BEE BEE SEA: Rural Italy’s Impish Garage Rock Trio Make Bay Area Debut | Elbo Room & DJ Sid Presley
Event date 31 July 2018 21:00 – 11:55
Location Elbo Room 647 Valencia St 94110 San Francisco, California
Italian garage-psych band Bee Bee Sea, who released Sonic Boomerang last year, are heading across the Atlantic for their first ever U.S. tour. They will make their Bay Area debut at Elbo Room, Tuesday, July 31st hosted by DJ Sid Presley.
Bee Bee Sea have come to establish their highly unique brand of playful garage rock following the release of their US-label debut Sonic Boomerang back in November, as well as a decisive European victory on tour opening for (Thee?) Oh Sees and (The?) Black Lips. With the announcement of their American tour dates, including a stint at Pickathon next month, the 'beeb' are a group that delivers an authentic rock sound that's unapologetically raw and refreshingly sincere.
Recent Press
"Bee Bee Sea makes a kind of revved-up garage-punk leaked from the mutant brains of Thee Oh Sees and Black Lips — bands with which the Northern Italian trio has toured — with a little bit of The Cramps' psycho-surf and Can's hypno-funk. For the next five minutes, don't take your hands off the wheel — you might fall into a pit of stabbing guitars or heavy tides of rolling bass" - NPR Music
A SNOTTY, BRATTISH SALUTE TO EVERYTHING THAT MAKES MUSIC FUN IN THE FIRST PLACE."-- CLASH MUSIC
Bee Bee Sea could very well be Italy’s answer to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard " - The Revue
"D.I. Why Why Why" illustrates everything that makes Bee Bee Sea's songs so intoxicating, opening with a catchy surf-rock riff and some driving percussion before the band's fuzzy, layered vocals come in" - Pure Grain Audio
" Explosive Sonic Boomerang as a whole is one head-spinning record from start to finish, overflowing with energy. It's an album that showcases the biggest and the best that Italy's punk scene has to offer" - Pop Dust
"Bee Bee Sea hook your ears in right from the off with Sonic Boomerang, drenched in reverb-soaked chugging guitars, simmering under spiking jabs of almost new-wave rhythms. The beat behind it and the repeating vocals over the top relentlessly drive the song, and the album as a whole, forward" - Louder Than War
Lucky for us we have the all-too-infrequent exportation of bands like Bee Bee Sea—an idiosyncratic trio of psych-indebted rockers hailing from an obscure Lombardian comune—to keep us enlightened to the underrepresented vera Italia, which seems pretty similar to our own tradition of small-town ennui: “When there’s no good shit around, you better form a band!” is the motto the Castel Goffredo three-piece has come to define themselves by. - Flood Magazine
Hailing from Castel Goffredo, a small industrial town in North-East Italy, the psych-garage rock trio Bee Bee Sea can be easily called the Italian Oh Sees. -The 405
David Greenfield, aka DJ SID PRESLEY, spins the music of the late 1950's through the 1960's, including British Invasion beat, surf and exotica instrumentals, groovy mod pop, greasy rhythm and blues, raw garage rockers, and much, much more. His carefully-curated sets are packed full of both ear-opening rarities and crowd-pleasing ravers. And it’s all vinyl, all the time!
DJ Sid has dee-jayed at The Elbo Room (SF), Artistry (Singapore), Tiki Oasis (San Diego), Whisky A Go Go (Hollywood), Echoplex (LA), Burger Boogaloo (Oakland), The Golden Tiki (Las Vegas), The Chapel (SF), Longboard Margarita Bar (Pacifica), Winters Tavern (Pacifica), Oakland Museum of California (Oakland), The New Parish (Oakland), and many more. He also organizes live surf, garage, punk, and 60’s-themed concerts in the Bay Area. He has joined forces with international touring acts including The Damned, The Flamin’ Groovies, Shonen Knife, CJ Ramone,The Chocolate Watchband, El Vez & Rosie Flores, Palmyra Delran, The Outta Sites, Slacktone, Roy Loney & The Phantom Movers, The Phantom Surfers, The Kilaueas, Jello Biafra, Joe "King" Carrasco, Davie Allan & The Arrows, The Electric Prunes, The Shadows of Knight, The Blasters, The 5.6.7.8's, and more.
Catch DJ Sid in action every 3rd Saturday at Forbidden Island in Alameda, CA. Ranked as one of the best tiki bars in the world, DJ Sid began spinning his special blend of vintage vinyl there in 2011, and initiated his monthly program DJ SID PRESLEY’S OUTER LIMITS in July 2013.
