to Zappa's music like a duck to water and brings a
whole lot to the table when it comes to ZAPPATiKA's own
compositions......the new line-up is now (Feb 2010) in rehearsal and
looking forward to the getting back on stage -
"This extra melodic
strength in the band,from a violin and 3rd guitar", says bandleader
Mcinnes, "has brought such a scope for arrangement and sound,using
midi-synth-tech, that we are doing mad stuff, lots of the crazy shit
from our Dodo album too !I
am confident the 2010 show will absolutely blow your socks off "
2010 03
ZAPPATiKA
have recently taken on two new members (Daddo and Ke) who have a huge amount of
music to learn, and,of course, the rest of us have to get used to this new 7
headed dragon too !
Rehearsals are going extremely well ,especially the Live versions of the Dodo
album, and lots of nice Unkle Frankie toonz, but there is still a-ways to go
before the new line up is 100% ready for the stage.....
Therefore,
in the interests of musical integrity and audience satisfaction, all ZAPPATiKA
touring plans have been put on hold until the Summer of 2010.
This
means that planned events in March ,April and May have now been postponed. This
includes all concerts in UK and Europe. We regret the inconvenience this might
cause fo some people, but assure you that the wait will definitely be worth it !
We will announce the first dates as soon as we are satisfied with the new Show.
In
the meantime we have just made the Live n Kickingalbum available at www.zappatika.bandcamp.comwhere YOU get to decide how much you pay. This download also
includes a lot of free BONUS items including Pix,Sleev notes,Vidz and more......
thanks
for your understanding....
Zap
Mcinnes ZAPPATiKA
2010
03 -- Trying to keep up with a tradition, here's some small talk with one of the
bands that will be performing at the next Zappanale festival.
Here's Zappatika!
UniMuta:
Hard to imagine that
the readers of United Mutations do not know who Zappatika is, but could you
introduce yourself / the band?
mcinnes
/ Zappatika: i am Mcinnes, a sort of British musician....i moved to europe
in 96 to 'expand horizons'and found myself (surprise,surprise)in Amsterdam......our drummer ,Batta-Tutti, and i started out together in
another band back then (97-98), called Purple Void, but after a while realised
that we were both pushing things to a very 'zappa-esque'edge which some of the other members of PV didn't really like/couldn't
really get into......
and
at that time, (2002) after Purple Void split, we decided to start our
"dream" project whereby we would play only our own music (no matter
how obscure or tricky it might be written) and of course, our favourite Zappa
numbers and try to create a damn fine 21st century extremely alternative band
with no clear genre or industry-influenced boundaries....a band where 'anything
is possible'
The
original line up was sketchy and temporary to say the least,but then ,over time
and trials, we found the right muso's for the gig (Zomby Woof,Bongo Fury,The
Kid) who added the right ingredients to start baking the perfect Z-cake !
This
gradual organic development continue to this day and we have just become a
7-headed monster with an additional (3rd) guitarist, Daddo, and a very talented
violinist.(K)..whom i believe your informed readers will know very well !
UniMuta:
So
you're headlining Zappanale on Saturday! Performing at midnight. How do you feel
about that?
mcinnes
/ Zappatika: Can i swear ? ...yea, well fucking
amazing is the only thing i can say. When Thomas called and asked if we would
play some of our own music too ,it really blew me away. I spend half my life
plugged into a recording consol ,and writing ....so when you get asked to
perform some of that at a gig like Zappanale it is ....well,quite humbling.
We
would have been happy to play the Carpark on Monday morning...but Saturday nite
Midnite is a bit of a dream come true really. We promise EVERY person in the
place that we will do whatever we can to make it a fine, funny and memorable
show !
UniMuta:
Will
the fact that you'll be playing at midnight have an effect on the setlist? And
will the addition of a violin and an extra guitar turn Zappatika into a jam
band?
mcinnes
/ Zappatika: Well we will be on stage for a long.....long set (nearly
2 hours) and we will cover LOTS of stuff ranging from many
"sing-a-long-a-Zappa"favourites to our own little ditties and also,for the first time live on
stage, some of the "blended' FZ / Zappatika stunt-guitar-dance-rock stuff
on our Dodo album...we are now working hard on the new 7-piece arrangements
,which is all going extremely well, and the sound at Zappanale will just be
massive....
the
show starts at midnite so we will probabaly be pretty well stimulated and,shall
we say, uninhibited ,by then.....and honestly.........we have no idea what may
happen !
UniMuta:
Listening
to Zappatika originals, I can tell that you're not only in to Frank Zappa &
The Mothers. Who are your main musical influences?
mcinnes
/ Zappatika: my first big influence was actually Bolan, the Electric Warrior
album turned me on to electric guitar at the age of 10...it was a masterpiece
for its time and i still listen to it even now....also Alex Harvey ,Bowie and
Alice Cooper had a strong 'emotional' influence on my eventual attempts to write
stuff.....as a guitarist i was Jimi's as a teenager and FZ was a kind of vague
spectre .....when i was 17, i sat through Live in NY and Overnight Sensation
...........since then.....well i dont need to tell you...
UniMuta:
Looking at the
future, how do you see Zappatika evolving the next couple of years?
mcinnes
/ Zappatika: there are lots of plans in the mix....we
will release the Strictly Frankly DVD Tribute (100 % FZ material) sometime this
year...working on that now.....might be ready for Zappanale, and we are in
negotiation with some really interesting countries (like Latvia ,Hungary and
Romania) about festivals and shows...we will probably keep doing short tours in
North Europe where possible ,but we have been very busy the last 2 years so we
are starting 2010 in a relaxed way,just working on the new material and working
the new players in....we will be back out on stage toward the Summer....also
there is a vague plan forming about doing something in the US in 2011...but we
will have to see about that.....apart from that The Kid (Bassist) and i just cut
the first parts on some stuff for the next studio album....
