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Doc Pickles was a competitive bagpiper and litzine poet with an abiding interest in Joseph Campbell and Marshall Macluhan in 1995 when he set his poems to music using a Radio Shack karaoke and a toy casio. Doc fronted punkpoppers Mason Hornet in the nineties, helped to create Wavelength and thrills in making honest music with people he likes. Secret Japanese Girlfriend is what happens when Doc makes music for you with his friends, ranting and raving at a world out of order. visitor map

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Member Since: 10/29/2007
Band Website: aliengirlrecords.com
Band Members: membres du groupe lately are Vanessa "Ptarmigan" Hanson and Colleen Costello (who have just started a great new backroads country band named Antler), Michelle Breslin and Steve Keeping other secret japanese girlfriends have been Dave Newfeld, Leanne Davies, Emmit Rogan, Alastair MacLeod, Jeff Peers, Dave Rodgers, Robyn Carrigan, Adam Rosen, a small Baptist choir, somebody claiming to be the ghost of Frank Zappa but probably is not, and Brandine the cat, and you.
Influences: XTC. Bob Pollard. The friendship of Li Po and Tu Fu.
Sounds Like: we sound an awful lot like this band: "Lead by Doc Pickles, co-founder of Toronto's Wavelength music series, Your Band Sucks are a playful, quirky and melodic band who toy with as many instruments as possible: organ, electric drums, accordion, clarinet and keyboards all make appearances on tracks. With a lo-fi production approach and an emphasis on vocals, they're comparable to the Russian Futurists or the ironic lyrical stylings of Ben Folds. With tracks like "Teach Your Pets To Smoke", and songs about sports networks, they're funny too." -- Kate Robertson, the Torontoist.
Record Label: aliengirl
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Interview and performances on the Whats All This Then? podcast

http://www.parkdalerevolutionaryorchestra.com/watt/watt006.m p3..tr>..table> ..tr>Session no.6 : May 20 2008 LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST ...
Posted by Secret Japanese Girlfriend on Thu, 29 May 2008 01:12:00 PST

NOW Magazine Q and A with Doc Pickles about Wavelength 400

Music Feature Q&A : Doc Pickles Doc Pickles, co-founder of the Wavelength music series,which celebra...
Posted by Secret Japanese Girlfriend on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:43:00 PST

CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK video-interview and a nice review (TORONTOIST.com)

Video-interview & review of our CMW show (Torontoist.com) Review of our Canadian Music Week gig in Torontoist"I left ...
Posted by Secret Japanese Girlfriend on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:11:00 PST

NOW Magazine Q&A with Doc about his band Mason Hornet

from this link:http://www.nowtoronto.com/blog/view_post.cfm?post=471Le arn to love the Mason Hornets by Evan Davies Posted on Oct 19, 2007 at 5:45 PM About six years ago (Preemptiv...
Posted by Secret Japanese Girlfriend on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:12:00 PST

T.O. MUSIC NOTES local spotlight: Doc Pickles "..if you're into XTC and the Sea and Cake" (NOW)

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Posted by Secret Japanese Girlfriend on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:10:00 PST

ANTI-HIT LIST podcast with Doc Pickles, Echo & the Bunnymen, Sam Champion, more (TORONTO STAR)

41.Anti-Hit List podcast for Sept. 3, 2005 Anti-Hit List podcast for Sept. 3, 2005 24th Sep 2005, 20:28 GMT ...
Posted by Secret Japanese Girlfriend on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:08:00 PST

No Fire Day reaches number 2 on CIUT (EARSHOT! top 30 chart)

My favorite radio station since moving to Toronto has always been CIUT, and this is chart from the summer of 2005 is as close to a cheap rock'n'roll thrill as possible. What's more, we got to share th...
Posted by Secret Japanese Girlfriend on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:07:00 PST