BloeoedHag brings “Edu-Core” music to North Bend
Published 1:10 pm Thursday, October 2, 2008
NORTH BEND – The first thing a Web surfer will see when they come across the site for Seattle-based band BloeoedHag is a window that reads: “Warning: May induce literacy.”
It’s not an ordinary introduction for a band’s Web site, but then again, this is no ordinary band.
BloeoedHag, which will be playing the Si View Community Center in North Bend this weekend, is a hard-core heavy-metal band with an interesting and informative twist: The band’s entire catalog is devoted to the works of science-fiction writers. Titles like “H.G. Wells” and “Ray Bradbury” are just a few of the cuts you’ll find in the BloeoedHag selection of songs. For those not familiar with science-fiction writers, the band’s Web site also includes a reading list of seminal works in the field and a poll for the best Kurt Vonnegut Jr. novel.
“We all care about music and we all care about reading,” said Jeffrey McNulty, also known as Dr. J.M. McNulty, the band’s guitarist.
McNulty said the band started back in 1996 as a joke when one of his friends made up a song about science-fiction writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. He gathered other musician friends who were into heavy metal and science fiction and started to work on more songs. They started to play at parties and word spread to the clubs.
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