The Fight

...The A-side is called "Hard Lines," and it's dark and gritty rocker that boasts distorted guitar licks and call-and-response vocal hooks. On the other hand, B-side "Goodnight Collectors" is slower and more sweetly meditative. - Exclaim

Music discovery is endless and it's exciting each time for me to be sent something that I never have heard before. The Fight are from our northern brothers in Edmonton, AB (That's Canada for you who are bad at Geography) and they make a cool blend of indie, rock, blues, and soul. It is a combination that has help draw comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, The Constantines, Joy Division, and Buddy Holly, which I'd say are some quality artists to be compared too. Their debut album, New Young Electric, came out back in July but that doesn't stop it from being fresh to me. As mentioned about the album in the email too me:

The Fight's debut LP 'New Young Electric' was recorded live off the floor in Calgary in the loft of a warehouse over a cold week in January, with the vocals being tracked in the spare bedroom of a house.

With that statement alone, you ought a know that the music will hit your soul that much harder. Sometimes, an album sounds so much better without the highly overproduction that can happen. The album features 13 tracks, all with their own personality. Listen below and you can purchase digitally or on vinyl. - Oh So Fresh

Music discovery is endless and it's exciting each time for me to be sent something that I never have heard before. The Fight are from our northern brothers in Edmonton, AB (That's Canada for you who are bad at Geography) and they make a cool blend of indie, rock, blues, and soul. It is a combination that has help draw comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, The Constantines, Joy Division, and Buddy Holly, which I'd say are some quality artists to be compared too. Their debut album, New Young Electric, came out back in July but that doesn't stop it from being fresh to me. As mentioned about the album in the email too me:

The Fight's debut LP 'New Young Electric' was recorded live off the floor in Calgary in the loft of a warehouse over a cold week in January, with the vocals being tracked in the spare bedroom of a house.

With that statement alone, you ought a know that the music will hit your soul that much harder. Sometimes, an album sounds so much better without the highly overproduction that can happen. The album features 13 tracks, all with their own personality. Listen below and you can purchase digitally or on vinyl. - Oh So Fresh

Music discovery is endless and it's exciting each time for me to be sent something that I never have heard before. The Fight are from our northern brothers in Edmonton, AB (That's Canada for you who are bad at Geography) and they make a cool blend of indie, rock, blues, and soul. It is a combination that has help draw comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, The Constantines, Joy Division, and Buddy Holly, which I'd say are some quality artists to be compared too. Their debut album, New Young Electric, came out back in July but that doesn't stop it from being fresh to me. As mentioned about the album in the email too me:

The Fight's debut LP 'New Young Electric' was recorded live off the floor in Calgary in the loft of a warehouse over a cold week in January, with the vocals being tracked in the spare bedroom of a house.

With that statement alone, you ought a know that the music will hit your soul that much harder. Sometimes, an album sounds so much better without the highly overproduction that can happen. The album features 13 tracks, all with their own personality. Listen below and you can purchase digitally or on vinyl. - Oh So Fresh

Music discovery is endless and it's exciting each time for me to be sent something that I never have heard before. The Fight are from our northern brothers in Edmonton, AB (That's Canada for you who are bad at Geography) and they make a cool blend of indie, rock, blues, and soul. It is a combination that has help draw comparisons to Bruce Springsteen, The Constantines, Joy Division, and Buddy Holly, which I'd say are some quality artists to be compared too. Their debut album, New Young Electric, came out back in July but that doesn't stop it from being fresh to me. As mentioned about the album in the email too me:

The Fight's debut LP 'New Young Electric' was recorded live off the floor in Calgary in the loft of a warehouse over a cold week in January, with the vocals being tracked in the spare bedroom of a house.

With that statement alone, you ought a know that the music will hit your soul that much harder. Sometimes, an album sounds so much better without the highly overproduction that can happen. The album features 13 tracks, all with their own personality. Listen below and you can purchase digitally or on vinyl. - Oh So Fresh

It’s easy to affix continental blinders when exploring burgeoning music these days. But when the blinders come off, one remembers exactly how talented our musical neighbors to the north are, and Edmonton’s The Fight are no exception. These guys hold a ton of promise for a band that formed a mere two years ago.

