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ART FACTORY WELCOMES MOBY, ZAMBONIS, James Kochalka & more...
 Saturday Sept
9th Zambonis rock out with The Hold Steady at @ Central Saturday Aug
27th ZAMBONIS FIGHT CANCER WITH A CONCERT! THE ZAMBONIS CONCERT begins
at 8 p.m. sharp. Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for children.
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20th (PRIVATE SHOW) Aug 4th .....NEWS
FLASH !!!! Aug 1 Dave "Zamboni"
Schneider writes a nice feature in The New Haven August 2005 ZAMBONIS
WIN AGAIN! JULY 22 Friday
Night JULY
Saturday June
11-- ZAMBONIS PLAY CANADA...FINALLY! JULY 15-16, 2005
CULLY’S KIDS CELEBRITY WEEKEND Fargo/Grand Forks, North Dakota MAY Sunday
May 1st - Guster and The Zambonis 
We also got some fun mentions in Guster's road journal at Guster.com (written by sir Thundergod himself, Brian (Guster/Congo) Rosenworcel. Check them out: April 22nd, Purdue, IN April 25th Mason City, IA April 29th Minneapolis, MN May 2005
- Zambonis LOVE Insidehockey.com Saturday
May 14th - The Bear and Grill, Fairfield, CT April 2005
- Skate Around the USA Tour Sunday
April 10 - Bowling For Soup, American Hi-Fi, Ridlin Kids and The
Zambonis LIVE in Hartford, CT! Saturday
April 9 - The Knitting Factory in NYC! April 2005
- Nice Zambonis feature in Nova Scotia paper April 2005
- Roger Farina (NHL's Inaugural 7th Man Fan of the Year in 2003)
February
2005 - The Zambonis have achieved a career milestone with our
debut feature in the holy grail of hockey, The Hockey News!!
Monday
and Tuesday February 7 & 8 - NAHL All-Star Game!
Saturday
February 12 - Albany River Rats welcome The Zambonis!
Saturday
February 12 - Part 2 - Saratoga Springs, NY @ Kings
Tavern Thursday
March 3rd - Stamford CT here we come! Saturday
Jan. 22 - BROOKLYN IN DA HOUSE!!! iTUNES
into The Zambonis!! What's New / Gigs in 2004 Sunday
December 19th - Canada's Jane Siberry and The Zambonis play "Hockey"
Saturday
December 9 - THE ZAMBONIS TAKE LATVIA!!! Weekend of December
9th - LATVIA POST GIG REPORT Saturday
October 16 - ZAMBONIS PLAY OPENING NIGHT!!! HOCKEY IS BACK !!!!
Thursday
November 4 - The Zambonis with HEATHER! November
12 Saturday - THIS SHOW IS THE COOLEST !!! Saturday
November 27 - Rudy's!! Friday
September 10th - The Zambonis headline Bridgeports SWEETPORT FESTIVAL.
Saturday
September 18th - The MERCURY LOUNGE in NYC Friday September
24th - The Backroom in Brooklyn
Saturday
September 25th - Jimmys Seaside in Stamford CT...
August 16th -
THE ZAMBONIS ON ESPN.COM Weekend of August 14. We are very excited (and honored) to be playing at the TRAVIS ROY FOUNDATION CONCERT near Burlington, VT. This show will be a classic with celebrity guests, hockey leagues from squirts to seniors, Wiffle Ball tournament, and hockey rock. We will be performing live at the 8th wonder of the world, Little Fenway. You have to check this out! This show is road trip worthy....see you there. Weekend of August
14 - POST GIG REPORT     
Thursday August
5th - The Zambonis Win Best Rock Band !!! 
