One more year at the best festival of the world, but this time I will change the dancefloor for the booth. We’re going to sweat like hell with fast tracks that won’t give any rest. My sets go from the wildest Garage Punk to the most current Synth Punk sounds.
Hi funtastics! Fonsi speaking. You don’t know how happy I am, let’s go to the Funtastic!
Even some of you think “this guy fits more on mod or soul do’s” there is nothing I like more than making people dancing non stop, whatever the challenge is, are you ready?
I’ve been playing records around for a long time wherever I’m called for, however what I always liked the most is playing there where people is more open minded and the styles and styling mingle. My local club, Double Cookin’, the years at the A Wamba Buluba in hometown as well, Watusi in Valencia, Euro Yeye, Fun House in madrid, and in Europe to name a few, federal and Pow Wow in UK, Beat Explosion, Hitch Hike & Cole Slaw in Germany, Dance With The Devil and All Saint Mods in Italy…oh! And starting this year our own weekender in Leipzig, the Jester Wild. Some of you already know it, we wait all of you for next year!
I’m gonna bring screwy instrumentals, monkey songs, “new” hilarious dances, country-disco and whatever is needed to make you shake your booty! See you on the dancefloor!
When Penelope opened its doors in 1968 in what was then a small fishing town, no one knew what the future was going to be, both for the club and for the, now, city. It can be said that Benidorm and Penelope grew hand in hand and you cannot imagine one without the other.
Located in the leisure area of Benidorm (Avenida Comunidad Valenciana, 120), Penelope is characterized by the Mediterranean style of its structure with several distinct areas: the MAIN ROOM, an INDOORS one where the CONCERTS and after parties take place, with 25,000 W of sound, projections and funtastic decoration, a SECOND ROOM, also INDOORS, which will be open during the concerts in case you want to DANCE with this year’s guest club: the Brits from HIPSVILLE A GO GO!, and finally, the PATIO that has been completely remodeled and improved, preserving its magical nooks and crannies and a SECOND STAGE has been added for concerts and DJs. We can’t forget the fabulous POOL with glass walls in which the bravest can take a dip. On the patio, in addition to DANCING with the DJ or SWIMMING in the pool, you can EAT something or buy clothing, records and other wonders as the DRACULA MARKET is back, or simply RELAX on its comfortable SOFAS. ALL THREE AREAS, with their corresponding BARS, will be OPEN AT THE SAME TIME, so you have no chance of getting bored.
We cannot mention this club without talking about its logo: the enigmatic silhouette of a bohemian-looking young woman, with long flowing hair that covers her face and her Panama hat coquettishly tilted, has become an icon in Spain. (The national newspaper “El País” published a report on its back cover showing a list of the best-selling stickers in Spain, where Penelope’s was second only behind Osborne’s famous Toro-Bull).
Its creation goes back to 1968 when a French woman artist, Paule Rosset, noticed a girl called Mao, beautiful and attractive, modern and ahead of her time, whom she carefully portrayed, destining her to become a symbol.
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Carlos’s DJ debut was early 2002 under the pseudonym Dj Topcat. At the end of 2002 he founded Hot-Shot sound system, a DJ duo focused on spreading Jamaican music, specifically ska, rocksteady and early reggae. He was one of the first DJs in Mexico City to play exclusively on 45 rpm vinyl.
In 2004 he co-founded the now defunct Rocket Sound System. In 2006 he adopted his own name as a deejay -Carlos Rene- while expanding his musical horizon to other genres such as R&B, Soul, Garage, Freakbeat, Mod Jazz and ’60s Funk.
In 2009 Carlos founded the monthly dance club night Hipshakers! focused on ’60s and early ’70s sounds. In 2015 he started a new project focused on tropical rhythms called Bombo y Maracas, where he explores the Afro Latin and Caribbean heritage.
DJ Arlini Martini started off as a doo wop DJ in Austin, Texas. She founded Where the Boys Are, a 50’s and 60’s doo wop vinyl night. Now she spins as the Bunny Hop, a vinyl night filled with fuzz garage and wild R’n’B records.
DJ Arlini Martini has a special place in her heart for Texan and Mexican 60s garage records.
They come from France mixing garage, punk, rockabilly and psycho-swamp 80’s with a self-confidence with a tried and tested 100% rock’n’roll live show.
They had already set the bar high with their first album on Family Spree Records which allowed them to tour all over Europe, and now, with the second just released (September 2022) on Topsy-Turvy Records, the band has set themselves a goal: “play everywhere and have fun on stage!”.
The Okmoniks are Helene 33 and three guys, usually — it’s kind of a Bonnie St. Claire & Unit Gloria look. In the current, but ever-changing lineup, Helene plays organ and sings, Sammy plays guitar, Jason plays bass, and Pascual plays drums. They describe their sound as DMZ meets Lyres, and think that’s a very funny joke. The OKs, as they are known in text messages to each other, formed in Tucson in 2000 and relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2009, where they love playing The Knockout, shopping at Thrillhouse Records, and playing pinball at Free Gold Watch. The OKs have three self-released EPs and one LP on Slovenly Records (that they know of).
If you don’t know Sick Thoughts, you don’t know punk. The band is the mighty Drew Owen. Baltimore born and bred, he then up and moved to the swamps of New Orleans while still a teenager. The general consensus was he’d be another casualty of The Big Easy decadence, and would soon be seen hitting up tourists for money on Bourbon Street with a dog on a rope. But somehow he got hooked up with the best (worst?) folks in the city and kept making great music. That, and the fact that forty-ounce bottles just bounce off his head, have kept him alive. Rock and roll romance and the promise of socialized health care sent him to the (imaginary?) home of Killed By Death punk, Helsinki, Finland. Which makes perfect sense. The band is like the perfect KBD record, full of buzzsaw guitars, machine gun drums and hooks that hit like a tire iron. Owen’s brand of aural early-20s angst, with doses of Zero Boys, Reatards, and early Crüe, mixed with the stench of the streets, has never sounded better. Sick Thoughts is on top of the punk heap. It’s Owen’s world.Get in it!
Since in the correctional facility they no longer know what to do with them, the authorities have not come up with anything better than sending them them to the prestigious International Festival of Funtastic Dracula, where these two mature juvenile delinquents will play 7″ in the non-sense style that have caused so much trouble to society in general and to music in particular.
Welcome to the wild and wooly world of this savage group of strapping, handsome Spaniards!!!
Kids all over Europe and America have witnessed them live and are now referring to them as “The craziest band we ever have sawed!” Fueled equally by potent ingestibles and a sincere passion for the big, crude beat of 1966, Wau y los Arrrghs are here to make sure that the party gets started and destroyed in no time flat, in true no-count style.