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Issue date: 10/13/09 Section: Arts & Society

Media Credit: Photo Courtesy of Jess Davis Click Clack Boom will be playing the 8x10 Club on October 16th downtown.

On the 16th of October, the band The Click Clack Boom will be playing at the 8X10 Club in Baltimore. The Click Clack Boom is a group of five from Central Pennsylvania and New York City.

Originally, The Click Clack Boom started off as a solo project by the guitarist and lead singer, Nathaniel Hoho. The Click Clack Boom has been around for about a year and a half, "…although members of the band have been playing and growing together as musicians for the last 11 years," says Hoho. "We have all been playing together
in and out of bands for a long time, but just recently The Click Clack Boom has formed."

Playing with Hoho are Will Markley, Bill Newman, Rachel Leah and Grant Wilson. Hoho says that,
"The project began as Nathaniel Hoho, then Nathaniel Hoho and The Click Clack Boom, now [just] The Click Clack Boom. I had been playing as a solo artist for approximately three years. I would often play with Grant and Will. Whenever they couldn't make shows, I would play solo. It was much easier and cheaper to go play shows. I could just throw my guitar in the car and show up. With a band, we have a lot of gear. The van - in comparison to my car - is a gas hog, and there is a lot more that we have to set up and tear down. It's also a different writing process, working with a band… I'll come to everyone with a song, and every member will put their own spin on it with their part, [and] sometimes the structure of the song even changes. It's refreshing to get new ideas thrown into the "creative pot'."

These guys tend to place themselves in the indie rock genre, though Hoho admits, "…I don't know what [that] means." Hoho grew up in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, and this highly influences his music. "Where I'm from, who I grew up around, and the musicians I grew up playing with are the reason I play music," Hoho says.
Although Hoho's influence came from Pennsylvania, nowadays his influences are different.

"The artists that influence us are ever-changing," he says. "I currently am listening to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Pearl Jam, Local Natives and Elvis Costello. Of course, the Beach Boys [and] The Beatles are great. But if you were to ask any other member of the band, you would probably get a totally different answer - with exception to The Beatles and Beach Boys."

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