To celebrate our victory, we will perform LIVE at The Temple Bar (120 Bedford Street/downtown) Stamford, CT on Thursday August 5th at 9 p.m. (203) 708-9000. Also performing: Jaws (Best Country Rock Band) and Electric Hill (Best Soul Group). ZAMBONIS to be FEATURED on ESPN's SportsCenter!!!! This Friday night (July 30) at 6 p.m./11 p.m. and repeated throughout the night/morning, the extremely smart ESPN folks are featuring stories on the "sports/music connection." They'll be mentioning the "Very cool, savvy all-hockey band, The Zambonis," showing a live clip of the band, as well as playing our song, "Bob Marley and The Hartford Whalers." Look for more Zamboni stuff coming soon on ESPN.com. We will keep you updated. Saturday July 10 Freddy’s in Brooklyn, HERE WE COME!! Let’s just say it: WE LOVE FREDDY’S!!! We played here once and just loved it. We are on at 10 pm. FYI: The Village Voice called it, "The Best Brooklyn Bar." Freddy's Bar & Backroom is located at: 485 Dean Street, Brooklyn. (718) 622-7035. July 10th - POST GIG REPORT: OOOH, new songs. We Zambonis gave ourselves a challenge for this gig and that was to play a whole bunch of new songs. I remember growing up and going to see REM and then Pavement and when they would play a song you never heard before it was like an awesome secret between you and the band. Some of the new tracks we premiered at this gig were1) "I Never Lived" (a song about Jon from The Zambonis wife and the Stanley Cup) 2) "That's Good" (we literally wrote this one 3 days before the gig and played it at the gig) 3) Bob Marley and The Hartford Whalers (We dug this one up and sort of reworked it a bit. I am pretty sure we have not played this live since Kevin Dineen wore a Whaler jersey) Another highlight was our friend Kevin coming out from behind his computer (he has an awesome website called insidehockey.com) and playing keyboards with us on a few songs. He also filled in for the missing hockey monkey (guy in a monkey suit who comes to all our gigs) For the fear of causing waves with our mascot/hockey monkey, Kevin wore a $15 lion mask forcing us to sing the new classic "Hockey Lion". Again, thanks to all who came down to lovely Brooklyn. Check out this fan site for more on the gig June 5th - NYC's The
Living Room POST GIG REPORT: This was a very sweet night.
We thought being on at midnight might keep some folks away but,
its fricken NYC. People were just getting up. 6 GREAT things about
the gig. 1) one of our SUPERFANS Bob K from Philadelphia debuting
his new Zambonis/Hockey Monkey jersey. He paid around $230 to
make this classic jersey. In Hartford Whaler colors to boot. The
front logo is a classic drawing from our friend and co-writer
of the song Hockey Monkey James Kochalka. The back is a big old
92 representing the year we decided to write songs solely about
hockey. 2) Our new best friend and part time Zamboni member Tom
Tater playing bass. Tom was fearful of a hostile NY crowd, Tom
chose to rock with a shield. 3) We brought out the old 1966 Farfisa
compact organ and she sounded as good as she did back then. Whether
in a hockey arena or at a hockey concert, you just cant beat a
hockey organ 4) A flawless performance from the rarely seen Saskatchewan
hockey monkey (now living in Queens) Whether in a hockey arena
or at a hockey concert, you just cant beat a guy in a monkey suit.
5) Game 6 of the Stanley Cup going into double OT and then finishing
exactly 8 minutes before we had to go on. There is a god and He
(George Burns) loves hockey. And Tampa. And us. 6) Everyone who
came to the show. Thanks for comin from Ohio, Boston, Philadelphia,
Brooklyn, Queens, Da Bronx and the rest of ya. THANKS ! Your the
best ! Saturday May 15 Stamford, CT @ Jimmy's Seaside. A punk-rockin’ evening with The Zambonis, Elvis McMan and The Boardlords (a skater band). We are on around 9—don’t be late. 891 Cove Rd. Stamford, CT (203) 964-9225. Saturday May 22 NYC @ Siberia. 40th St. & 9th Ave. (black door, red light) 9pm Dickvandick 10pm THE ZAMBONIS 11pm America’s Sweethearts. 12pm Navar $5 @ the door. Call (212) 333-4141. 
125th Maxim Magazine Awards Results No awards program has ever dared to commemorate complete and utter Maxim-ness…until now. Welcome to the 125th Maxim Awards. The best part: You chose the winners. -Maxim Online BEST BAND YOU NEVER HEARD OF The Zambonis (Tarquin) 32.43% Broadcast (Tommy Boy) 24.27% At the Drive-In (Grand-Royal) 22.21% The Go-Betweens (Jet Set) 21.09% YES Network! Sir George Steinbrenner’s personal cable empire, YES Network, features a show called “YES Network Magazine.” Soon (so they tell us) they will air a nice lengthy piece on the world of THE ZAMBONIS. This show has not aired yet, but will definitly be airing in the future...we will keep you updated. Please check your local listings. Some select highlights from the show are: Zamboni Dave taking his dream Zamboni ride; future New York Islander (current Bridgeport Sound Tiger) and AHL regular season goal-scoring leader Jeff Hamilton getting drilled on his knowledge of The Zambonis' music. Tivo alert! HELP US WIN THE
FROZEN FOUR!! We need your VOTES !!!!!!!! GUSTER AND THE
