“……the spirit of the “fAT stINGRays” presents the new born culture shock “theBODi.es” the experience beyond sex!

In the year 2003 a significant event caused a heavy cultural impact in Germany especially in Frankfurt Rhein-Main at the moment, when the fAT stINGRays decided to shake the music world once more with thunderous Punk music based on the idols of the Sex Pistols, The Ruts or the UK Subs.

At the beginning the establishment was smiling at the ambitions of the band, of which three members were amateur musicians, with a financial advisor on guitar, a banker on bass guitar and a heart surgeon on drums and only one professional, the vocalist and lead guitarist known as The Captain.

After a series of gigs in the region of Hesse, enhanced with a real ‘Special Guest’ on stunt-guitar the competition had to realize and accept very soon, that the fAT stINGRays had to be taken as a serious power force.

The impertinence and briskness how they played the mix of Power-Pop-Punk has even reached the hearts of the most critical audience immediately. At a very fast pace they established to be a cornerstone in the well known Blues-Rock Club “Spritzehaus”. Meanwhile they entered the stages of famous clubs and concert halls in the Frankfurt Rock-Scene like the “Nachtleben”, the “Sinkkasten” or the “Batschkapp” like a thunderstorm.

Their set-list included cover-versions of Ramones- and Sex Pistols-classics, surely as well self penned originals and a selection of surprising and speedy material like e.g. songs from the Beatles, Kinks or Duran Duran. A concert highlight always was their version of Kylie Minogue’s smash hit “Can’t get out of my head”, which also was released on their studio album “soME like it fAT” in December 2005. Needless to say the album, being a strictly limited edition, turned to be one of the highest paid “Collector’s Items”.

The band won over with their coolness to perform their songs depending on their daily mood and to extend their concerts to happenings of extravaganza, of which the meanwhile fully integrated band member on stunt- guitar, Clay Stroker a.k.a. Nik Petrek, was responsible for a big part of it. Though the fAT stINGRays surprised their audience also with concerts strictly unplugged or they played club-gigs with vintage instruments and equipment only, with which they celebrated the original sound of Rock’n’Roll up to climax.

On 21dec2006 the fAT stINGRays said good-bye to The Captain at their show in the ‘Batschkapp’, a hefty night with ‘Peter and the Test Tube Babies’ as headliner.

However the band as quartet has taken a very long time to prepare something, which once started with a lot of enthusiasm involved as the fAT stINGRays to be a nice thing, but which meanwhile is developing to the real thing. In autumn 2007 after Clay Stroker asked for a sabbatical leave and Max Steel had to fulfil his  obligation as financial adviser full time, Harry Shaft and Derek Hammer were joined by two new partners the young pushers Colt Diamond and Charles Cumalot. This high explosive mixture out of two old buddies and two  young lads let the past to forget and caused the fAT stINGRays to mutate to theBODi.es!

The concept in general has not changed, but the new influences increased significantly. For example songs of Jimi Hendrix- or Die Ärzte and of course a variety of new own originals have been taken as new milestones in theBODi.es’ repertoire. Even the bass playing vocalist meanwhile slims down his stomach, in order to embrace the culture shock as a body physically.

Surely most important for us, theBODi.es, to be proud of is our unlimited and never ending fun to unload all our energies until collapsing….

“pure dirty Rock’n’Roll” !

theBODi.es

Investment Punker

10April1870
Hillvalleyhill
Emmental/Switzerland

vocals & bass

Fender & Gibson

QUOTE:
‘Jetzt gibt’s ‘was auf die Fresse !!!’ or ‘Crucial, my dreadful torture will be cheap!’

Heart Surgeon

14Apr1872
Frankfurt
Greece or Germany,
has decided for
FRITZ

drums

Premier

QUOTE:
‘No, I play it like this for a reason, it’s not a bug,
Derek, it’s a feature!’

locomotive dreamer

12Jun2088
DeFlorina
Greece

stunt guitar & vocals

Gibson, PRS & Ibanez

QUOTE:
‘Malaka, I’ve seen it, the drummer played wrong….!’

Heartbreaker and GateCrasher

03Nov1976
the only German being born somewhere in Germany only.

blues guitar & vocals

Gibson & Fender

QUOTE:
‘What does ‘aprilloth’ mean, Gumiris?’

Speed-Photo-Design

18Dec2085 and 03Jul09
New Izenborough
GerMoney

shooting & creating

Nikon DSLR’s, MacBook Pro 17″, Adobe Stuff

QUOTE:
‘Derek, 11c is not enough…. 1 Kilo is a must!’