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Vonnegut Dollhouse

Progressive Space-Rock

About Me

Having shaped their sound through an unrelenting rehearsal schedule, frequent appearances in some of Vancouver's finest venues and a brief tour of their home province as well as the wild rose country, Vonnegut Dollhouse will be returning to choice studio, The Hive Creative Labs, this summer to record once again with Ornamental Etherworld engineer, Jesse Gander.
Last year saw the release and subsequent tour in support of Ornamental Etherworld. The album was garnered international attention due to its award-winning and Juno nominated packaging design, put together by Jeff Harrison. The album doesn't rest on it's visually artistic laurels alone, however, with positive reviews coming from music critics and show-goers alike.
Members Alyson Fun and Ozmuir share vocal and guitar/bass duties while James Henry Ford III, Chris Cantrell and Jakub Vonnegut expertly support them on synthesizers, lead guitar, and drums respectively.
Ornamental Etherworld has charted in the top 30 most played albums at several campus station across Canada, and was also named 5th top selling local album shortly following its release at Vancouver record store, Red Cat Records.
Vonnegut Dollhouse is certain to be a band to watch next year and the group is anticipating a more exhaustive tour following the release of their next album. Fans of the five-piece will recognize a few familiar elements but should expect a departure, as the band continues to play Magellan of unexplored rock landscapes.
For all inquiries contact Vonnegut Dollhouse at [email protected]
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"Ornamental Etherworld presents familiar Canadian indie pop fare with adequate doses of weirdness, clever lyrics, pseudo-artsy references to the late, great Kurt Vonnegut, and ear-friendly music. What's not so typical about Vonnegut Dollhouse is the intertwining of crunchy, 70s jazz-rock guitar licks with electronic keyboards that sound like a cross between 80's Moog and a church organ."
-Anne-Marie Brugger, !earshot
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"The music is wicked fine... Imagine the Beach Boys meets Botch while the B-52s fly by and XTC counts it out. And that's all in one song, "Ugly Kids Steal Bikes." Oh yeah, they've got a knack for titles as well... B+"
-Stuart Derdeyn, The Province
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"Dig the sweaters... you guys are adorable."
-a judge at citr's Shindig
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contact vonnegut [email protected] for publicity and booking.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/8/2006
Band Website: vonnegutdollhouse.com
Band Members: James Ford - Syths
Alyson Fun - Vocals/Guitar
Chris - Guitar
Ozmuir - Bass/Vocals
J. Vonnegut - Drums

Influences: beach boys, genesis, rush, the buttless chaps, the B-52's, the pixies, minus the bear, pretty girls make graves, the beatles, bowie, sonic youth
Sounds Like: Progressive Space-Rock
Record Label: available through Scratch distribution

My Blog

Mother Space is rad

Hey people,This is Chris from Vonnegut Dollhouse.  We recently played a show at Pat's Pub in Vancouver with an amazing new band called Mother Space.  They just opened a myspace account and e...
Posted by Vonnegut Dollhouse on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:44:00 PST

Facebook Facebook Facebook!

That's right!  We too have jumped on the facebook bandwagon!  Visit our page here:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vonnegut-Dollhouse/469990 60181Cheers!Alyson
Posted by Vonnegut Dollhouse on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:56:00 PST

Newsie-Poo’s

Hello everyone!Ms. Fun here, enjoying the beautiful day that's been bestowed upon us here in BC. I just enjoyed a fabulous bike ride from my hood in East Van to south Granville after having m...
Posted by Vonnegut Dollhouse on Fri, 30 May 2008 09:19:00 PST

Tour Blog - The rest (Banff and Prince George)

So Banff was disappointing. People kept telling us to play Oasis covers, Franz Ferdinand covers, Elvis covers... but we're not a cover band. Even the sandwich board said "ORIGINAL CANADIAN INDIE POP...
Posted by Vonnegut Dollhouse on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:49:00 PST

Tour Blog - Day 3 & 4 - Edmonton & Morinville

Our hands are the passport pages of show entry.We played at The Velvet Underground with Electricity for Everybody last night. They were great - dynamic, interesting, fun. The show went pretty well. ...
Posted by Vonnegut Dollhouse on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:21:00 PST

Tour Blog  Day 2  Kamloops to Edmonton

This morning we got up early and ate breakfast at a neat place called Hello Toast in Kamloops. We arrived at the TV station to perform on the Midday show. We promised Tickets to Tokyo we’d men...
Posted by Vonnegut Dollhouse on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:11:00 PST

Tour Blog  Day 1  Kamloops

Tour Blog  Day 1  KamloopsWe hit the road this afternoon in our new tour van, loaded to the hilt with gear after having a lovely breakfast together at Theresa’s with our loved ones, Mel and An...
Posted by Vonnegut Dollhouse on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:56:00 PST

Vonnegut Dollhouse featured in Kamloops This Week

link: http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_thompson_nicola/kamloopsthiswe ek/entertainment/17269984.htmlBuilding a following By Mikell...
Posted by Vonnegut Dollhouse on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:55:00 PST

Feature in Vue Weekly Magazine (Edmonton)

link:  http://www.vueweekly.com/article.php?id=8236MUSIC Vonnegut Dollhouse The most inexpensive Dollhouse around BRYAN BIRTLES / [email protected]  Touring is not an easy taskeveryone kn...
Posted by Vonnegut Dollhouse on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:37:00 PST

Tour, TV appearance, Recording

So we’ve finished booking our tour for April, and we’re stoked.  We also scored an appearance on the Kamloops News Midday Show.  We’ll be performing live as well as doing a...
Posted by Vonnegut Dollhouse on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:46:00 PST