Description:
Life-saving socialist sounds with bass so loud it'll rip your clothes!!!

We also perform under the following guises:

Eric Blowtorch (solo)
Eric Blowtorch & the Inflammables (jazz/rock 'n' roll trio)
Superpowers in Dub
Mighty Django Hi-Fi (reggae sound system)

Names of band members:
Eric, Paul, Paul, Tom, Andy, Craig, Nate

Style:
Reggae, R&B

Influences:
Louis Armstrong Kathleen Letendre Louis Prima John Noble Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Becky Taylor the Skatalites Bill Jordan the Impressions Tim Cook & the Riverwesterners the Clash Elain Litzau Dillinger Midori Linton Kwesi Johnson the Who Studio 1 the Thou$andaires Codebreaker The Jam Duke Ellington Public Enemy Manic Street Preachers Patti Smith Lester Bangs Percy Shelley Shane MacGowan William Butler Yeats Michael Smith Thomas Pynchon Malcolm X Dr. Bop Rakim Diego Rivera Roy Lichstenstein Billy Bragg the Redskins the Specials Paul Cebar & the Milwaukeeans Highball Holiday Bob Marley & the Wailers

Discography:
Shame a Politician

Website:
http://www.simmerdown.com

Booking Information:
(414) 263-1722
e_beaumont@yahoo.com