ZAMBONIS share the ICE !!!! Fa Fa Fabulous!!! The
popular harmonic rock trio Guster will be using our song called
"Guster Plays Hockey" on their new live DVD titled "GUSTER ON
ICE". The release is set for May 18th. Dave from The Zambonis
gets some nice face time in some backstage stuff with Guster and
The Barenaked Ladies. We hope by using our song the Gusters will
gain a bit more exposure and then stop playing smaller venues
like Radio City Music Hall and move on to playing live in Baseball
/ Football stadiums like The Beatles, Guns and Roses and of course
Sir Robbie Williams. "Guster Plays Hockey" is still available
on our limited edition website only cd called CHIPPY SESSIONS. ;)
May 2nd - Sunday in New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine. We play at 6:30 pm and our punk rockin' hockey pals The Battlecats play at 8:00 pm. Be there or be Cher. April 10th - Zambonis LIVE @ Rutgers University... (a Saturday afternoon show) 88.7 WRSU-FM presents... A FESTIVAL Multipurpose Room Rutgers Student Center 126 College Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901 suggested 88.7 cents donation! (so bring your piggybank) 1 guest / Rutgers University ID (more info: www.wrsu.org)
March 28th - A very cool dude name Michael has a very cool site called oneadamtwelve.com He recently did an interview with The Zambonis CHECK IT OUT !!! March 28th - Hello BROOKLYN ! ! ! We are playing an awesome spot called Northsix. This show is special because we get to rock out with our old friend Atom. Unfortunately, Atom's old band, Atom and his package do not play live shows anymore but fortunately, this night is the NY premier of Atoms new band called Armalite. This band consist of some former hardcore heavy hitters. On bass is Dan formerly of Kid Dynamite, Lifetime and Paint It Black. Mike from Kill The Man Who Questions plays guitar and sings as does our boy Atom. This show is 18 and over so come on down. BROOKLYN ROCKS !!! March 26th - We play live at the 1st annual banquet for the WONDERLAND WIZARDS of CT. The gig is in Newtown, CT. Private gig but just reminding you all to SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL TEAMS/BANDS AND IT'S ABOUT THE KIDS !!!! March 12th - HELLO BURLINGTON, VT !!!!!! YES !!! We are coming back to our home away from home. The place...HIGHER GROUND in Winooski, VT Our last show there consisted of pure hockey rock, an elaborate hockey pinata dropping from the ceiling and just good old FUN!!! This is becoming a once a year gig so do not miss it. Guest to be announced.. HIgher Ground 1 Main Street Winooski, VT 05404 802.654.8888 March 11th - We ROCK Hampshire College with our new friends/band The Sean Fogel Experience. Showtime is around 9pm. March 7th - We play LIVE at the Acoustic Cafe located at 2926 Fairfield Ave in Bridgeport. Show starts immediately after the Bridgeport Sound Tigers take on the Binghamton Senators on our home ice here in Bridgeport. THIS IS AN EARLY SHOW. A great band from NYC called THE VITAMEN get on at 7:30 pm and then we ZAMBONIS hit the ice/stage at 8:15. BRING YOUR TICKET STUB FROM THE GAME. Admission is reduced with your stub. Their will be some special guest (The amazin Rev Dave?? Some Sound Tigers??? So come on down. LETS GO TIGERS!!! LETS GO ZAMBONIS!!! March 1st - We Zambonis are known for our hockey songs but thanks to the fine/smart folks at insidehockey.com, we are now writing a column called Ice Shavings. Its actually us just talkin about stuff we like, hockey songs, jerseys, hockey songs and more. Be sure to check out our 1st piece/column and, stay tuned for more. Feb 20th - We will be playing a 12 band hockey punk pop blow-out !!! Live in Hamden, CT at the very cool and always supportive of the scene THE SPACE. 295 Treadwell St., Building H Hamden, CT 06514 (203) 288-6400 Admission is $7 Besides 12 bands the folks putting this event together are building an ice rink in the parking lot. How? We do not know. Do they control the weather? We cannot answer that question either but, they are going for this so they get major points for the effort. BRING YOUR SKATES !!! Here is a list of the bands that are on the bill...... Sunday Feb 15 LIVE @ NYC's The Living Room - We Zambonis are joining our friends/awesome band The King Of France for an evening of great smart pop songs. Surprisingly enough, they do not write songs solely about kings or France. We, however will be singing about....hockey. King Of France on @ 9pm Zambonis on @ 10pm The Living Room is located at 154 Ludlow St NYC phone number is 212 533 7235 Their is no cover but they do request that you throw $5 in the bucket/helmet for a donation. 