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Contact
Josh Thomas
816.522.2133
bodi@bodisartha.com
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Dates Played
July 2007
the way out club
st louis, MO
July 2007
el torreon
kansas city, MO
July 2007
the hexagon (7/7/7 Festival)
minneapolis, MN
July 2007
the hurricane
kansas city, MO
July 2007
club 115
austin, TX
June 2007
novacaine promotions showcase
cache, OK
June 2007
the shamrock lounge
wichita, KS
June 2007
playback:STL show at cicero's
st louis, MO
June 2007
danny's
Shawnee Mission, KS
May 2007 (indie paper) benefit show
the horseshoe drive-in
st joseph, MO
May 2007
lizard lounge
wichita, KS
May 2007
the blue fugue
Columbia, MO
May 2007
saddle creek bar
omaha, NE
May 2007
outland ballroom
springfield, MO
March 2007
the jackpot saloon
lawrence, KS
April 2007
jerry's bait shop
Lenexa, KS
March 2007
mike's tavern
kansas city, MO
March 2007
The Rendezvous
st joseph, MO
February 2007
kirby's (acoustic)
wichita, KS
November 2006
replay lounge
Lawrence, KS
November 2006
room 710
austin, TX
November 2006
Andy's
denton, TX
November 2006
Novacaine Promotions show
duncan, OK
November 2006
grand emporium
kansas city, MO
November 2006
Jerry's Bait Shop
Lenexa, KS
November 2006
shamrock louge
wichita, KS
November 2006
the outland
springfield, MO
October 2006
the blue fugue
colubmia, MO
October 2006
cicero's
st. louis, MO
October 2006
bali satay house
ames, IA
October 2006
the news room
kansas city, MO
September 2006
vermont st bbq
lawrence, KS
September 2006
the outland
springfield, MO
September 2006
mike's tavern
kansas city, MO
September 2006
american icehouse
kansas city, MO
September 2006
davey's uptown
kansas city, MO
July 2006
the brick
kansas city, MO
July 2006
the bottleneck
lawrence, KS
July 2006
davey's uptown
kansas city, MO
June 2006
mike's tavern
kansas city, MO
June 2006
The Outland
Springfield, MO
June 2006
george's majestic
Fayetteville, AR
June 2006
The Curtain Club
dallas, TX
June 2006
Amercian Legion Hall
Lawton, OK
June 2006
John Barleycorn's
Wichita, KS
June 2006
jerry's bait shop
kansas city, MO
June 2006
Gaia's Garden
Salina, KS
May 2006
Playback:STL presents @ Cicero's
St. Louis, MO
May 2006
The Anchor
kansas city, MO
May 2006
davey's uptown
kansas city, MO
April 2006
The Bottleneck
Lawrence, KS
April 2006
The Grand Emporium
kansas city, MO
April 2006
The Pub
Maryville, MO
March 2006
The Hurricane
kansas city, MO
March 2006 Mike's Tavern
Kansas City, MO
February 2006
The Brick
kansas city, MO
January 2006
Gaslight Tavern
Lawrence, KS
January 2006
The Gaslight Tavern
Lawrence, KS
January 2006
Jerry's Bait Shop
Lenexa, KS
November 2005
96.5 THE BUZZ Homegrown Buzz Showcase at The Lucky Brewgrille
Mission, KS
July 2005
Garagestock - Camp Zoe
Camp Zoe, MO
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Bodisartha's Story
it's hard to say if the members of Bodisartha even care about
"being successful" in the music industry anymore. they
just float from one thing to the next, occasionally pulling themselves
together for long enough to throw everything into a car and play
a show.
the joke's on them. it's true. in a fast food culture that
suggests anyone can be a rock star and everyone is special, josh
thomas and justin piatt have woken up, six years and two bands
deep, into a world where you can no longer sell music. music is
free now, haven't you heard?
this is a little story about a few kids that didn't have anything
to do:
one day, josh, after bouncing around a few continents and a handful
of states of the american variety, ended up in the lovely, oceanside
property of springtown, missouri. there he met a young man from
texas named piatt and within a few hours, josh was throwing up
from over consumption. the meeting was a success.
a band called grasscanon followed, with josh on bass (but writing
a majority of the guitar parts) and piatt on drums. there were
comparisons made to such bands as the deftones and radiohead,
but i'm with you, i don't believe the hype.
parties, broken things, arrests, and other fun stuff ensued.
