Skeeball. Hot dogs. Wii Sports. Those are the things this band is based on and maybe a few other infamous sports games.
Horse Bitch is a league of pirates, a post-apocalyptic warlord, Spock’s doppelganger and a disembodied brain in a jar. The band is composed of members Riley Merino, Alec Doniger, Ashley McKinney, Adam Cabrera, David Knodle, Olivia Shaw and Caleb Amelunke. Salt Lake City was their second stop on the West Coast tour, and it can only be described as a rambunctious, honky tonk jamboree. With a pair of Doc Martens and a cowboy hat, you were sure to fit in with the crowd. It was surely a night made for slow dancing and throwing yourself against a friend or stranger.
The band was formed in college; however, they all began in separate social groups. A bioengineering major met with music and English majors; McKinney described their meeting as “all of the cool people [finding] each other.” Now, Horse Bitch could not be formed overnight; it took a destined relationship between McKinney and Knodle’s sister, a self-proclaimed horse girl, to lock in the band’s name: Horse Bitch. They began releasing music and have since continued to create absurd, loud and creative music.
These guys go crazy
Some may call the band’s discography honky tonk emo, others may say Irish punk. But to the band, it’s just “music played with enthusiasm.” As an audience member, there isn’t any other way it could be described. Each musician wasn’t afraid to give it their all, even if they slipped over a cord or two…