Unless you are one of the dozens of people who have seen our basement shows with a revolving lineup for the past half a year, the title of this post is going to mean NOTHING to you. So I thought I would clarify.
The Detractions, after much apathy and procrastination, are doing some recording this weekend. In a basement. For a day. Seriously, settle down everyone!
Okay, lemme explain; The Detractions is a musical project I have been playing guitar and singing with for almost a year now with a bunch of other rad local musicians. Peter Cormier (from that awesome folk band Here on the Sun) plays drums, Richard Charter (solo shoegazing wizard) plays guitar as well, and Chris Donovan slaps the bass and does some wailing of his own. And then there's me, whose pretty cool I guess.
Its taken awhile to get settled down with a lineup. Initially I was playing bass and we had one of the guys from (the late) Random Task Collective playing guitar for us and for another while we were a three piece (pictured below.) We played a bunch of goofy cover shows where we all dressed up and jumped around, which was a ton of fun.
But with Chris joining on bass and me moving to where I wanna be (playing guitar and whatnot) we finally got down to writing original material. The name came from a play on Elvis Costellos backing band, The Attractions.
We played a basement show with The Prabes and Cluster Fox about a month ago now, which went fairly well considering we had never played a show with original material before that. And now, we figured we would get some recording done before school/work gets to hectic for all of us.
I have alot of fun with it. Most of my previous bands were just straight ahead, humourless punk/grind or whatever which gets old pretty quick. The Detractions is great because we all come from different musical backrounds but it all meshes really well. Ontop of that, we dont take ourselves to seriously because whats the fun in that?
Long story short, were gonna record as many originals as we can in one day next Sunday. A friend of mine, local musician Phil Feiss (Fornskog, Garroting Deep) will be mixing for us, so many thanks to him. When its all done, were gonna sell copies free or for donation! Also, a free download will be posted to this blog in case ya'll are interested. Also, we may be playing an all acoustic gig at a coffee shop on 17th sometime soon so keep your eyes out for that. We may do more after that but between school and work, we probably wont start regularly gigging till after this december. I cant speak for all the guys though!
Anyways, just thought I would talk a bit about it. I'm super excited!
- Nathan I
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