BOBO IS AN ART GROUP, A MUSIC GROUP, AN ART / PERFORMANCE PROGRAMMING TROUPE. THE THREE MEMBERS ARE PHIL COTE, DREW GILLESPIE, AND NICK PAYNE.  

AS ARTISTS, THEY MAKE VOLUPTUOUS WALLWORKS, WRITTEN WORKS, VIDEOS, AND PRINTED PARTICULATES.  THEY OFTEN CHARACTERIZE THIS WORK AS BEING GENREDELIC. EACH AND EVERY WORK REPRESENTS A NEW CULTURAL CONCLUSION, OVERLAYING INDIVIDUAL TRAITS absorbed FROM MEANINGS, MECHANICS, AND ATTITUDES TO FORM A BRAND NEW SPECIES OF EXPRESSION PACKETS. LIKE AN “OUT OF THE BOX” STARTER KIT WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO START FROM SCRATCH, THE WORKS FUNCTION AS COMPRESSED SEEDPODS FOR WORLDBUILDING.  ANALOGOUS TO HAVING INFO-SOULS, THEY ACT AS FORENSIC ARTIFACTS BREATHING OUT THEIR OWN SOUL COMPRESSION LIKE A SIGHING HARD DRIVE. 

THERE IS A CONNECTIVITY AMONGST THESE ISNESS WORLDS, SHARED RELATIONS BASED AROUND CHARACTERS, CURRENCIES, AND SHARED RESOURCES.  THE MESH ALL SERVES AS A COMPOSITE DOCUMENTATION OF THE EXISTENCE OF A LARGER DOMAIN, BUILT UPON THE FRAMEWORKS OF POLY-HIERARCHIES THAT WOULD SULLY THE MOST WEARY-WORN OF DOMAIN EXPERTS. THE CHOSEN MEDIA-FORM IS INTERCHANGEABLE, ITS A MATTER OF HAPPENSTANCE WHETHER AN IDEA RESIDES IN AN ARTWORK OR A SONG.

MUSICALLY, BOBO HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS HAVING AN ELASTIC AND STICKY SOUND— A THICK, FREEWHEELING BEBOP, THAT INSTIGATES AN OBJECT-INTERACTION HYBRID DANCE OF AN EAST COAST ANIMATION WALK CYCLE.  THE BAND’S LYRICS OFTEN EMPLOY CURRENT SCI-POLITICAL JARGON ABOUT CARBON CREDIT BRIBERY, US CENSUS NAME GENERATORS, LIVING LIFE IN THE SHOWER, RECESSION-ERA ANARCHIST CATSITTERS, AND HIDING YOUR GAS BILLS IN THE SNOW.

FOUNDED AT THE END OF 2006, BOBO SPENT THE FIRST PART OF THEIR EXISTENCE BEING BASED OUT OF THE GREAT CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE, PHILADELPHIA. IN 2011, THEY BECAME PHYSICALLY SEPARATED DUE TO THEIR THREE TRADES (IN THE ARTS, ON A FARM, IN THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY). THEY TOOK A HIATUS, BUT IN 2015 THEY RECONVENED TO BEGIN WORKING TOGETHER AMIDST THE BUSTLE OF NEW YORK CITY AND THE BUCOLIC SPLENDOR OF OLD HUDSON.
 
THEY ARE ALSO THE FORMER PROPRIETORS OF BOBO'S ON 9TH, AN EXPERIMENTAL EXHIBITION AND PERFORMANCE SPACE IN SOUTH PHILADELPHIA THAT ENDED IN 2008.  THEIR PROGRAMMING EFFORTS CONTINUE ON. BOBO IS CURRENTLY HOSTING A MONTHLY PERFORMANCE AND ART NIGHT AT HONEY’S, A UNIQUELY WELL-ROUNDED BAr and WINERY IN BROOKLYN, NY.