Local band sponsors free screening for music lovers
The USU Independent Music Club will be screening a new film on Oct. 19, spotlighting the local indie-rock band Bang Bang You’re Dead.
The USU Independent Music Club focuses on getting advertising for local shows and local music and getting the students on campus involved.
According to club president Ben Hibshman, there are about 400 total members of the Independent Music Club. The club was started in 2003 by Jared Shores, lead singer of Bang Band You’re Dead.
“A lot of people have a misconception about the IMC. They think you have to be in a band or play an instrument, but that’s not true,” Hibshman said, “You just have to love music. I’ll be handing out flyers for the club on campus and people walk past listening to their iPod and say their not interested, but if they have an iPod, there’s obviously an interest.”
Hibshman said most students don’t know there is a music show held every weekend in Logan, most of which are held at the venue at the Bombshell Exchange on Center Street.
This week’s free film screening of Bang Bang You’re Dead will be held in the TSC auditorium, Thursday night at 8 p.m. and is open to all students.
Bang Bang You’re Dead was started in 2004 by Dustin Wickham a first-year master’s student in interior design; Jason Nichols, a senior in public relations and Jared Shores, who is currently serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and will return back to USU next year.
“One of the main things with our band is to do something originally and independently,” Wickham said. “Everything you see here was created by people like you, with resources like you might have access to, in living rooms and bedrooms like the ones you dwell in.”
Since their beginning, the band has played in 13 shows across Utah and has recently released a full-length CD.
“Most of the songs we have are pretty political in some way and depending on the song, we’re talking about politics on a national level down to even the politics of the local music scene.”
The film being screened is part of a package “document” being released by Bang Bang You’re Dead. The package features a 12-track CD along with a DVD featuring the film. All of the tracks on the CD are original songs performed by Bang Band You’re Dead. The DVD is a collection of recordings, video clips and photos documenting the life of the band.
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