DMITRI IN LOVE (band)
History
Formed by Dani Hamza and his eccentric godfather, Dimitri Rowe, shortly after the former dropped out of grad school. The band was originally named Anita Leave after Rowe’s much-storied ex wife that was reportedly his muse and described as “... [an] irradiant Bathsheba wreathed in hay fever and lotto tickets. Real hag about it, too.” However, after Rowe‘s unfortunately fatal motorboat accident, his godson found it impossible to locate the aforementioned Anita by any name, or find documentation confirming Rowe had ever had an ex-wife at all. The group was renamed Dimitri In Love in honor of Rowe and his apparently fabricated lover.
Members
Since Rowe’s passing, the group has cycled through several secondary guitarists in their relatively short career, all of which have had to leave due to unfortunate accidents (the mildest being a bad case of pneumonia and the most extreme instance dying from a fallen power line). They would have developed more of a reputation about it if they were a bit more popular :P
Controversy
The group has for better or worse lacked publicity, besides being caught in a one-time controversy with an evangelical group claiming one of their songs featured a heavy handed and scathing criticism of the local church. Dmitri In Love issued a baffled statement saying any relevant lyrical imagery was completely unintentional but enjoy that take regardless.
-If we’re talking purely genre vibe, somewhere around Everclear and [??????] . Y’know. I’m just thinking about I Will Buy You A New Life a lot a lot
-Featuring Dani Hamza (vocals/guitar), Mallory Divine (bass), Az Belanger (guitar/vocals) and Sawyer Raine (drums).
-I might delete this paragraph later but like. Let’s see. Mallory has blue braids, makes shitty handmade leg warmers and those candles with like teeth inside of them. Dani is a clown that thinks he has too much plot intrigue to die and might sound like one of the vocalists from Fastball, amicably divorced with a kid. Sawyer has hair down to her waist, sleepy with a giant mastiff, owns several unexplained empty cabins in the middle of the woods on a legal technicality.
Dani voice hey we haven’t talked in like a decade but our second guitar my godfather died and then the replacement got sick and then her replacement fell off a balcony into a pool and then his replacement suffered fatal electrical burns. so like are you busy. And then Az is like oh this will be a vacation. This is me quitting my supernatural government job and making the irresponsible choice of relaxing into this vacation. I am taking my life into my own hands right now.
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