01/30/10: Panic Bomber @Common Grounds

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The Gainesvillians presents...

Panic Bomber

Saturday, January 30, 2010
@ Common Grounds
210 SW 2nd Ave. [in Downtown Gainesville - directions]

9:00pm
$5 / $7 under 21
18+

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Really very excited about this show! Panic Bomber is an up-and-coming musician from Miami who is putting on his debut Florida-only tour this month called "Hello Florida". Great dance music! He was voted "Best New Electronica Artist" by New Times in 2009:

Best New Electronica Artist
Panic Bomber
panicbomber.com

Playing live around town for less than a year, the shadowy character known as Panic Bomber has already developed some minor lore. Legend has it that once upon a time, Richard Haig was a local rock musician who got fed up with the grind of being hustled offstage in time for the night's main event -- a DJ. So he turned to dance music himself, supposedly in an act of defiance that's explained, sort of, in a treatise on his website. Whatever. The music he makes, regardless of the reasoning behind it, is slick and dance-friendly. It works up to a funky electro-house groove that's rough enough around the edges to belie its creator's rock roots. And unable to fully relinquish a band's spectacle of performance, Haig has devised a pretty sweet light-up costume. Look out for him at a more discerning -- hmmm, some would say "hip" -- dance club near you.

Here's some live footage from a performance at The Vagabond on September 25, 2009 (with a full horn section!):



Oh, and pssst... "How to embed a video into a post."

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tomorrow.

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Photos of this show can be found here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... 5905439976