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KAMIKAZE SNOWMEN You can see Kamikaze Snowmen perform on Dec. 27 at Big D’s in Fargo with Valley Meadows and the Dirty Curls. Imagine this if you will. There’s this monsterukuleles factory. On one side of the factory they make ukuleles, but on the other side there are monsters. So one day, all the workers at the ukuleles factory were singing a song about how there hasn’t been an accident in three days. Well, needless to say, a monster then comes and kills everyone. No, this isn’t the plot to the next Monsters Inc., movie. This is an example of one of the Kamikaze
Snowmen’s songs. Josh Trumbo, Paul Tebben and Terence Brown II make up this musical comedy group that has been together almost 15 years now. How they got started: “We came up with the band name in 1998 and it was shortly after that we gave out CDs to people. People listened to them, liked them and paid us for them. We were as shocked as everyone else was (Laughs) “ How often they write songs: “We’ve created 100 new songs in the last three years. We perform everything from the
bizarre to the sort of serious. We do all different styles. Sometimes they’re based on a concept. Like what would happen if a funk band was created to do a public service announcement to stop sexting.” Lyric that sums them up: “The Key Store, where you can buy a key for any lock (keys do not actually work in locks.)” Inspirations: “Classics like Abbott and Costello and The Marx Brothers, artists like They Might Be Giants and “Weird Al” Yankovic and local comedians like Adam Quesnell, JD Provorse and Will Spottedbear.”
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