I used to live in Bournemouth. For one whole year. I liked it, on the whole - mainly for the gawjus beach and the Time Crisis game in the pier arcade (and they had one of those Mario Kart machines where you could put a picture of your own head on the characters, hours of fun) - but I have to say that the local music scene was pretty much a shocker at the time. I'm glad to see, then, that today's band are holding the fort for the Bomo massive. They're from Boscombe just up the road from Bournemouth, a place that I walked to along the seafront just a handful of times in that year, and all I remember was some dodgy-looking bars and an even dodgier-looking branch of Primark. The band are named after Boscombe, being called Bos Angeles, which has the following entry in the Urban Dictionary:
"Another slang term for Boscombe, heroin capital of England and home of the Bafia (boscombe mafia). Also features a suprisingly pleasant cafe."
What gets me is the word another; how many slang terms for Boscombe can there be? We can but wonder......
So, Bos Angeles are pretty good anyhoo, from the sounds of the one track they've got floating around on the tinterweb. The track, Beach Slalom, was played on the Beeb's 6Music this week and is a rather tasty slice of attitude-filled indie pop. They're playing a show in Bomo next month so presumably they have some more tracks to play (or they might just play Beach Slalom over and over again which would be fine by me) - keep an eye on their Myspace page for developments!
Bos Angeles - Beach Slalom by thissceneisntdead
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