The Traveling Psycho Ward



The Traveling Psycho Ward is a group of 5 mentally insane musicians, who managed to escape the state's mental institution together and have been on the run from the government ever since. In order to stay one step ahead from being caught, they tour as a band. Covering music's finest horror and psycho themed classics! Furthermore they make movies, sketches, release classic horror music cover videos (Youtube), Horror movie reviews (Cinematic Sundays with Kev INSANE), Horror game walktroughs (FREAKOUT GAMESTREAMS) and give the audience a chance to follow them off stage via the #TTPWAdventures and everyday updates on social media like Facebook, Instagram and twitch.

Formation, FAMOUS MONSTERS days. The story of the bands formation starts with 9 different psycho's that were locked up in the Dutch state psych ward on the same department. As a reintegration project 4 of them were allowed to form a little cover band of their own choosing. As a huge MISFITS fan, Kev INSANE decided to take the role as frontman of a MISFITS cover band. After asking fellow department psycho's Le marquis (drums) Doctor Dent (bass) and Vlad the impaler (Guitar) to join in, he decided to call the band FAMOUS MONSTERS after the legendary Misfits album. After a few rehearsals the warden of the state psych ward granted permission for a public show in smaller venues once or twice per month. The group played their debut show as opening act for the Live Rock Karaoke band in Popcentrale, (Dordrecht, The Netherlands) better known as THE POPCENTRALE DISASTER OF 2018 on September 9th 2018. Vlad left the group right afterwards because his duty's as a high commander in battle.

With an invitation to play at the after party of the annual Rotterdam zombie walk the group had to find a replacement guitarist fast. After attempting to summon one out of a random grave, Le Marquis contacted the werewolf guitarist TIMBERWÜLF that he knew from one of his 10.000 former bands to step in for the show. (as a 342 year old, Le Marquis had build up a lot of contacts).

After the successful after party the band went on to ask zombie soldier Mooror to occasionally play as second guitarist. As a 5 piece group they went on a mini tour with Pene Corrida, playing the MEZZ, Little Devil and their first show over the boarder at ROCKING BULL in Antwerp, Belgium. Doctor Dent afterwards invited his pen pals from the English Blink 182 cover band Blinked 182 to come over to play 2 show cases together at Pogo stage and CAPSLOC. The English band left with a offer to provide refuge if the band would ever consider to break out. Mooror had to change his name into Domingo and left the country because of involvement with the cosa nostra Mafia family. Timberwolf got a offer in a Japanese folk band and left to focus more on the Japanese Violin. The state psych ward took back the privileges of public shows because of complaints (Timberwolf left several car crashes) and the fate of the remaining 6 psycho's was left uncertain.

Break out, Second formation, First year.

On June 24 2019 the band shared a GIF picture on their social media that showed a Misfits logo that slowly turned into a logo consisting of an old school microphone that was crossed by a bone surrounded with the letters THE TRAVELING PSYCHO WARD. The message underneath was saying ''SOON'. Meanwhile, back at the state psych ward the remainder of the department (except for Eli the flammable who was still locked up in a private cell) had been planning a escape. Much of the details of the escape are still unknown. On August 4 the band posted a picture of a envelope containing all remaining band members and new comers Cleaving Cleatus and Papa ven Geance 's pictures and a text saying THE HUNT FOR US HAS BEGON. With a new name and new line up, the group had now officially broke out of the state psych ward.

The group instantly took refuge in the warehouse of abandoned treasures, which was provided by Cleaving Cleatus that used to use the warehouse for smuggling and making his moonshine. They were found under mysterious circumstances by the demonic record label of the Graveyard queen who offered them a record deal and protection from the authorities if they would agree to focus on a new set with a wide range off horror and psycho related songs from every corner of the land of music. After the group agreed and signed they were immediately instructed to break in on the 8 o' clock news escape item by DDN news on August 9 2019 in an attempt to clear their names to the public. A copy of the item can still be found on the bands You tube channel today. In the first week of hiding out the band experienced a lot of car chases, bomb letters and incidents of being looked at funny in the super market. Reminding the offer that the English Blink 182 cover band  Blinked 182  had made in the past the group decided to arrange a 3 day escape to England in the form of the BRITAIN BREAKOUT weekend tour. After rehearsing and planning they left via Eindhoven airport on August 30. After arriving in South-end-at-sea they played the  Chinnery's  and the next day  The Venue . During the after party of the venue the band walking into Cleaving Cleatus's father Uncle daddy on the parking lot behind the venue while he was busy trying to rob the band bus. The next day while they were watching a episode of Rick and Morty in a hostel they were ambushed as the door got kicked in by some English bobby' s. After some hard interrogation they were transported to the beach of South end, forced into a canoe and pushed into the north sea with instructions to paddle around Kent towards The Hague and never return. All the information of the weekend tour came according to Doctor Dent's tour log that was published on the website of POPUNIE a few weeks later.