New Young Electric is the debut offering from the prairie rockers, released on the band’s own young label, Paperbird. The LP balances on the raspy, soulful vocals of Bradey Daeland Feil, paired with the restless, hopeful, punk-inspired contributions of instrumentalists Todd Andrews, Devin Fortier, and Erik Grice. The Fight’s juxtaposition of angst-y, modern disconnect and easygoing, flowing rhythms works, especially when peppered with anathematic, light rockers. For example, “Tiger Song” works as a short but intense opener, wrought with hushed chanting that bubbles over into a short and melodic introduction before giving way to “Fortunes”, a soulful, soaring pop standout that anchors the album’s first half.

The album’s delicate balance of sunny and dark flaunts its attitude memorably on “Birds”, featuring a nod to punk legends Television, as the trippy guitar line from the classic “Marquee Moon” can be heard lurking in the background. This rough-edged punk gives way to the sweet-sounding “Houses”, a young lover’s restless confessions grounded with innocent backing vocals. The majority of The Fight’s songs are built on repetitive and simple guitar riffs that unfold as the other instruments complicate this foundation, giving New Young Electric a mid-’90s pop rock tone with a touch of punk fury, augmented by scratchy, soulful vocals.

Essential Tracks: “Fortunes”, “Birds”, and “Houses” - Cosquence of Sound

It’s easy to affix continental blinders when exploring burgeoning music these days. But when the blinders come off, one remembers exactly how talented our musical neighbors to the north are, and Edmonton’s The Fight are no exception. These guys hold a ton of promise for a band that formed a mere two years ago.

New Young Electric is the debut offering from the prairie rockers, released on the band’s own young label, Paperbird. The LP balances on the raspy, soulful vocals of Bradey Daeland Feil, paired with the restless, hopeful, punk-inspired contributions of instrumentalists Todd Andrews, Devin Fortier, and Erik Grice. The Fight’s juxtaposition of angst-y, modern disconnect and easygoing, flowing rhythms works, especially when peppered with anathematic, light rockers. For example, “Tiger Song” works as a short but intense opener, wrought with hushed chanting that bubbles over into a short and melodic introduction before giving way to “Fortunes”, a soulful, soaring pop standout that anchors the album’s first half.

The album’s delicate balance of sunny and dark flaunts its attitude memorably on “Birds”, featuring a nod to punk legends Television, as the trippy guitar line from the classic “Marquee Moon” can be heard lurking in the background. This rough-edged punk gives way to the sweet-sounding “Houses”, a young lover’s restless confessions grounded with innocent backing vocals. The majority of The Fight’s songs are built on repetitive and simple guitar riffs that unfold as the other instruments complicate this foundation, giving New Young Electric a mid-’90s pop rock tone with a touch of punk fury, augmented by scratchy, soulful vocals.

Essential Tracks: “Fortunes”, “Birds”, and “Houses” - Cosquence of Sound

It’s easy to affix continental blinders when exploring burgeoning music these days. But when the blinders come off, one remembers exactly how talented our musical neighbors to the north are, and Edmonton’s The Fight are no exception. These guys hold a ton of promise for a band that formed a mere two years ago.

New Young Electric is the debut offering from the prairie rockers, released on the band’s own young label, Paperbird. The LP balances on the raspy, soulful vocals of Bradey Daeland Feil, paired with the restless, hopeful, punk-inspired contributions of instrumentalists Todd Andrews, Devin Fortier, and Erik Grice. The Fight’s juxtaposition of angst-y, modern disconnect and easygoing, flowing rhythms works, especially when peppered with anathematic, light rockers. For example, “Tiger Song” works as a short but intense opener, wrought with hushed chanting that bubbles over into a short and melodic introduction before giving way to “Fortunes”, a soulful, soaring pop standout that anchors the album’s first half.

