The Extroverts have often been called Saskatchewan’s first punk band.
Forming in 1979 they toured the Canadian prairies extensively for three years winning fans as they went.
By the time it all crashed and burned in 1982 they had written 75 original new wave, rock and, punk tunes but, while they made many demos and live recordings they only ever released one 7″ single “Living in Poverty/Political Animals”.
Following a reunion gig at Regina’s O’Hanlon’s in 2009 all four original Extroverts got back together.
“The instigator of this was that D.O.A. was touring again, and we had played with them and are longtime friends with Joey [Shithead],” says Holmlund. “I knew the drummer would be fine with it. Our bass player only wanted to do it if the singer was going to do it, and he was banking on the fact that the singer wasn’t going to do it — he hadn’t been on stage in 25 years.
While preparing for the 2009 DOA show, the Extroverts discovered lyrics from 1979-ish that had never been put to music the first time around. Guitarist and co-songwriter Eddie Lester explains: “Singer Brent Caron was a very prolific lyric writer, and would crank songs out with specific tempos or melodies in mind. Unfortunately, he played no instrument and couldn’t communicate the music part of the songs.”
“I would take a pile of lyrics and put music to them, then play that back to Brent and the band to learn,” says Lester. “We wrote 75-80 songs that way. When we reformed in 2009, we went through our collections of memorabilia, and Brent brought over another pile of his unused lyrics from the olden days. I went through the pile and that’s how we came to have our first brand new song in almost 30 years: Spudboys. Brand new insofar as the music is new, and the lyrics are almost 30 years old.”
Their most recent album “Supple”, released earlier this year, is the bands second album. The first one, only released last year, was made up of thirteen tracks they found on a thirty-something year old cassette of recordings performed live off the floor that they’d forgotten ever existed plus one ripping new song they recorded recently.
To keep up to date with the Exroverts you can visit their site “theextroverts.com” where you will find all their social media links along with details of any other forthcoming shows.
The Extroverts can be seen next at:-
An Evening with The Extroverts
Saturday, Nov 5 @ 8:00 PM
Lemon Drop Salon, 1954 Angus Street, Regina
EARLY SHOW! Doors at 8:00, music at 9:00. Tickets are $15 or $12 with a donation to the Regina and District Food Bank.
Good morning!
Hey ho!
This may interest some of you: it features K’naan. Three points of view to the story, it pivots a lot.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/mogadishu-minnesota-knaan-hbo-1.3829819?cmp=rss
Good morning! Is Rigina in the story Garfield’s intentional typo?
That’s his story and he’s sticking to it.
Five house points to Janet
Good morning, party people. And non-party people (like me).
What about us partially party people (aka Partly People)?
(we enjoy the food, drink and, music but don’t like crowds)
I’m listening to the q interview with Phil Collins (1st item, 1st 1/2 hour), and enjoying it.
@GarfieldUK: Sure, you too, I guess.
@BfO, he was interviewed on the Daily Show last week as well
Eight days from now, there’s going to be some serious drinkin’ in the U S of A.
Polls are trending in entirely the wrong direction for my liking.
On the one hand I’m grateful, because soon it will all be over (at least the TV ads will stop), but on the other I’m terrified, because it will all be over, and Trump could be president.
janet, if I may put it this way, there’ll be plenty of time to be terrified *IF* T’s elected; I suggest you relax for now, because being terrified now may well be just bad nerves for nothing.
Or then again, there could be a new dangerous movement set afoot in the US. In sum, we don’t know, so let’s eat, drink, etc. during the next week. Sensibly, of course. Winkie
Working my way through Darbar’s Halloween playlist, speaking spooky stuff. Should keep me busy for a while.
@Benoit, that is very true, I might be borrowing trouble for nothing (which I hope I am). I’ve heard that the atmosphere in the polling stations is really tense which makes sense to me, regardless of how one votes.
@Loozr, I’m glad I’m not the only one still listening to DBS’ playlist
If he does win the election may I ask the last person out to lock the door behind them please
Good morning everyone!
I filled out my ballot last night, dropping it off today. Geez…. I want this election done. And Hillary needs to win for the love of God!
@justingrady: I dunno, I heard on Twitter somewhere that she founded ISIS and was scheming to destroy America. Plus I don’t think she’s ever grabbed anyone by the pussy, so I don’t see how she’s qualified for the presidency.
Above feline: “He *what*???
(You changed cat pictures! Shenanigans! (This one’s better.))
I love the look on the cat’s face!
I changed the image when I realized it was black fur on it’s chin and not as shocked as I thought it was when I first saw the image
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Et58JawpDc
Yay Extroverts!
I didn’t remember them from the original days. I read about them in Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk
Book by Sam Sutherland and then shortly after heard they were playing at Gateway Festival. Even though it was outdoor in the sun, I loved their punk set. So much fun! I picked up that Demo CD that day.
They have been playing gigs around town but I keep missing them. One of these times I will catch them again in a proper venue at night where punk should be heard.
I think my older brother went to University with Brent Caron.
I’m pretty sure he was manager of the Lazy Owl at the time that I was in University, back when it was a dive-y bar in a temporary cindecrete structure, where it resided for 30+ years before the new building was finally built, which I have yet to go to. I should go check it out one day
I am happy to read people are still checking out that playlist. 🙂
@krib – It is a much nicer building than the old cindercrete one.
First time I’ve read (or heard) “cindercrete”. I like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-scs_yF59YE
what do you call those blocks down east? Cindercrete (I missed an r in my first spelling) is a local SK producer of them, I guess
I have no idea who I will talk about next week because I have spent most of today
procrastinatingworking on next weeks release list@krib, in the UK we call them cinder blocks
I always knew them as cinder blocks too. But, kind of like bunnyhug, I like cindercrete better.
I had no clue that cindercrete was a Sask thing. I thought it came from a mixture of cinder and concrete. An engineer was telling me last year looking at our old cindercrete block basement about their origins.
we call every big garbage bin in SK a Loraas bin, too
http://www.cindercrete.com/
http://www.loraas.ca/
You’d think a bunch of MIT students would be smart enough to measure one smoot with a measuring tape, then quickly run across the bridge with one of those clicky wheel things and then do a little math.
You would think.
yeah, but it was an idiotic frat-boy prank, so it was designed to make as much work as possible for the pledges
dar, “concrete blocks” or perhaps more often “cinderblocks”.
irony?
Oliver Reed Smoot, Jr. (born 1940) was Chairman of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) from 2001 to 2002 and President of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) from 2003 to 2004
Loozr, one scientific difference between the two methods (outside of krib’s sensible observations about pledges): by using Mr Smoot, they’re using the original yardstick; if they used a clicky wheel, it would introduce the inevitable errors that are tied to another generation of measuring instrument (calibration error?; jump error?). So, I think that students would have to be careful to use the yardstick, not a derived measurement device, in order to satisfy “superiors”.
That’s of course the serious rationale. The real reason is that it’s funny.
Hilarious, the smoots thing. Thanks!
krib, 11:45 Yup. The gods wouldn’t let him forget it.
Over the years I’ve already forgotten the speed of light I used to have memorized in m/s, so that should make it all the easier for me to rememorize it now as 213.1 terasmoots per fortnight. I’m sure that knowledge is bound to come in handy some day.
but does anyone know the speed of dark?
@krib, our big bins are from biffa
https://www.biffa.co.uk/
Has morgana been around yet? I want to know how the party went.
“Dark” is just fast enough to keep ahead of light.
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/42499-light-thinks-it-travels-faster-than-anything-but-it-is