Being Dead

One Liner:  Crunchy, fuzzy, local psych rock goodness

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, but psych rock, surf rock, weirdness
Home: Austin!

Poster Position: 24
Weekend Two Only.
Saturday at 12:05pm.

IHG Stage.

Thoughts:  Wow.  Speaking of people throwing back to a classic old sound, this is spot on 60's psych rock action over surf guitars.  Incredible harmonies and fun fuzzy guitar.  Even though I was just complaining about some other band ripping off the past in an uninteresting way, I freaking dig the hell out of this one.  Also, a little weird that they are behind Promqueen on the poster when their songs have significant streams and promqueen has nada.  Bull.

Being Dead is a book by Jim Crace, published in 1999, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and was selected by the NYT as the Editor's Choice of the Year.  The film version stars four people I have never heard of.  But otherwise, Wikipedia doesn't know them.  But their PR company's description of them is very interesting.  Even though there are three people in every photo, they claim that this is an Austin, TX duo consisting of Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy.  Their Spotify bio says it is a duo made up of Falcon Bitch and Gumball.  So, Falcon Bitch is definitely in the band, that is for sure.

Handful of singles prior to the first album, 2023's When Horses Would Run.  Really a fun album - could have come from 50 years ago or yesterday for sure.  The top streamer is "The Great American Picnic," with 393k streams, but several others have more than 100k and two more have more than 200k streams.

Falcon Bitch and Shmoofy are not very nice to those who are smaller than them!  Look's like they were the KUTX artist of the month at one point and did a live jam for the station in Studio 1A.  Check the vibe.

"ONWARD!  BUFFALO!  According to the video description, Ricky Moto is that extra person playing bass, but then they say that both Falcon Bitch and Gumball each play guitar, drums, and vocals, so you get no closer to knowing which is who?  Oh wait, they announce!  The lady is Falcon Bitch!  Now we know!  But what I am realizing is that I need to figure out when to just go see these two weirdos around Austin sometime.

The current single of their upcoming album Eels is called "Firefighters" and according to something I read, it is apparently told from the perspective of a Dalmatian who is overworked at their fire station.  38k streams and all the fuzz pedals.

She sounds vaguely Australian.  That tune rules.  I'd absolutely go see them, but since they are weekend two only (booooooo) it looks like I need to find them elsewhere in Austin before the Fest!