The Bogmen

The Bogmen have stood the test of time. After touring the U.S. extensively for seven years and releasing two albums on Arista Records - LIfe Begins At 40,000,000 produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and Closed Captioned Radio (Godfrey Diamond, Bill Laswell), the band had a dramatic break up in ‘99. It was thought the band would never play together again but the horrifying events of 9/11, which claimed the life of keyboardist Brendan Ryan’s wife Kristy and countless others close to the band, caused them to set their differences aside and do some good. It all started with playing two sold out nights at NYC’s Iriving Plaza and raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for families directly affected by 9/11. There now exists a live album and documentary about those two shows called We Will Go To Them Tonight https://vimeo.com/253441271, there was also a compilation album KRISTY’S SMILE created for that event with new music by The Bogmen, Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes) & The Ryans and others who played that night.