Kev INSANE

Kevin ???? (Monster, August 8 1986) better known as Kev INSANE is the current singer of The Traveling Psycho Ward.

Early years

Information about Kev INSANE's time before the state's psych ward is quite limited so far. It has been said that he once grew up as a normal and average suburban boy in the village of Monster, The Netherlands. His father was a huge Horror fan and collector of memorabilia, books, movies and documentaries that he would keep in his basement. After his father left because of an affair, his mother suffered a serious mental breakdown and took out her anger on her son by locking him up in the basement with his fathers collection. She would keep him there for decades, and he would not be rescued by the police until shortly after his 30th birthday. After examination the state declared that Kev INSANE was ripe for the state psych ward.

Formation, FAMOUS MONSTERS

Kev INSANE can be described as the spiritual father of The Traveling Psycho Ward (Or the one to blame, depends from what angle you are looking). As one of the 9 psycho's that stayed on the same department in the state psych ward, it was Kev that was invited by the state psych ward's warden for a conversation about a re integration project. Due to staff shortage and the desire for a personal weekend off, the warden offered Kev INSANE the opportunity of a few evening's out of the psych ward if he would be able to secure a weekend job. After having some talks with his bunk bed buddy Mooroor and because of being a huge fan, he decided to put together a MISFITS cover band.

After personally asking fellow department members Les Marquis, Vlad the impaler and Doctor Dent they had put together a set list consisting of both Danzig as Grave era songs and started rehearsing together. They debuted during the popcentrale disaster of 2018 and then afterwards played several shows while switching with several department mates on guitar. After the show at CAPSLOC and the departing of Mooror and TIMBERWÜLF the band was left with no guitarist and got locked up once again after playing privileges were suspended.The remaining group secretly started planning a escape.

The Traveling Psycho Ward, touring, world pandemic. After the escape, seeking refuse in the warehouse, the arrival of Cleaving Cleatus and Papa ven Geance and breaking in on the escape item on DDN news with the rest of the group kev kept his role as singer and front man within the group. Starting with the English weekend tour of the Britain Break out (where the Chinnery' s show still holds his personal record of getting absolutely shitfaced within the group), followed by the invasion of the swinging dead, the Halloween tour of 2019, and the first POGO show Kev grew as an unpredictable but very entertaining front man,and singing in a wider range while the set list grew wider than only Misfits songs.

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 wich 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. Kev famously was spending a phenomenal long time to open the lock of the container, not noticing the handle on the door. All these events are shown in the first episode of #TTPWADVENTURES.

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). The band than once again fled over boarders to Nordenham, Germany to play the El dorado bar on February 29th 2020. This would proven to be the last live show for a long time because of the world wide Corona pandemic that broke out shortly after.

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 mentally seems to be changed into a wolf, 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 aired 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, Timberwülf and a unknown Mexican musician (to make the duration of the video longer) were released on their channel as A very special acoustic session.

So far Kev always appears on every episode of the band's FREAK OUT GAME STREAMS and all video's that come from the Cleaving Cleatus STONECOLD MOONSHINE campaign.

Personality

Kev INSANE is obviously bat shit crazy, but somehow almost always in a positive mood. Apart from some serious moods during serious songs on stage and signs of fear when the Graveyard queen is approaching, he is a living whirlwind that likes to tag along on the current mood of a group and strengthen the atmosphere with his chaos. A man of short sentences and random screams, he never seems to show any interest into being the most dominant member of the group. He does however always seems more interested in finding the biggest source of chaos to entertain him within his current situation. He therefore sometimes gets dominated (like in the Bark at the moon video) or takes the lead (like the acoustic session video) without really considering the difference as long as he is busy with what is in front of him. On stage he is known as a creative artist and great singer that is able to adept to a wide range of songs, and also for bringing in unusual attributes that increase the entertainment of the show to a higher level. Know's so much about horror related subject's because his decades of being locked up with his dad's collection that it has been considered unnatural by several doctors trough the years.