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Members:
Justin Hamacher [Guitar, Voice]
Larry Brady [Bass]
Stromi King [Drums, Backing Vocals]
Morgock The Gnome [Magic Whistle]
Formed: 2004
Official Site: www.myspace.com/biographyofferns
iSound Site: www.isound.com/biography_of_ferns
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We are three friends from Seattle, all equally moved by a love of late 70’s British punk/art rock and wave. Perhaps we are naive but we believe that music is a form of communication that can transcend political/social boundaries. The all ages music community is something we are very supportive of, trying to help young people have a sense of belonging and a worthwhile place to hang out, which we feel contemporary mainstream society severely lacks.
We are political, and play shows which support Arts Orgs, Women's Issues, Animal Rights and Literacy as often as possible. We strive not to be typical 'rock and roll' egomaniacs and instead see community activity and integration, volunteering and DIY education events as being a core for a healthy society. Being a punk is not about how many nihilistic tattoos you can cram onto your arm or money you can squander on drugs, but speaking up when you see an injustice and sticking up for the underdogs. In our view anyhow. Get out into the streets. Speak your mind.
Press, Awards and Hullabaloo:
2005 Seattle Weekly Music Awards nomination as best Indie band (this is the largest free paper in Seattle with a circulation of around 120,000). Death Cab for Cutie went on to defeat us. Go figure...
2004 Winner of Redhook Brewery Emerging Music Awards. Yeah!
2004 Best Demo Packaging - The Vera Project
2003 “Top 5 up and coming local bands” - John Richards, KEXP
Some of Our Influences:
The Slits, Television Personalities, Family Fodder, The Wipers, The Clash, Wire, Kinks, Television, Essential Logic, Sonic Youth, Gray Matter, Neil Young, Joy Division, New Order, Versus, Ride, Buzzcocks, The Who... and on and on.
Stuff we do for fun besides looking for our wallets and keys:
We make sculpture and do industrial and graphic design. Play piano, screw around with laptops and keyboards. Play chess, read French surrealist writers from the early 20th century and post apocalyptic/fantasy novels as well as books on Psi. Listen to Art Bell. Basically, read, write and draw, lots.
The Goofballs In This Band:
Justin Hamacher - Guitar, Voice:
Raised by hermaphrodite wolves on a small coastal peninsula of Chile in the latter part of the 23rd century, Justin enjoys croche and kick boxing random elderly bus riders. He has undertaken many succesful business endeavors, noteably the Nietzsche coloring book, which resulted in the suicides of 11 three year olds and his subsequent imprisonment of five years. He dislikes yams and republicans immensely.
Larry Brady - Bass:
Larry's background is unknown, but once when he left his wallet on the coffee table while using the rest room at a diner, the other band members greedily probed it hoping to illuminate the background of this mystery beast. To their surprise, inside they found absolutely nothing save an i.o.u. from Justin and a faded, green tinted photo. In the photo was what appeared to be a young, juvenile Larry and a woodland elf!! This leads the band members to believe Larry is from another more magical realm.
Stromi King - Drums, Backing Vocals:
Stormi eats raw meat every morning. She bathes (once a year) in the piranha infested waters of Greenlake. She sleeps on a bed of glass while listening to looped remixes of “Electric Avenue” by Eddie Grant. She carries a shillelagh passed down from her ancestral clan and will promptly bonk you on the head if you cut her off in traffic, or "look at her funny" while she is ordering a vegan scone.
Morgock The Gnome:
Morgock is an invisible gnome level 12, chaotic good, 99 hit points... only Justin can see him and he plays a magic whistle in Justin’s dreams that gives them the melodies for all the B.O.F. songs... Morgock does not eat fast food, does drink too much and is armed with a crossbow that shoots ice bolts + 3 at unsuspecting orcs and Republicans alike. He wants bacon for all his meals and emits a peircing wail when this doesn't happen. His best friend is an iguana named ‘Spleen.’
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