The album’s delicate balance of sunny and dark flaunts its attitude memorably on “Birds”, featuring a nod to punk legends Television, as the trippy guitar line from the classic “Marquee Moon” can be heard lurking in the background. This rough-edged punk gives way to the sweet-sounding “Houses”, a young lover’s restless confessions grounded with innocent backing vocals. The majority of The Fight’s songs are built on repetitive and simple guitar riffs that unfold as the other instruments complicate this foundation, giving New Young Electric a mid-’90s pop rock tone with a touch of punk fury, augmented by scratchy, soulful vocals.

Essential Tracks: “Fortunes”, “Birds”, and “Houses” - Cosquence of Sound

It’s easy to affix continental blinders when exploring burgeoning music these days. But when the blinders come off, one remembers exactly how talented our musical neighbors to the north are, and Edmonton’s The Fight are no exception. These guys hold a ton of promise for a band that formed a mere two years ago.

New Young Electric is the debut offering from the prairie rockers, released on the band’s own young label, Paperbird. The LP balances on the raspy, soulful vocals of Bradey Daeland Feil, paired with the restless, hopeful, punk-inspired contributions of instrumentalists Todd Andrews, Devin Fortier, and Erik Grice. The Fight’s juxtaposition of angst-y, modern disconnect and easygoing, flowing rhythms works, especially when peppered with anathematic, light rockers. For example, “Tiger Song” works as a short but intense opener, wrought with hushed chanting that bubbles over into a short and melodic introduction before giving way to “Fortunes”, a soulful, soaring pop standout that anchors the album’s first half.

The album’s delicate balance of sunny and dark flaunts its attitude memorably on “Birds”, featuring a nod to punk legends Television, as the trippy guitar line from the classic “Marquee Moon” can be heard lurking in the background. This rough-edged punk gives way to the sweet-sounding “Houses”, a young lover’s restless confessions grounded with innocent backing vocals. The majority of The Fight’s songs are built on repetitive and simple guitar riffs that unfold as the other instruments complicate this foundation, giving New Young Electric a mid-’90s pop rock tone with a touch of punk fury, augmented by scratchy, soulful vocals.

Essential Tracks: “Fortunes”, “Birds”, and “Houses” - Cosquence of Sound

At the risk of “reducing” the band to a mere comparison of another band, New Young Electric by The Fight is one of the most exciting, non-adjective, Rock N Roll albums I’ve heard since first discovering The Constantines’ Shine a Light. Not only does vocalist Bradey Feil sound remarkably like Constantines lead vocalist Bry Webb in all his raspy desperation, but overall The Fight, like the Cons, are astonishing in their ability to consistently infuse onto their recorded songs the kind of imminent life-or-death energy that most bands struggle to achieve even with the volume and sweat of a particularly exhilarating live encounter. You can catch such an experience at the album release show, Sept 29 at the Wunderbar in Edmonton. Do not miss! - Argue Job

At the risk of “reducing” the band to a mere comparison of another band, New Young Electric by The Fight is one of the most exciting, non-adjective, Rock N Roll albums I’ve heard since first discovering The Constantines’ Shine a Light. Not only does vocalist Bradey Feil sound remarkably like Constantines lead vocalist Bry Webb in all his raspy desperation, but overall The Fight, like the Cons, are astonishing in their ability to consistently infuse onto their recorded songs the kind of imminent life-or-death energy that most bands struggle to achieve even with the volume and sweat of a particularly exhilarating live encounter. You can catch such an experience at the album release show, Sept 29 at the Wunderbar in Edmonton. Do not miss! - Argue Job

“The disconnected, the lost young souls / I see you with your head down,” rasps Bradey Feil on The Fight’s first album, New Young Electric. These local rockers are all about trying to offer a bit of soul to the disconnected – whether it’s in the foursome’s Motown-punk rhythms or Feil’s lyrics about love, hope and defiance. “I’m not a broken man, I’ve got days to live / And I feel better than I’ve felt,” he raises his fist (and octaves) on Broken. Perhaps that’s the wrong choice of words. Despite their name, The Fight don’t want to get physical, unless it’s on the dance floor. Birds is an angular, blues-punk shaker reminiscent of The Hip and The Constantines while Take Back The City is a plea for peace. “No knives or guns tonight / No lost brothers, mothers holding candles,” Feil pleads over Todd Andrews’s stray-cat struttin’ bass and Erik Grice’s siren-like guitar. It’s the perfect anthem for the murder capital of Canada. New Young Electric is now available through thefight.bandcamp.com..." - Edmonton Journal