then, almost two years invested, as grasscanon was preparing to
record its first full length album, the band fell apart on stage
at the Burgundy Room in Springfield, Missouri. by the end of the
evening, several guitars, a few glasses, and a band were irreparably
broken.
josh drove around the country for a few months attending hippie
festivals and indian pow wows, piatt hung out in springtown doing
whatever it is he does. so what's next? why not move to kansas
city? okay, let's do it.
josh holed up and wrote a bunch of new songs. piatt came up when
he could. a friend, bret steil, was tricked into playing bass.
recently, trevis hutchens, a good friend of piatt's from "back
in the day", has taken over bass playing duties for the overworked
and overly sexy bret steil. he'll be missed, but it was his choice.
a year into its formal existence, bodisartha has played shows
in several states and released an album, 'find yourself getting
lost', recorded in equal parts at Chapman Recording in Kansas
City and at the band's home studio. as far as i can tell, the
band is most often compared to the pixies, nirvana, and queens
of the stone age.
album number two is almost completely written. bodisartha has
traded in the power chords and screaming for weird jazz chords
and moaning. a concept evolved around the songs. the album seems
to be based around a revolutionary character that thinks it's
possible for one person to change everything. the songs are equal
parts philosophy and narrative: the philosophy of this character
and the reaction he gets from the general public, more specifically,
the authoritarian government of the united states. reactions include:
stalking, wiretapping, crucifixion, you know... the classics.
the addition of a second guitar player, another short tour of
Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Missouri, and a quick
trip to Austin, Texas are in the works are well.
as with all adventures, there's no ending in sight and no way
of knowing what might happen next.
josh thomas- guitars, vox
justin piatt - drums
brett steil - bass
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Quotes
“"They are Boanerges, sons of
thunder, flashes of light and silence followed by roaring guitar
lines and vocals. But there's also something of the resigned philosopher
in them..."
from review of Find Yourself
Getting Lost
The Giant Snail
“"I'll be honest.. they were
the main reason I wanted to go in the first place, and from the
time I saw them getting ready to go on, 'til I left that night,
they didn't disappoint. They played great, had a great set, a
lot of people seemed to like them, and they were fun guys to talk
to..."
from review of June 2006 show in
Lawton, Oklahoma
Novocaine Promotions
"It may lack a lot of studio sheen, but the guitars are chunky, the drumming is tight, and the vocals are painfully sincere... It isn’t always easy to pick up on what this band is singing about, but some song titles, like “Like A Virus” and “Manufacturing Dissent” at least raise curiosity levels. There is intelligence within these thick, hard rock grooves without a doubt."
from indie-music.com CD review
"Bodisartha joins a long list of bands to echo Nirvana's loud-soft dynamics and fuzzed out punk. The results sound, by and large, like a lo-fi version of Failure, which is not a bad place to be. Bodisartha take the loud-soft transition that Cobain stole from Black Francis to the extreme, slinging Josh Thomas' thudding electric guitar and blood-curdling scream vocals onto "Revolution" after 90 seconds of acoustic guitar balladry, only to come to float back down in the song's final seconds...and the familiarity of Bodisartha's sound isn't the distraction it could have been. Find Yourself Getting Lost is a largely enjoyable debut, even if not a largely original one."
from playback:STL album review
Grade: A
"This trio brings some solid rock to the table on this full-length
release. Mixing various rock influences and styles that remind
me a lot of Nirvana, Bodisartha, has some great songs. They display
sheer talent and grace on this twelve song disc..."
from entertainmentnutz.com
-Audio Nut album review
"“Nirvana-like has become shorthand
for any band both noisy and melodic. The word fits Kansas City's
Bodisartha (born in the wilds of Springfield, that name can't
be an accident), especially with singer Josh Thomas' ragged screams
and shattershot guitar chords.
Shoot, there are songs on the group's debut, Find Yourself Getting
Lost — "Is It a Gay" or "Like a Virus"
come to mind — that are better than those last few fossils
turned up for Nirvana's recent rarities box.
The band finds its own unexplored mountain ranges of loud and
catchy bits. It won't be long till Frances Bean is — um
— dating, so maybe a band inspired by her dad's songs (important
note: not imitating them) is something we can pay attention to
again."
from The Pitch - pitch.com
by Mike Warren
“"They do break out of the mold
with varying success- Leave That Over There comes out like a droning
shoegazer abortion, and when their throats aren't bleeding, tracks
like Disagree smack of late nineties rockers like Miranda Sex
Garden."
from review of Find Yourself
Getting Lost
The Giant Snai
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