Dope Calypso
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2016
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2016
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2016
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Kuplung
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OCT
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2015
Budapest, Hungary
Kuplung
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OCT
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2015
Budapest, Hungary
ShowBarlang
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JUL
26
2015
Budapest, Hungary
A38
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JUN
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2015
Budapest, Hungary
Dürer Kert
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MAY
27
2015
Budapest, Hungary
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APR
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2015
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JAN
31
2015
Budapest, Hungary
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2015
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29
2014
Budapest, Hungary
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2014
Budapest, Hungary
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About Dope Calypso
The Budapest based Dope Calypso is like if you would take a garage-punk band who are really into the Pixies. You could already feel this on their first album Farewell To The Fairy, Goodbye To The Ghost released in 2014. And even though that LP made onto all the relevant Hungarian lists at the end of the year, this love of genres came of age on the second LP Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!, released just 8 month after Dope Calypso’s debut.
On the 2nd album you got songs full of comics, sacred referrals and other obscure hints to the current popular culture. Telling rather absurd stories the merely more than 2 minutes long songs work also as pop songs. What these stories are like shows you vividly the band’s videos for Black Swamp Thing and Goodbye Monkey.
Banzai! Banzai! Banzai! was ranked on most of the Hungarian media list in a high position (e.g. 2nd best album on Index) and to top this achievement the song Boys From Heaven has been chosen by the jury (including Fruzsina Szép – director of Lollapalooza Berlin, Berlin Festival, Károly Gerendai – director of Sziget Festival) as being the best song of 2015 on Stenk’s song contest.
Dope Calypso’s core is given by the twitchy and delicate balance of the two guitar players, Laci Kelemen and Miki Sarkadi. While Miki’s almost only point is to have as many catchy songs as possible, Laci who works as an artist manager for two artist in Budapest (Ivan & The Parazol, makrohang) is the one to give the frames for Dope Calypso, so it can be understand as a band and not as a funny gathering of lads, writing 3 albums in 3 years. But this chemistry works so well that it was obvious right from the beginning that the band will not have a bass player. Rather than having a fourth member Laci and Miki decided to solve the sound issue within songs with a little tech trick. Seeing their set on Balcony TV you ask yourself why the hell are there bass players in that many bands anyway? But really?
The fruitfulness of Dope Calypso is proved no better than the fact that at the release of their sophomore album, the trio already had the songs for the third album. The album has the working title Mau Mau and will be recorded during the summer of 2016 in Brescia, Italy at the T.U.P. studio with the band’s newly signed drummer Áron ‘Vasaló’ Szabó, who has quite an experience being the drummer of formerly well known Hungarian bands Rémember and Nemjuci. He got state of being The Immortal Drummer by simply felling off stage during a set at Sziget festival.
The songs on Mau Mau is going to be released in November 2016.
On the 2nd album you got songs full of comics, sacred referrals and other obscure hints to the current popular culture. Telling rather absurd stories the merely more than 2 minutes long songs work also as pop songs. What these stories are like shows you vividly the band’s videos for Black Swamp Thing and Goodbye Monkey.
Banzai! Banzai! Banzai! was ranked on most of the Hungarian media list in a high position (e.g. 2nd best album on Index) and to top this achievement the song Boys From Heaven has been chosen by the jury (including Fruzsina Szép – director of Lollapalooza Berlin, Berlin Festival, Károly Gerendai – director of Sziget Festival) as being the best song of 2015 on Stenk’s song contest.
Dope Calypso’s core is given by the twitchy and delicate balance of the two guitar players, Laci Kelemen and Miki Sarkadi. While Miki’s almost only point is to have as many catchy songs as possible, Laci who works as an artist manager for two artist in Budapest (Ivan & The Parazol, makrohang) is the one to give the frames for Dope Calypso, so it can be understand as a band and not as a funny gathering of lads, writing 3 albums in 3 years. But this chemistry works so well that it was obvious right from the beginning that the band will not have a bass player. Rather than having a fourth member Laci and Miki decided to solve the sound issue within songs with a little tech trick. Seeing their set on Balcony TV you ask yourself why the hell are there bass players in that many bands anyway? But really?
The fruitfulness of Dope Calypso is proved no better than the fact that at the release of their sophomore album, the trio already had the songs for the third album. The album has the working title Mau Mau and will be recorded during the summer of 2016 in Brescia, Italy at the T.U.P. studio with the band’s newly signed drummer Áron ‘Vasaló’ Szabó, who has quite an experience being the drummer of formerly well known Hungarian bands Rémember and Nemjuci. He got state of being The Immortal Drummer by simply felling off stage during a set at Sziget festival.
The songs on Mau Mau is going to be released in November 2016.
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Genres:
As Well.