“The disconnected, the lost young souls / I see you with your head down,” rasps Bradey Feil on The Fight’s first album, New Young Electric. These local rockers are all about trying to offer a bit of soul to the disconnected – whether it’s in the foursome’s Motown-punk rhythms or Feil’s lyrics about love, hope and defiance. “I’m not a broken man, I’ve got days to live / And I feel better than I’ve felt,” he raises his fist (and octaves) on Broken. Perhaps that’s the wrong choice of words. Despite their name, The Fight don’t want to get physical, unless it’s on the dance floor. Birds is an angular, blues-punk shaker reminiscent of The Hip and The Constantines while Take Back The City is a plea for peace. “No knives or guns tonight / No lost brothers, mothers holding candles,” Feil pleads over Todd Andrews’s stray-cat struttin’ bass and Erik Grice’s siren-like guitar. It’s the perfect anthem for the murder capital of Canada. New Young Electric is now available through thefight.bandcamp.com..." - Edmonton Journal

WHO
Soulful Edmonton blues-rock quintet.

DISCOGRAPHY
Birds (Self-released, 2010)
New Young Electric (Paperbird, 2011)

IN A NUTSHELL
Anyone sad about The Constantines' demise need only look to The Fight to get their fix.

THE STORY
Honestly, this review is a little redundant. Everything I could possibly say about The Fight, I said back in November when I reviewed their debut EP, Birds. As I wrote then, The Fight sound like a combination of Bruce Springsteen and The Constantines, old-fashioned rock music with tinges of soul and punk, sung by a guy (in their case, Bradey Feil) who channels the very best parts of Springsteen and Bry Webb. The only real difference between Birds and New Young Electric is -- as you'd expect when you compare an EP to an LP -- length.

Considering, however, that my only complaint about Birds was that it was too short, that means that New Young Electric is just about the perfect album. The Fight may not be breaking any new ground with what they're doing here, but as songs like "Take Back The City" and "Broken" show, they're masters of making older sounds fresh and new and exciting -- much like those two artists from which they draw so much inspiration.

Ordinarily, I might make the criticism that with so much passion on display, the whole thing becomes a little tiresome. That doesn't apply here, however, as the band 1) keeps all their songs fairly short, and 2) had the presence of mind to stick their one quieter song, "Bones" smack dab in the middle, thereby breaking New Young Electric up nice and neatly.

In fact, if there's a flaw on this album, I haven't heard it yet. It's not often that a band comes right out of the gate with a masterpiece, but going by New Young Electric, it's clear that The Fight are no ordinary band.
- i (heart) music

Looking for a summer album? Well we found one for you! Get ready to add ’New Young Electric’ to your playlists. This 13 track album comes straight from the Edmonton band, The Fight. Their debut LP is deffinetly nothing that you’ve heard this year. It’s raw, it’s emotinal, it’s a group of guys who have put all their sweat and talent into one album to share with the world. You have to give The Fight credit for going outside the box and giving us a relaxing smooth selection of songs to choose from, we promise you’ll probably have 13 favorites. Songs like ‘Disconnected’ and‘Song For Jae’ give the album a touch of an old rock n roll feel with a modern twist. ‘Fortunes’ is also another favorite from the album, it will serve as a pick me up anthem for the summer for anyone going through a struggle. We warn you though, it’ll be hard not to want to fall in love with these guys with lyrics like, “If you need a shoulder, I’ve got you covered,” and ”You’re a diamond, you’re a diamond.” So, whether your going through a summer break up, searching for inspiration, or just looking for a new band to stalk, The Fight will have a little bit of everything for you in ‘New Young Electric.’ - XO Magazine

Well, Canada strikes again. This time it’s with a group called The Fight from Edmonton who are about to release their first LP in July titled New Young Electric.

