Bad For Your Health But Good For Your Loins

By John Bones on November 11, 2011 in Arts

Brothers Grim and their sex-voodoo-delta-blues-a-billy music was established in 2007 when the Inabinet brothers, a.k.a. James and Matt Grim, began writing songs inspired by the Blues music they grew up listening to.

With the help of Stephen Devlin on drums and Chris Lichti on double bass, Brothers Grim and the Blue Murders created a concoction of distorted ‘20s to ‘40s blues influences repackaged into an unwholesome, moon howling, sweat dripping, groin shaking fervour.

Aside from their mutation of the blues with a rock sensibility (a sound often described as ‘dangerous’), the majority of their reputation has been built from electric live shows that combine charm and humour with explosive performance.

After three years of constant touring and sold out shows all along the east coast, Brothers Grim finally took their unrelenting blistering stage performance and sonically bludgeoned it into their debut album ‘The Year to Forget’, which hit the airwaves at the end of July.

During the month The Beast caught up with James Grim…

Brothers Grim in a sentence is… Bad for your health, but good for your loins.

First memory of music… My father playing Chet Atkins finger-style guitar.

First album you bought… Guns n’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction.

Song that gives you goosebumps… Felice Brothers – Ballad of Lou the Welterweight.

Fave driving album/s… Beasts of Bourbon – Low Road; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Howl.

A Brothers Grim highlight… Kicking in the New Year with Charlie Parr at the Oldbar in Fitzroy.

If you could pick a supergroup its members would be… Lobby Lloyd on bass, Devlin D on Drums, George Thorogood on guitar and Howling Wolf on vocals.

Sydney bands giving you the good tingles at the moment… Kira Puru and the Bruise, Snowdroppers and Gay Paris.

Fave Sydney venue… The Vanguard.

Band or genre that gives you an ice-cream headache… 20s/30s Blues and 70s Australian Rock.

If you bowed to corporate sponsorship it would be to advertise… Sex toys that double as hip flasks that can be recharged by moonlight.

Your dream bill for a night (Brothers Grim included of course)… Joe Cocker, Aztecs, Little Walter and us.

An unknown Brothers Grim fact… All the rumours are true.

What next for Brothers Grim… Invent moon-powered sex toys, get corporate suits to bank roll it, go back on tour, demonstrate their effectiveness.

Brothers Grim will be playing at the Coogee Diggers on November 11. To hear their sound visit www.myspace.com/brothersgrimblues and for more information about their upcoming show go to www.coogeediggers.com.au.