Bambi Kino is a band formed in 2009 by four members of notable
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indie rock
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groups, including
Doug Gillard
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and
Ira Elliot
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, to play music of the early 1960s for a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the first
Beatles concerts in Hamburg, Germany. The group debuted in Hamburg in 2010 and continues to perform.
Musical career
Bambi Kino was formed in New York in anticipation of 2010's fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles' first
shows in Hamburg.
[ The project was created to cover songs from the formative 1960–1962 pre-celebrity era of ]The Beatles in Hamburg
The original lineup of the Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best regularly performed at different clubs in Hamburg, West Germany, during the period from August 1960 to December 1962; a chapter in ...
and at the Cavern Club
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The Cavern Club opened in 1957 as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the late 50s and early 1960s. The club became closely assoc ...
.[ "Mark and Ira toured through Hamburg in the band Maplewood the previous year and saw that there was nothing planned anywhere to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Fabs’ life-changing first run in Germany," Gillard said in 2014. "So they brainstormed and came up with the Bambi Kino concept. Let’s play the covers they played in Hamburg, and in their style, nothing written past 1962."
The group's name was taken from the Bambi Kino, a movie theater in Hamburg, described as squalid, where the Beatles lived in cramped storerooms.][
The founding members were guitarist Mark Rozzo (Maplewood and Champale), guitarist Doug Gillard ( Guided by Voices), drummer Ira Elliot (]Nada Surf
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), and bassist Erik Paparazzi (Cat Power
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).[ Gillard had previously been a member of ]Death of Samantha
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and Cobra Verde
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, among other notable bands. While performing in Bambi Kino, Gillard plays a 1967 Gibson ES-330
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and a Höfner
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Verithin.[ Rozzo plays a 1960 ]Gibson ES-330
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.
On August 19, 2010, the band debuted with a series of shows at the Indra Club
The original lineup of the Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best regularly performed at different clubs in Hamburg, West Germany, during the period from August 1960 to December 1962; a chapter in ...
in Hamburg, where the Beatles first played.[
In advance of these shows, a debut single — "Some Other Guy" — was released on Hamburg-based ]Tapete Records
Tapete Records is an independent record label based in Hamburg, Germany.
It was founded in 2002 by Gunther Buskies and Dirk Darmstaedter and primarily focused on Deutschpop Bands such as Erdmöbel, Niels Frevert, Tele and Anajo. Since 2005 T ...
. It was produced by Adam Schlesinger
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(Fountains of Wayne
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) and engineered by Eli Janney (Girls Against Boys
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and The 8G Band The 8G Band is the house band for ''Late Night with Seth Meyers''. The band is led by ''Saturday Night Live'' alumnus Fred Armisen. He assembled the 8G Band, named for the studio where the show is taped, just two weeks before the test show. He text ...
).
In 2011, Tapete released the group's self-titled debut album.[ The record was praised by ]AllMusic
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's James Allen for its authentically "scrappy Merseybeat style," resulting in an album that "also happens to rock on its own merits."[ In an interview, Rozzo said, "We very consciously didn’t want to be a tribute band. We wanted to be ourselves, and in doing that we thought we were being truer to The Beatles."
The group remains active. In 2014, Bambi Kino played a benefit concert at ]Brooklyn
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's Bell House.[ as well as the White House Correspondents Jam, in Washington, DC, with Chuck Leavell, keyboardist for ]the Rolling Stones
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. They have played frequently in New York, appeared at festivals, and have made trips to the West Coast and Midwest of America, and back to Hamburg. Shows are typically three or four sets, emulating the style and duration of Beatles performances in Hamburg. They have frequently been joined by guest performers, including Wally Bryson (the Raspberries), Stuart Bogie
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Early years
Bogie studied music at the Interlochen Arts Academ ...
(Iron and Wine
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), comedians Neil Hamburger
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and Dave Hill, producer Don Fleming, and Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn
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In September 2010, the European network Arte
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It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, plus ...
broadcast a Bambi Kino concert film/documentary, filmed at the Indra.
Discography
* ''Bambi Kino'' (Tapete Records, 2011)
* "Some Other Guy" b/w "Falling In Love Again" (Tapete Records, 2011) — 7" single
* ''Superhits of the Seventies'' (WFMU compilation, 2012)
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Cover bands
Rock music groups from New York (state)
Musical groups established in 2009
Tapete Records artists