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The Rough Sea

About Me

We started out busking on the streets of Ottawa, making money for our daily neccessities, but, soon realized we wanted to take our music more seriously. We began to play shows in and around ottawa and hitched across Canada in the summer of 2007.When we got out west (Victoria, BC) we recorded a full length cd in our friends basement and booked a tour back home along with our friends in the band Ursula. They bought a van, we played shows together, it was a ball.After tour we decided to remain calling Ottawa, ON home, and decided to record some stuff we had been working on. So, in Montreal, PQ, we went to Red Rhino studios with our friend Menno Versteeg, who produced, and Richard Vincent who engineered and recorded our three song ep 'Drawn In Crayon: a tale'.Since then we've performed at North By North East 08 in Toronto, ON, embarked on a 3 month tour across Canada and up north to the Yukon Territory, and still appear on your local street corner (so if you see us, spare some change please!), excited to get ourselves out there, to everywhere and anywhere we can.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/04/2007
Band Website: radio3.cbc.ca/bands/The-Rough-Sea
Band Members: DRAWN IN CRAYON: A TALE now available on iTUNES!!!CRUSTYNA. Voice, Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele, Kazoo. JUSTIN KOPS. Voice, Guitar, Ukulele, Mandolin.
View The Rough Sea's EPK
Influences: booze, smoke, cigarettes, roadside mental breakdowns, buskers, beggers, campfires, morbid fairy tales, b-movies , beans with mustard..and a bit o' hot sauce, freak shows, solidarity, corruption, riots, fire fire fire, transients and tramps...and Nellie...the stinky, shaggy, grandma pooch.
Sounds Like: A sinking ship... ..
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Record Label: Drawn In Crayon: a tale is on sale at itunes!!!!
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Article in FFWD Magazine (Calgary)!!!!

Gypsies, tramps and thieves Folk-punk duo embrace better living through busking Published July 9, 2009  by Christine Leonard in Music Previews ...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:00:00 GMT

NXNE Review from SOUND PROOF MAGAZINE

The Rough Sea @ The Painted Lady By: Anne-Marie Bissada Photo: David MacIntyre The Rough Sea @ Painted Lady Posted: June 23, 2009  Toronto, Canada With its soft lighting, candles,...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:03:00 GMT

Halifax Show Review (05/08) from The Cancon Container Ship

Taken from...The Cancon Container Ship. (Abbotsford. Coast Salish Territory)*review of May 08. 2009 show at Gus' Pub, Halifax, NS. We cut out everything except the part that we are mentioned, for the ...
Posted by on Thu, 28 May 2009 07:43:00 GMT

Ottawa Sun Article...and my 2 cents on the matter

Sailing tough on Rough Sea Rough Sea, Wednesday April 29 at Zaphod's By DENIS ARMSTRONGTimes might look tough for local punk-folk band The Rough Sea. The two-year-old banjo-and-ukulele trio...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:10:00 GMT

Article/Interview in the OTTAWA CITIZEN by Fateema Sayani.

Happy to be travelling the Rough Sea   The Rough Sea consists of, from left, Christina Laurin, Justin 'Justinomics' Poulain and Justin Kops. The punk/folk trio plays Zaphod Beeblebrox on We...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:43:00 GMT

Review from Disco Kabuki Robot Orgy (Kamloops, BC)

The Rough SeaHailing from Ottawa, Ontario, The Rough Sea is a trio of wandering musicians who fuse punk soul, folk love, and hippy zen into an astoundingly varied yet beautifully cohesive musical blen...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:05:00 GMT

Spring Tour/NXNE 09 / iTUNES

Hey there folks!!! So...first off, thanks to everyone who came out to see us at the shows this last weekend in Ottawa and Montreal, and big thanks to Hollerado for hooking up those shows (we love you ...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:42:00 GMT

cbc radio 3- New Music Canada Track of The Day

New Music Canada Track of the Day February 25, 2009: The Rough Sea "Drawn In Crayon" Posted by Craig Norris on Feb 25, 2009 | 3 comments | » Post a Comment Once again I found ...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:02:00 GMT

Some News and Thanks

Hey there folks, so...we have a video on youtube from the Divan Orange show on Saturday! It's Drawn In Crayon live. I am not sure of the URL cause I am kinda internet retarded...but if you search The ...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:06:00 GMT

Northern Rocks Magazine reviews Drawn In Crayon, and a show review from Thunder Bay!!!

Hey folks, NOVEMBER 21 we are playing at Zaphod's in Ottawa, ON...and we'll be heading out to Halifax again at the end of Nov. See ya there!!!OOOOOHHHHH ... and we found these reviews on the internet....
Posted by on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:02:00 GMT