This thing is great. Solid tracks from start to finish that aren’t pretentious, contrived, or trying to be something they can’t be. They flow with ease from the second you drop the needle on the record. (ok, I don’t have the 180 gram vinyl yet but am definitely psyched they’ll be releasing one!)

The guys are putting out the record on their own startup label, Paperbird. I definitely take my hats off to them for doing that. These guys are putting in the effort all across the board and I hope it pays off. They’ve got solid material so it’d be a shame not to see the group and label take off.

I’m definitely psyched for the vinyl release. The Fight have put out a solid record and it’s one I’d be happy to add to my collection of fine wax. Some people like Fine China, I dig on Fine Wax. To each his own, right? My preference just sounds better…

- Dyson Sound

I have given up on a lot of things as I have aged. Watched many of my dreams get washed away or set aflame. Some are just simply worn thin and tossed out like yesterday’s trash. Others I remove from my life with fury and discontent. There are some I simply aged too much or became unable to do due to physical limitations and others I was just too lazy to invest the work into. In my teenage years I was almost always changing my mind as to what I thought life both meant and how I would choose to spend it. There are many times I feel like I may have no dream left at all and yet the one thing I have never given up is the fight to find a new one.

This morning I had a nice new email from four fine Canadian lads Bradey Feil, Todd Andrews, Devin Fortier, Caleb Neumeier, and Erik Grice also known as The Fight. They took a trip to a cabin by a lake and came back to hide out in a small house for a bit recording and the results turned out to be three tracks posted up on Bandcamp. These three tracks make up the Birds EP and are filled to the brim with well produced crystal clear indie rock. Birds is a bass driven ride into the sky with an upbeat fun chorus and a howling breakdown at about the two-minute mark. Easy Alley dances along with a strutting swagger and vocals full solid advice about that dead beat man you just can’t give up. The final track Take Back The City is a rumbling force telling you to well, take back the city. The EP is available for free via their Bandcamp waiting and ready for you to have a listen. - Good Pop Bad Pop

Bradey Feil put on his first show in an Edmonton hall when he was only 12 years old, out of a passion for helping other people. After that show he knew what he wanted in life — or so he thought.

“I wasn’t looking to start a band initially,” says Feil, entrepreneur of the Paperbird Music label and frontman of The Fight. “But it just fell together.”

The Fight’s beginnings only go back to May 2010, when angular, gruff Edmonton indie-rock band Lions or Sheep released an album and, shortly thereafter, decided the group wasn’t going in the direction they wanted. So it was Feil — who was tired of only recording bits of ideas with his voice and an acoustic guitar for over two years — who came to the rescue.

“We just jammed once and we found we had the chemistry,” says Feil, who subsequently put away the guitar and took exclusively to vocals. “I can’t play guitar and sing at the same time, so I just got everyone to do everything else for me.”

And that chemistry was evident. The group wasted little time, churning out 12 polished songs to date with another five almost ready to add to their arsenal — and by next June, they’ll be ready to record these songs. As releases go, the band has The Birds EP under its belt, a release that introduces listeners to the Fight’s universe — one that’s as indebted to the blue-collar muscle of the Constantines as it is to classic soul.

“We’ll be recording in a cabin in Golden, B.C. in June, hoping to have it mixed and mastered in February and released by May,” says Feil. “We’re basically going to hole ourselves up there for a week and lock the door until we have an album.”

And as luck would have it, the album will find itself a home with Feil’s own Paperbird Music, though he says that he had never started the label with any intention of releasing his own work under it.

“It’s just the easiest way and most financially viable,” explains Feil. “If somebody else is taking 30 per cent on nothing, you really have nothing.”

But recording an album is nothing more than a necessity to Feil, whose true love for music resides mainly in the live DIY aspect he grew up with.

“When bands put on a big live show, everybody hypes them,” says Feil. “It’s a crazy live show, but not many people respect what they do musically, but I think the best shows are when you can see the band is having fun.”

Feil believes the magic formula is to make the show half about the music and half about making the people feel like there is a reason they’re there.

“The best show I ever saw was when (Edmonton artist) Jason Anderson asked me if he could play a show in the kitchen of a venue I had rented,” says Feil. “He had everyone packed in there and singing along. Making it as inclusive as possible is the key to a great live show.”

