Event Listing - Music

Fri May 16

The Dirtbombs

with Dan Sartain, Terrible Twos

Location	Date and Time
The Independent 628 Divisadero St. San Francisco, CA 94117 map cross street: Grove district: Western Addition/Alamo Square	Fri May 16 (Doors at 8:30pm, Show at 9pm)

Description

Since the early 90's, Mick Collins has been talking about this band as being one of his many on going musical projects. For years the band seemed to exist more in concept than in reality. The idea sounded great: two bassists, two drummers, a landslide of thundering bottom-heavy noise that would not be mistaken for the bass-less Gories. Silver Apples covers and a multitude of seven-inch releases was promised, but for a long time there was no evidence that the group actually existed. Around 1997 an amazing thing happened: an actual record from The Dirtbombs appeared in record stores - a seven inch just like Mick had talked about years before. Shortly afterward came another single, then another one and so on and so on. Soon there were rumors of live Dirtbombs shows taking place in Detroit. Word started to spread that the band was seen performing in other states and even other countries.