Press Archives - The Atlantics

Pipeline Magazine: Issue 124 Spring 2023

March 26, 2023

A great review from our friends in England, as well as No.1 on the playlist!

Pacific Longboarder: The Atlantics “Still Making Waves” 60 years on!

January 26, 2023

Believe it or not, Australia’s surf-music super group The Atlantics has just released a new album of all-new original songs. Jim, Martin & Bosco – even Peter Hood can be heard on the closing track. […]

ABC News: Australian surf rock band The Atlantics are Still Making Waves, six decades later

January 26, 2023

By Mark Bannerman It was 1961 and two boys from Maroubra Bay High in Sydney are talking after school. One is Peter Hood, the drummer in a new band called The Atlantics. The other, Jim Skiathitis, […]

Guitar World: 10 Instrumental Surf Rock Songs You Need to Hear Now

March 12, 2016

Posted 03/10/2016 by Damian Fanelli I spent the good part of 10 years as the guitarist (and chief songwriter) in an instrumental surf-rock band. We played for very little money … drove for hours looking for gig parking […]

The Age: Waxing lyrical: From The Atlantics to The Break, surf music refuses to die

January 1, 2016

by Damien Murphy “To you I shall put an end, then you’ll never hear surf music again.” Jimi Hendrix’s lyric from his 1967 album Are You Experienced delivered an elegy to surf music that was […]

Continental Magazine (USA) – The Atlantics interview

August 17, 2015

Ivan Pongracic (The Madeira) interviewed The Atlantics for Double Crown Records’ Continental Magazine. The interview was conducted by email between January 2013 and March 2014 and is so lengthy that it was presented as two […]

Cooly to rock on with blast from past

April 14, 2013

Bob Anthony, Sun Community Newspapers | 12:01am April 14, 2013 Cooly Rocks On is coming to Coolangatta and festival chairperson Gail O’Neill and CEO Bob Newman are revved up for the event. BREAK out the […]

ABC Radio RareCollections: Australia surf music in the ’60s

June 20, 2011

ABC Radio 20 June, 2011 9:37AM AEST RareCollections: Australia surf music in the ’60s. 1963 was a big year for surf culture in Australia. David Kilby and Jordie Kilby speak to Tex Ihasz (Denvermen), Peter […]

ABC Radio: Sunday Performer – The Atlantics

May 15, 2011

Sunday Performer – The Atlantics (15/5/11) 15/05/2011 , 10:58 AM by june cowle California may have had the Beach Boys and Jan and Dean, but back in the day when Surf Music was all the […]

Legendary Aussie surf rockers The Atlantics return to Coogee

May 13, 2011

13 May 11 @ 04:24pm by Staff Writer DID you know one of Australia’s surf rock classic songs, Bombora was written by Jim Skiathitis and Peter Hood (from The Atlantics ) in a house that […]

Think surf rock classics and a few songs come to mind. The Surfari’s Wipeout, Dick Dale’s Miserlou, Pipeline by the Chantays and of course Bombora, by Australia’s own, Atlantics. Virtually the only successful surf instrumental band not from America. Echoing the Shadow’s Twangy Atmospheric Instrumental Sound, they were snapped up by CBS Records and became a household name with the release of their giant hit Bombora in 1963.

After completing their European tour in 2013 The Atlantics have announced their retirement from live touring.

“We wish to thank all our fans and friends that have supported us throughout the years by buying our records and coming to our gigs and concerts. It really made it all worthwhile.”