Trouper (Trouper from Stormtrouper). Once in the news in 2005 the site wrote: Geeky & Bjoey haven't spoken for almost 5 years. In fact Joey Ramone and Johnny Ramone didn't talk since Johnny married Joey's girlfriend, an incident which led Joey to write "The KKK Took My Baby Away" In reference to the website, in New York is a musical based on the songs of GABBA called "Papa Mao Mao", which of course is a reference to both "Mamma Mia" and the backing vocals (Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow) of the Ramones' version of the Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird". Media attention They have been aired mostly in the UK, on Steve Lamacq's BBC Radio 1 The Evening Session, on BBC Television's The Beat Room, on BBC Radio Scotland's The Beat Patrol, and webcast on Virtue TV (now Interoute TV). They have been written about in magazines such as Mojo, Melody Maker, NME, Time Out, Music365.com, CMJ New Music Monthly, The Ramones UK Fan Club Newsletter, and the London Evening Standard. They have played along bands such as Negativland, The Rezillos, and Chicks on Speed, in various outlets in London, and at the 1999 Christmas parties of Rough Trade Records and Fierce Panda Records. In related media, their autobiographical musical short film "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment" (written and directed by Cliff Homow, alias "Cliffy Hormone", and Midge Devitt) won the 2003 "Special Independent Film Award" at London's counterculture Portobello Film Festival. Members On stage, acrostically Geeky (Japan) - guitar (represents Johnny Ramone) Anneky (Sweden) - vocals, chorus (represents Agnetha Fältskog) Bjöey (US) - lead vocals (represents Björn Ulvaeus and Joey Ramone) Bee Bee (Germany) - bass, vocals (represents Benny Andersson and Dee Dee Ramone) Abby (German from Thailand) - drums, vocals, chorus (represents Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Tommy Ramone) Backstage Stig Honda (Japan) - business manager, lyrics (represents Stig Anderson, ABBA manager) Phil Smegma (UK) - production manager (represents Phil Ramone and Phil Spector, Ramones producers) Monte Malmönik (Sweden) - road manager (represents Monte Melnick, Ramones roadie) (The countries of origin are alleged by the members, who could possibly be all British.) Discography Albums (1999) Leave Stockholm (CD out-of-print, now in MP3s and BitTorrent) Singles and songs on compilations (2001) "Gabba Gabba" on Life's a Gas (international tribute album to Joey Ramone) (2005) "Gabba Gabba" single on iTunes UK References External links Official links [archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine] Resource links ABBA tribute bands English