Blisterene

Blisterene was formed in January 1995, in the wake of me quiting my former band Pure in order to pursue different avenues. Malcolm and I started the band on a weekend and wrote three songs. We found 'Bash, who'd answered a Georgia Straight band personal ad, and the three of us played our first show four weeks later. After playing every cheap booze-can and dodgy bar in Vancouver we did manage to put together one cross Canada tour ( well, cross Canada if you exclude the Maritimes, Quebec and anywhere more northernly than Edmonton) in order to share our lovely brand of power pop.
Blisterene recorded one album at Tomorrow Land, our rehearsal space/personal studio, titled "So I Have Them". It was finished in the winter of 1996 and released the following spring to a mostly indifferent public. We signed a horrible distribution deal with a useless company out east: IMD. These guys were pathetic, they did next to nothing and charged us for it. So I determined IMD was actually the acronym for I-Might -Distribute; they wasted our time and kept our money. Thieves really.
The following year, 1998, was a year of diminishing returns, little or no money, and finally broke the limit on our collective visa cards. We did manage to demo up six more songs before we disbanded and went our seperate ways. I switched to engineering and started earning some cash to pay off those aforementioned credit cards and made a nice living producing and recording other aspiring bands. Currently I've got a new project, Combine the Victorious , which I'm incredibly excited about: the best music I've ever done. Check us out if you're interested.
It was only after listening to the record again one evening I decided to put up a site in its memory. Hopefully you'll like the music and take the liberty to download a few songs!
Cheers,
Mark
Here's our second video, Broadcast Nationwide. Enjoy!