1 drink minimum. Feb 11th - We will be playing LIVE on TV for a segment of Lou Tilley's Sports Connection in Philadelphia! It airs regionally, so please check your local listings (this means you New York, DC, and Boston!). We will be doing an interview and playing 2 songs with a special guest (Atom (without the "Package"))!!! It's on the CN8 network at 11pm this Wednesday (Feb 11). Feb 6th @ The Bear & Grill in Fairfield, CT The Zambonis play live right after the Bridgeport Sound Tigers take on the Monsters of Lowell. The rules have always been Zambonis only play songs about hockey. The bottom line is we miss playing non hockey songs so, we will be warming ourselves up this night doing some of our favorite tunes from the past 40 years or so. We will also have some special guest doing some songs as well. Bring your ticket stub from the Sound Tigers game that night and get in for FREE!!! 10 pm THE NON HOCKEYS 10:45 THE ZAMBONIS GIG UPDATE : The YES Television network will be filming The Zambonis at this gig!!! They will be doing a feature piece on Dave's on ice MC work over at The New York Islanders farm team The Bridgeport Sound TIgers and then bringing their cameras over to the Bear and Grill to capture what some call "pure hockey rock." We will let you know when they will be broadcasting this feature. Feb 1st - WE WON !!! Thanks to our AWESOME FANS, we recently won a contest sponsored by Ruckus Sound& Style. The contest rules were, the band who got the most email request by their fans (1 vote per email) would get them a spot on a new cd compilation put out by Ruckus. According to the Ruckus people, "The Zambonis were the overwhelming winners"! The CD is out and we have a freshly recorded shiny new hockey song on it. The song is titled "Here We Go Again". The only place you can get this cd is at our live shows or you can email us. They are very limited. This song will be featured on our next cd possibly titled "Whacky Singin Hockey Nutz". Thanks again to all who voted for us!!!! Feb 1st - Fa Fa Fabulous!!! We have just learned that one of our favorite bands Guster will be using our song called "Guster Plays Hockey" on their new live DVD. It is also rumored that Dave from The Zambonis gets a little face time in some backstage stuff with Guster and The Barenaked Ladies. We hope by using our song the Gusters will gain a bit more exposure and then stop playing smaller venues like Radio City Music Hall and move on to playing live in Baseball / Football stadiums like The Beatles, Guns and Roses and of course Sir Robbie Williams. "Guster Plays Hockey" is still available on our limited edition website only cd called CHIPPY SESSIONS. January 9th @ Freddy's in Park Slope, Brooklyn We are playing with a steamy new NYC band called The Hot Big Bang at a place the Villiage Voice called, "The Best Brooklyn Bar." Freddy's Bar & Backroom is located at: 485 Dean Street, Brooklyn. Phone: (718) 622-7035. Expect the two bands to merge into THE HOT BIG ZAMBONIS and end this crazy evening with a HUGE MONSTER JAM. Or maybe we'll just do some Kinks and Cars songs together. It's all good. E-mail us any player in NHL history with the name Fred/Freddy and we'll buy you a drink at the show. 2003 Events December 19th - Entertainment Weekly!!! The Zambonis beat out Missy Elliot and the Alien Quadrilogy, but fall short of topping Miss Piggy and her Muppet Friends on Entertainment Weekly's "The Must List" for Christmas 2003. 
Sunday December 7th - ARENA AT HARBOR YARD (B-PORT) (before the Bridgeport Sound Tigers take on the Hartford Wolfpack) This is a special, ultra-fun gig on our home ice. The Zambonis will be playing a pre-game rally-rocking set inside the lobby at the Arena. After The Zambonis rock the rink, (ok, food court/concession area) the extremely hot American Hockey League Bridgeport Sound Tigers will be taking on their tough intrastate not-so-good-looking and unkempt archrivals the Hartford Wolfpack. For those unfamiliar with these teams, that's the NY Islanders affiliate team vs. the NY Rangers affiliate. There is also a big game at the arena at 1:00 between the Bridgeport Fire Dept. and the Hartford Fire Dept. That's way too much hockey for some, but we challenge you to partake in all of these events. For directions to the arena click here. You can also check out Dave from The Zambonis "Dave's Place" on the Sound Tigers Website. A new interview with Bridgeport's nice guy/enforcer Jody Robinson will be up any day now. Thursday December 4th - THE ZAMBONIS LIVE 2:30 PM on NHL LIVE on NHL.COM For the first time since the 2002 NHL All Star Game, The Zambonis have been called up to the NHL. They will be talking hockey, music and playing a song or two live on a show called NHL LIVE. This is a daily show broadcast from NYC in conjunction with Sirius Satellite Radio on NHL.COM. Feel free to email questions or song requests to the folks at nhllive@hotmail.com or you can call the show live @ 866-900-NHL1 (6451) November 15th - ZAMBONIS BACK IN NEW HAVEN! We are playing Cafe Nine in New Haven with some friends called The Big Fat Combo. We are on at 11:30. There is a BRIDGEPORT SOUNDTIGERS game that night against the Philadelphia Phantoms. As some of you know, Dave from The Zambonis is the on-ice MC for the New York Islanders farm team, the Sound Tigers. The fine folks from CAFE NINE have agreed to give anyone a free beer or soda in exchange for a ticket stub from the Sound Tigers game that night. Make it an all-hockey Saturday! Sound Tigers game in Bridgeport and hockey rock in New Haven--could life get any better? November 13th-20th - Zambonis Tribeca Gig featured in Time Out New York issue!!! Check it out below. 
