Parades Against Parades - Jose Palacios of My Dad Vs. Yours described them as "melodic, post, post-new-wave" in his e-mail blurb for their gig with his band and Daydream Square at Club SAW, and it's quite apt. He also said they do it better than any band he's seen in some time, and that's true too. They have two major assets: An excellent singer in Cody Dyck and a furious drummer in Nathan Young, and the other two members, guitarist Ian Potts and bassist Fraser Baalim are quite capable as well. Lots of the punky flailing and twisting that's popular with all the kids, underpinned with real melodic songcraft, guitars crash and turn pretty ... they certainly deserve a larger audience than the two-dozen people who turned up. Then again, that was apparently a better turnout than the crowd (or total lack of same) at their last gig.
Nathan; good thing the police siren wasn't attached to an actual police car or he'd have been pulled over for speeding.
Cody the singer ... of course my one solo pic of him he isn't singing ... oh well.
Ian does some backup singing.
Fraser rocks the neckerchief look.
Post-new-wave rock action!
Post, post-new-wave rock action!
And finally, post, post ... whatever!
Their
There's no riot like a tonality riot CD is good, and I'd definitely run out to buy a full-length from these guys (nice Keith Haring style T-shirts as well).
3 comments:
nice little review you's gots here.
glad to see these boys getting the good 'press' that they (in this blogger's humble opinion) deserve.
will-bot
i agree with the previous comment about Parades Against Parades. however, where you say the rest of the band is merely capable i would instead say they are human hearts stabbed with a needle full of adrenaline and then lit on fire and then told to play like how they feel.
anyways, that's just my opinion...
-wheely
frasier's so pretty, so very pretty.
(he plays the boom-stick well too)
ya the pap do music well
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