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Biting Midge

'I just wanna play fast shit' -John Scahill

About Me

We are the best band on the face of our basement. We listen to alot of punk and ska and we play alot of punk and ska (without horns). We have dozens of originals, but we still play covers of our favorites. All of us contribute to the composing process so hopefully it doesn't all sound the same, but we listen to the same stuff so maybe it does and we just don't know it. You decide. Also, we owe much of our "success" to Twitch and Rochester Ska. Check it out for a skankin good time.

Oh and P.S. Our Recordings are just Audio ripped from Harrison Ronan's video camera, so thats why it sucks. Hopefully within the next month or so we can record some of our shit for real, but don't hold us to that statement.

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Member Since: 3/19/2006
Band Website: purevolume.com/bitingmidge
Band Members: Ben Strickland plays guitar and sings, John Scahill plays guitar and sings, John "Bonke" Bonke plays bass and is sexy, Tom Scahill plays drums.
Influences: Rancid, Suicide Machines, The Vandals, The Mr T. Experience, Streetlight Manifesto, Catch-22, Bad Religion, Anti-flag, Operation Ivy, Against All Authority, Public Access, The Impossibles, Less Than Jake, Authority Zero, Code 4-15, Mu 330, Nerf Herder, NOFX, Flogging Molly...pretty much any Punk or Ska band thats any good...And They Might Be Giants.
Sounds Like: Mostly like Suicide Machines and Rancid, but we throw in the other stuff too.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

new songs up

now i realize that this took entirely too long and every one of you that is pissed off has every right too be. those of you that arent, we appreciate that too. we know how much the live ones sucked, s...
Posted by Biting Midge on Mon, 21 May 2007 01:21:00 PST

p.s.

as a little post script i would like to mention the man doing the real work. Twitch, we can't thank you enough for always hookin' us up with tremendous shows and, more importantly, doing it for everyo...
Posted by Biting Midge on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:49:00 PST

state of the union adress (show, cds, etc.)

So the show at the A/V was tight. for as many people as there were there the place was pretty jumpin' and every band played amazingly. Room 30 kicked it off with high energy which got people happy and...
Posted by Biting Midge on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:38:00 PST

great show

in short, it was a killer show. every band played then best i have ever heard them. Public Access played  Raining Blood, which was probably the coolest thing i saw in a loooong time. saw Break th...
Posted by Biting Midge on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:52:00 PST

the 27th w/ public access

the 27th...we have been blessed with a show with (personal favorite-ben) public access; among some other pretty fucking cool names. but seeing as how im just too sluggish to really put too much effort...
Posted by Biting Midge on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:09:00 PST

useless

so as of friday we have officially finished recording our first album. now, no more than a couple months at most, we must wait. but no worries, it will have been worth it!a sweet hot damn to ...
Posted by Biting Midge on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:30:00 PST

Rupert Murdoch

So apparetnly since Rupert Murdoch (owner of Fox and pretty much the rest of the world) has bought myspace, they now have rights to any music that is on here. We don't really like the idea of them own...
Posted by Biting Midge on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:28:00 PST

FINALLY RECORDING!

So today we had the privilage of working with Matt Avery on our first album. Today we laid down the drums and half of the guitars, and it sounds amazing. Hopefully we will be finishing that up soon, a...
Posted by Biting Midge on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 05:40:00 PST

Bad news for Saturday

Hey Everyone. So aparently sharing water bottles with someone who has mono is a bad idea. Thats the most likley scenario of how Tom contracted mono from Ben. So, sadly, we will not be able to play on ...
Posted by Biting Midge on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:54:00 PST

Sweet show last night, Sweet show next saturday

Awesome show last night a Penny Arcade. We were glad to see Twitch there having a great time. Lots of sweet punk bands also came to showcase their talent. Thanks to Destro for letting us use one of th...
Posted by Biting Midge on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:37:00 PST