Six or Seven years of grinding it out in a moderately
successful punk-metal outfit from the nations humble capital
will teach you a few things about life and rock n’ roll:
American beer is cheaper than water. Disillusion runs thick
in this business. Camping is free. The fans really do make
it all worth while. Showers are not necessary. Money is to
be burnt. And if you show up at a venue that has more urine
on the rest room floors than tiles, and more stickers on the
walls than free space, it's probably going to be a good gig.
And unavoidably, you learn that change will occur.
We must not fear change. An accumulation of influence is
embraced. And with music and in life, what was once
simple is now complex. A song is created, sometimes in a single evening,
yet it lives forever. It should be able to stand alone, and take
you on an audio voyage. After all, let's put image, marketing,
branding, and industry elitism aside, and be what it is that we
always have been - song writers, performers, artists, humans
following their chosen paths and loving it.
At some point in fall ’05 we fell in love with that wonderful
woman named the road. She’s some kind of lover. We’ve
experienced 10 provinces in Canada and 8 of the U.S. states in
our ’88 Chevy Beauville, logging thousands of road clicks. We
dig the rock, and the rock digs us. However, periodically you
are home and you work, sheepishly. You adjust to normality, then
enter the madness, and repeat.
Not a lifestyle for the meek, we’ve had our first lineup change
with original bassist Justin Jarvo leaving the band in fall ’07
prompting an unexpected performing hiatus. After much
deliberation, and 13 auditions, we invited a charming Nova
Scotia lad named Peter Zdravko Dimov to slay the bass and join
our clan. With the line-up finally solidified once again we’re
back on the gig circuit and busy writing, recording demos and
preparing to lay down a new album. With a handy $5000 winnings
from local radio - LIVE 88.5fm, our next recordings are being
healthfully supplemented...! Excellant! As well, we’re putting
major focus on getting organized to resume our road wanderings
in ’09 because we like to wail, party, travel, experience,
create & inspire.
Let’s sum it up. We’ve got 2.5 albums behind us, over 300 shows
logged, 12 000 cd’s in circulation, and a strong buzz building
on the internet with over 100 000 plays; we have now released
our new online sampler “Gnarwhal”, and we’re fully stoked with
how it came out. There are so many more songs simmering on the
back burner just waiting to be recorded. Additionally, our
newest video “Hollywood Horror Show” is really awesome and
gnarly and you should tell those swell folks at Much Music to
give it a spin. We’ve been saying it for a while, so we can’t
stop NOW, there is just NO OTHER WAY.
“There’s always a shred of hope. We’ll go on with our lives one
day at a time.” –NOW
