Artist description The Beatles of Surrey. Surrey, BC (Canada).

Music Style Folk-rock-on-a-drug-as-yet-undiscovered.

Musical Influences The Wiggles

Similar Artists No Fun

Artist History No Fun (now in their fourth decade) started releasing albums in 1973 and haven't stopped...

Group Members David M. - Guitar, Vocals; Paul Leahy - Guitar, Vocals. No Fun has also been David M. with Jim Hamelin, Dan Vere, Chris Phillips, and/or Alan Findlay. No Fun has featured vocals by Pico, Suzy Goodwin, and a variety of guests through the ages...

Instruments Guitars, Vocals

Albums "I'm a Boxer, Not a Fighter" 1973 (as the Pandas); "Babies Cannot Manage Crocodiles" 1974 (as the Turkeys); "No Fun", "No Fun at Christmas" 1974; "Doubt in the Mind of Royalty", "Tense Past", "The Awful Truth", "Best of No Fun" 1975; "Pretentious", "Best of No Fun Volume 2", "The Jimmy Hamelin Songbook" (as David M.), "Hi We're from the Gay Club" 1976; "This is No Fun", "No Fun to Spare" (double album) 1977; "No Fun" ep, "Vancouver Complication" (2 tracks) 1978; "No Fun at the Disco" ep, "Australian Album" (Australian bootleg) 1979; "Don't Leave Me Hanging" b/w "It Came from Heaven" single, "Ghost Paper Boy in Robin's Gay Trailer Park" 1981; "Snivel" (double album), "Snivel Abridged" 1984; "1894", "Old", "No Fun on Stage", "Our 1985 Christmas Gift to You" 1985; "The New Switcheroo" 1987; "The Rich Folk Festival", "No Fun at Christmas" (CBC) 1988; "The Night Smells Like a Dog" 1990; "Last Call" (1 track) 1991; "The Beatles of Surrey", "What Part of No Fun Don't You Understand" (video) 1992; "No Fun at Christmas Again" 1993...

Press Reviews "The Beatles of Surrey... the inimitable No Fun... David M. is one of the premier wordsmiths in Canadian Music." (John Mackie, The Vancouver Sun) "I've seen the future of Rock and Roll and it's NO FUN... Don't let the numbers fool you - their influence on local pulp culture has been at least equal to that of the Gorgo they push on stage..." (Ian Hunter, Nite Moves, May 1987) "[David] M. and [Paul] Leahy are to music what Blue Velvet director David Lynch is to movies... The band combines a dose of raunchy, satirical subversion... No Fun also produces some catchy pop tunes." (David Spanner, Surrey-Delta Now, March 18, 1987) "Imagine the SCTV crew as a band with only two guitars and a cheap keyboard." (Dave Watson, The Georgia Straight, December 15, 1989) "The Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble of Rock... Like Frank Zappa when he was socially conscious, Lou Reed when he was funny, or Martin Mull when he was musical." (Les Wiseman, Vancouver Magazine) "You can't trash pop culture as well as they do and expect to be on the cover of People magazine... which leaves the field wide open for No Fun and their refreshing, irreverent ways... [they're] graduates of studies in Mad magazine; Lower Slobovia's answer to Flanders and Swann... No Fun seems utterly stable, the opposite of every cliché about the fast life of rock musicians... Even the most sardonic of and scatological of [No Fun's] records have an oddly homespun, even wholesome air. It's as if Beaver Cleaver had gone underground." (Steven Godfrey, The Globe and Mail, January 17, 1987) "Folk-rock-on-a-drug-as-yet-undiscovered." (Steven Wisenthal, the Ubyssey) "The key to falling in love with No Fun is the songwriting of David M... M. also runs the publicity department of Werewolf T-Shirts records, turning out the world's greatest press releases... Thrill to Paul Leahy's scintillating electric guitar prowess. Be amazed at David M.'s skill at playing acoustic guitar while holding up cue cards and Gorgo bars... Chuckle your knickers off." (Dave Watson, The Georgia Straight) "NO FUN's David M. and Paul Leahy actually may be recognized for being the superb songwriters they are... a wicked satirist, David M. is a dedicated rock and roll fan and a terrific songwriter... besides being David's perfect creative foil, Paul Leahy is a versatile, under-rated rock guitarist... NO FUN's primary weapon is satire and from his Surrey vantage point, David uses it with lethal accuracy... NO FUN's personal crusade (is) to deflate the hypocrisy which is rife where business meets music." (Tom Harrison, The Vancouver Province) "No Fun are even better than cheese." (Kevin James Crook, The New Headonist, May 1986) "They say that there are roughly 400,000 words in the English language. Well, there aren't enough to describe the group NO FUN... David M. is the writing force behind this group and 'force' is too small a word, 'energy of holocaust proportions' would be a more appropriate term... this is brilliance... a marvelous show indeed... a full hour and a half was filled with original songs like nothing you've ever heard before coupled with the funniest, driest stage patter I have heard in a long time... the wonderful contradiction of this group is the energy of the songs being played off the laid-back personalities of the group... see this never-stop, every time a winner, once in a lifetime group." (Dave Gillmor, The Yukon News, February 15, 1989) "NO FUN are anything but. For the past couple of years the band's (David M., Paul Leahy, and Pico) theme shows (NO FUN in Love, NO FUN on Drugs, NO FUN's Major Record Company Contract Signing Party, etc., etc.) have been wildly popular. Their tapes are always huge successes at [radio station] CITR (the most consistlantly witty, sharp, and sing-alongable of any other tape entries)..." (Discorder, July 1989) etc., etc.

Additional Info The music business is dead. By special arrangement No Fun have agreed to distribute these celebratory songs for free via the Internet. Previously to enjoy No Fun recordings fans had to scour record shops for long out of print vinyl, buy mail order cassettes (or brides), catch their television or radio specials, or purchase questionable European bootleg CDs. Now thanks to the disinformation superhighway legions of new fans are free to download these exclusive tracks to their hard drives, burn their own CDs (or churches), stream them to their wireless handheld devices, upload them to their toaster or other smart-enabled household appliance, or beam them to outer space. The world is now a better place. Enjoy.

Location Surrey, BC - Canada

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