REMENITIA (Pronounced Re-Me-Ni-Sha) is an Anarcha-Feminist Punk/Riot Grrrl/Indie Rock Band hailing from New York City. Remenitia formed when Tony and Nikki converged in a little gutter in Queens, New York City in September of 2004. For those curious, Remenitia formed originally with Tony on guitar, and Nikki on drums. When Tony and Nikki met, the musical chemistry was there from the start and the 2 hit it off right away and became not only bandmates, but best friends as well. After a few failed singer-bassist searches, Nikki began singing the songs from behind the drum kit while playing drums while we continued our search. Eventually, Nikki and Tony decided that Nikki should be the singer-bassist of the band since she is an awesome singer. (Check out her solo stuff at www.myspace.com/doriscellar) So Tony lent Nikki his old bass and the seeds of what is now Remenitia were planted. The rest, is shall we say, history.
Were into all sorts of music, primarily indie, grunge, riot grrrl, punk, metal, early 90's stuff. Tony Sludge and Nikki-teen take turns writing the songs and their songwriting skills have resulted in a very diverse sound with a melding of all their influences, resulting in various styles of rock which are often hard to group into any specific genre. So our sound is sure to please people from all walks of life.
We like to write about all sort of themes, ranging from social issues and activism, anarchism, feminism, pro-choice, gay/lesbian rights, drug addiction, child abuse, anti-government/anti-war sentiment, love-hate themes, anti-racism/anti-fascism, funny obnoxious-sarcastic ideas, good ol' dirty-raunchy crudeness, to other metaphoric themes and abstract ideas and wacky things as well. We also appreciate all the support that we have gotten at our live shows and in our musical journey. We love playing shows in NYC all the time and we hope to eventually play shows outside of NYC as well.
If you want to get in touch with us, you can contact us at [email protected] for booking or just to say hello! And feel free to add us as your myspace friends, since were always happy to meet other cool bands and people out there. Also make sure to check out our other side band called The Dead Wives located in our top friends list!
These are the following drummers who have been in Remenitia: James Donovan (JBoom), Hannon the Canon, Snotty Scotty, Rene2D2, The Dave, Tina Machina have all played with us for some of our live shows as well as on some of our rehearsal/studio recordings. We officially have the drummer curse!, so that's why we started our other band The Dead Wives where Tony and Nikki sometimes play as a 2 piece, since we had trouble finding a permanent drummer in the past.
Remenitia officially disbanded in 2008 and so the band broke up and moved on to other new bands/projects.