🎶 Thank You, Thank You, and Thank You… 🎶

Howdy folks, and welcome to the summer edition of Treacherous Cretins News!

First off, a massive thank you to each and every one of you who came out to our (Return Of The Son Of) Celebrate Zappa Tour 2025 back in April. It was an honour and a privilege to perform the music we love most and share it with such an incredible community. Your energy, your dancing, your singing — you made every show electric.

We’re already counting down to the next tour!

A huge shout-out as well to all the venues and promoters who hosted us—you made it possible.

📸 During the tour, we were lucky to have some top-notch photographers capturing the magic. Check out the gallery here: treacherouscretins.com/photos
Big thanks to Graham Perowne, Haluk Gurer, and Andrew Blondell for their stellar work.

🎥 We’re digging through some video footage and will be sharing highlights soon on our YouTube channel. If you haven’t subscribed yet—now’s the time!

To kick things off, here’s a video featuring tracks from Tinsel Town Rebellion and You Are What You Is—performed live on this tour.
👉 Watch it now

🚌 ON THE BUS… with Robert Martin

While clocking a lot of miles on the tour, we turned our van into a mobile interview lounge for a special ‘Ask Robert’ Q&A session.

Thanks to everyone in our WhatsApp group who sent in questions. Robert dove into tales from the road with FZ, the legendary '88 Band, jazz noises, and his work with icons like Etta James and Stevie Nicks.

It’s candid, insightful, and full of stories only Robert can tell.

🎥 Watch the interview now on our YouTube channel

🎪 ZAPPANALE—we're coming back 🎪

We’re thrilled to be returning to the legendary Zappanale Festival next month—joined once again by Robert.

Held just outside Bad Doberan, Zappanale has been the global gathering place for Zappa fans since 1990, celebrating “music outside the norm” with a lineup as wild and wonderful as the man himself. If you’ve never been, it’s a pilgrimage worth making.

🎸 We hit the stage Saturday night—and we can’t wait to see some familiar faces in the crowd.  

Our first Zappanale appearance was back in 2019 (only our second gig ever!), and we were honoured to be joined by Frank's sister Candy Zappa, who performed Uncle Remus with us. It was a surreal and unforgettable moment—and yes, we looked a lot younger pre-COVID.

📹 Relive that memory with us in this video from Zappanale #30 featuring Candy Zappa on vocals.

For festival details, check out the official Zappanale site.

🎃 You Are What You Is… and what you should be is at our Halloween gigs! 🎃

This October, we return for two nights of Halloween Zappa madness:

🕸️ 30th October – The Railway Inn, Winchester
🕸️ 31st October – The Finsbury, London

Join us on Frank’s favourite holiday for an evil evening of Halloween-tinged Zappa classics. Expect the scariest, spine-chilling songs from the catalogue—interspersed with our twisted takes on your favourites.

👞 Put on your Sinister Footwear
🐴 Saddle up The Deathless Horsie
🌒 Ride through the Pygmy Twylyte

Because… The Torture Never Stops.
🎟️ Tickets are on sale now and likely to vanish faster than a ghost note—grab yours here.

🛍️ Merch drop alert 🛍️

Missed out on a T-shirt during the tour? Good news—we’ve finally added some of our official Treacherous Cretins tees to our Bandcamp page!

And that’s not all—we’ve got a limited stash of tour posters left, priced to please and ready to jazz up your wall.

🎸 Grab yours while they last and wear your TC-Tee with pride.

And finally…

Thank you all so much once again for your support.

Music is the best x