Acapulco Radio

The band’s debut album proves that “ambient” is not an invention of the electro scene but a general feeling or atmosphere which is rooted way further in the past of rock music. Driven by the stoic pulse of L.A. Noack on stand-up bass and Thomas Fietz on drums, Tommy Whynot opens his bag of guitar tricks that are quite outstanding in today’s music scene. It has taken Acapulco Radio a long time to release their first album, only to reveal why the band has achieved almost legendary status in the Berlin club scene. After hundreds of live shows they reached a level of musical expertise and skills that ring through in every note of the album. In the late nineties the band started out as “Acapulco Gold”, a name which has since then been used by quite a number of other contemporaries, which is why they choose to become “Acapulco Radio”. Guitarist/singer Tommy Whynot and bass player L.A. Noack met each other in the late eighties as members of the “The Legendary Golden Vampires” and moved on to “The Tumbling Hearts” before forming their own line-up “Acapulco Gold”, which combined desert ambience, country music and Hawaiian tunes and resulted in their first mini-album “36Hula”, which was released in 2001. When ACAPULCO RADIO presented their Album “A Little Piece Of Hawaiian Roll” at Berlin’s Bassy Club in February 2007 and „Sand on my boots“ in 2011 the place was packed and the audience could not get enough of their bitter-sweet, happy-sad music for the hours after sunset. ( from http://www.fuego.de/music/?band=acapulco-radio )