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Zanois

About Me


Sometime around the year 2004, an x-teen-year-old multi-instrumentalist by the name of Zane McNois began recording poorly performed and produced "demos" of songs in an apartment in Manchester, New Hampshire. With the frequent help and noise of Justice McAwesome, a local everythingist, the songs gradually became slightly less worse over time. Eventually, in the year of 2008, after several semi-solo albums had been released by Zane under various names, he attempted to form a live band to perform the material...live. After several different incarnations that all failed in some way or another, McAwesome and a supposed mexican wrestler by the name of Snowman Hospital were recruited at the last minute to play their first show on April 18th, 2008 at a VFW hall several hours away, opening for the one and only Lemon Demon, as well as Lima Research Society and Camera-Head Shark. Upon playing this show, more and more gigs arose more and more frequently, usually somewhere around NH or MA. After their second show, a bassist joined by the name of Kyle McDowd, not really realizing at the moment that he was a bassist, but fit the task quite well. By 2009, Zanois was playing about 2 shows a month, and began working on an EP which is due sometime this summer, as well as their first full-length album.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/02/2006
Band Website: www.zanois.com
Band Members: Justice McAwesome
Guitar, toys, noise, hitting stuff, foreign instruments, and loud things.
Zane McNois
Lead vocals, synths, organs, guitar, bass, drums, glockenspiel, things, and more stuff.

Kyle O'Dowd
Bass, background vocals, guitar, percussion, and being able to make the noise of a trumpet.
Snowman Hospital
Drums, percussion, yelling, wearing clown make up, and more.
PEOPLE WE'VE PLAYED WITH WHO WE THINK ARE COOL (in no particular order): Math the Band, Lima Research Society, Coalmine Canary, Lemon Demon, Cocoa-Amaretto, The Scrapes, Felix and Volcano!, Asami Yamazaki, Me & My Arrow, Camera-Head Shark, and many more that I'm sure we are forgetting.
Influences: Zane listens to lots of Apollo Sunshine, Wilco, of Montreal, Grandaddy, The Unicorns, anything between the years 1972-1973, and more stuff that won't fit.
Justice listens to music, including Weezer, Local H, things that aren't from this country, and much more that is also good.
Snowman Hospital listens to Drive-By Truckers, The Bad Plus, as well as things that other band members listen to.
Kyle listens to the sound of his bass crying at night when it is not being played...and of Montreal, Sondre Lerche, Fiery Furnaces, and other good things.
We have an EP coming out sometime very soon, and you will be able to buy it from either right here, or at our shows, or if you see us on the street.
Leave a comment for Zanois. If you feel like it.

Sounds Like: A description of our music. Just listen to it.
WE NEED SHOWS! SEND US A MESSAGE IF YOU KNOW OF ANY!
Contact Zane at: [email protected], or [email protected] for anything else.
Record Label: None
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Summer Tour (NEED HELP BOOKING)

Alright, so...With the summer coming up fairly soon, we have more of an availability for shows, and wouldlike to play many more. We need your help with that, though. If you are either in a band or kno...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:13:00 GMT