SHRINNIRS are currently back to the same duo format with which they started twenty years ago. Over the course of those two decades the band has frequently changed it's name. Aside from their current moniker, they may be best known (to a few old friends, and maybe 4 or 5 other people) as either BIMBO SHRINEHEADS or SHRIN. Other musicians have joined the band for mostly short stays, but dawn and Joe are the only two members who have stuck around for the duration.
Comments, Clippings, and Witness Testimony:
"A long time ago, in an era known as the late eighties/early nineties, I was infatuated with a local band called the Bimbo Shrineheads. I was particularly in awe of the singer/guitarist who used to dye and chop out chunks of her hair on stage in the middle of her performance. She sang amazing and beautiful songs through an old world war two throat mic while projecting images of warped barbie dolls behind her. I had the vinyl, I had the stickers, and I even had a little crush on the singer....until I found out she was my distant cousin!" - Chad C. Heston, of the Chuck Hestons
"Wow, I saw them (Bimbo Shrineheads) like a million years ago at Worcester Artists Group: Dawn sang with her head in a tv set. She looked like a raccoon, she had so much eyeliner on! lol." - comment left at the Populous Pudding myspace page by DJ Matthew M. Griffin from WDOA Radio
"What about living your ideals, not just talking about how bad everyone else is?"
"So you don't think you have sold out and joined the establishment?"
"Aren't you perpetuating the rule of government by working within legal social service agencies?"
"Is your job relevent to political revolution or even punk rock?" - Questions posed to dawn in an interview from the "Punks Over 40" theme issue of HeartattaCk 'zine
"They don’t, by the way, sound at all like Mecca Normal (though Mecca Normal fans might like this). Well, the most distorto-jam parts sound like Mecca Normal a bit." - Popwatch Magazine
"Well, the only thing Scandinavian about this Willimantic-based trio is the smorgasbord of sound they generate." - Bob D'Aprile in the 10/21/1988 edition of the Chronicle newspaper
"She's been arrested more times than everyone on this record combined, which is reason enough to have her on here." - from Kevin Kraynick's liner notes to the first F.O.G. various artists compilation
"like excellent scum, lifted off a pond and touch-read by blind guys" - Byron Coley in the December 1989 issue of Spin
"would give Rush Limbaugh a seizure" - from a 1992 review in Your Flesh magazine
"these guys couldn’t pay to be my friends." - Marc Masters