November 13th - ZAMBONIS LIVE IN NYC TRIBECA ROCK CLUB 16 Warren St. b/w Church & Broadway. Sure, it's a Thursday, but think of it as getting an odd-man rush to your weekend. We are on @ 9:30. The other bands rock our hockey socks off: Rana, This Radiant Boy and Sam Champion. The gig doubles as a birthday party for a cool friend known as: "Jersey Dan." He's from Jersey. See ya there! October 18th - Zambonis live at Rudy's in New Haven, CT We are playing at 11pm sharp at Rudy's Bar and Grill in New Haven, CT. Its going to be a cool night of music with special guest Groovski. They are a melodic Polish punk rock group with a huge fondness for the movie Jaws and no songs about hockey. Their is a Bridgeport Sound Tiger's game the night before. As some of you know, Dave from The Zambonis is the on ice MC for the New York Islanders farm team, the Sound Tigers. The fine folks from Rudy's Bar and Grill have agreed to give anyone a free Rudy's Draft beer (or soda) in exchange for a ticket stub from Fridays Sound Tiger game. Make it an all hockey weekend. Sound Tigers game in Bridgeport on Friday night, Saturday cruise over to RUDY'S for some classic hockey rockage. September 27th - POST GIG REPORT: What can we say except BROOKLYN IN DA RINK!!! This show was a complete surprise to us. We heard all these different opinions of this venue. One of our friends said it was to small and spooky, and another friend said it was a really cool place with great toasted sandwiches and a groovy stage. Lucky for us, it was the latter. What an awesome little venue and a really fun show. We actually want to and will get back there soon. A great crowd showed up decked out in a fine assortment of jerseys. We debuted our new old school country classic "Hockey Heart." Do to lack of space on the stage, our drummer Matt stripped down the kit to a snare drum, a kick drum and 1 cymbal (Stray Cats Style) He did the stand up drummer thing all night and he said he had worse cramps in his leg than all the woman that attended the Lilith Fair in the year 2000. Another fun moment was someone yelling "play a song about curling" Dave heard it as "Take The Skinheads Hurling." The band proceeded to play a rockin' albeit misconstrued cover of the classic Camper Van Beethoven song "Take The Skinheads Bowling". September 27th - Finally, We are playing in Brooklyn!! Home of New York's premiere women's ice hockey team The Brooklyn Blades Sept 27 @ Petes Candy Store. This place is smaller than a penalty box so get there early!! We are on the ice at 10pm The joint is located at 709 Lorimer St Williamsburg, Brooklyn for info call 718 302 3770 See ya there in hockey gear! September 1st - Click here for a great feature written on us in The Fairfield Minuteman Press September 1st - We recently joined Guster in the studio to do back up vocals on a brand new track called "Donde Es Christmas?" It will be coming out on a great Holiday compilation cd. Other featured artist are THE FLAMING LIPS, Dave Matthews and many more. The song is crazy, fun, spooky yet beautiful. Thanks to the Gusters for a fun session. August 29th - POST GIG REPORT: WOW!!!! What a great gig. This was definitely in our top 5 shows of our career. The room was packed to the gills (about 700) It was hotter than hot. We have never sweat more at a gig than this. To make things a little hotter, the coolest vintage jersey company in the world called Mitchell and Ness gave us 4 brand spankin new Authentic Jerseys to wear at this gig. A Vancouver Canucks 85 V jersey. We call it the "Captain Kirk on left wing" jersey. Dave Schultz Flyers jersey, Vancouver white, Green, Blue with the stick logo and the classic red, white and blue Washington Caps jersey with all the stars and stuff. The jerseys are really heavy and beautiful but they breathe as much as your grandfathers wool sweater he got in Ireland in 1955. The company is based in Philadelphia and thankfully, happen to like the bands stuff. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SHOW: 1) Having Atom come up and do 2 songs with us. In honor of our man Atom calling it a day we had our creative merch-girl/back up vocalist/critic/ make a pinata in Atom's likeness. It was amazing how she nailed it. Just by chance, Atom wore the same Phillies hat as we put on the pinata. IT was that kinda night. Perfect. Check out the pics of Pinata, Atom and Dave. Atom had the first and second whack at the Pinata but failed to even knock out but 1 blow pop or smarty. Dave went next to no avail as did Tarquin. Through all these hard whacks Matto (drummer/goon/copy writer) was holding the hockey stick that had the Atom pinata dangling from it. Turns out Melissa used some serious amount of glue building the head of Atom. Finally, Peter Katis (producer/guitar/defense) just ripped the Atom head apart. The crowd was sweating so much from the heat we saw a sudden surge of sugar boost. Tip to bands in the future, if playing a very hot club, PINATA