Bands Who Love B-Movies - White Zombie, The Misfits, The Cramps

In celebration of my new ebook release A Bar Tender Tale, where my hero Nathan is infatuated with rock bands and B-movies, this blog post is dedicated to Bands Who Love B-Movies.

“Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead?”

Quote - Lady Frankenstein, sampled in Rob Zombie's single Living Dead Girl.

White Zombie (Rob Zombie's original rock band) formed in the 1980s in New York, and achieved breakthrough success with 1992 album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1.

Their sound has been described as “groove rock” and features samples from various cult B-movies and horror films.

 From Astro Creep: 2000, iconic rock tune More Human Than Human features some awesome slide guitar action. Warning, video features strobe effects.

White Zombie the band took their name after White Zombie the 1932 horror film. Here is the original poster, featuring Bela “Dracula” Lugosi!

Another band somewhat obsessed with horror, are American punk legends The Misfits, originally formed in the 1970s.

Check out 1999 album Famous Monsters, with songs like Scream!, Crawling Eye, Lost In Space and The Forbidden Zone, you can see where their influences lie!

The band's well known logo of the grinning skull, as pictured here....

….is taken from 1946 horror movie, The Crimson Ghost.

Here are some original posters, where you can see the grinning skull costume of The Crimson Ghost himself.

And I particularly like these shots from the movie, below!

 

In this Misfits video for Dig Up Her Bones, their version of The Crimson Ghost pops up throughout. 

How many times can you spot him??

And finally, The Cramps!

Everyone's favourite surf, garage, sleaze rock band! This is one of their most recognisable album covers, 1997 Big Beat From Badsville -featuring guitarist Poison Ivy.

 

With killer songs like You Got Good Taste, Bikini Girls With Machine Guns, and their cover of Fever (as featured on the sound track of 1987 vampire movie NearDark) this band are a must for any rock fan's music collection.

One of their more well known tracks, Human Fly, doesn't actually have a video but this is a fan made video featuring clips of horror movie The Fly, to the album version of the song.

 

Movie poster for original 1958 horror movie The Fly.

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A Bar Tender Tale

BLURB:

Twenty-two year old barman Nathan is always the odd one out.

It's tough to get a date when his love of loud music, tattoos, and zombie paraphernalia usually sends potential candidates running for the hills.

Trying to find anyone who wants to spend time with him, let alone stay in and watch trashy horror movies, has always been a problem.

Then, on his day off, Nathan does a friend a favor by covering a shift at a pub, and in walks a handsome stranger who shares his love of horror.

It could be a match made in B-movie heaven, and Nathan is determined to pursue this new acquaintance, but—zombies aside—has Nathan got the guts to go on a real date? 

A Bar Tender Tale- buy on Dreamspinner Press

“To avoid fainting, keep repeating 'It's only an ebook...It's only an ebook'...”

ZOMBIECORE - blog hop

Happy release day to me!!

A Bar Tender Tale can now be purchased through the Dreamspinnder website HERE


As a special treat, I've done a guest post on the awesome Babes In Boyland blog about
ZOMBIECORE music. Check it out here!


Or... "Turn back, while you still can!"


And in celebration, tonight I shall be scaring myself silly with horror movies.... :D

Look out for more blog posts here with me. And thank you for the feedback I've had so far -- I hope you like the story!

A Bar Tender Tale - almost here!

Happy New Year!

And what better way to kick off my first blog post with information about a new release  :o)

(There are 2 new releases imminent for 2012, and atm A Bar Tender Tale is in the lead! LOL)

Dreamspinner have kindly set up a page for my ebook on their Coming Soon list, which means....
Sneak preview of the cover art by the ever talented Ria Chantler!
Read the blurb, add to your wish list!
And even read an extract!

Take a looksee right here   


Cover art by Ria Chantler...
Doesn't little Nathan look uber cute?!

BLURB:

Twenty-two-year-old barman Nathan is always the odd one out. It's tough to get a date when his love of loud music, tattoos, and zombie paraphernalia usually sends potential candidates running for the hills. Trying to find anyone who wants to spend time with him, let alone stay in and watch trashy horror movies, has always been a problem.

Then, on his day off, Nathan does a friend a favor by covering a shift at a pub, and in walks a handsome stranger who shares his love of horror. It could be a match made in B-movie heaven, and Nathan is determined to pursue this new acquaintance, but—zombies aside—has Nathan got the guts to go on a real date?

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Ooh er! ;o)

If you want to read an extract, visit the Dreamspinner link here
and click on 'Read an excerpt'

You can also add A Bar Tender Tale on Goodreads

Expected release date 30th January, but please check the Dreamspinner website for updates  :o)

In the meantime, I shall be hurrying with my own website updates for more behind the scenes looks into my work. There have already been a few changes, which you can check out now!

www.melanietushmore.co.uk

xoxoxoxo

Coming Soon - 'A Bar Tender Tale' (c) 2011

As in my website's 'Coming Soon' section I'm pleased to announce that I have a new novella to be released with Dreamspinner early next year (more details as and when they come).

It's a cute short story, and probably the 'fluffiest' I'll ever get!
More details nearer the time as I don't want to spoil it, but my main character is a young barman called Nathan who finds it hard to meet another gay man who shares his interests - namely punk rock, tattoos, zombies and B-movies.

When writing Nathan, I chose to step into a more punk rock persona. Nathan's musical tastes range from punk rock to psychobilly and surf rock, as illustrated in the story. Upon release I shall be doing a 'Sound track of' for each song/band mentioned, including my friend's band, but for now just a taster of things to come.

 

(c) Melanie Tushmore 2011 

Expected release early 2012.

The Cramps - 'You Got Good Taste'
Performed live, not sure of the date but one would assume this is in the '80s.
The Cramps are the most sleazy, fun party rock you could possibly dance to, with the coolest female guitarist, Poison Ivy. If you've never heard The Cramps before you haven't lived.

RIP Lux Interior.


And...

The Misfits - 'Dig Up Her Bones'
Video, late '90s.
One of my fave vids, what I like about it is the switching between the fun live shots onstage and the studio 'graveyard' shots with singer Michale Graves' rather adorable smile. And the big fat, pet moth crawling up his arm.
Including a cameo from 'The Crimson Ghost' of course. If you've never heard The Misfits before this is a good place to start, as while the music is pretty fast the vocals in contrast start off slow and soft.
Get ready to point at the sky for the chorus!