LISSA ALEXANDER
reporter@pqbnews.com
The Boom Booms are coming back to town with some “Real Love”.
The East Vancouver-based group finished a 50-date North American tour this past summer and then released their first single Real Love in September, with Grammy-Award wining producer Chin Injeti.
Lead singer Aaron Ross said the group thoroughly enjoyed the recording process.
“This particular song has had a magical quality to it ever since we wrote it,” he said in a press release. “Recording the song with Chin at Armoury Studios was one of my favourite musical moments ever. We had a bunch of our friends and family in the studio passing rum around while we recorded the choir backups and then the lead vocals on it.
“Once the parts were done we just kept it on repeat and had a dance party and man, the real love was flowing! So now we’re excited to share it and look forward to people having their own beautiful experiences to this song.”
The Boom Booms are performing at the Parksville Community and Conference Centre on Friday, November 15 at 7 p.m.
The Boom Booms formed in 2008 as a six piece band playing a mixture of folk, reggae, latin and soul, among other influences.
In 2011 The Boom Booms released their debut Album Hot Rum and earned a spot in the Peak Performance Project, B.C.’s biggest contest for emerging bands. They snagged second place in that contest and a cash prize of $75,000.
Ross told The NEWS this summer that five out of the six people in the band are former tree-planters and they’re all environmentally conscious. That’s why they protested the Belo Monte Dam project, a complex slated to be the second-largest hydroelectric dam complex in Brazil and the world’s third-largest. They have released a travel documentary titled Boom Boom Brazil with live shows, interviews with activists, jams with local musicians, and an appearance by the band’s idol, Manu Chao.
Tickets for show in Parksville on November 15 are $20 available from Natural Synergy Day Spa, located at 6-183 West Island Highway.
For more on the Boom Booms visit www.theboombooms.com.