filled with water bottles and candy. MORE HIGHLIGHTS: Jenna and her dad comin down from Washington DC. Jenna is a 7 year old Zamboni fan who was decked out in her mites uniform including the helmet. When we asked if anyone knew the words to our song "Hockey Monkey" her dad held her up as she nodded yes. Dave grabbed her from the crowd, put her on the stage and the band went on to do hockey monkey with 7 year old Jenna on lead vocals and the band and other assorted fans doing back ups. Next Highlight: a guy we met that night through our top fan BOB K, Stan the man with removable front teeth (of course do to a hockey collision) joining the band for a spirited version of "Lost My Teeth". Thanks to all who came out (KILTS, Heather) and really big ups to our friend ATOM and His Package. We will sorely miss playing shows with him. Good news is that Atom will be releasing a DVD of the show and we will be featured doing 2 songs with Atom and some extra bonus footage of the infamous ATOM PINATA. Check Out Pics Checkout review August 29th - Philadelphia YAHOO!!!! Finally we get back to Flyer town!!! This is a special show. Our friend Atom has been the leader of a band called Atom and His Package for about 6 years. They are an amazing, smart, catchy band and are one of our all time faves. THEY ARE ALSO PLAYING THEIR LAST SHOW EVER THIS NIGHT. We Zambonis are psyched/honoured that Atom asked us to play at his last gig. As usual, we will be doing some songs with Atom in our set. SEE YOU THERE!!! We are on around 9pm. The show is at The First Unitarian Church located at 22nd and Chestnut in Philadelphia, PA. You can get directions at r5productions.com. Ticket prices are $8 advance / $8 day of show. Checkout this review: Zambonis/Atom & His Package Live in Boston August 23rd - POST GIG REPORT: Another way to fun night at the acoustic Cafe in Bridgeport, CT. 2 great bits about this gig were our new friend and live guest Rev Dave on organ. The man can play anything and it sounds good. Being the the actual leader of several church choirs he was decked out in a black choir robe with a vintage Toronto Maple Leafs jersey over the robe. (fitting as the Leafs have so many devout fans) The other classic whacky Zambonis moment was inviting Katzu Imazeki (a Professional Japanese Baseball Pitcher of 6 years and now playing in the Independent league for the Bridgeport Bluefish) to come and do Hockey Monkey with the band in Japanese. He knew the song from listening to it on his Sony Playstation game NHL HITZ 2003. He also held up signs leading the crowd with the chorus of the song, (ichi, ni, san, the kids love the monkey and shi, go, roku the monkeys got a hockey stick shichi, hachi, ku havin a good time yeah) FUN FUN FUN!! Checkout this great feature on the band in the Fairfield Minuteman Press. August 23rd - Bridgeport, CT - The Acoustic Cafe. Saturday night/hockey night 9:00 Showtime $8 admission. Its only $8 Very special guest Jed Parrish. Jed is the lead singer for one of our favorite bands called Gravel Pit. They are originally from New Haven but have been based out of Boston long enough to be known as a Boston band. Jed and the Gravel Pit have won numerous awards as Bostons best band. His voice alone is unbelievable. The other important fact you need to know about Jed is that like we Zambonis, he is a huge fan of The Kinks. Do yourself a favor and go buy either one of these two Cds by the Kinks, "Something Else" or "Villiage Green Preservation Society". Oh yeh, almost forgot, come on down to the show, its gonna be fun!!! August 17th - BOSTON On our ride home to CT from VT their is no better stop than Bruin country. We will be playing at The Middle East with Transparent and Lucky Caderra. The show is $8 and is 18 and over. Anybody who "represents" and wears anything hockey gets a special Zamboni/hockey type prize (seriously) August 16th - The Ice has melted but that doesn't mean we stop. BURLINGTON, VT here we come. We play @ the Higher Ground, Saturday..ALL AGES and we will not be on to late so bring all the kids and their coaches. See ya there, in hockey gear. (seriously, wear some gear, as always, we will do the same) July 18th - The Zambonis FREE SHOW!!! Friday July 18, 8:15 - 9:45pm We are playing the 1st ever SWEETPORT FESTIVAL in downtown Bridgeport Connecticut. McLevy Green is the place to be. The corner of Main St & State St. We will be playing with 2 great bands...Guerrillafinga & Cosmic Jibaros. Stay tuned for more info.... July 15th - 8:30 pm @ the Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center Street, Northampton, MA www.iheg.com for details. all ages show. "Weird is the New Grunge" Night, featuring Corn Mo ('the gregarious heavy metal accordionist,' from Denton, Texas) The Zambonis ('north america's favorite all-hockey band') The Chuck Hestons ('the telephone-wielding band of bandits,' from Colchester, Connecticut) Ham Steak ('master of the seven-second song,' from Brooklyn, Connecticut) for tickets, please call 1-800-THE-TICK or 413-586-8686. Cool Fan