Cleatus later on tried to sell laundry detergent as crystal meth to the Russian mafia. A few days later he got kidnapped for ransom. They urged the rest of The Traveling Psycho Ward to pay 50,000 euros as fast as possible, or else. The band started a campaign called #FREECLEATUS where they tried to sell band shirts to pay off the debt. A grand total of 1 shirt worth of 10 euros was sold. The buyer requested  I will pay if you promise not to take him back . This incident made him unable to join for The invasion of the swinging dead showcase in Hall of Fame, Tilburg. He later on returned just in time for the 2019 Halloween weekend tour with a bag filled with chopped up Russian mobster over his shoulder. He said that he had a great time, and learned how to make moonshine vodka. The Halloween 2019 tour started off at the LOLA in Gronningen (with the Hammeroidz as opener). During this show Domingo made a quick appearance while having a situation with one of his clients in the audience. The next day they played a show at the Grote Weiver Halloween party in Wormerveer where they witnessed how some random iron construction stairs magically knocked out a member of the audience out of his own will (and how the rest of the crowd was to drunk or high to give him proper medical attention). After that they played a show at the POGO stage as the opener of Vlad the impaler's Mexican army of Pene Corrida. Cleaving Cleatus makes a legendary move as he stops the show in the middle, puts a carton board wall in front of him and puts on a red while screaming I don't take kind of playing with Mexicans. After the Halloween tour Kev INSANE and Doctor Dent one day woke up to discover that Papa ven geance was gone. He left a note in an envelope explaining that he had left for a Voodoo convention in New orleans. The envelope also contained a full colour picture of him standing on a airport smiling and waving while leaving in a small private plane. To duo replies in total panic as they have several shows lined up, and now are without a lead guitarist. They immediately receive a call from the Graveyard Queen (the first since they have signed) that knows of everything. She offers a solution in the form of Pripjat Pete, a radioactive survivor of Chernobyl guitarist that she placed in a container behind the warehouse of abandoned treasures. She instructs that he can only be used when there are no options left, and that he can only be used in small portions of time due to his radiation. She also adds that if the band fucks up one more time it will be strike 3 (she also knew of Cleatus and the Russians). The band first break out Eli the Flammable and try out a few rehearsals with him but ultimately free Pripjat Pete and prepare him for the coming tour. The biggest part of these events are shown in episode 1 of the band very own online series #TTPWADVENTURES on their youtube channel. The first show with Pripjat Pete Punkovics as a stand in guitarist was played at PHOENIX, Breda (together with the Klingonz from England and Zombiecrows from Belgium). The second took place at POGO stage (as a headliner with DE DOOD, and Jacklust) where TIMBERWÜLF made a surprise appearance on stage during Skulls. The band than once again fled over boarders to Nordenham, Germany to play the El dorado bar on February 29th 2020. Doctor Dent noticed on the way to the venue that the news on the radio reported that 2 people in Germany were infected with a mysterious new virus. After playing the show (with Voodoozer) they were witness of the drinking legend of DENNIS! taking place. After coming back to The warehouse of abandoned treasures the band decided to lock up Pripjat pete with 17 extra locks on his containers door. Unaware of future events, the show would end up being the band's last live show for a very long time.

Worldwide corona pandemic, new development.

After the outbreak of the worldwide Corona pandemic, the group was forced to cancel al planned shows and stay on a low in the warehouse of abandoned treasures. After sitting out the most dire weeks of the first lock down they began to publish more content throughout their You tube channel and social media. Starting with preparing a selection of recorded live video 's in several venues of all the songs they ever play live to be released separately every Sunday as the TTPW Live cover sessions series. Doctor Dent started to release bass covers, followed by Le Marquis who published several drum covers of psycho and horror related covers by band like Anthrax, My Chemichal Romance, Panthera, The Vandals and many more.

On May 19th 2020 the band released a statement where Kev Insane reported to have gone trough a very weird experience while being locked up during the crisis. He was busy to record and edit a cover song together with Cleatus that would come in handy with explaining what happened. On July the 3rd the bands first cover music video (Ozzy Osbournes Bark at the moon ) was released that explained the story of how The Graveyard Queen one night during the pandemic gets bored. She decides to bewitch the band in their sleep so that they can entertain her with a song. The majority of the band (Papa ven geance even joins in while he is making a voodoo circle all tough he is still in New Orleans) awakes and starts playing their instrument. Kev Insane seems to be changed into a wolf mentally, and escapes the warehouse of abandoned treasures in the middle of the song. Doctor Dent than wakes up and goes out to find him back on a graveyard and drag him back home on a dog leash.

By using his decades of being locked up in a basement full with horror memorabilia, books, music and movies worth of knowledge Kev INSANE decides to release a horror movie review video every first Sunday of the Month (Cinematic Sundays with Kev INSANE). The first episode got released on July 26th.

On September 26th the band release a video of a situation where the group (without Papa ven geance who is still in New Orleans) is out for a walk and a talk. Doctor Dent comes with a proposal to record a nice acoustic session for promotional purposes. He shows the group a pre set up setting with several acoustic instruments and ask them for their opinion. As a answer the group drags him to a harbor and throws him off a dock. Kev INSANE than breaks the acoustic guitar with his bare hands and throws it after Doctor Dent into the water. This event plus an additional special dance video with Kev INSANE, Timberwolf and a unknown Mexican musician (to make the duration of the video longer) were released on their channel as A very special acoustic session.

On October 8th the band did their first FREAK OUT GAMESTREAM in which they play horror related online games while being filmed in a live stream. They also answered questions and dropped a mash up of the entire session afterwards on their YouTube channel. On October the second session followed. On October 27th after several posts of bottles with his own face on them in the past, Cleaving Cleatus announced to finally release his very own line of '' CLEAVING CLEATUS STONECOLD MOONSHINE' ' whiskey. Together with a special commercial the drink was officially launched on October 31st. The first batch contained 10 bottles with a plasticized certificate off illegality. On December 5th the band released the SinterCleatus special delivery video, where Cleaving Cleatus delivered the bottles while being dressed up like sinterklaas, the Dutch alternative for santaclaus.

On June 9th 2021 the band published a statement where they where hanging out at a BBQ party at Cleaving Cleatus's lawn in the USA and claimed to be looking for a new drummer and keyboard player now that the pandemic was boiling down. Le Marquis was confirmed to no longer be the drummer for the group.