The fusion-blues duo Stopwatch Novelty was born in Ottawa, Ontario sometime between 2007/2008 and consists of two friends from high school, producer/bassist Pawel Szaryk and vocalist/guitarist Curt Jones. Their first band ‘Mindthread’ released 3 EPS, 2 recorded at Szaryk’s parents’ basement, an early incarnation of Pistachio Studios. In 2008, after their second band Viscera’s Recital parted ways, Szaryk and Jones were ready to take on more proliferate songwriting roles. As Centretown neighbours the two went back and forth writing songs for about 6 months, which turned into a collection of demos they just recently posted to their Soundcloud page entitled “An Illustration”. One of those songs, “The Difficult”, was re-recorded for their début album “Business Casual” featuring long time collaborator Mike Raymond on drums. This is the 11th project the duo have released to date. Influences include; Nirvana, Silverchair and The Beatles.
Stopwatch Novelty – Business Casual
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Hello
Good morning!
Hm. Never heard of them. (Standard thing, that.)
And good morning!
Hi Benoit, I’m trying to introduce as much new (to me at least) music as I can
Oh, that wasn’t meant as a criticism in the slightest. Just a comment. It happens quite often that “bands from Ottawa” are better known as such elsewhere than here.
I took it as a compliment, a sign that I am doing my job
Righto, well done the man, fine job…
Good morning! I’d never heard of them either, but it was fun to check them out! Garf as far as I can tell you’re doing a much better job at breaking new sound than the R3 stream is!
Good morning!! It’s the Sugarman syndrome right?
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You know the movie “Searching for Sugar man”, where the guy was huge in South Africa, but no knew him anywhere else.
Oh, right, I wondered why you started talking about a recessive genetic disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarman_syndrome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKXewWDh1og
The AV Club puts out a list of “funny, bad, funny-bad, or otherwise notable” band names it comes across each year. They disclaim that the band may have existed before the year it makes the list, but this year was the year it came to the AV Club’s attention. The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer made the list under long band names.
http://www.avclub.com/article/panting-threshold-your-worst-imaginings-year-band–246220
Good morning everyone!
Garf is finding some pretty obscure stuff for sure. Good on ya. Stopwatch Novelty is sounding not bad so far.
R3 is actually introducing quite a few new artists to me as well these days. It ain’t all bad.
I was thinking I probably should have left R3 out of my comment, since it’s geoblocked for me. My comment was more an attempt to be facetious than a slight on R3 🙂
Regardless, Garf has done an amazing job finding new artists to discover!
Gotch janet. I keep forgetting about the stupid geoblocking thing. Can’t introduce you to new Canadian talent if you can’t hear it right? Ugh…
If only someone could put a link somewhere that would let you listen via a proxy of some sort
@Darbar, how was rehearsal last night?
It went great! We had our full costume with make up and a small audience. It felt very real. I forgot to get pics of my son and I but I should remember before the run is over. The bad part is that my son is getting a cold and losing his voice. He is trying all the remedies to keep his voice. He made it through last night okay so here’s hoping his voice holds out.
yeah, what did Devin look like in a dress? that’s what they mean by dress rehearsal, right
Ba dum tsh!
It was a bit strange to see him with eye liner and lipstick on though. His deer face paint actually looks pretty fantastic and my Awgwa makeup it pretty grotesque. He looks much prettier than I do.
This sarcastic comment has been withheld to reduce future pain (to me)
New A Tribe Called Red Video. Some powerful images in there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_5VAKdHMek
Also Mobina Galore!
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/mobina_galore_sign_to_new_damage_for_singles_and_b-sides_ep_premiere_video
It is snowing in Nelson!
I have had a wonderful late breakfast watching the flakes fall and then watching the Tribe called Red Video. They kind of balanced each other out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msJTPBgJVUc
so…Duotang is playing in town this weekend. Hoping to go catch them
also, next week is July Talk!
hard to believe it’s December tomorrow
haha!
Texas Chainstore Manager is pretty clever
I enjoyed the Mobina Galore video, but wow, that Tribe Called Red one was powerful.
given that it is indeed December tomorrow I best go and track down a gift and be a prompt secret santa …
This is one of the new artists that R3 is introducing me to. I like this stuff.
http://open.spotify.com/track/1jdxkp7vxzkTWEfDcsA1fl
I’ll have to check them out!
Or my whole R3 2016 list.
http://open.spotify.com/user/darbarspecial/playlist/3lChlOC7lg00dMJPm0HGG3
Twin Mirror by Zoo Owl is playing on my R3 right now.
@DBS, You should be able to use the spotify embed code now that you have admin access
@Darbar that 2016 playlist is awesome! And I just started following you on Spotify 🙂
I will try to remember Garf.
Thanks Janet! Enjoy! 😀
I am off to get ready for opening night! Woot!
the music sharing here is the best! What would go best with a post running around cup’o tea? Hmmm …