After their successful European tour in May C.W. Stoneking & His Primitive Horn Orchestra are back for some more concerts.

"a young Australian who manages to sound like a New Orleans veteran" - The Guardian

When Seasick Steve introduced CW Stoneking to the stage at the Barbican's Folk America festival in London last year he said how he was turned onto him by Charlie Gillett and laughed as he told the audience "This boy's lost in the 1920s and 30s. He's not kind of, he really lost". What followed was a prime lesson in how to steal a show as CW, along with his band The Primitive Horn Orchestra, proceeded to swing their way through a set of what he calls blues, hokum and jungle music that led the Observer to proclaim "hearing Stoneking perform live is, somehow, like listening to an old 78 recovered from a dusty attic in New Orleans".

Born in the secluded town of Katherine, Australia to American parents (his father, the author - and occasional screenwriter for TV shows such as Mission Impossible - Billy Marshall Stoneking, emigrated in the 70s - "the bumper stickers said, 'America, love it or leave it'. So I left.") and then brought up in the Aboriginal community of Papunya (pop. 299) his love of the blues was nurtured in his teens and his skill as a writer and performer honed in some of the most God-forsaken bars of Australia's outback before travelling the country solo and then with the band The Blue Tits. His debut album King Hokum - released in 2006 - led to the kind of international acclaim that allowed him extensive tours of the USA and Europe and was followed in 2009 by the release of Jungle Blues.

Check the tourdates on this website and on his myspace: www.myspace.com/cwstoneking.

This summer you'll find our bands on festivals all over Europe. In July, for instance, The Apers will be playing HolzRock in Schopfheim (D), Accelerators are on the bill at Back To The Future in Glaubitz (D) and Dead Elvis & His One Man Grave can be seen on Weistock, Lottum (NL). Check out the posters below!

Accelerators have some nice gigs coming up in the next few weeks. Upcoming Monday, June 28th, the guys are supporting the punkrock all-time favorites NOFX on their show at Melkweg, Amsterdam. The show is sold out for weeks now, but if you are lucky and have a ticket, this will probably be a big party! Be sure to be on time, Accelerators start at 8 p.m.



On July 4th the yearly new music festival Metropolis takes place in Rotterdam. Many cool bands found their way to fame in The Netherlands and elsewhere after playing this festival. This year Accelerators are also in invited to do a gig there, a huge honor! Other names on the bill are Baroness, Babylon Circus, The Mad Trist, Hausmagger, amongst others. A lot of good reasons to go there, we suppose…

Totally new to our roster are the Seattle based garage-punkers from The Whore Moans. Their music is as cool as their bandname is. Check our their lastes From Radio Wasteland on Mt. Fuji Records. A tour is being booked in November.

www.myspace.com/thewhoremoanssuck
www.mtfujirecords.com

Our good friends from The Apers joined forces with us. We already booked European shows for them but from now on we take care of their Benelux shows too. The punkrock don't stop!. You're Only As Strong As The Table You Dance On is their latest record to date on the famous Asian Man Records. Most recent Pentecost The Apers did shows in Italy after about half a year without any shows because of some voice problems. With newly gained energy these poppunk veterans are totally back!

www.myspace.com/apers
www.asianmanrecords.com/

Christopher William Stoneking - abbreviated as C.W. Stoneking - is an old soul in a young body. Pre-war blues, bluegrass, roots and jazz, as if the best man comes directly from a time machine. With his Primitive Horn Orchestra - complete with authentic instruments - he travels around the world to convince people with his historical message.