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The Mongol Beach Party

About Me


The Mongol Beach Party is inappropriately festive.


Flower Head Man Tees and Camis

Kansas City artist (and Mark's spouse) Peregrine Honig designed this beautiful image for us. We asked her if she could update the "flower head man" that appeared on our cassette demo back in 1991--and currently serves as the background image on this page. She didn't just update it, she fully reimagined it as only she can. The t-shirts and camis are white cotton from American Apparel and cost $15.

Visit mongolbeachparty.com to order!

Toast: reburn on sale now!

To celebrate their December 2008 reunion show, the Mongols remastered their 1991 release Toast, added five bonus tracks and rereleased it as Toast: reburn . All the songs you (or possibly your parents) remember, plus a few more from the vaults.

NOTE: The cds are currently out of stock but YOU CAN STILL BUY TOAST! When you follow the link to our CD Baby page, click the "add MP3 to cart" button on the left hand side, inside the gray box. You will receive the music and artwork all zipped up and ready to download. Buy it now! Images/review from the reunion shows:

Forester Michael: Images from saturday, 12/19/2008
The Pitch - Wayward Blog: Mongol Beach Party Reunion, Second Night
Cheevyjames' Musical Roundhouse: The Mongol Beach Party 12/19-20/08

Pre-reunion press clippings:

Present Magazine: Mongol Beach Party - The Interview
KCUR - 89.3 FM: The Mongol Beach Party Re-Releases CD...
The Kansas City Star: Mongol Beach Party will get its groove on...
Sun Publications: Mongols Attack!
The Pitch: Critic's Choice: Mongol Beach Party

The Mongols perform "Shiny Suit" at the recordBar, 12/19/2008

The Mongols perform "Jigsaw Man" at the recordBar, 12/19/2008

How did the Mongols change your life?

Live at the Human Observation Lab - 1989
--thanks to Leo Wetherill

Toast: reburn, featuring newly remastered versions of the original songs plus five bonus tracks. CDs and MP3s available for purchase on the same page. Buy it now!

Special thanks to Present Magazine

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 17/08/2008
Band Website: www.mongolbeachparty.com
Band Members:

Jeff Freling – guitars, vocals

Current projects:

    Jeff Freling and the Rock Squad Tributosaurus Blue Man Group - Chicago The Gentlemen's Club


Kyle Dahlquist – trombone, cornet

Current projects:

    alacartoona


Bill Belzer – drums

Current projects:

    The New Amsterdams


Scott Easterday – bass, vocals

Current projects:

    Expassionates


Mark Southerland – saxophone

Current projects:

    Snuff Jazz Wee Snuff Malachy Papers


Christian Hankel – vocals, percussion

Current projects:

    alacartoona


Tickets on sale now!

Click here for info!

Influences: Steely Dan, The Police, XTC, The Smiths, Rush, The Cure, Elvis Costello, Pere Ubu, Van Halen, King Crimson, Herbie Hancock, BCR, Captain Beefheart, Lloyd Cole (and the Commotions), Paquito d'Rivera, Richard Alwyn , Beastie Boys, Hunters & Collectors, Stevie Wonder, The Buzzcocks, Laurie Anderson, Trip Shakespeare, James, The Clash, Adam & the Ants, Ornette Coleman, Everything But the Girl...oh, and the Beatles
Sounds Like: The most fun you've ever had in your life:
    Hook-heavy guitar riffs Speed-demon bass lines Funky, soulful horns Sweet-Jesus-I'm-on-fire! drums Dance-pop-aliscious, latin-groovesque, sweat-till-you-end-up-in-a-strangers-bed party music Cut-through-the-corn horns Non-stop live lovin' action Stuff-it-down-yer-pie-hole horns

Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Article about Jeff in the KC Star

This is pretty cool.Tim Finn of the KC Star wrote an article about Jeff's Chicago music carreer for today's preview section of the Kansas City Star.Check it out:  http://www.kansascity.com/enter...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:32:00 GMT

Two new Mongol articles came out today.

Greetings all!Two of our city's media outlets were kind enough to publish articles about the Mongol Beach Party today.  Vi Tran from KCMetropolis.com posted this article about the Mongols settin...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:37:00 GMT

The Mongols on 90.1 KKFI: Wed Aug 20, 11:00 AM

Howdy all!Jeff, Billy, Kyle and I are going to be on Mark Manning's show today at 11:00.  We're going to talk all things Mongol and maybe even play one of our new songs.Tune in to 90.1 FM, KKFI ...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:25:00 GMT

Article in PresentMagazine.com

Hello all!Well, today begins our week of practices leading up to the shows on Friday and Saturday.  Jeff's on his way from Chicago, and the rest of us are preparing in our own special ways--I th...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:57:00 GMT

First practice last night - new songs in the works!

We worked on the new songs and practiced the old ones.  Holy crap but it was fun!  Two more practices, tonight and Friday, then Jeff heads back to Chicago until the week of the shows.------...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:33:00 GMT

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Two years ago, a film maker set up shop in the recordBar for 72 hours, recording three nights of live music and three days of interviews with local musicians.The resulting film, 72 musicians, just pr...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:29:00 GMT

August 22

Hello friends,Christian here.  In case you were wondering what our plans were after the reunion show last December, I'm here to tell you that we've been wondering, too.  We went into that weekend with...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:05:00 GMT

In the works

One thing's for sure, and that's that we all had an amazing time performing together last December.  We had so much fun, in fact, that we've decided to do it some more.We're short on details at this p...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:16:00 GMT

Mongols in the news

Several of your hard working Mongols are in the news this week:alacartoona, Christian's and Kyle's current theatrical music project, was awarded an Inspiration Grant from the ArtsKC Fund.  They will...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:48:00 GMT

Thanks!

Thank you all so much for coming out on Friday and Saturday.  We all had a blast.  It was a joy to be together on stage again and to see so many of you from back in the day.Keep an eye on th...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:38:00 GMT