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Bozilla came into being at the start of 2001 when they played their first gig at their favourite venue The 13th Note Cafe... But the story starts along way before that... To understand where the band came from you really have to look at the Bozilla Family Tree . TJ and Adam met at the tail end of the eighties at Glasgow University (Aimee was only eight at the time !!!) and the collaborated for the first time in a butterfly of a band that formed rehearsed and played its only gig in one day (Mess). After Uni Adam moved to leads and touch was lost... Until TJ was looking for a new bassist for his band Bosley and the person recommended turned out to be Adam. Bosley did pretty well for itself playing T-in-the Park and coming a very close second in the national Bacardi Unsigned Competition, however things fizzled out in 1998 when TJ formed Super Fluff and Adam joined Ducks. When Super Fluff ended amicably at the end of a giddy year and a half two of its members (Penny & Dougie) decided to form Midi Mode. TJ concentrated on becoming a teacher and procrastinated (apart from producing a remix or two for bands such as The High Fidelity). Mr & Mrs Midi Mode decided that he needed a kick oop the backside and booked a gig at the 13th Note and told him he was playing it... Adam was duly persuaded to lend his bass talents to some tracks that had thus far been hard-disc doodles and the advert below was stuck up around Glasgow..
The idea was to have a few different vocalists, but due to one particular young lady being very good and the other respondents being either on another musical page, shite, very very dull or married to a very paranoid husband. Aimee secured her spot behind the mic. However by this point the gig was just two weeks away and so Mrs Midi Mode & Donna (Squander Pilot) stepped in to plug the gaps... Since then with TJ behind his folding picnic table of sliders and lights, Adam with his bare feet & bass and Aimee with her sassy wiggles and perfect pitch have played a variety of gigs and created some stunning songs (if we do say so ourselves). TJ had a solo piece released by the CCA as part of their 4x4 Soundworks series and Bozilla's first release was in Nov/December 2001 as part of the "Littlest Album" compilation vol 1. (Aimee's first session..
She once played a singing plant ya know) In February 2002 BOZiLLA launched "The End of the Month Club" in the 13th Note Cafe. A regular monthly night taking place unsurprisingly on the very last day of the month (except when it's Feb29th cos we don't believe in leaping). The night is truly without peers and has found a core group of fans who dig it's blend of topical humour, badly sung parodies, video animations, fill in questionnaires, video and audio mashing, competitions and the finest live electro-pop music that can be persuaded to enter a basement venue. With guest from as far flung a reach as Dundee, London, Manchester and even Melbourne !. Now almost five years old EOTMC has received wide reaching critical acclaim.
BOZiLLA successfully released their debut EP, "This is NOT new Sound" on their own EOTMC Recordings imprint. Initial stocks had to be replenished much to our delight after Steve LeMacq played it several times on both Radio 1 & 6. Have a listen to his first introduction here. Copies have been dispatched around the globe to places as far as Singapore, Japan, Australia, USA, Russia & Kilmarnock. |
Bozilla - Whit happened
