We are excited to announce that Miss Boating is the newest member of the High Dive family. Miss Boating is a 5 piece basement pop band based out of a strange old house in the West Plaza neighborhood of Kansas City, just around the corner from the local gas/quick-mart. Multi-instrumentalist and lead singer Charlie Coleborne and drummer Bill Belzer met in 1988 and have been playing together in one form or the other since 1989. Usually people get sick of each other after that long. Somehow they’ve stuck in there.
After years of being a duo, Charlie and Bill have taken on bass guitar and horns. Aaron, Tim and Bryan each bring their own awesome thing. Sometimes that’s a new approach to a song, sometimes it’s a 12 pack of Mexican lager.
Many of the tunes on their self titled debut LP may have been written before your parents were born. One song is about a friend’s mom’s dynamic relationship with prescription medication. Another describes what tetracycline does to your teeth. Another is a tribute to the late Evan Jolly, their former bassist, but it could be about anyone you still love but miss every day. All songs written by Charlie Colborne through his blue/gay eyes. Many genres, many moods. Bee Gee’s inflected new wave, queer music hall schmaltz, odd stiff naive sambas. Many genres. This queen contains multitudes.
These songs have a fine patina of ditch weed, filthy humor, cigarette smoke, gay drama and box wine. They are classics to some, but probably new to you. They’re sailing your way in a little boat they call a Miss Boating album, ready to disembark and run around the cruise port of your life for a little while.
Keep your ear to the ground for info heading your way soon regarding the release of their debut full length heading your way in early 2024.
