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Bat-BioBatmobile was founded 1983. After several months of covering Elvis Presley, Johnny Burnette and Gene Vincent, Jeroen Haamers (vocals/guitar), Johnny Zuidhof (drums) and Eric Haamers (double bass) decided to start to write their own material and all of a sudden people started to call the mental Dutch threesome 'psychobillies'.
In 1985 the first Batmobile album was released, which led to international recognition. For the first time a non-british band headlined all international psychobilly festivals.
The second half of the eighties and the first half of the nineties the band is touring through Germany, France, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and England. The band is headlining numerous times in the legendary KlubFoot in London.
The releases of the band are consistent in the concept of sounding different every time. The band hates to cover itself so the Batmo gents are always in search of new sounds within the rockabilly/psychobilly spectrum. This leads to the very first (and ever so often copied) metal-sounds within the scene on their 1988 realease Bail's Set...... but ofcourse also to the back to basics release Amazons from Outer Space (1989) and the massive concept mini-album Batmobile is Dynamite (1990). If ever there's a band ahead of things within rockabilly/psychobilly it's Batmobile.
In 1997 the band waves psychobilly goodbye and introduces their own brand of Rock n Roll B-music. Like in a B-film, B-music stand for B-musicians, bad (read: funny) jokes, horror, nakid women and having the time of your life. So theres not a big difference with decent psychobilly.
The second half of the nineties Batmobile does a lot of concerts in the Jukebox Tour in which the audience decides what the band should play. Their first concert in New York is being taped and released on film and will be the last concert before a 3 year break.
In 2001 the album titled A Tribute To Batmobile is released on a Japanese label. On the album all kinds of bands from all over the world play Batmobile songs. Batmobiles own contribution on the album is called Baby Go Back Home. In 2003 'A Tribute to Batmobile part 2' was released and the band recorded the song Deep Down for it.
In 2003 the band makes one live appearance in Germany which makes Batmobile decide to start doing more live performances again starting 2004. Since then they have been doing concerts in the Netherlands, Japan, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Brazil and the US/Hollywood.
Now the band just contributed a live version of Kiss Me Now on the Kaiser Records 'Soundtrack to Oblivion' and has recorded the old Warren Smith classic Ubangi Stomp for the Stray Cats Tribute record 'Go Cat Go' for Baseline Music.
Releases: 1985 Batmobile - Kix 4 U
1987 Bambooland - Count Orlok
1988 Bails set at $ 6.000.000 - Nervous
1988 Buried alive Count Orlok
1989 Amazons from outer space - Count Orlok
1990 Batmobile is dynamite - Count Orlok
1991 Sex starved - Count Orlok
1991 Batmobile in Japan 1991 - Live video - Count Orlok
1992 Hard Hammer hits - Count Orlok
1992 CD single Midnight Maniac- Count Orlok
1993 Blast from the past, the worst and the best - Count Orlok
1993 CD single Shoot Shoot - Count Orlok
1995 Shake your pagodas, drop your kimonos, Batmobile strikes again - live video - Count Orlok
1997 Welcome to planet cheese - Count Orlok
Various compilations:
Psycho attack over Europe 1 & 2
Stomping at the Klubfoot 3&4
Fistful of pussies
Rock n Horreur
DVD Stomping at the Klubfoot
2001 A Tribute to Batmobile (various artists) - Downer records
2004 A Tribute to Batmobile II (various artists) Downer records
2005 AMP-Magazine vol 5: Psychobilly
2006 Go Cat Go ; A Tribute to the Stray Cats
2006 Soundtrack to Oblivion - Kaiser Records
Batmobile at the Knitting Factory, Hollywood Showdown 2005:
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Batmobile in the KlubFoot 1986
Batmobile: The Scum in Hollywood
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Member Since: 3/3/2006
Band Website: angelfire.com/band/batmobile
Band Members: Jeroen Haamers - vocals and guitar
Eric Haamers - (double) bass
Johnny Zuidhof - drums
Influences: Johnny Burnette
Elvis
Motörhead
ACDC
Link Wray
Ramones
Sounds Like: Elvis on speed
Funny Rockabilly
Wild Rock and Roll

Record Label: Count Orlok
Nervous
Kix 4U
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New date for the Batmo-show in Belgium (Vorsselaer)

Please note that the date of our show in Zaal Edma in the Belgian Vorsselaer has been changed from october 25th to november 7th.
Posted by Batmobile on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:57:00 PST

New songs on our Myspace page

I added a few 'new' songs on the Myspace pages......from 1988, 89, 90.....real new ;-) Anyway, we're actually working on some new recordings. I will keep you posted about that here.
Posted by Batmobile on Fri, 23 May 2008 01:06:00 PST

1983-2008: Batmobiles 25th Anniversary

So here we have it. The only band in this scene that lasted 25 years with the same line up. Due to that, Batmo is the best live act in this scene and we're doing some shows again to prove that: June 2...
Posted by Batmobile on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:21:00 PST

Batmo works on Crazy Cavan tribute

Boz Boorer took the initiative for a tribute to Crazy Cavan. There will be quite some great rockabilly artists working along with that project. Batmobile is recording four versions of the fantastic "F...
Posted by Batmobile on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:20:00 PST

Bashing Batmo Babes

In our old fanzine the Bonk-O-Beat we used to have a special 'slut of the month'. We decided to renew that tradition online, so we asked around for pictures for the Bashing Batmo Babes. The first...
Posted by Batmobile on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:54:00 PST

Video Batmobile Kiss Me Now 2007

Check deze video: Batmobile im Club Vaudeville 06.09.2007 Aan mijn Profiel Toevoegen | Meer videoThis is a clip shot from a mobile phone at Club Vaudeville in Lindau (G) 06.09.2007...
Posted by Batmobile on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:40:00 PST

Check deze video: Batmobile at a private party

Check deze video: Batmobile at a private party Aan mijn Profiel Toevoegen | Meer video...
Posted by Batmobile on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:05:00 PST

St. Petersburg

We went over to St. Petersburg again last weekend and it was fantastic.......again. It was wonderful to see old friends. The show was a succes, sold out, a hysterical crowd. Sometimes they made more n...
Posted by Batmobile on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:58:00 PST

Batmobile flyers

OK by special request I put up some flyers from shows we did. There's some funstuff there. Have a look in our picture section
Posted by Batmobile on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:28:00 PST

Batmo in Antwerp

So last week we played at the Rockabilly Psychosis night in Antwerp, together with the Milwaukee Wildmen, Spellbound, Long Tall Texans and the fabulous Rochee and the Sarnos, who let me play Gay Cowbo...
Posted by Batmobile on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:46:00 PST