| What's New 2003 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
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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 in 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, and in 1998. Back to current News. |
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