Feil keeps this in mind when he’s onstage, and, he adds, it’s something that every artist should strive for.

“We come at it honest,” says Feil. “We’re playing the music we want to hear and we make the crowd want to have some fun too.”

And while he says that the band isn’t getting ahead of itself — it’ll hold off touring until its album is completed — many smaller weekend-long tours are in the cards for The Fight.

“There are lots of significant cities in Western Canada that you can do in a weekend,” says Feil. “I would rather play on a weekend to 150 people so you can go all out instead of on a Tuesday to five people.”

- FFWD

Bradey Feil put on his first show in an Edmonton hall when he was only 12 years old, out of a passion for helping other people. After that show he knew what he wanted in life — or so he thought.

“I wasn’t looking to start a band initially,” says Feil, entrepreneur of the Paperbird Music label and frontman of The Fight. “But it just fell together.”

The Fight’s beginnings only go back to May 2010, when angular, gruff Edmonton indie-rock band Lions or Sheep released an album and, shortly thereafter, decided the group wasn’t going in the direction they wanted. So it was Feil — who was tired of only recording bits of ideas with his voice and an acoustic guitar for over two years — who came to the rescue.

“We just jammed once and we found we had the chemistry,” says Feil, who subsequently put away the guitar and took exclusively to vocals. “I can’t play guitar and sing at the same time, so I just got everyone to do everything else for me.”

And that chemistry was evident. The group wasted little time, churning out 12 polished songs to date with another five almost ready to add to their arsenal — and by next June, they’ll be ready to record these songs. As releases go, the band has The Birds EP under its belt, a release that introduces listeners to the Fight’s universe — one that’s as indebted to the blue-collar muscle of the Constantines as it is to classic soul.

“We’ll be recording in a cabin in Golden, B.C. in June, hoping to have it mixed and mastered in February and released by May,” says Feil. “We’re basically going to hole ourselves up there for a week and lock the door until we have an album.”

And as luck would have it, the album will find itself a home with Feil’s own Paperbird Music, though he says that he had never started the label with any intention of releasing his own work under it.

“It’s just the easiest way and most financially viable,” explains Feil. “If somebody else is taking 30 per cent on nothing, you really have nothing.”

But recording an album is nothing more than a necessity to Feil, whose true love for music resides mainly in the live DIY aspect he grew up with.

“When bands put on a big live show, everybody hypes them,” says Feil. “It’s a crazy live show, but not many people respect what they do musically, but I think the best shows are when you can see the band is having fun.”

Feil believes the magic formula is to make the show half about the music and half about making the people feel like there is a reason they’re there.

“The best show I ever saw was when (Edmonton artist) Jason Anderson asked me if he could play a show in the kitchen of a venue I had rented,” says Feil. “He had everyone packed in there and singing along. Making it as inclusive as possible is the key to a great live show.”

Feil keeps this in mind when he’s onstage, and, he adds, it’s something that every artist should strive for.

“We come at it honest,” says Feil. “We’re playing the music we want to hear and we make the crowd want to have some fun too.”

And while he says that the band isn’t getting ahead of itself — it’ll hold off touring until its album is completed — many smaller weekend-long tours are in the cards for The Fight.

“There are lots of significant cities in Western Canada that you can do in a weekend,” says Feil. “I would rather play on a weekend to 150 people so you can go all out instead of on a Tuesday to five people.”

- FFWD

For the past six months, Grice and the rest of The Fight, featuring guitarist and MacEwan music program graduate Devin Fortier, bassist Todd Andrews and frontman Brady Feil, have been hard at work recording their new self-titled EP and getting ready to play the Solidarity Rock showcase at the new location for New City’s Likwid Lounge, 8310 103 St., Nov. 19 with fellow local rockers Feast or Famine and Skin.

The Fight is a bit of a different project from what Grice had done with his previous band, Lions for Sheep.

“There’s a lot more soul influence in this band,” says Grice. “We’re still really into, like, the Constatines, but, we’re also really into Otis Reading and Sam Cook.”