of the Month
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Rocks! Tim Beckhardt of Pennsylvania, sent us this awesome
suprise. June - Review for Zambonis and Atom show in NYC June 19th - The Acoustic Cafe. 9:00 Showtime $6 This place is slowly becoming our home ice. The Acoustic Cafe 9:00-its only $6 special guest-its gonna be fun!!! May 31st - SATURDAY 1PM NEWSFLASH!!! WE WANT THE AIRWAVES!!! We will be performing LIVE on the radio. WFUV 90.7 FM is a classic free-form radio station broadcasting from Fordham University. We will be talking and playing live on NY's oldest running sports call in show titled "One On One". For the folks in the tri-state area tune in to 90.7 fm, for the rest of the world, you can listen live on the internet from the comfort of your home. May 23rd - We finally return to the former home of the Nighthawks, Beast, and Knights...New Haven, CT. Friday@Cafe Nine w/ our friends The Big Fat Combo. April 12th - We will be playing a show in Fairfield, CT @ The Bear and Grill located @ 2000 Black Rock Tpk. The show starts at 9pm. For more info call 203.333.1522. p.s. We will be playing with Joy Buzzer. Jon & Steve from The Zambonis' side band (they will rock your socks off)! Late March - We begin our small tour with our favorite punk rock, video game playing, food loving friend Atom and His Package. In addition to our old songs and a bunch of new ones, we will also be doing a few songs with Atom. For all of these shows we are on first so GET THERE EARLY!! HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!! March 29th - In celebration of Kovalev coming back to the Rangers and The Islanders looking good for the playoffs, Zambonis and Atom LIVE @ TRIBECA in NYC. Contact jake@ranarock.com for more info. tickets available on line for this show at http://www.tribeca.musictoday.com March 28th - It's been a while and the Bruins need a jump so here we come BOSTON!!!!! The Zambonis and Atom @ The Middle East (Upstairs) Cambridge, MA. Contact upstairs@mideastclub.com for more info. March 27th - Albany, NY. Because some wonderful rich human being bought/saved the SABRES, we are heading to upstate NY. THE ZAMBONIS and Atom&hispackage @ Valentines. Contact tetoll@nycap.rr.com for more info. March 1st - We have a brand new track called "My Back Hurts" coming out on a great compilation called "Noise Vol. 1" featuring 23 bands (Dropkick Murphy's, Dispatch, ect.) The comp is being put out by the Rye Airfield Skate Park. February 10th - We are playing a short, unplugged, but rockin' set at the Gotham Comedy Club in NYC. This is a benefit for the Brooklyn Blades a non-profit/volunteer run corporation. Go WOMEN!! Go HOCKEY!! Go Brooklyn!! February 7th - A great hockey game and a great hockey concert!!! The Zambonis LIVE @ The Acoustic Cafe Bridgeport, CT 10:30PM sharp. Admission is $10. The Bridgeport Sound Tigers play the Hartford WOlfpack in Bridgeport. Bring a ticket stub from the game and get a reduced admission of $8. Directions from the Arena - Get on 95 South - get off exit 25 (Fairfield Ave) - Take left go about 1 mile - The Acoustic Cafe is on your right across from the Black Rock Castle Guster and The Zambonis Rock Sesame Street Style!!! - Our friends Guster were asked to submit a track to a compilation put out by VH1 Save the Music called For The Kids. Peter produced the track, Leon Dewan figured out some of the tricky chords and The Zambonis with Dave's girlfiend, Melissa, did the background vocals. Check out some pics. The song is called "We Gotta Be Clean" originally performed by Burt of Ernie & Burt. Little known fact - 3 goats were seen lingering around the studio when Brian Guster was reaching for the high notes. In artsy news - The Zambonis will have their "Hockey Monkey video played at MOMA (Museum of Modern Art) on Friday January 17, 2003 in NYC. Hockey monkey was co written with a talented friend of ours named James Kochalka Superstar. The video was produced by a company named inktank. The exhibit features Inktanks body of work. NEW YEARS EVE!!! - A HUGE show in Lovely Burlington VT!! The OVX Big Heavy BUZZFEST!!! They Call it First Night in Burlington. We are Headlining and on at midnight...More info to come...oh yeah...HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! November 22 - The Zambonis are playing with Little T and One Track Mike in NYC at TRIBECA. The Zambonis are on at 10PM and Little T and One Track Mike on at 11PM. $8 cover, 18+ TRIBECA (16 Warren St. between Church and Broadway) NYC 212.766.1070 A,C,E, 1,2,3,9 Chambers St stop, Warren is one block south of chambers. You can check out the flyer here. Fall 2002 - The Zambonis will have 4 songs featured in the NHL HITZ 2003 video game for XBox, Playstation 2, and GameCube! Songs included in the game are: "Breakaway", "Hockey Monkey", "Slapshot Man", and "Shot Score". Keep watching for game give-aways! 
