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If I've had put all the effort I put into making music and being in a rock n' roll band into being a doctor, I would probably be a goddamn good doctor by now. However, there is something about making music and having fun playing shows to sometimes only twenty people that keeps me going in life. The feeling of doing something a lot of people wish they could do makes me feel happy. I don't wanna spend the rest of my life not doing what makes me happy. I have to prove myself and that's what keeps me going. I have to prove myself to my father & my mother, my friends and my grandparents in heaven. I was put in this planet to do that. I am only reaching happiness and I want to be remembered for that, and for making others happy and giving them inspiration to go on with their lives and to do what makes them happy. Because a lot of things can't make me happy, therefore I don't wanna do those things.





O Divine poesy, Goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me this song of the various-minded man who, after he had plundered the inner most citadel of hallowed troy, was made to stray grievously about the coasts of men, the sport of their customs, good and bad, while his heart, through all the sea-faring, ached with an agony to redeem himself and bring his company safe home. Vain hope for them. The fools! heir own witlessness cast them aside, to destroy for meat the oxen of the most exalted sun, wherefore the Sun-God blotted out the day of their return. Make this tale live for us in all its many bearings. Oh Muse.


listen to my band:

Ballerina Black:
www.myspace.com/ballerinablack or purevolume.com/ballerinablack

about my band:

Bobby Moynahan, erratic front man for the Los Angeles based three-piece, Ballerina Black, isn't super pissed off about the comparisons his band receives. Aside from two of the members being constantly mistaken for the lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the guitarist for Radiohead, their sound is dramatically reminiscent of post-punk 80's and the grunge infused 90's. "The best compliment we've ever received, for me, was from a fan after a show. He told me we sounded like Nirvana doing Cure covers. Those bands are two of our biggest influences and have always inspired some form of hope for me, in spite of their dark parts and elements of despair."

Not only has Moynahan, bassist Esli Sugich, and drummer Spencer Trent managed to get on two of L.A.'s largest radio stations in less than a year of the bands inception in 2008, the group has also landed an impressive amount of placements including MTV, ESPN Tokyo, and Gossip Girls' Season Premier Promo theme song.

Cattle Arithmetic, Ballerina Black's debut album, is set for digital release globally on iTunes New Years 2010. The record bleeds with energetic despair pierced with shards of hope. The lazy urgency of 90% is a hypnotic temper tantrum with lyrics professing "Wait today... and we're just yesterday" while the uber-pop single Microphones in the Mattress laments "Help me" with a pulsating bass line sure to yank you out of your seat. "To be honest, we enjoy wringing ourselves out physically and emotionally on stage... And if a few guitars get sacrificed along the way... so be it."

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