UniMuta:
Zappanale will have
another great line-up. Are there bands that you really want to see?
mcinnes
/ Zappatika: well, Ray White is one of our heroes ,so it would be gret if he
makes it!Of course, JL Ponty is an interesting one...and it would be nice to hear
Bobby Martin on one or two FZ classics ........but i think probably EVERY band
who has been booked will be great -actually Lilo played with us at our Acoustic
FZ set in Paris in '08, (there is a video of that somewhere online) he is a cool
guy and a good player....
i
guess, right now, we are just looking forward to being a part of it.
UniMuta:
I, for one, am
really looking forward to the Zappatika concert. Thanks
for your time & see you at Zappanale!
mcinnes
/ Zappatika: thanks for your support man, and your
great site
we,
for 7, are looking forward to it too- see you there !
cheers
-zap
mcinnes
2010 05 10
Myspace Zappaesque Blast ?
hhmmm....not really sure how or why,......but recently our humble little Myspace
page has, quite simply, exploded with daily increases over recent days in site
visits and music plays, which are now bordering on the ridiculous !
maybe the world is finally realising that Le Genre Zappaesque is just better
than all that commercial shit out there...i dont know....i am not qualified to
give an opinion.....
but if,like me, you want a shock - just go check out the daily plays (looks
astounded !!) www.myspace.com/zappatika
.....just hope that they all enjoy what they hear and that they all send us a
dollar right away!
see ya
Zappatika
2010 02 12
After
some months of rehearsing with a whole bunch of new players-a violinist (Ke),2nd
Drummer (The Sarge)and 3rd Guitarist (Daddo), the new 9 piece ZAPPATiKA line up
will hit the road,for the first time,in June 2010 and promises to deliver some
'dynamite shows' !
With
a warm up gig in early June in Holland and then probably straight to Paris in
the third week of June and then back to Holland and on to Germany ,for the 21st
Zappanale festival, and then a couple of weeks off and on toItaly,the band plans a busy Summer ahead - they will be cranking lots of
Frank of course, but also blasting off a whole bunch of their own very
alternative littlenumbers !
Try
to make sure you catch at least one of the shows !You wont be sorry......
ZAPPATiKA
will play one concert in Paris this summer.
The
date Saturday 26 June.
The address: 61 rue de la Santé - 75013 Paris
Promoter: Small World Promotions
See you there for a great evening of musical debauchery and on stage
lunacy !
the truth is out there...
24
Sept.2014 -
Zap
Mcinnes "following a little suggestion from one certain Mr Ike
Willis,after completion of a very nice tour earlier this year,we
ZAPPATiKA'ns have been hot on the search for "the right guy with
the right fingers" to join our merry band on tour merry highway to
certain Hell !
Well,
now we finally gots 'im ,my precious !
Meet
FRED HANDL ,a writer,critic,philosopher and of course,damn fine pianist
who hails from The Hague in The Netherlands. Fred is a through and
through Zappa Freak and has long been working with Franks' music. He is
actually currently arranging a whole album of FZ scores rearranged for
Solo Piano !
Fred and the chaps are hard at it in the Rehearsal Room and he will
hopefully be ready to join the band on stage later this year.
April 8th - ASHFORD
April 9th - LONDON (Camden)- Underground
April 10th - OXFORD (Witney) - Fat Lil's
April 11th - EXETER - Phoenix Arts Centre
April 12th - NORTHAMPTON - King Billy Rock Bar
April 13th - EDINBURGH - La Belle Angel
April 14th - CARLISLE - The Venue
April 15th - LIVERPOOL - The Zanzibar Club
April 16th - DERBY - The Hairy Dog
April 17th - YORK - Fibbers
April 18th - BARNSLEY
April 19th - BIRMINGHAM - The Roadhouse
April 20th - SWANSEA - The Scene Club
April 21st - CHELTENHAM - Frog & Fiddle
April 22nd - TAUNTON (Bridgwater) - Cobblestones
2008 V#1 Mark Mcinnes, Maarten van Zeijl, Laurens Kagenaar, Ingo
Oosterbaan, Tal Wilkins, Jeroen van Dam
2009 V#2 Mark Mcinnes, Maarten van Zeijl, Tal Wilkins, Jeroen van Dam,
Ingo Oosterbaan
2010-2012 V#3 Mark Mcinnes, Maarten van Zeijl, Tal Wilkins, Ingo
Oosterbaan, Annamieke Schoonderwalt, Dador Dedic, Jeroen van Dam, Coen
Siersma plus ,for the first time, a certain Mr Ike Willis at Zappanale
2010 !
2014 V#4 Mark Mcinnes, Maarten van Zeijl, Tal Wilkins, Joep Oosterbaan,
Jeroen van Dam, Fred Handl - plus Ike Willis
2015 V#5 Mark Mcinnes, Maarten van Zeijl, Joep Oosterbaan , Fred Handl,
Jeroen van Dam, Coen Siersma, plus Ike Willis, Jeff Hollie, Denny
Walley, Ed Mann & Twister Steward
2016 -2017 V#6 Mark Mcinnes, Joep Oosterbaan, Jeroen van Dam, Diego
Mocci, Emile de Jonge, Osman Meyredi
2018-2020 V#7 Mark Mcinnes, Ike Willis, Osman Meyredi, Emile de Jonge,
Joep Oosterbaan, Sander van Elferen (plus random guests)