The Fight recently recorded its three-song EP at a friend’s cabin in Seba Beach. The band isolated itself for four days and recorded seven songs, then picked out the best three.

“Some of the songs were just songs that Bradey [Feil] wrote and recorded himself and the rest of  us later added the rest of the parts to and some of them were songs that we just wrote while jamming,” Grice explains.

“I like to record in cabins because they’re secluded. When the Lions for Sheep album was recorded, it was all done sporadically. But, while recording The Fight’s EP, we got to sit down and really focus on it without any real distractions. It was nice too, because we recorded it in June and the beach was right there.”

Like all records on local label Paperbird Records, The Fight’s EP is available to download for free.

“We don’t spend a lot of money on making records so making the money back is a little less important to us,” comments Grice.

“It’s more important to us that as many people as possible can hear and enjoy our music.”

Plenty of people continue to enjoy The Fight’s music as Grice reports that the band has toured extensively already through Alberta and Saskatchewan.

“We’ve actually played just as many shows out of town as we have in town,” Grice observes. “But we’re definitely looking forward to our show at the new New City Likwid Lounge.”

The Fight’s show on Nov. 19 is being put on by Solidarity Rock, a group that raises money to bring instruments to underprivileged kids worldwide.

“I’m really excited for this show actually,” Grice says. “The venue’s going to be in a great location. More music venues in the Whyte Avenue area is a good thing.”

Grice and the rest of The Fight have a good work ethic that has earned them gigs with some of the best bands in their genre, including the likes of Library Voices, Two Hours Traffic and even playing two of the Despistado reunion shows.

And there is still no slowing down for this band.

“We all want to tour really bad,” says Grice. “We just bought a nine-seat van and we’re hoping to relocate to Toronto in a couple of years and all just live together.”

Nothing but the perfect rock career dream for The Fight.
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For the past six months, Grice and the rest of The Fight, featuring guitarist and MacEwan music program graduate Devin Fortier, bassist Todd Andrews and frontman Brady Feil, have been hard at work recording their new self-titled EP and getting ready to play the Solidarity Rock showcase at the new location for New City’s Likwid Lounge, 8310 103 St., Nov. 19 with fellow local rockers Feast or Famine and Skin.

The Fight is a bit of a different project from what Grice had done with his previous band, Lions for Sheep.

“There’s a lot more soul influence in this band,” says Grice. “We’re still really into, like, the Constatines, but, we’re also really into Otis Reading and Sam Cook.”

The Fight recently recorded its three-song EP at a friend’s cabin in Seba Beach. The band isolated itself for four days and recorded seven songs, then picked out the best three.

“Some of the songs were just songs that Bradey [Feil] wrote and recorded himself and the rest of  us later added the rest of the parts to and some of them were songs that we just wrote while jamming,” Grice explains.

“I like to record in cabins because they’re secluded. When the Lions for Sheep album was recorded, it was all done sporadically. But, while recording The Fight’s EP, we got to sit down and really focus on it without any real distractions. It was nice too, because we recorded it in June and the beach was right there.”

Like all records on local label Paperbird Records, The Fight’s EP is available to download for free.

“We don’t spend a lot of money on making records so making the money back is a little less important to us,” comments Grice.

“It’s more important to us that as many people as possible can hear and enjoy our music.”

Plenty of people continue to enjoy The Fight’s music as Grice reports that the band has toured extensively already through Alberta and Saskatchewan.

“We’ve actually played just as many shows out of town as we have in town,” Grice observes. “But we’re definitely looking forward to our show at the new New City Likwid Lounge.”

The Fight’s show on Nov. 19 is being put on by Solidarity Rock, a group that raises money to bring instruments to underprivileged kids worldwide.

“I’m really excited for this show actually,” Grice says. “The venue’s going to be in a great location. More music venues in the Whyte Avenue area is a good thing.”

Grice and the rest of The Fight have a good work ethic that has earned them gigs with some of the best bands in their genre, including the likes of Library Voices, Two Hours Traffic and even playing two of the Despistado reunion shows.

And there is still no slowing down for this band.

“We all want to tour really bad,” says Grice. “We just bought a nine-seat van and we’re hoping to relocate to Toronto in a couple of years and all just live together.”

