Biography
The Awesome Snakes grew out of the Soviettes as a side project in 2004 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when the Soviettes were touring nationally and earning increasing critical buzz. Annie “Sparrows” Holoien (The Soviettes, The God Damn Doo Wop Band) on bass and Danny Henry (The Soviettes, France Has The Bomb, International Robot) on drums, renamed themselves “Annie Awesome” and “Danny Snakes”, started the duo as a way to ease the pressure by making what Henry described as a “jokey” and “free and loose” set of punk songs, spiced with audio samples from Henry’s collection of odd self-help and how-to tapes.
The instrumentation was deliberately simple, just Holoien on bass and Henry on drums, with the bass played through a Fender Blues Deville amplifier on high distortion. The lyrics were also highly focused on “two subjects: snakes and/or things that are awesome.”
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