The Bomboras return to the Bay Area after 23 years and rock the East Bay
Electric Machine Gun Tits opened the show. They are a two-piece punk and roll band based in the Bay Area since 2015 consisting of Naoko Nozawa on vocals and synth and Tora Fujimoto on guitar and vocals. Ridiculously entertaining, intensely funny, and Naoko finished the set by flinging ramen at the audience.
San Francisco’s Frankie and the Pool Boys were up next. Much more mellow, straight-up instrumental surf rock, they have 3 CDs and 2 singles available on their bandcamp.
The Bomboras formed in Los Angeles in 1994 achieving a bunch of success in the ’90s garage rock revival with their high-energy mix of garage rock and surf. They broke up at San Francisco’s Bottom of The Hill in 2000, it was 21 years later that they reformed, and not until last Wednesday that they returned to the Bay Area. Led by Jake Cavaliere on organ/vocals and bass player/vocalist Shane Van Dyke, they still put on one hell of a show, setting Jake’s organ on fire at the end. They have a new release on MuSick Recordings, “Songs from The Beyond!”
As I am exceedingly old, I was at The Bomboras breakup show in San Francisco in 2000, and several members of their subsequent bands, The Legendary Invisible Mean and The Lords of Altamont became friends. So it was fantastic to see them in action again. Also, Electric Machine Gun Tits are the funniest damn band in the Bay Area. See all my photos below.
