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About Me

The Voodoo Kreepers hail from New Zealand at the bottom of the world and were born by way of a concert called the Alley Kat Stomp in April of 2006. Guitarist / Vocalist Ricki was one of the organizers of the event and knew he could throw a band together quickly to open up for Australian band The Bobkats. A quick rehearsal was had as a 4 piece, with friend Alan Lavis guesting on guitar. Only 2 originals were written at that time and performed along with many cover songs to fill the set.

After the Alley Kat Stomp was over, Ricki, Julian and Geoff never found time between other committments to get together and rehearse. UNTIL NOW. Yet again the Voodoo Kreepers found themselves faced with an offer of a gig they couldnt refuse. To open for Slim Jim Phantom of the legendary Stray Cats. Well with only 5 weeks to that gig the boys put their heads down and got to writing a bunch of songs. That show turned out to be an absolute success for The Voodoo Kreepers, winning a whole new set of fans young and old.

How does one describe the Voodoo Kreepers? In a world where stating a genre can often pigeonhole a band, The Voodoo Kreepers arent afraid to step outside their foundation of rockabilly and suck the life out of other styles of music. Whether it be country, country rock and country and western, they do it all. And just like their sexual performace in the sack, The Voodoo Kreepers will leave you wanting more. The Voodoo Kreepers do for rockabilly what Viagra does for Ron Jeremy. They will get you hard in one song, thats right, thats a guarantee!

If you want to be cooler than your friends, then start bragging about how you listened to The Voodoo Kreepers before everyone else did, trust me, this will help you score with members of the opposite sex in no time. Our new CD "Fistful of Voodoo' is now available and you can score your copy by emailing us at our address below. For all bookings and inquiries you can contact Ricki at [email protected] Get your Kreep on coz we gunna kick your ass!!

The Voodoo Kreepers live at Beach Hop 07. Thanks to Rob and Ruth for the footage.

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Member Since: 11/3/2006
Band Website: this is it. i play guitar not do websites damn it
Band Members: Drums, Julian - He plays the living shit out of themDouble Bass, Geoff - Looks like he should be playing in a reggae band, but his prowess over the double bass has to be seen to be believed. Geoff has his hand in many pies as a session player playing for the likes of Donald Ried, Sharp Dressed Men and the Recliner Rockers. he is also a writer and designer for NZ Musician magazine. Guitar and Vocal, Ricki - he lives, breaths and eats and craps rock and roll, old guitars, tattoos and old cars. But he sells his soul 4 nights a week and plays at Danny Doolan's bar in the Auckland Viaduct in an acoustic duo playing Coldplay and shit like that. But it pays the bills and keeps the chops up. Ricki also narrates on a hot rod tv show in NZ called The Red Shift
Influences: All sorts. Stray Cats, Reverend Horton Heat, New Kids on The Block, Chrome Daddies, Mark Winchester, Your mum, Brad Paisley, Vince Gill, Dwight Yoakham, Jim Beam, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Big Bag Voodoo Daddy's, Britney Spears, ZZ Top, The King, The Blasters, Duke Wilde, Heineiken, Chet Atkins, Mr Johnny Cash, Jim Reeves, Roy Buchanan, Danny Gatton, Jagermeister, the Retro Rockets, Metallica, Jeff Beck. the list goes on.
Sounds Like: You be the judge
Record Label: Unsigned. Sign us as give us shitloads of cash
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Greazefest - Day Four and Five - The Novel

Greazefest 2007 Day Four and Five ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Well, it took me a while to get this sorted, but here's Day Four for you all. Sunday...
Posted by The Voodoo Kreepers on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:07:00 PST

Greazefest - Day Three

Greazefest 2007 Day Three ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Ah, Saturday. What a great day this was to be. We were once again woken to the sweet chirpi...
Posted by The Voodoo Kreepers on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:57:00 PST

GREAZEFEST - DAY TWO

Greazefest 2007 Day Two ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Friday morning, and we're awoken by the gentle clatter that is a HUGE construction site in the...
Posted by The Voodoo Kreepers on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:30:00 PST

GREAZEFEST - DAY ONE

Greaze Fest 2007 Day one Thursday 2nd August Well, the day had finally dawned for us to head to Brizneyland, Australia. We had our share of hard times leading up to this day, but all was finally i...
Posted by The Voodoo Kreepers on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:08:00 PST

Voodoo Kreepers now on MSN - come chat

Hey guys. just letting you all know that I have now set up MSN messenger - finally caught up with the modern times. So feel free to add us and come have a chat anytime you like. if im online i will st...
Posted by The Voodoo Kreepers on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:02:00 PST

Ricki takes possession of his new guitar

Thats right peoples. Many will know that I'm a Gretsch man through and through. However, due to the increasing rarity of my lovely guitars and our travelling overseas, I decided it to be a safe bet to...
Posted by The Voodoo Kreepers on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:28:00 PST

You can now Download

..> Hey guys. we have decided we would love all our friends to be able to download our tunes 'Getaway Deuce' and 'Blood Brother' to your computer, so you can listen to them whenever you want. So p...
Posted by The Voodoo Kreepers on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:44:00 PST

Ricki scores a new job - you wont believe it

Well, many of you may not know yet, but I recently had to let go of writing for NZV8 magazine which was a very difficult decision for me to make. I cant thank Todd and the team enough for all their ti...
Posted by The Voodoo Kreepers on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:28:00 PST

go check out this band

yo, do yourselves a favour and go check out Wes Pudsey and the Sonic Aces. We got to see these guys live at Beach Hop, and they just blew us away. Great tunes, great guys, great CD. Theyre in our top ...
Posted by The Voodoo Kreepers on Wed, 09 May 2007 08:21:00 PST

Full on

as you might guess, it has been full on here. we have completed recording our debut cd (demo). featuring 9 tracks in all we recorded live just standing in a room together. the tracks have a real nice ...
Posted by The Voodoo Kreepers on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:22:00 PST