Bim Skala Bim will be performing Easter Sunday April 24th 2011 at The London International Ska Fest , sorry about the delay posting this but I wanted to wait till we had our tickets booked to announce the date. Hope to see you all there, looks like its going to be a great weekend to be in London, God Save The Queen , Long Live The King and all that....
Bim Skala Bim will be playing the Boston area this August starting with Providence RI Thursday August 5th 2010 followed by The MIddle East in Cambridge and the Beachcomber in Wellfleet and then finishing Sunday the 8th in Hartford CT at the Webster Underground.. details to be posted soon.
Bim Skala Bim will be playing the Hometown Throwdown with The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and The Pietasters on Dec. 28th 2009. Bim will also be performing on New Years Eve downstairs at The Middle East in Cambridge MA. These will be our first shows in 8 years and we are all looking forward to seeing you all over the holidays.
Jim Jones has moved to Los Angeles and Dan Vitale has moved to Panama and Jim Arhelger has moved to Colorado so we will be going on a more resricted schedule
Come and see Marks other band The Lodge and check out their full length album Destination Outer Space
Jim Jones has moved out to sunny L.A. and Dan has opend a B and B in tropical Panama and Jim A has headed for the mountains so the band is in a sort of hibernation mode, we might not play again for a while, at this point there are no shows scheduled. Check back again sometime.
Check out Marks new band Colorful Bird, if you are in the area go see them play sometime. Fans of big guitar rock wont be disapointed.
Jim Arhelger can be found playing around Colorado with the band Kingdom 7, so if you are in the area check them out. You wont be disapointed, also check out http://www.myspace.com/kingdomseven/
It is With great sadness we note the passing of the Godfather of SKA Laurel Aitken. Bim Skala Bim had the great pleasure of being able to both enjoy him as a performer and perform with him in concert. We will all miss him and the time we spent together riding that train to Skaville. Rock on, Keep skanking and lets all raise a toast to this ounce in a lifetime artist. Cheers Laurel and thanks for all you have shared with us.
Laurel Aitken 1927-2005
Many thanks to Desorden Publico for bringing us down to perform in their beautiful country
We all had a great time and want to thank everyone we met down there. Caracas is an incredible city and the people are very friendly and the beer is cheap...what more could you ask for...well how about several thousand fans dancing around on a warm summer night and some of the best ska you will ever hear being played by long time Venezuelan Ska veterans Desorden Publico. We hope to play with them again sometime somewhere down the road. Do yourself a favour and look around for some CDs from these guys and add them to your collections.
Desorden Publico performing in Valencia
We have been having fun playing down in the cape (Cape Cod) this summer as usual and had the pleasure of doing a couple of shows with Dave Wakelings English Beat. We also had the chance to play for free in Davis square Somerville, birthplace of Bim Skala Bim, for the Artbeat Festival. And we all had a blast playing at a brand new club in Newport RI, J.J.s Oasis, thank you for the great cook out and all the hospitality from Butchy, Franky, and co.
The band went into the studio in early April of 99 and started work on eight tracks. Seven original and one cover "Easy Skankin" for the Beloved Records release of the same title (due March 2000). Handling trombone work was John Ferry with a special guest appearance by Dana Colley of Morphine playing baritone sax.
This past June we returned to the studio with longtime trombonist Vinny Nobile, and recorded 14 more tracks, some appearing on the latest album "krinkle" now available, the rest to appear on another release from Beatville Records due out late in the year.
Check out Marks new band Colorful Bird, if you are in the area go see them play sometime. Fans of big guitar rock wont be disapointed.
Jim Arhelger can be found playing around Colorado with the band Kingdom 7, so if you are in the area check them out. You wont be disapointed, also check out http://www.myspace.com/kingdomseven/
It is With great sadness we note the passing of the Godfather of SKA Laurel Aitken. Bim Skala Bim had the great pleasure of being able to both enjoy him as a performer and perform with him in concert. We will all miss him and the time we spent together riding that train to Skaville. Rock on, Keep skanking and lets all raise a toast to this ounce in a lifetime artist. Cheers Laurel and thanks for all you have shared with us.
Laurel Aitken 1927-2005
What Rolling Stone said about KRINKLE
Bim Skala Bim Krinkle (Beatville)
Though they hail from the same ska-punk scene in Boston as the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Bim Skala Bim have never enjoyed the kind of sales as their brethren. But don't confuse commercial success with artistic success, the latter of which the Bim boys have had in spades. On this, the other B.S.B. -- who are stylistically closer to Sublime and the Toasters than any boy band -- deliver more than a dozen slices of British-style ska reminiscent of the Specials and Madness. Happy, peppy and horny, their tunes "Step Up To Me" and "Long Way" sound like the kind drunken frat rats love to pogo too, while the laid-back reggae-influenced rhythms of "Food for the Soul" and their catchy cover of Gershwin's "Popcorn" will give rude boys a chance to catch their breath. (PAUL SEMEL)
Bim performs at the Montreal Jazz Fest
Bim Skala Bim has had the honour of being the first Ska band to perform at the prestigeous Montreal Jazz Fest. We all had a wonderful time and want to thank everyone there for being great hosts. We highly recomend this to all music fans everywhere. Make it a point to go to the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal. Ten days of music from around the world over 35 free shows per day.
