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The Bemsha Swing

About Me

“[Bebop musicians] want to carve everyone else because they’re full of malice, and all they want to do is show you up, and any old way will do as long as it’s different from the way you played it before. So you get all them weird chords which don’t mean nothing, and first people get curious about it just because it’s new, but soon they get tired of it because it’s really no good and you got no melody to remember and no beat to dance to. So they’re all poor again and nobody is working, and that’s what that modern malice done for you.”The Bemsha Swing are a band from Auckland, New Zealand, and are fucking awesome.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/02/2008
Band Website: [email protected]
Band Members: Shane: Guitar / Vocals
Andrew: Bass / Vocals
Frankie Machine: Drums
Influences: Nation Of Ulysses, Thelonious Monk, Big Black, John Coltrane, New Order, Sonic Youth, Black Flag, Miles Davis, Fugazi, Blood Brothers, Drive Like Jehu, This Heat, The Plot to Blow Up The Eiffel Tower, David Bowie,
Sounds Like: Hot sweaty bebop death
Record Label: Public Witness Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Addendum to previous blog:

Dear NZ on Air,Can you please not give tax payer money to musicians who have admitted to sexual assault on a minor in a court of law to travel overseas?Probably not the best ambassador, eh?
Posted by on Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:48:00 GMT

New Zealands next top Corporate Funding Model.

...................... So, its finally become cool to hate on the NZ on Air funding system, as if theres anything different and new wrong with it that hasnt been there since its inception...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:55:00 GMT