The current BIO of Big Girl:
Big Girl formed in the early summer of 2009 as a jam band. They continued to get together during college breaks. In 2011, they began writing music based off of their influences and chemistry developed during the jamming days.
Succinct, yet I realized this is going on our EPKs (Electronic Press Kits, you fucking dumb cockstupid fuckheads) and since I don’t send those out to anyone yet, I probably should fix it before the need arises, and that’s why if more people acted like me, the world would be a better place.
So I started to write some new bios, just in case.
Random people, discussing Big Girl to the various members of Big Girl: “You guys sound like the sixties, but with your own take on it.” “You guys must love the Zombies, and not just their hits, either.” “Oh yeah man, this is like, Incense and Peppermints, man.” “You know what this is? This is Grizzly Bear meets Soundgarden, with hooks by the Shins.” Though the members of this four-piece band prefer to think of themselves as another undiscovered rock band, who all love Queens of the Stone Age and Dave Grohl and grew up on grunge and three chord punk rock, the elements of psychedelia flit in and out of their music. Not that they think of themselves as conduits of the flow of the universal chi through their instruments, but facets of a time gone by show up in their work.
Fans of Gonzo journalism and Ralph Steadman, Norman Mailer and H.P. Lovecraft, Kubrick and Kennedy and Jodoworsky and the Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria, as well as the New York Rangers and women, Big Girl knows what it likes and likes what it does. Begun as an accident in the early summer of 2009, Big Girl started as a jam band. Sessions would begin with only the vaguest ideas, and then end with the guys wondering what the hell just happened, and why wasn’t it recorded. Keeping up with each other over breaks in the college schedule to jam soon wasn’t enough, and so in the summer of 2011 they came back together to write original material and perform locally. Taking influence from the Beatles, Os Mutantes, Pink Floyd, the Who, the Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Lee Michaels, and the Grateful Dead, but with the modern sensibilities of living in a post-Pixies world, with grunge and pop-punk and ska, Radiohead and the Flaming Lips, dubstep, Jack White, Josh Homme, Grizzly Bear and Dr. Dog—Big Girl have a lot to say, and hope you’re willing to listen.
Not bad, right? I thought so. More to come. Maybe. I may be too lazy.
