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The best kept secret in music

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"Kelowna Band Exploding Across Canada Thanks To MuchMusic"

“Once in a while a band comes around that makes you think ‘this is probably how the first people that heard Green Day or Foo Fighters must have felt’ - Anything August is *that* band. You can't go wrong with these guys – they’ve got the songwriting talent, the musicianship, the perfect look, and the right attitude - Canada will fall first, then the world.” - Stephano Barberis, Arkadia Pictures Inc.


"August Has Left The Building"

“Anything August have the sort of melodic song development you'd expect to hear from long-time veterans in the industry... but they are a bunch of young, baby-faced geniuses.” - Alex Galanis, Arkadia Pictures Inc.


"Great New Canadian Band"

"There are few bands around British Columbia who bring as much intensity to their live show as Kelowna’s Anything August do. There isn't a second that they are onstage when they aren't moving, spinning, jumping, or interacting with the audience in one form or another. And their sound? The band hits every note and riff perfectly, and even add in a few ambient intros and outros to songs that aren't featured on any of their recordings. Guitarists Jeremy Lutz and Simon Nagel each pull off their solos masterfully, bassist Justin Melanson never loses the groove, and drummer Calvin Lechner has an uncanny ability to multitask, with both feet and hands moving in perfect rhythm, and his vocal harmonies perfectly in tune with singer Andrew Bennett." - Darren McLeod, AbsolutePunk.net


"UNBC Battle of the Bands"

“…the final band to take the stage, and the night's winners, were Anything August. The catchy, fast band had some of the best hair I've seen in Prince George since Collective Soul was in town. A very impressive band, actually, and they proved to the audience why they were the winners with the last song of the night. A hard-hitting last song left the audience feeling like we'd been to a real concert, instead of a local Battle of the Bands!" - Over The Edge, UNBC Newspaper


Discography

"Songs From Your Last Hour" EP, 2002
"Anything August Rockumentary" DVD, 2003
"The Trip Home" EP, 2004
"Last Minute" Music Video, Released on MuchMusic, 2006

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Bio

"There's not much to the music scene in Northern BC," explains singer Andrew Bennett. "It's basically dead. There's no creativity anymore and a complete lack of passion." For a dead music scene like northern British Columbia, Anything August (comprised of singer Andrew Bennett, guitarists Simon Nagel and Jeremy Lutz, bassist Justin Melanson, and drummer Calvin Lechner) is very much alive. Formed in 2003 by a group of high school friends, the band has never forgotten where they came from, yet they can’t help but look forward to the future.

After several years and no lineup changes, the quintet has already made a name for themselves across Western Canada. In early 2006 they won the University of Northern British Columbia's Battle of the Bands (a testament to their energetic live show, one which has won them countless fans across the province) and were featured guests at the Virgin Rock Music Competition in Calgary, Alberta. They have toured British Columbia and are currently planning a much larger tour to take place this spring, incorporating dates in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

The band has been fortunate enough to work with some great names. In March of 2005, the group recorded an eight song demo with Travis Saunders who has produced albums for Stutterfly (Maverick Records) and thebleedingalarm (Immortal Records). In October of 2006 the band received a grant from VideoFACT for $20,000 to film a music video for their song Last Minute. The video was directed by award winning Stephano Barberis of Arkadia Pictures Inc. and was filmed in Vancouver BC. “You can’t go wrong with these guys,” Barberis says, “They’ve got the songwriting talent, the musicianship, the perfect look, and the right attitude!”.

New, unrecorded songs like The Butterfly Engine, Chemical Edge, and Symphony, display the band as stronger than ever, no longer wearing their influences on their sleeves but showing a unique sound that is completely their own. Although, they still maintain their original rock/alternative sound, Anything August now incorporates nostalgic guitar solos, favouring fans of artists such as Ozzy Osbourne or Guns N’ Roses, with three part vocal harmonies that could make a grown man cry. They have taken elements from punk, pop, emo, and classic rock, and molded them together to shape a new sound for the world to hear.

What does the future hold for Anything August? After a summer of tightening their material, they have said goodbye to their hometown of Kitimat, and moved into the much more apt setting of Kelowna BC, where music has become the primary focus of their lives. Armed with a new touring van, PA system, and an arsenal of addicting songs, Anything August is now prepared to take the rest of the world by storm!