(Shut Your Trap and) Sell Your Soul is sung by Boyd Small, a friend who happens to be a fantastic singer. He did the voice for ‘Lucifero’ in my animated short Deep Shit.

It’s a given fact famous people sold their soul to the devil, and in this song the devil explains why that isn’t as bad as it seems: ‘effortlessly making waves!’ – and what is your soul worth anyway? (In Deep Shit, God is dead long time, and everybody goes to hell. The devil has a merely ceremonial job and he is really, really tired of it).

Mascotte ‘One Hit Wonder’ for the Spinshots

This digitally pulled together promotion picture turned out to be really cool as a poster: i just had to add where we’d play and voila: killer gig poster!

The Spinshots made ‘Rhythm & Tunes’, later called their music ‘Neo Exotica’. What stayed was their wild liveshows and their exciting performances.

Photos by Vi Mahabali and Wrecker Walley. If i forgot to mention a photographer please mail me and I’ll adjust…

Poster to promote the show of the Spinshots at the yearly ‘Haarlem Comic Days’. Laura A Dima did a go go dance on stage dressed as my character ‘Lucy the Home Made Maid’

When the Spinshots adjusted the name of their music to ‘Neo Exotica’ we needed a poster. I wanted a clear link with the 60s that we loved so much and at the same times something new, and having a sense of humour.

The female members of the Spinshots used to get a tailored Comic Sexy dress i designed. Here is Loes, one of the baritone Sax players in a ‘Lava Caliente’.

This photo of The Spinshots is made by Pearl Vink and me, with the stylistic help of Laura A Dima. Note that Babette and Flora are wearing Comic Sexy dresses.

Flora Dolores was the singer of the Spinshots, a project i started to perform my musical compositions. Flora is, besides a great singer, a good friend and a perfect model for the dresses of Comic Sexy. She wore several of them on and off stage and i made some nice pictures of her as a Comic Sexy Ambassadorette.

When the Spinshots started, they wore turbands. This has a lot to do with my love for Exotica and Bollywood. Traditionally, Sikhs are playing the ‘funny’ roles in Bollywood films and we did not take ourselves too seriously although we made the best music we could. And it looked pretty damn cool, so as an identity item, we had a turband for a logo

present for Flora Dolores, the singer of the Spinshots, who could have any of the designs of Comic Sexy made for her in the identity colours black and cherry red.

i made zillons of logo’s and logoësque designs for the spinshots. This one made it to the lid of my effect pedal suitcase.

‘One Hit Wonder’ was the original mascotte i designed for my band The Spinshots. I am a huge fan of ‘Blaxploitation’ music and I thought the combination of the term and this super karate heroine girl would be a fun teeshirt.

Ir Vendermeulen, the ‘Godfather of Amsterdam’ and initiator of the Amsterdam Beat Club, asked me to perform with the Spinshots and create a fashion show with the models presenting the designs while the band backed them up live.

This all happened at Paradiso, the rock temple of Amsterdam.

‘Sell Your Soul’ was sung by Boyd Small. I wrote the song for my animation short ‘Deep Shit’ and performed it with the Spinshots. Boyd did the voice of ‘Lucifero’ in the film and since he is a great blues singer – I asked him to take the lead on this one.

‘Sell Your Soul’ (and shut your trap) is the key tune from Deep Shit, an animated short I did with quite a team. (check the film here)
We performed the song with the Spinshots, with the Van Dijck Sisters at the backings. It turned out to be a great tune so we made a videoclip for it as well – in Jelle Mulder’s studio around the corner of mine.

If you swipe to the right you’ll see the 10 minute animation movie with more music by the Spinshots and friends!

In 2013, The Spinshots had the honour to back up Arthur Brown at the Amsterdam Beat Club Paradiso Show

The Spinshots live at an Amsterdam Beat Club event at Paradiso Amsterdam