What is a Psychobilly Weekend?
A destinctive feature of the Psychopbilly lifestyle is the Psychobilly Weekend. Since Psychobilly never became popular it has always been difficult to book bands. If you book only one band only a few people will turn op. In a weekender you have three days of only psychobilly bands organized for example on a campus. You’ll have loads of people coming from all continents to watch bands, and have a big party. In the mid-eighties the first weekenders were organized in the UK. 7. Are Psychobillies political? No, not at all. Psychobilly started as a reaction on the punkrock scene in the 80’s which was getting too political. Psychobilly is just about good music and having a good time with friends. There aren’t many] psycho, rockabilly or rock’n’roll bands that have anything else to say than sing about monsters, UFO’s, and teenagers problems. The only psycho abnd with political songs is probably the Peacocks, but then again this is a 50% ska band too. I remember a discussion on the rockabilly