Winter 2002 - For the 2nd consecutive year, FOX Sports New England is using our song "Shot Score" for their TV ads promoting their broadcast of Hockey East (BU, UVM, UNH; you know, college hockey) October 1 - Start the Pre-Season right, by checking out The Zambonis LIVE at a BUFFALO SABRES Open Practice! 6pm start. If you are interested in attending, contact dave@thezambonis.com. July 5 - A GREAT show at The Webster Theater in Hartford, CT. The Zambonis will join the non-hockey greats The Get Up Kids! Superchunk! and Hot Rod Circuit! get your tickets early as it WILL sell-out! The Zambonis are on first at 7pm SHARP! It will run on time... so if you're late, you'll miss us. Let's Go Whalers! P.S. Even though none of The Get Up Kids' songs are about hockey, Peter (from The Zambonis) recorded their new album in Bridgeport at Zamboni Headquarters (a.k.a. Tarquin Studios) this past Winter (see pic). Peter insists that "On A Wire" is actually about an electric Zamboni. Matt "Off-Sides" Pryor couldn't be reached for comment. May 7-8 - WFSB 3 (CT's CBS station) will be airing a two part interview on The Zambonis during their evening news show! The news starts at 6pm, and the piece will likely run around 6:20. Or catch the whole piece @ 11:30 pm on Sunday May 11 on the half hour sports show called "Sports Final". April 19 - The Zambonis at The Knitting Factory in nyc (74 leonard st)! Also playing are These Bones and Mr. Brownstone! The Zambonis take the ice at 11:30pm. $10, All Ages, Doors open at 11pm. (Also, come catch Kimya from The Moldy Peaches at the early show!) April 14 - Check out this cool Zambonis article in the Sunday New York Times. April 13 - The Zambonis and Atom & His Package in Binghamton, NY! Binghamton University Student Union - punkclub@dork.com April 12 - The Zambonis and Atom & His Package in Great Barrington, MA! Student Union - Simon's Rock College - 413-528-7335 April 11 - The Zambonis at SUNY Oswego! Reunited with Atom & His Package and James Kochalka Superstar!!! The show starts at 8pm and is at Timepieces (basement of Hewitt Union). Be sure to tune into your SUNY Oswego tv station and watch a fine game of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" featuring all the bands! More info try Justin @ 315-312-5389 or 5589 March 10 - Rare live performance in our home state of CT at the very cozy Acoustic Cafe in Bridgeport, CT. The venue is small so feel free to get tix early. ALL AGES AND EARLY SHOW!!!! We start at 9pm. $12 admission or $10 if you bring any ticket stub from a Bridgeport Sound Tigers game. March 6 - Check out a great feature in the Fairfield County Weekly. February 8-11 - Tarquin's voice is just starting to come back. He was in Salt Lake for the 2002 Olympics! There for three days, he (and his friend Paul) saw Latvia v. Austria (4-2 Win) and Latvia v. Slovakia (6-6 Tie). The Latvian Fans were INSANE and wonderful! Go Latvia in 2006! They also saw Curling and Russia v. Sweden Women's Hockey! Pictures coming soon! February 1-2 - 2002 NHL All-Star Game in Los Angeles, CA! WOW! What a weekend. Too much to say. The Zambonis, Jewel, Five for Fighting, Unwritten Law and about 50 of the GREATEST HOCKEY PLAYERS IN THE WORLD!!! Check out some of the Pics! 2001/2002 Season - Dave is now the On-Ice M.C. for The Bridgeport Sound Tigers! One more reason to head down and support you local hockey team! See Pics. January 19 - Higher Ground, Burlington, VT. January 18 - Holderness School, NH. Old News Check out what we were up to earlier in 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, and in 1998. |
ZAMBONIS ON ITUNES ;)
The
Albany River Rats, the primary affiliate of the National Hockey
League's New Jersey Devils, have asked us to perform live at the
club’s February 12th game against the Binghamton Senators. We
will start playing at 3 pm in the atrium, one hour before game
time. We will also perform during the 1st period intermission. The
game will also feature a live appearance by Nickelodeon's Dora
The Explorer. Keep your fingers crossed for a Zambonis/Dora duet.
The Zambonis will follow their Pepsi Arena performance with
a 9:00 pm show at ;)
