Mikaiah Leh, one half of the Los Angeles duo the Bots.and the other half of the Bots, his brother, Anaiah, The Bots Mikaiah is only 19 and Anaiah didn’t celebrate his 16th birthday until last Thursday,
Seriousness isn’t the defining feature of the Bots anyway. On stage, they interrupt each other, the extravagantly Afro’d Anaiah cutting into his older brother’s monologues; they flail around; Mikaiah apologises for the keyboard he’s set off at the beginning of one song going horrendously out of tune, then corpses. And, most of all, they throw out thrilling, brief, violent bursts of noise, veering from snotty hardcore to yelping blues to the occasional ballad, including one about Anaiah that Mikaiah worries might sound like a love song to his brother: here’s that rarity, the garage rock duo comprised not of po-faced rock historians but two kids having fun.
The Bots’s love of music came from their dad, a computer technician, although both refer to him performing “surveillance” work. “He knows good music,” Mikaiah says. “He used to work for [concert promoters] Golden Voice and he saw proper rock bands back in the day. We kinda learned everything from him, every genre of music really. He’s got great taste in everything. He’s a big hipster now – he’s really into indie music.”
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