Paramedic! is a musical teen-rom-com about victory, pro wrestling and sweet track bikes. Made by Scrublet, Jub-Jub and Hornswaggle.
Paramedic! is three-piece pop-ish punk band based in west Philadelphia. Combined skills include: fixing bikes, shooting nice photos, making websites, buying bikes, having deep knowledge about pro wrestling, the muay thai clinch, being really good at soccer, picking out stylish outfits and cooking amazing tofu scram. We (Paramedic!) have been around since the middle of 2008 and I think we’re getting better. At first we had a lot of embarrassingly bad in between song banter, that’s gotten a lot better since Zia starting singing and Charlie stopped saying the first thing that came to mind.
Paramedic started in two places.
- One: Between Larry and Charlie, in the summer of 2007, as per a conversation held outside the VeggiePlex in west-philly (RIP). The idea was to start a pop-ish-punk-ish band when Larry finally moved to Philly. “Let’s sound like Jawbreaker!”, “Yeah, I love Jawbreaker… and soccer”, “Oh shit, me too!”
- Two: Between Zia and Charlie right after Charlie moved into Zia’s house and the day after he got back from a really long tour with the A-Sides. This conversation happened on a walk to get shitty Chinese in south philly on 2nd and Federal. “Dude, I really want to be in a band that sounds like the Misfits but instead of writing songs about horror movies we could write songs about Stand By Me”, “Yes, lets do this”, “Who’s can we get to play drums?”, “…um, I don’t know… you know anyone?”, “No”, “Shit me neither.”
When these two conversations finally led into one another we got our guts up and had our first band practice in the cold dark north-east practice space. Zia was still learning how to play the bass, Charlie hated singing and Larry hadn’t played drums in a band like this… ever, so it was slow going but took about 6 months to have 4 songs written and one cover learned (Jawbreaker-Do you still hate me). Our motivation was high and efforts were up, we booked our first show in the LV and did whatever we could to not mess it up too badly. The first set of songs sort-of sounded like a mix of The Pixies and Rainer Maria. Thematically, the nineties were being held onto with an loving grip. We all liked the nineties.
So, we’re still the north-east practicing our little butts off, eating peanut butter filled pretzels and laughing at low brow humor. We play about two shows a month, mostly in philly and are constantly talking about buying a van so we can go on tour some day.