“We like that jagged, angular, aggressive-but-melodic sound,” says Boomhower. Mention them in company with the Fall, Gang of Four, Grinderman, the Cramps or the Gun Club and Boomhower won’t complain. “But I don’t think we go for the roots as deep” as Gun Club. ”It’s more like old Birthday Party stuff at times - their lack of reverence that we mix with melodicism.” The Big Disappointments, which formed two years ago, are at the P.A's Lounge Saturday Nov 1 with the Gondoliers headlining and Eastern Bloodhounds and Ice Dragon opening.  Starts at 9. Boomhower recently sent us this email about the updated work of the Big Disappointments: "We would like to encourage you to click the link below to listen to some new mp3's we posted on our website. We record live at our studio at the Berwick Research Institute and it may interest you to know that we are all forming new thought patterns in one way or the other. We hope you enjoy our new experiments." The site: http://www.thebigdisappointments.com/tbd_mp3.htm

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