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Hobo Gobbelins

About Me


From deep within the confines of the city sewers, and the darkness beneath your bed, Thee Hobo Gobbellins slash and jangle their path into your skull. They weave a wickedly catchy mixture of ancient pirate curses, orcish vaudeville, and eldritch hobo semaphore. I remember well the day it all began; it was back in the summer of ‘03, on the fetid prairie of Gorgoroth, that their ebon-striped demonic boxcar was hitched to the devil’s train. And wherever they stop, strange things tend to happen: Clowns that bite! Dead things! Cultist goblins! Flying stuff!
The Hobo Gobbelins emerge from the pulsing art vortex of Oakland, Ca., the green-skinned child of punk rock, avant-garde performance art and hobo soul. Drawing on a dizzying array of influences, the band incorporates traditional sounds of Americana and the Old World with the horrors of modernity. Monsters from folklore and fiction wriggle alongside freight-train spirituals and drinking songs. The result is a disturbing haunted house for the ear, a nightmare carnival that is at turns goofy and murderous. Human audiences drink more, dance better, and writhe uncontrollably to goblin beatings- er, beats. Incidentally, audience is the goblin word for “food that screams”.
The Hobo Gobbelins are but one tendril of the meta-myconoid entity that lives in the shadows and margins just out of your range of vision. We raise our axes in salute to our allies near and far, and to the many wandering monsters who have swelled our ranks in the past. Psiliobahn Gobblegblix, our accordion-shaman comrade and founder, now leads the freak revolution in THAT DAMNED BAND and 999 EYES OF DREAM Carnival Sideshow of the Damned , in Austin, far from the human-fouled waters of the West.
We can play anywhere, on a rooftop or a desert, with or without a P.A. We’re all very nice, but will possibly make you uncomfortable. Book us for winery tours, carnivals, protests, eviction parties, game conventions, or any place with a large enough dimensional rift for us to pop through.
For Fans: To become part of the ever-growing horde of "little gobbelins" , sign up on our mailing list to get updates about the latest shows and developments with the band. Go to: littlegobbelins and sign up, easy as pie. Now you'll never be alone in the dark again! Isn't that comforting?
We also have presences at Tribe , and
Facebook , where we have lively conversations and plot with our friends, fiends, and fans.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/10/2005
Band Website: www.hobogoblins.com
Band Members:
S.L. Gomper= banjo

Professor Plague= guitar

Sky Fell= accordion

Miasma= singing saw

Buba Tuba= tuba

Yura Kilenmi= fiddle

H.P. Gobblecroft= washboard

Malady= wash tub

For our friends and fans in Austin, please check out "That Damned Band".
Influences: the howling night wind, things which go bump in the night, spooky sounds, intoxicating potions, screams of terror & pangs of dark delight. That harmless-looking pile of blankets and toys in your closet that, when the lights go out, comes to gitcha. Also, whiskey.
Sounds Like: a bunch of drunken subhumans raising a hellafied ruckus with old timey instruments.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

live at the Ork Club

Thanks to all of you who came out to the Stork Club last night. We had a great show at the Death Rock Dive Bar: we lopped off several human skulls, juggling them by the ears for an amusing diversion...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:27:00 GMT

Yo ho, yo ho

Avast, me hearties! Piracy is here to stay!The New York Times has a rather sympathetic article this morning on the case of the Somali pirates who hijacked a freighter full of tanks and rockets:The pir...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:44:00 GMT

Libertatia!

Arrr!Thanks to all ye pirate punx for your kind support at Libertatia last weekend! We were so pleased to perform for such an appreciative audience.We arrived Saturday night, and were immediately told...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:57:00 GMT

Photos from High Sierra Music Festival

Greetings, fellow hordelings! We have returned from our summer invasion of the northland hills and forests, and have returned leering with triumph. We were pleased to have performed in various guises ...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:14:00 GMT

Hobo Gobbelins’ CD Re-Call Alert!!

It has come to our attention that a batch of the CDs we recently released in conjunction with our Southwest tour are flawed in playback. We deeply regret any reduced-quality listening this has imposed...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:16:00 GMT

Our first show of tour!!

Last night’s show at Mr. T’s Bowl in LA was a blast. Even though it took us a wee bit longer to get our show on the road, Mr. T kindly held our place and we played a late set. The crowd wa...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:50:00 GMT

Comin down to it

Tomorrow we leave on tour. It’s been a non-stop hustle, from benefit show right into the mad dash of assembling weapons, constructing siege engines, stealing livestock from frightened human serf...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:01:00 GMT

St. Patty ourselves on the back

Happy St. Patty’s Day, friends and allies! It’s been a wild weekend for all things green and unseelie, and the pace has only accelerated and we prepare to leave for tour this Thursday! If ...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:03:00 GMT

About last night...

My goodness, that party was a blast! Thanks to Vaudie, Cap'n Black Dog and the rest of the Pyrate Punx for having us headline the Punk Rock Cabaret last night! It was a fine sight indeed to see leathe...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:28:00 GMT

Punk rock cabaret Feb. 16

Go to this. If you want to you know where "Your House" is, send us a message.
Posted by on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:33:00 GMT