ABOUT
Guelph's SpyMachine Sixteen is an 8-member indie dance rock performance crew: 6 musicians belt out politically charged lyrics over keyboard-driven pop punk hooks, hands a-clappin', bodies a-shakin', and sweat a-drippin' -- and a 2 person live dance crew adds frantic punk rock choreography to the frenzy.
SM16's line-up includes a librarian, a pro photographer, an industrial parts specialist, and an installation artist, combining the musical talents of Olivia Brown, Dave Hudson, Jess Tollefsen, Kyle Squance, Dave Bazinet, and Jeff Beemer, with the educated feet of dancers Amy Armstrong and Kurt Krausewitz.
In just over a year since their debut performance, SM16 has played over 20 sweaty, sweaty shows, sharing the stage with the likes of Tokyo Police Club, Land of Talk, the Doers, and You Say Party, We Say Die! They've taken to the road numerous times, including featured performances at Pop Montreal 2006 and Ottawa's Iheartmusic Anniversary Bash at the Wakefield Inn, and the upcoming 2007 Pitter Patter Music Festival during Canada Music Week in Toronto.
In late April 2006, SM16 released a modest 4-song EP, The Soap from this Soapbox Makes Our Dirty Feet Slide, which has sold well over two hundred copies to date and charted at campus stations as far afield as Quebec and British Columbia. A November 2006 review in Broken Pencil magazine described the EP as "no filler, all killer": "the music hit the ground running and never let up its manic, power-punk-pop-cheer-leader energy." They will be recording their debut album in the spring of 2007 ...
- Screen name:
- spymachinesixteen
- Member since:
- Feb 16 2007
- Active over 1 month ago
- Level of commitment:
- Very Committed
- Years together:
- 2
- Tend to practice:
- 1 time per week
- Available to gig:
- 1 night a week
- Age:
- 47 years
Influences
Talking Heads, Lifetime, Iron Maiden, Cap'n Jazz, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Captain and Tenille
Members Of Band
Jess Tollefsen - Keyboards and vocals
Olivia Brown - Keyboards and vocals
Dave Hudson - Guitars and vocals
Jeff Beemer - Guitars and vocals
Kyle Squance - Bass and vocals
Dave Bazinet - Drums and vocals
Amy Armstrong - live choreography (wicked bad dance moves)
Kurt Krausewitz - live choreography (fiendish steppin')
EQUIPMENT
Our vocal chords
Two keyboards
Two guitars
Two guitar amps
A drumset
A bass amp
A bass guitar
Miscellaneous accoutrements (what you'd expect -- drumsticks, DIs, extra guitars, etc.)
MUSIC
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Autobiography: Some Notes on What's Been Called "Internalized" Racism
Autobiography: Some Notes on What's Been Called "Internalized" Racism Track number: 2 Year: 2006 Album: The Soap from this Soapbox Makes My Dirty Feet Slide [EP] Genre: Other
LYRICS (written by Dave Hudson): One to thirty years and beyond, I'm swallowing stories of scary dark men — terrorists or clowns — it's funny, but I'm told you never can tell. Looking in the mirror — hoping I'll read "white" today. Hoping my body'll act like a "normal citizen" in your eyes. CSIS won't be knocking on my door tonight. RCMP won't be breaking down my door tonight. Tell me what they tell me doesn't matter and I'll look the other (Other) way. It's deep down in all of us, but don't stand by, 'cause we can die trying — we gotta die trying ...
CALENDAR
Past Events
w/Hexes and Ohs, Heroes and Villains, Mariposa
@ The Supermarket
MATINEE SHOW! Starts at 1pm!
w/The Sweet Homewreckers & Jetplanes of Abraham
@Sadlier House
751 George St. North, Peterborough, OntariO
w/ Households, Fellow Worker
Benefit Show for the Six Nations Land Reclamation
@ the Grad Lounge
(5th floor, University Centre, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1)
Cost : $5 PWYC
Organized by Indigenous Peoples' Solidarity Movement (IPSM). More info on the land reclamation: www.honorsixnations.com.
There will be dancing of the "fun" variety, and much mirth and thoughtfulness in general. Get yer feets in gear, peeps.
