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C'mon

Bottled Lightning (of an All Time High)

About Me

This is C'mon........Formed Summer 2003 after Katie Lynn (x-Nashville Pussy/Famous Monsters) and Ian (x-Bionic/Change of Heart/Blurtonia. producer Weakerthans/Cursed) join forces and take on the shape of ROCK. Together with 1st drummer Randy Randy Curnew they barnstorm Canada, touring by any means possible (Toyota hatchbacks, borrowed gear, jam econo) and self-releasing their first record "Midnight is the Answer" on vinyl w/ a free cd early '04. Did (and we mean did) Canada 5 times over the next 2 and a 1/2 years, played SXSW twice, released 2nd LP "In the Heat of the Moment" in 2005 and 3 EPs (CD only) inbetween. Randy left the band in the summer of 2006 (see ya buddy) and up stepped Dean (x-Monster Voodoo Machine/All Systems Go/Damn 13). Over the following fall/winter we took a break from touring, worked on the new sound and then made our new record (Bottled Lightning of an All Time High). We've had the honour of rocking stages with The MC5/DTK, Turbonegro, Danko Jones, The Kills, Tricky Woo, Death From Above 1979, NoMeansNo, Backyard Babies, Evil Army, Brant Bjork and the Bros, The Constantines, The Darkness, The Illuminati (RIP), True Sons of Thunder, Broken Teeth, Hawgjaw, Fucked Up, Bible of the Devil, Iron Giant, The Diodes, Electric Eel Shock, Starvin' Hungry, The Mark Inside, Hot Live Guys, etc. We hate encores, soundchecks, Protools and people who get the music worried but love the sound & smell of analog tape and the sweat of togetherness. We play house parties and hayrides in small towns & big cities in clubs without stages and stages without clubs. We play Freedom rock, drive The Freedom Van (tm) and take Free rides on Freeways. We believe in community and we set it up to rock it out and then tear it down. We sleep later. Then we do it again. C'mon does not endorse (or make) videos but there's live clips at youtube/etc. You can probably download our records somewhere too. If yr looking for recordings and such try zunior.com, savedbyvinyl.com. or thisiscmon.com. We are not that fucking puppet band. They must be destroyed.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/29/2005
Band Website: thisiscmon.com
Band Members: Sir Ian Blurton: vocal/lead guitar Lady Katie Lynn Campbell: bass/vocal Dean Dallas Bentley: drums/vocal
Influences: alice cooper+bikini kill+black flag+blue cheer+budgie+cheap trick+cherry valance+crime+the damned+entombed+hawkwind+humble pie+kyuss+ minutemen+nation of ulysses+runaways+slade+sonic's rendezvous band +status quo+thin lizzy+the troggs+union carbide productions+verbena+ young heart attack+zz top
Sounds Like: Come Taste The Rock
Record Label: Blown Speaker
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Cmon Live on CBC Radio3

We did a live in the studio recording in Vancouver for CBC Radio3 during our last tour and it's up now at: http://radio3.cbc.ca/blogs/2008/05/The-CBC-Radio-3-Sessions- Podcast-May-8-2008 In ...
Posted by C'mon on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:31:00 PST

its 2008/Cold Bottled tour

we are just finishing up booking a coast to coast (island off the coast to island off the coast??) tour of canada that will probably be our only canadian dates this year (the rest of the world is call...
Posted by C'mon on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:11:00 PST

Bottled Lightning vinyl

We have worked a deal with Saved By Vinyl in Calgary who are gonna put out Bottled Lightning on vinyl (duh!) with a free digital download from Zunior sometime in September. We are working it hard...
Posted by C'mon on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:22:00 PST

Bottled Lightning (of an All Time High)

So.....our new record (Bottled Lightning) is done and sort-of-out on CD. It's got guest turns by Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy), Julie Penner (Broken Social Scene, DSMT), Anne Bourne, Mika Posen and mor...
Posted by C'mon on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 02:03:00 PST

Press

"C'mon trades in unabashed 70s-styled, riffs-a-popping power rock. Keeping the songs concise, C'mon hits hard and fast, and moves on before you have a chance to catch yr breath, which is what good roc...
Posted by C'mon on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:59:00 PST