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Ball of Flame Shoot Fire

About Me

"Jokeland," BOFSF's first full-length album is now available for purchase!"GRUMPY LITTLE BIRD," our 2007 EP is also available for purchase.Contact/Booking/CD Order: Send us a Myspace Message, or email [email protected]
CDs are now available at Paul's CDs in Bloomfield, Caliban Book Store in Oakland, and on CD Baby.com, Itunes, and Emusic.com!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 20/06/2005
Band Website: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=BOFSF
Band Members: Winston (chill)
Tim (chill)
Peter (chill)
Patrick (lame)
Jess (chill)
Influences: harry nilsson, tom waits, animal collective, david bowie, captain beefheart and his magic band, robert wyatt, scott walker, grizzly bear, man man, phil spector, the kinks, the beatles, sun city girls, the beach boys, ornette coleman, wolf parade, sunset rubdown, frog eyes, king crimson, sonic youth, pavement, the band, syd barrett, berry gordy, can, miles davis, john coltrane, pharoah sanders, love, randy newman, the smiths, talking heads, the velvet underground, harry partch, bruce springsteen, leonard cohen, frank zappa, the national, herbie hancock, dirty projectors, neil young, the wu-tang clan, van dyke parks, skip spence, they might be giants, olivier messiaen, charles mingus, the zombies, os mutantes, prince and the revolution, jackie wilson, the flying burrito brothers, silver jews, the lounge lizards, erik satie, kate bush, charles ives, arto lindsay, antonio carlos jobim, bonnie "prince" billy, cecil taylor, john zorn, mf doom, department of eagles, albert ayler, this heat, hall and oates, sparks, wayne shorter, ELO.
Sounds Like: an olde Prince trick
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Fear of Arthropods likes Jokeland!

Supp Space Cadets,Late night blog is kindof random I know but I just wanted to tell you about a very nice write-up we got in the Paste Magainze-affiliated blog Fear of Arthropods about our album Jokel...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:37:00 GMT

Speed of the Pittsburgh Sound

Our good buddy Pat wrote a very flattering review of Jokeland on the excellent new blog Speed of the Pittsburgh Sound. Here's a link: http://speedofsoundpgh.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/ball-of-flam e-shoo...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:26:00 GMT

New songs up!

Hi-ho,We've posted two more songs from Jokeland.  Ploopitie is about the economy and Patience is about Ploopitie.  Check em out!-Peter
Posted by on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:20:00 GMT

Jokeland is on Itunes

Now if you want to, you can buy our new album, "Jokeland," from the comfort and safety of your own home on Itunes. Enjoy!
Posted by on Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:31:00 GMT

Jokeland available now on CD Baby

Jokeland is now available for purchase here at CD Baby! Get it while you can! The album will be available on iTunes at the beginning of 2009. Don't forget, we will also be selling the CD at our rec...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:36:00 GMT

Obscure Sound Writeup/Review

Hey! Obscure Sound recently ran a piece about the band and a few songs from our very-soon-to-be available full-length album Jokeland.  Check it out!Also, we wanted to thank Nick from The Spinto B...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:07:00 GMT

New songs from Jokeland have been added

I just uploaded a couple of new songs from our new full-length album, Jokeland, which is complete. We should have the CD available in physical form and on CD Baby any day now. Tim of BOFSF
Posted by on Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:07:00 GMT

new album "Jokeland"

We're almost done recording our new album. It's about 3 times longer than Grumpy Little Bird. We've been recording it with Alex Herd at the Thunderbird House. There will be some songs on it that no on...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:21:00 GMT

Fear of Arthropods reviews

Check out this review of Grumpy Little Bird on the blog Fear of Arthropods: lhttp://fearofarthropods.blogspot.com/2008/03/ball-of-flame- shoot-fire-grumpy-little.html
Posted by on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:01:00 GMT

City Paper Review!

Check out our rave review in last weeks Pittsburgh City Paper. http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3 A40452 "I'd call Grumpy Little Bird the first great new Pittsburgh record of ...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:23:00 GMT