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Bamodi

About Me

A Serb, a Jap, and an Aussie play songs together. From Love Is My Velocity press release: "Made by three unassuming, very nice boys (Predrag Delibasich, Kenta McGrath and Scott Hancock), former and current members of the Soviet Valves and Mannequin, Bamodi's music has been likened several times to 90s punk rock but we think that's a little off-base. The retarded riffs and bouncing bass sound much more like something coming from the New York underground of the 70s and 80s. Bands like James Chance and the Contortions, or Mars, or Wire, or, y'know, anybody off that No New York compilation. Punk has an element of pop, and while Bamodi's music at times has a pop touch it's probably too unhinged to be called punk. So that's what it's taken for us to diverge from the sublime pop of most of our other releases – hypnotically weird, brain-shredding skaz. It's frickin' awesome". "Bamodi are a spazzy new group combining no wave helter-skelter with locust insanity" the West Australian newspaper. "...screeching, warbling vocals that sounded like it was Koran-reading day at the special school..." X Press magazine. "Bamodi are a half-speed punk band, fronted by what sounds like an angry cat. They’re incredibly weird, but not in a sexy, arty way. This is just full-on, unfettered, bizarre shit. It’s tough to get past the lead singer when it comes to this lot. Bewildering and hilarious, at the very least you’ve got to admire the guy for being so truly, unselfconsciously odd." X Press magazine. Write us love letters: bamodibamodi at hotmail dot com - Bamodi debut self-titled CD with 22 songs clicking in 31 minutes available now!!! You can purchase it through PayPal from us for $20 (postage included). Email us/send us a message for more info.

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Member Since: 03/07/2006
Band Website: http://www.bamodi.net
Band Members: Scottie - Drums; Pex - Bass; Kenta - Vocals, Guitar
Influences: Wire, Afrirampo, Minutemen, Disciplina Kicme, Ruins, Half Japanese, Nomeansno, Massacre, Naked City, A Frames, X (Aussie), Venom P. Stinger, Sarlo Akrobata, Sumski, Secret Chiefs 3...
Sounds Like: @ Bakery, 1 June 2007
Record Label: Love Is My Velocity
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

new recordings, new releases, new shows

Bamodi are back from hiatus with 8 new songs recorded by Al Smith from Bergerk on his mobile recording rig. It took place in November last year, everything was done live apart from vocals which were d...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:26:00 GMT

Bamodi interview for GROK magazine

this is the unedited interview with Pex for local students' magazine GROK. done by Steven J Finch. the heavily edited version appeared in GROK issue 5, October 2007. 1. Pex, seeing as how you're in a...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:10:00 GMT

Review from Lexicon Devil blog

Some 10+ years ago I stumbled onto a copy of a faznine called Year Zero. Now, I know Australia has a great tradition of even greater fanzines, but this one (as well as the Moderate by the same person)...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:30:00 GMT

Bamodi in Melbourne Pt 3

Third and last day on the tour started with another trip to city in search of a nice meal (didn't find it - instead had the crappiest "japanese" meal ever - avoid Gigi on Swanston St!!!). After couple...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:08:00 GMT

CD review by Patrick Emery

Bamodi - Bamodi Love is My Velocity I don't know what a Bamodi is  if pressed, I'd hazard a guess at a distinct European spirit that's prepared according to a centuries old recipe and is classified ...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:04:00 GMT

Bamodi in Melbourne Pt 2

On second day in Melbourne we met for brekkie/lunch in the city, went to Missing Link and spent some money and then took of to 3CR radio for an interview. While waiting to be invited to the studio I s...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:52:00 GMT

Bamodi in Melbourne

So, we had our CD launch in Perth on 11 August and after that we were scratching our heads, what to do with all the money we made??? The first plan was to go to Sydney and Melbourne and play a couple ...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:18:00 GMT

Melbourne gigs

It's time to take Bamodi circus on the road. Adelaide and Brisbane have to wait for some better times, and Sydney you failed, so it's Melbourne only!The dates:Thu 18 October @ Pogo, Geddes Lane, with ...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:40:00 GMT

BAMODI s/t album out now!

Bamodi self-titled debut CD album is out now on Love Is My Velocity Records.If you live in Perth you can get it from 78s, DaDas or Planet. If you live somewhere else get in touch - we can mail it to y...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:24:00 GMT

BAMODI bio

The Bio of Bamodi (or, You Can't Spell Bamodi without B-I-O) The members of Bamodi  Scott Hancock (drummer), Kenta McGrath and Predrag (Pex) Delibasich  began performing in early 2006. Hancock and...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:21:00 GMT