The Creeping Nobodies were a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 2001. They played their final gig in 2009.
The Creeping Nobodies | |
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 The Creeping Nobodies, April 2007 | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Post-punk, Experimental |
| Years active | 2001–2009 |
| Labels | Blocks Recording Club ([][][][][][]) Deleted Art Kosher Rock Records Bloodworks. |
| Past members | Dennis Amos Matthew McDonough Sarah Richardson Valerie Uher Derek Westerholm James Anderson Julia Muth Eric Abboud Marco Landini George Westerholm Jaime Carrasco |
| Website | www.thecreepingnobodies.com |
History
editThe Creeping Nobodies began as a one-off performance for a tribute night to the UK band The Fall, and were put together by Derek Westerholm.[1] The tribute night was held on September 21, 2001 at the El Mocambo club in Toronto, and the band name "The Creeping Nobodies" came from the name of a fictitious band mentioned on a Fall record sleeve. Immediately afterwards, the band became its own entity, investigating a wider range of musical influences.
The band released many of their records on Blocks Recording Club (sometimes referred to simply as [][][][][][] Recording), including Sound of Joy,[2] recorded with Wharton Tiers, and a 2007 split 12" with the band Anagram.[3] Blocks was a worker co-operative which also released records by Final Fantasy, Ninja High School, Katie Stelmanis, Lenin I Shumov, The Hank Collective, Fucked Up, and The Phonemes, among others. Other Creeping Nobodies CD and vinyl releases appeared on Deleted Art, fromSCRATCH, Bloodworks Music, Kosher Rock Records, and on a number of compilation albums.
The band line-up changed a number of times over the years, the most stable occurring between 2004-2007 consisting of Westerholm, Uher, Amos, McDonough and Richardson.[4] In 2007 Westerholm himself left prior to the band's last recordings and final tour in Europe.[5][6] The band's last performance occurred in May, 2009, and at that time The Creeping Nobodies were Dennis Amos, Sarah Richardson, Valerie Uher and Matthew McDonough.
Discography
editAlbums
edit- Augurs & Auspices (Deleted Art, 2007)
- Sound of Joy (Blocks, 2006)
- Stop Movement Stop Loss (Blocks, 2004)
EPs and mini-albums
edit- Silver & Golden Apples 3" cdep (Akashic Records, 2007)
- Split cdep w/ Miranda (fromSCRATCH, 2007)
- Split 12" LP w/ Anagram (Blocks/Dead Astronaut, 2006)
- Half-Saboteur 12" LP (Bloodworks, 2005)
- I-X-U cd (Kosher Rock, 2002)[1]
Splits
edit- Cockles 7" w/ These Are Powers (2008) Army of Bad Luck
Other appearances
edit- Galactic Dossier Issue No. 8 CD Compilation (2009) (Song "Beltane")
- Suoni Il Per Popolo Festival Compilation (2006) (Song "Hollow Stems, A Hunter's Will")
- Perverted By Mark E. - A Tribute to The Fall Zick Zack Compilation (2004) (Song "Wings")
- Toronto is Great! Blocks Compilation (2004) (Song "Heatseek")
- In The Film They Made Us A Little More Articulate Escape Goat Records Compilation (2003) (Song "Cold Hands")
- Rosco Re-define Rosco Magazine Sampler (2002) (Song "State")
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b " The Creeping Nobodies IXU" AllMusic Review by Jack Rabid
- ^ "Creeping Nobodies Sound of Joy". Exclaim!, By Alex Molotkow Jul 01, 2006
- ^ "The Creeping Nobodies / Anagram". /xclim!, By Vish Khanna, Feb 16, 2007
- ^ "Indie wavelength; Two-and-a-half year-old Creeping Nobodies pump up nerd-punk to become one of city's best bands Play Lee's Palace with the Constantines for Wavelength's fifth-anniversary, writes Ben Rayner". Toronto Star - Toronto, Ont. Rayner, Ben Feb 10, 2005 Page: G.01
- ^ "Creeping Nobodies Prep New Material, Become One Body Less". Exclaim!. By Scott A. Gray Jun 04, 2008
- ^ "'We just wanted to play music together'; Lacking a frontman, Creeping Nobodies made the only decision the local indie act could". Toronto Star - Toronto, Ont. Rayner, Ben Jul 24, 2008 Page: E.8