Congratulations to the Top 10 Finalists of the Pageant Sponsored by Shellback Rum and Bachelor Pad Magazine Meet all the contestants Friday, August 14th 3:00PM Miss Tiki Oasis Poolside Strut at the Crowne Plaza! Donna April Lei Barnarella Dixie Denier Drea Dillinger DeMuerte Jolie Minnie Vixen Vana Sarah Vamp Stella Foxtrot Goodnight Croissant La Fleur Who will win Miss Tiki Oasis 2015? Find out on the main stage Friday, August 14th at 6:00PM Hosted by El Vez and Ruby Joule Miss Tiki Oasis 2014 2 Baby Doe & Otto von Stroheim welcome you to Contents Entertainers.............................. 6 The crew at Tiki Oasis headquarters have searched the cosmos in order to Symposia.................................... 22 present to you the finest in interstellar entertainment. We've brought these performers to Earth just for you: Man or Astroman?; The Phenomenauts; the support crew of Flight Engineer Danny Biederman; Command Pilot Don Schedule..................................... 40 Preston; and Mission Specialist Neil Norman. We even used our Earth time machine to bring back from the past the garage-rock primitives Vendor Marketplace Map.. 48 The Chocolate Watchband! Educators................................... 54 Pull on your jet pack and jump into the air; grab your raygun and become a space invader; or just relax poolside soaking in the sights and sounds of your own moonage daydream, and join us on our virtual journey to the stars. Burlesque Dancers............... 60 Disc Jockeys............................. 68 Thank You................................... 77 Polynesian Pop in the Space Age Credits The Space Age ran parallel to the Modern Primitivism of Tiki Culture. While Program & Website technology propelled modern man to the moon, the common man celebrated Aaron Burke @ tidbit studio isolated islander cultures that were equally unattainable. Tiki Oasis Producers Whether it was a World's Fair or Disneyland's Tomorrowland (1955), It seemed Otto & Baby Doe von Stroheim that the interest in other worlds in outer space was just as intriguing as man's curiosity for primitive cultures. All World's Fairs had "ethnic" exhibits displaying exotic and ancient traditions1 alongside the most modern Sponsorship, Advertising, Vending aspects of technology. Similarly, with a short walk across Disnelyland's Main Christi Crowe @ FLAG Marketing Street, tourists travelled from the advanced technologies of Tomorrowland to the wilds of Adventureland's Tiki Room and Jungle Cruise. In 1947 the world Publicity listened and read about the Kon Tiki raft sailing across the South Pacific Lee Joseph @ Reverberations toward the most remote island on earth - Easter Island. Ten years later the Media Western world watched as Russia's Sputnik sailed into outer space to begin The Space Race. Soon thereafter Apollo jettisoned the first men to the moon. Illustrations The Telstar satellite (1962) inspired Joe Meek to pen the #1 Surf instrumental Derek Yaniger tune of the same name using cutting edge recording techniques (the single was backed by B Side "Jungle Fever"). From late 19th century Jules Verne Sci-Fi voyages to the perfect future of The Jetsons (and their primitive counterparts The Flintstones); From Fritz Lang's Futurist inspired Metropolis (1927) to The Star Trek Enterprise's search for the final frontier, man's love of Modernism and Primitivism have run parallel in space (Mars and the Moon) as it has on earth (the remote islands of The Polynesian Triangle). Captain James Cook desired to go "farther than any other man has been before". He discovered many remote islands as well as sailing to Antarctica and being the first to chart parts of Alaska, the final frontier of the Age of Discovery. Ironically we ended up putting a man on the moon decades before we discovered the last tribes in the mountains of Papua New Guinea2. Just as Captain Cook's Endeavor sailed uncharted seas, Star Trek Captain James T. Kirk's Enterprise took voyages into outer space to discover "strange new worlds, uncharted civilizations, and exotic people" and "boldly go where no man has been before!" 1. Sven Kirsten, Tiki Pop, page 50. 2. Mark Jenkins, National Geographic, February 2012 3 Entertainers Man or Astroman? Some years ago a young collective of extraterrestrials arrived on this planet and The Chocolate Watchband happened upon a small college town in Alabama. Home to both other-worldly jazz guru Sun Ra and rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, it is clear that Alabama is a direct linkage to outer space. In order to integrate into human society, these aliens would disguise themselves as a rock band, the perfect vehicle in which to traverse the globe and further their research. They would soon be known to the people of Earth as Man or Astro-Man?. Unearthing thrift store records by the likes of Link Wray, The Ventures, Dick Dale, Duane Eddy, The Marketts, and The Safaris, Man or Astro-Man? began to formulate their own blend of Seminal garage band the Chocolate Watchband the retro-futuristic music inspired by their offbeat formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1965, discoveries. Innovative stage sets and designs by making their name locally with a distinctive blend of The Spotniks, Devo, Sun Ra, and The B-52s also Anglicised R&B and pure punk raunch. Produced by had an impact on the emerging ensemble. In 2013, Ed Cobb, the group's vintage recordings combined after ten years of space travel MOAM came back this influence with a prominent psychedelic edge to Earth and recorded "Defcon 5...4...3...2...1" and, across a handful of spectacular singles and three under the guise of a band tour, performed a brief cherished albums. With eye-opening appearances survey of our planet. For reasons unknown, Man or in movies like 1967's Riot On Sunset Strip, the last Astro-man? have returned to Earth and will land at of several Watchband line-ups ground to a halt Tiki Oasis on Saturday, August 15, 2015 Earth A.D. in 1970, but the legend was firmly established and would only grow exponentially with new fans astroman.com over the coming decades, via the band's inclusion on such influential reissues as Nuggets. In 1999, the Watchband reunited at the San Diego event 66/99, and in the years since have subsequently performed at major festivals throughout the US and Europe to frequent acclaim, bringing the fire of old to their vintage material. The current line-up features original members Aguilar, Andrijasevich and Abbott, alongside CWB archivist Palao, and as a major bonus, Daryl Hooper, keyboard player and founder member of another legendary garage rock combo, The Seeds. And part of the new Chocolate Watchband show will be devoted to songs made famous by the Seeds. thechocolatewatchband.com Featuring: David Aguilar - Vocals, Harmonica, Percussion Gary Andrijasevich - Drums and Background Vocals Tim Abbott - Lead Guitar, Sitar, Flute, Harmonica and Vocals. Daryl Hooper [The Seeds] - Keyboards, Guitars, and Background Vocals. Alec Palao - Bass and Background Vocals 6 The Tikiyaki Orchestra Hailing from Los Angeles, CA, The Tikiyaki Orchestra has been wowing audiences since 2008 with their own brand of Exotic Lounge music and unique and charismatic showmanship. Not simply content to replicate the sound of classic Exotica such as Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman, Tikiyaki, a 6 piece orchestra, led by main composer Jim Bacchi, pull many different musical food groups into the mix....Bachelor Pad Lounge, Phenomenauts Crime Jazz, Surf, Spaghetti Western, Latin and Hawaiian music, to broaden the musical spectrum (Planet Earth) of what is known today as "Exotica".Their 3 albums.... Since landing on the planet Earth, the galaxy roving "StereoExotique" , "Swingin'' Sounds for the Jungle Phenomenauts have made five official albums – Jetset" , and "Aloha, Baby !" prove that, Exotica is not Rockets and Robots (2001), the Pre-Entry EP (2004), just background music for the swingin' tikiphile, but Re-Entry (2004), For All Mankind (2008) and the you can actually hum along, due to catchy, concise Electric Sheep EP – and tour relentlessly in their and well crafted songwriting, something that was Phenoma-vechicles, ships crammed with remote not always necessarily a main component of the controls, stereo components, the motherboards original Exotica sound. of defunct computers and other high and low tech tikiyakiorchestra.com gear. In 2008, they were given a VIP tour of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, which included meetings with astronauts, scientists and hands-on experience with space station parts and training facilities. In 2008, their song "Infinite Frontier" was played aboard the International Space Station during the STS-124 mission to rendezvous with the space shuttle Discovery. "It was awesome," Professor Arius says, "but we feel bad for the astronauts who got woken up by it. It's not really a gentle good morning song." phenomenauts.com Clouseaux (Houston) "Set bongos on stun, Mr. Spock" says writer Gregg Barr of the Houston Press. "A little bit lounge, a little bit exotica, a whole lot of noir, and they're absolutely spectacular" says Koop Kooper of Cocktail Nation. "It's great music to *&!% to " says Jello Biafra. Clouseaux's Beyond Good and Evil is possibly the most sophis- ticated neo-exotica album of our time says Bjorn Werkmann of Ambient Exotica. If you didn't catch them at Tiki Oasis 3, Tiki Farm's Big ole Tiki Bash, or Vegas' Mondo Atomic Frolic, don't fret! Clouseaux is rocketing straight out of Space City back to Tiki Oasis 15 to leave you pleasantly refreshed and alive with pleasure. facebook.com/pages/Clouseaux/100018387137 7 The Devil-Ettes Entertainers (San Francisco) They wear pink miniskirts, white vinyl go go boots & petite hand made devil horns. Sassy, sultry, King Kukulele yet utterly All-American, The Devil-Ettes provide (Hollywood) good, clean fun for kids of all ages! These go-go goddesses have gained notoriety for "settin' the Having traveled the world on fringe a flyin'" at their wacky, wickedly wild high- a uke and song, the King can energy shows.