Bingo Party Goes Heavy Metal

This is one bingo game where there won’t be piped in elevator music or neighborhood grandmas sitting at tables dabbing bingo cards at the local church basement. No, it is best that they stay home for this bingo event.

The Underground Rebel Bingo Club is all about heavy metal and a crowd of 20-30 year olds decorated in bingo ink in a bar ready for a wild night of bingo in Hollywood. The two man band debuted in 2008 and got came up with their after coming across a bingo machine in the basement of a church.

"It's loud and emotional ... like a party with a big live game show in it. It's an attack of the senses, like Metallica-meets-bingo," said URBC co-founder Freddie Fortune.

"It's just gone nuts, we didn't really know. We never had a plan for it, we're not like businessmen or whatever," says Fortune. "We don't make any money yet, but it's enough to get by. I used to have a proper job, but I am a lot happier than I was."

"What we play isn't really Bingo, its not gambling, it's not fair. So it's like a mutant form of Bingo," explains Fortune.

"It's not so much about the numbers and winning stuff." For example, in the case of a tie, it might help to be closer to the stage. "If there's a tie, the first person to come up and hug me wins."

"It's not fair, but life's not fair, is it?"

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