(to be continued...)
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| Collapsing Opposites were born in May, 2002 when Ryan McCormick quit his job at the Great Canadian Bagel and recorded a five-song EP under the name Demonstration, dispursing CDs throughout his homeland of Vancouver, BC and beyond. One copy of the disc landed at local college radio station CITR, and soon began climbing up the station's "indie home job" charts. In mid-August of that year, McCormick got a phonecall inviting him to perform at Shindig, the station's annual Battle of the Bands. Inspired, he accepted the offer, despite not being able to play the songs solo; he soon decided it was time to put a band together. He called up his guitar-wielding buddy Tristan Laing, with whom he'd played in local art-rock unit Headlight the previous year, and the two began working on songs. Their ad in the Georgia Strait newspaper mentioning Pavement and Modest Mouse as influences caught the eye of Sean Ramsey of Polar Convoy and Reverse Vampires fame. Now a three-piece, they continued working on the songs in McCormick's basement suite in the mid-Main area of Vancouver. During one jam, they decided they needed someone to play a keyboard part, and encouraged Sean's girlfriend Kristine Aguilar, who had come to watch the rehearsal, to give it a try. She did, and joined the band soon after. The four continued to practice, and searched far and wide for a drummer. But before they could find anyone worthy of the job, Ryan's landlords informed him they wouldn't be able to practice at his place anymore due to excessive "noise". With the Shindig show less than a month away, the fledgling group found themselves without a drummer or a practice space. | Things were looking grim, and for a short while, nothing happened, until in a stroke of genius, Sean decided to call up his old friend Wenzel, lead-singer from Boy Girl Radio. Not only was Wenzel a singer, writer and musician extraordinaire, but the drums were his first instrument, and being under-employed at the time, he was all too happy to help out with the formation of a new band. Even better, the group sharing his rehearsal space had just moved out, and they were looking for someone else to move in. The Collapsing Opposite gang talked it over, and soon decided the two hundred and fifty bucks a month would be well worth it. They moved in, rented drums, and began rehearsing with Wenzel behind the kit. All of a sudden, things were starting to roll. The five quickly became good friends, practised a lot, and wrote two new songs in addition to revamping the tracks from Ryan's CD, and a couple of Sean's older tunes. Their Shindig appearance fast approached, and though they didn't win anything, it was a successful debut... (to be continued...) Stay tuned to this website for up to date news from Opposite-land. |
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