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Lugosi
12+ albums
punk rockpop punkfrenchpunkhard rock
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1) Lugosi existed in Wellington, New Zealand from the mid to late 1990's and consisted of players Campbell Kneale (Birchville Cat Motel, With Throats As Fine As Needles, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label boss etc), Andrew Savage (Sunship) and Leon Schutz. 2) At the end of 2007, Ferry Lauwerijssen (ex-Bob Miller and the Nightmares), Robert-Jan de Pauw (ex-Bob Miller and the Nightmares) and Hans Wilders (ex-Bob Miller and the Nightmares/ex-Stockholm Syndrome) teamed up to form a new Rockendale band. It was quickly decided that Fer and Rob would play guitar and Hans would play drums. Since, they were still short on a bass player, John de Haas (who, at that time, had never played bass before in his life) was asked to join the group. During the first rehearsal together with John (ex-Second to None/ex-Dead Rivers), back then already being the modest guy he still is, he declared he would be the best bass player ever to have walked on the face of the earth in no time (with the possible exception of Gene Simmons). Fer, Rob and Hans decided he would fit right in. Under the influence of Hungarian Horror-Legend Bela Lugosi, old Horror movies, brothels, whores and bands like Refused, Shellac and Fugazi the first songs were written. Each of which contained no more than four lines of text at a maximum. Since, four lines of text is quite a lot to remember, it was decided that the band might benefit from the addition of a seperate vocalist. Sander van Oers (ex-Coffinkids) was approached and qu
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