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 playing music:
- 2
- Tend to practice:
- 1 time per week
- Available to gig:
- 1 night a week
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.)