Piss Ghost’s coarse, pithy garage-punk has earned the St. Petersburg band a pair of Best of the Bay awards from CL, but that group almost didn’t exist.
“I never thought I would have the confidence. Luckily I had some super-supportive friends who gave me the nudge,” Laura May Sienkiewicz, who also plays in post-punk quartet JOYEATER, said. Now the 23-year-old guitarist’s bandmates are like family to her, working on a new album and headed on another tour in August.
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Piss Ghost bandmate and mentor Susan Dickson is a total punk hero to Sienkiewicz. “I’ve always wanted a sister and Susan is like that cool badass older sister you want to be proud of you,” she said. Dickson, for her part, feels lucky to be in a band with Sienkiewicz, too.
“It’s her first band and that’s something special,” Dickson said. “She is so caring and generous, I feel like I look up to her… and her custom Taco Bell ordering skills are off the chain.”
Next show: Mobina Galore w/Rutterkin/Community Couch/Joyeater. Thurs. Aug. 30, 8 p.m. $8. Lucky You Tattoo, 9633 Bay Pines Blvd., St. Petersburg. Pissghost.bandcamp.com and joyeater.bandcamp.com.
This article appears in Jul 19-26, 2018.