Old and Weird
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | SELF
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This maturing quartet of lady rockers is getting down to business.
Old and Weird could have been The Pen15 Club, The Wormers or Dessert Cereal. But instead, after toiling over the task of picking a name they arrived on one rather organically, and it just stuck. "One of us was telling a story about a person at a show who was old and weird and it was a really cliche moment where we all repeated it at the same time," says Danika Vandersteen, one-fourth of the band. Hannah Guinan, Allison Higgins and Coast contributor Sandi Rankaduwa make up the rest of the Old and Weird equation and their quirky indie-rock sound, though still developing, has been compared to the likes of Eric's Trip. "It's kind of a big thing to think about, what it means to be a girl band. We'd like to make good songs mostly," says Vandersteen. And it seems they're on the right track. They've only been making music together since January and have already been in the studio with Dave Ewenson and Andy March, who recently recorded two of their tracks for his Craft Singles project. - The Coast
Discography
Available:
2011 Demo Recordings (digital release)
Coming Soon:
2012 Self-Released Tape (Like the blank tapes are sitting on my bedroom floor.)
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Bio
Old and Weird is a four-piece friend-set based in Halifax. Each friend is valued equally, like, one will say, 'I like you', and the other will say the same. They've been told again and again how much they are improving. THANCkS EVERYONE
Working towards their first physical release, Old and Weird has been gaining popularity by word-of-mouth throughout the country. Their single “Feel No Threat” has been featured on both local and national radio shows and blogs (e.g. Nardwuar the Human Serviette’s radio show, The Indie Machine, Halifax Is Burning), while other blogs (Weird Canada, I Heart Music) have voiced a desire to cover the band as soon as a physical album is available.
The band felt cool this past fall, playing at two international music festivals: the Youth Club Records showcase at Pop Montreal (September 23, 2011) and the Pigeon Row showcase at Halifax Pop Explosion (October 21, 2011), at which they shared the stage with Dog Day and Shotgun Jimmie. They've also kept busy with early 2012 shows, playing BA Johnson's birthday bash, Sackville's Stereophonic, and are like yeahh!! most of the time when they think about the fuuutTTUUUUuuuuRRee.
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