Other bands influenced by Laurie Anderson
| On Project Opus since: | February 24, 2008 |
| Last seen: | 1 week 4 days ago |
| Biography: | Trike is a duo, comprising of Stephen Taylor and Xania Keane. Stephen plays keyboard, digital guitar, trombone and sings. Xania plays fiddle, glockenspiel, keyboard, sings, dances (Irish/Quebecois style) and raps. Trike's style is Synth-pop, New Wave, with various other elements. They are audience-interactive, teaching people dance moves they make up. Their songs are catchy pop songs, high energy and dancey. Onstage, there is a great deal of theatricality and performance. Their influences are: Pulp, The Cure, Talking Heads, Devo, The Cars, Belle and Sebastian, old Public Enemy, Magnetic Fields and Joy Division. There is a lot of humour in the music, and the songs are pretty bouncy/happy, although there are also a lot of bittersweet emotions in the lyrics. Addicted to performing, Trike has played almost forty shows since the beginning of September in Vancouver and Victoria, BC, Canada. Trike also won $20,000 on "The Gong Show" (a contest which was on radio and television) with their instructive-dance song, The Trikey, which enabled them to go on tour to Europe in the Spring of 2008. Their album, "The New Album" was number six on the charts of Kootenay Coop radio for three months. |
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| On Project Opus since: | January 31, 2006 |
| Last seen: | never |
| Biography: | "...in the realm of Sonic Youth or Fugazi..." - Max Kauffman Hailing from Culver, Indiana, plankton is comprised mainly of Matt Pare and Tina Pare on bass, vocals, and guitar. 2006 began with plankton appearing on WNIT's "Open Studio," a program on local public television focusing on talent in the station's viewing area. Because of that appearance, plankton was invited to play a show at a popular club with crowd-drawing bands from the South Bend/Mishawaka area. At the time plankton had no drummer. Chris Nespo (Evil 10 Submission, US Thrash Company, Dorks With Glasses) had been sought out to play the TV spot but was unable to play the date of the club gig. From an ad placed in the forum of a venue's web site,Tim Post (Wichita Kansas Trailer Park Conspiracy) agreed to play the show and ended up staying with the band for a stretch of accomplishments. These include breaking into many venues formerly unreachable by the band and being selected to participate in the Chicago Bodog Battle of the Bands. Tim left the band in September 2006 for personal reasons. Plankton wishes Tim the best and everyone is looking forward to keeping in touch. For the time being, catch Chris Nespo or Jerry Mitchell (Jet Stream, Bad Habbit) on drums with the band! Matt was in a band in 1992 when he met Tina. That band went bust, but Tina and Matt stayed together. Tina began to learn bass. Matt and Tina searched for a drummer to suit their music. For one reason or another, people never worked out. In January of 2003 plankton was joined by Eric Scott on drums (Eric left the band in late 2005). Right away they new they could have something special if they practiced hard. Festivals, battles of the bands, private parties, and a free public performance on the Fulton County Court House (Indiana) lawn sponsered by the Fulton County Public Library have all contributed to the band’s growth and progress. They have been working their butts off to craft their originals into a crowd pleasing set of shock, amazement, and yes, even the occasional offense. So...what do you call THAT? Boyd Nutting, owner of now-defunct-but-always-in-our-hearts Club Cackle in South Bend, Indiana, described plankton as "Post-Punk / Art Rock." Something that helps to set plankton’s music apart, Matt and Tina switch off on bass and guitar. They both played drums in other bands. Adding to that, they write all the songs, and do all the recording themselves in their studio, Splatcat Records, with Matt acting as the band's ample engineer. Being a totally DIY band, Tina makes all the band's t-shirts - dying and printing them by hand. Influences run up and down these lines: King Crimson, Talking Heads, Beck, Midnight Oil, Laurie Anderson, Shellac, Big Black, Throwing Muses, Pixies, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Danny Elfman, Tim Burton, Wire, Firehose, Tool, Ella Fitzgerald, The Modern Jazz Quartet, XTC, Brian Eno, Joe Jackson, The Fall, Cure, New Order, Joy Division, Duran Duran, Juliana Hatfield... Bands plankton has been compaired to include Ween, Cake, Portishead, Pixies, PJ Harvey, The Breeders, Pink Floyd, and for some reason... The Cranberries. |
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