(Den Burg, 1980)

Bio: Started under the name of The Bananashitz in the spring of 1980. They did one concert on the first Texelpop festival and they sounded like the Stooges. After this concert, the sister Karin and Sabine joined on vocals and the name was changed to Evil Popes. They organized a festival on an old soccer field where they had a rehearsal space in the locker rooms. They were about to play on the fest when the father of Gijs arrived and took him and his drums away. He got grounded because he hung out with scum, and that had to stop. He had gotten a call from the police that morning and they had been questioned by the police the day before. Posters had been illegally put up, and graffiti had appeared on the town hall. In the days before, they had printed a few thousand posters and plastered them all over the island (Texel is the biggest of all Waddensea islands). They were still visible on the town’s trash cans five years later. The festival went ahead with Rob’s brother Edwin on a children’s drum kit. When Rob left the band, the name was changed to TX Punx.

Lineup:
[1] 1980 (as The Bananashitz)
Gijs Keijzer – drums
Rob Vink – bass
Saro Paradiso – guitar, vocals

[2] 1980
Gijs Keijzer – drums
Karin Aarts – vocals, keyboards
Rob Vink – bass
Sabine Aarts – vocals
Saro Paradiso – guitar, vocals

Other bands:
Gijs Keijzer – TX Punx, Negative Youth, RGP 83, Good Clean Fun, Ursa Major, The Paranoia Club, Jailtat, Innocent
Karin Aarts – TX Punx, Dadaguluks
Sabine Aarts – TX Punx, Dadaguluks
Saro Paradiso – Kaïn, O.D. Babe, Hollands Verdriet, Desert Corbusier, Nieuwstad, Gutter King, TX Punx, Innocent

Interview/Article:
1980 – Raket 14

Concerts: (selected)
1980 Texelpop, Den Burg (as The Bananashitz)
1980.08.30 ‘t Asiel, Den Burg

Source: Gijs Keijzer