Nothing but the perfect rock career dream for The Fight.
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Figuring out who The Fight look to for inspiration isn't difficult: as their debut Birds EP makes abundantly clear, they love them some Constantines.

Of course, it's not quite so cut and dried. Frontman Bradey Feil may have strong echoes of Bry Webb in his vocals, but the more you listen the more you get the sense that it's really Bruce Springsteen-via-Webb, in that his voice has plenty of grit to it, but it's also got quite a bit of soul.

The Springsteen-via-Constantines (or is it the other way around? I can never remember. But I digress.) feel is even more obvious when you listen to the music. Just listen to "Easy Ally": it's Motown channeled through a rock'n'roll filter, which is pretty much the essence of early Springsteen, while the title track has the same feel, but with a bit of punk thrown in for good measure. It all adds up to make an EP that's far, far too short, but one that also suggests The Fight may have a very bright future ahead of them. - i(heart)music

Last weekend, Regina post-punk outfit Despistado hit the stage (or, more accurately, the floor) at Le Relais for a spirited reunion show. Opening acts included local Saskatoon acoustic guitar shredders Volcanoless in Canada and Edmonton’s The Fight.

The Fight dropped by the CFCR studio the day after their Saskatoon show to play a couple acousti-fied versions of their songs “Mary” and “Take Back The City.”

Have a listen to both tracks here:

http://cfcr.ca/blog/listen-the-fight-live-cfcr/ - CFCR Saskatoon

They’ve only been a band for a few months, but Edmonton’s The Fight display a noticeable amount of maturity, while combining the soul of Motown artists from the ‘60s with the best parts of modern indie rock. According to frontman Bradey Feil, that probably stems from the instant chemistry which occurred as the band came together.

“I had played with a few people here and there but nothing really worked out,” says Feil. “One night in February I sent a track I had recorded to my friend Erik Grice (drums), and a few days later I met two strangers at a show. The three had been playing together in another group for a few years, and Erik had somehow convinced them to play as my backing band. There was this instant chemistry between us, and we quickly wrote four songs and booked a show.”

Originally from Regina — where he made connections with bands such as Despistado and Library Voices — Feil has been a busy man of late. He’s formed his own label, Paperbird Music, and has big plans for The Fight.

“We're going to release a single before the end of the year,” he says. “And we're finishing up writing for a full-length LP, which we'll record over the winter. Meanwhile, we're going to keep ourselves on the highway for the weekends.

“I'm excited for this trip [to Saskatchewan],” continues Feil. “This is our first time out that way as a band, and we're thrilled to be playing these shows with Despistado. I'm betting they break at least three strings each night. I watched them one night in Edmonton years ago and they broke six strings, but they had hips swaying and feet tapping the whole time.”
- Planet S Magazine

They’ve only been a band for a few months, but Edmonton’s The Fight display a noticeable amount of maturity, while combining the soul of Motown artists from the ‘60s with the best parts of modern indie rock. According to frontman Bradey Feil, that probably stems from the instant chemistry which occurred as the band came together.

“I had played with a few people here and there but nothing really worked out,” says Feil. “One night in February I sent a track I had recorded to my friend Erik Grice (drums), and a few days later I met two strangers at a show. The three had been playing together in another group for a few years, and Erik had somehow convinced them to play as my backing band. There was this instant chemistry between us, and we quickly wrote four songs and booked a show.”

Originally from Regina — where he made connections with bands such as Despistado and Library Voices — Feil has been a busy man of late. He’s formed his own label, Paperbird Music, and has big plans for The Fight.

“We're going to release a single before the end of the year,” he says. “And we're finishing up writing for a full-length LP, which we'll record over the winter. Meanwhile, we're going to keep ourselves on the highway for the weekends.

“I'm excited for this trip [to Saskatchewan],” continues Feil. “This is our first time out that way as a band, and we're thrilled to be playing these shows with Despistado. I'm betting they break at least three strings each night. I watched them one night in Edmonton years ago and they broke six strings, but they had hips swaying and feet tapping the whole time.”
- Planet S Magazine