Band Members:
Vasalo - drums, .-.-.- Past Members -.-.-., Miklos Sarkadi - guitars & vocals, Laszlo Kelemen - guitars (sounds like a bass), Balazs Bako - drums // 2013 - 2015
Hometown:
Budapest, Hungary
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Circle Hat
$25.0 USD
Live Collage Sweatshirt
$45.0 USD
Rainbow T-Shirt
$30.0 USD
Circle Beanie
$20.0 USD
Concerts and tour dates
Past
SEP
15
2018
Budapest, Hungary
Budapest
I Was There
DEC
23
2016
Kecskemét, Hungary
TBA
I Was There
DEC
16
2016
Eger, Hungary
Vén Bagoly
I Was There
DEC
09
2016
Sopron, Hungary
Búgócsiga
I Was There
DEC
03
2016
Szeged, Hungary
Grand Cafe Várkert
I Was There
DEC
02
2016
Budapest, Hungary
Kuplung
I Was There
NOV
17
2016
Budapest, Hungary
A38
I Was There
NOV
21
2015
Kecskemet, Hungary
Kilele Music Cafe
I Was There
OCT
30
2015
Budapest, Hungary
Kuplung
I Was There
OCT
18
2015
Budapest, Hungary
ShowBarlang
I Was There
JUL
26
2015
Budapest, Hungary
A38
I Was There
JUN
24
2015
Budapest, Hungary
Dürer Kert
I Was There
MAY
27
2015
Budapest, Hungary
A38
I Was There
APR
16
2015
Budapest, Hungary
Roham Bár
I Was There
APR
11
2015
Nyiregyhaza, Hungary
Club Hollywood
I Was There
MAR
11
2015
Budapest, Hungary
Corvin tető
I Was There
JAN
31
2015
Budapest, Hungary
A38
I Was There
JAN
23
2015
Budapest, Hungary
GMK
I Was There
DEC
29
2014
Budapest, Hungary
RoHAM
I Was There
OCT
02
2014
Budapest, Hungary
Toldi Klub
I Was There
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About Dope Calypso
The Budapest based Dope Calypso is like if you would take a garage-punk band who are really into the Pixies. You could already feel this on their first album Farewell To The Fairy, Goodbye To The Ghost released in 2014. And even though that LP made onto all the relevant Hungarian lists at the end of the year, this love of genres came of age on the second LP Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!, released just 8 month after Dope Calypso’s debut.
On the 2nd album you got songs full of comics, sacred referrals and other obscure hints to the current popular culture. Telling rather absurd stories the merely more than 2 minutes long songs work also as pop songs. What these stories are like shows you vividly the band’s videos for Black Swamp Thing and Goodbye Monkey.
Banzai! Banzai! Banzai! was ranked on most of the Hungarian media list in a high position (e.g. 2nd best album on Index) and to top this achievement the song Boys From Heaven has been chosen by the jury (including Fruzsina Szép – director of Lollapalooza Berlin, Berlin Festival, Károly Gerendai – director of Sziget Festival) as being the best song of 2015 on Stenk’s song contest.
Dope Calypso’s core is given by the twitchy and delicate balance of the two guitar players, Laci Kelemen and Miki Sarkadi. While Miki’s almost only point is to have as many catchy songs as possible, Laci who works as an artist manager for two artist in Budapest (Ivan & The Parazol, makrohang) is the one to give the frames for Dope Calypso, so it can be understand as a band and not as a funny gathering of lads, writing 3 albums in 3 years. But this chemistry works so well that it was obvious right from the beginning that the band will not have a bass player. Rather than having a fourth member Laci and Miki decided to solve the sound issue within songs with a little tech trick. Seeing their set on Balcony TV you ask yourself why the hell are there bass players in that many bands anyway? But really?
The fruitfulness of Dope Calypso is proved no better than the fact that at the release of their sophomore album, the trio already had the songs for the third album. The album has the working title Mau Mau and will be recorded during the summer of 2016 in Brescia, Italy at the T.U.P. studio with the band’s newly signed drummer Áron ‘Vasaló’ Szabó, who has quite an experience being the drummer of formerly well known Hungarian bands Rémember and Nemjuci. He got state of being The Immortal Drummer by simply felling off stage during a set at Sziget festival.
The songs on Mau Mau is going to be released in November 2016.
On the 2nd album you got songs full of comics, sacred referrals and other obscure hints to the current popular culture. Telling rather absurd stories the merely more than 2 minutes long songs work also as pop songs. What these stories are like shows you vividly the band’s videos for Black Swamp Thing and Goodbye Monkey.
Banzai! Banzai! Banzai! was ranked on most of the Hungarian media list in a high position (e.g. 2nd best album on Index) and to top this achievement the song Boys From Heaven has been chosen by the jury (including Fruzsina Szép – director of Lollapalooza Berlin, Berlin Festival, Károly Gerendai – director of Sziget Festival) as being the best song of 2015 on Stenk’s song contest.
Dope Calypso’s core is given by the twitchy and delicate balance of the two guitar players, Laci Kelemen and Miki Sarkadi. While Miki’s almost only point is to have as many catchy songs as possible, Laci who works as an artist manager for two artist in Budapest (Ivan & The Parazol, makrohang) is the one to give the frames for Dope Calypso, so it can be understand as a band and not as a funny gathering of lads, writing 3 albums in 3 years. But this chemistry works so well that it was obvious right from the beginning that the band will not have a bass player. Rather than having a fourth member Laci and Miki decided to solve the sound issue within songs with a little tech trick. Seeing their set on Balcony TV you ask yourself why the hell are there bass players in that many bands anyway? But really?
The fruitfulness of Dope Calypso is proved no better than the fact that at the release of their sophomore album, the trio already had the songs for the third album. The album has the working title Mau Mau and will be recorded during the summer of 2016 in Brescia, Italy at the T.U.P. studio with the band’s newly signed drummer Áron ‘Vasaló’ Szabó, who has quite an experience being the drummer of formerly well known Hungarian bands Rémember and Nemjuci. He got state of being The Immortal Drummer by simply felling off stage during a set at Sziget festival.
The songs on Mau Mau is going to be released in November 2016.
Show More
Genres:
As Well.
Band Members:
Vasalo - drums, .-.-.- Past Members -.-.-., Miklos Sarkadi - guitars & vocals, Laszlo Kelemen - guitars (sounds like a bass), Balazs Bako - drums // 2013 - 2015
Hometown:
Budapest, Hungary
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