Suzannes

The Suzannes was a punk band from Enschede being active from 1976 to ‘78. Influenced by The Ramones, they called themselves Suzannes inspired by Leonard Cohen's Suzanne. This song was the only cover version they played and can be found as a live song on the vinyl album "Suzannes, Dutch Punk 197-1978"
Characteristic of their performances was playing loud and fast doing 30 songs in about 45 minutes . They made an EP on the label ‘1000 Idiots’ with six songs (in two versions, including New Disease sells 2000 copies in Europe) "Hippie "and “Teenage Abortion” are the most famous songs. They performed outside Enschede including Paradiso, de Melkweg and the Stokvis Hal together with Ultravox. Key member was Suzanne Ron da Costa, the only non-musician who is named on the EPs. Singer of the band was Suzanne ‘Fedde’ van der Spoel, guitarist Suzanne ‘Loek’ Stolwijk, bassist Suzanne ‘Dick’ Pekelharing and drums Suzanne ‘Klaas Sikkema’. After 1978 the band has done several gigs from 95 - 2024 and still playing and recording.