Artist description folk rock strumming, Bonham-esque pounding and deep melodic basslines beneath walls of delayed guitars, textural ambience and lush layers of piano, organ and xylophone

Music Style alternative pop rock

Musical Influences Radiohead, Portishead, Led Zeppelin, Blindmellon, Cold Play

Similar Artists Velvet Underground, Portishead, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, Bjork

Artist History This arresting, young Vancouver collective was spawned with the death of the twentieth century when a group of old friends were re-united by an unfortunate accident. Joey Turco's hospitalization after an electrical mix-up with a theremin and an analog delay pedal brought friends, Jimmy Northey and Brett Drury rushing back from New York. Brett had been aware for some time that he was getting too old for the carnie life, no longer able to lift a cage of 168 live squirrels by the rings in his nipples. Jimmy's sense of self-worth had been waning as of late as the professional muse to artists such as Shakira, Joni Mitchell, and Courtney Love. When Joey woke from a coma fully recovered, but pretty sure he was a navy Morse code expert during World War II, he talked the two into sticking around for a while to work on this concept he had for an Eastern European folk song cover band. The concept didn't stick, but it did facilitate their collaboration with Polish country star Marta Jaciubek. Marta had grown up in a position of pseudo-royalty in the foothills of Warsaw, her family being the sole cultivator of bison urine to flavour Poland's Zubrowka brand vodka. She was looking for a North American project to break her into a new market when her cousin Joey approached her with Girl Nobody. With Marta's vocals superbly backed by Brett's percussion, Jimmy's rhythm guitar, and Joey's juggling act the group auditioned countless bassists before stumbling across Jeremiah Schneider, future heir to Schneider's Meats. His relentlessly immaculate bass lines were a perfect fit in the formation of one of the most important and compelling groups since Fuzzbox. Since the group's fated foundation they have been feverishly refining their sound, playing numerous live shows, finding their style while intermittently recording their burgeoning ingenuity. It's been a relatively short road, but a bumpy and kind of curvy one. Rumours have abounded surrounding a cursed string of sixth members, most having ended up in rehab or classical trios. The band is firmly on track though, finishing up recording on an incredibly poignant, definitively uncategorical pop album. Marta's heartwrenchingly intimate lyrics beautifully supported by a collaborative collection of sacred compositions are truly the most shockingly intangible, provokingly original grouping of relatively common sounds to come out of the west with an east coast appeal since the conception of this sentence. As Ms. Love so eloquently and graciously remarked when questioned about the loss of her favourite play thing, "They're pretty catchy."

Group Members Marta Jaciubek » vocals, piano | Joey Turco » lead guitar, theremin, mandolin | Jimmy Northey » rhythm guitar | Jeremiah Schnieder » bass | Brett Drury » drums, percussion

Instruments electric guitar, fender rhodes, hammond organ, piano, acoustic guitar, theremin, space echo, mandolin, drums, djimbe, percussion, bass, xylophone

Press Reviews "There's plenty to suggest the band won't be an indie act for long. The songs, which walk a wonderful line between Greenwich Village folk and sly, knowing pop, are impressively strong, and singer Marta Jaciubek packs a whole lot of vulnerability into her world-weary vocals... Wonderfully organic and ragged, the songs are reminiscent of Portishead's Beth Gibbons fronting the Velvet Underground. The members of Girl Nobody may be nobodies at the moment, but once they get hooked up with the right producer, that's going to change in a big way." [Mike Usinger - Georgia Straight] "My thick Stoli haze only adds to the magic at the Media Club, where, under ice-blue lighting, Girl Nobody gives the most transcendent performance I see all weekend. Sporting a black dress and a white flower in her hair, Marta Jacuibek, the band's sultry-voiced singer, turns in a performance that comes off like eerie Berlin cabaret. The music, meanwhile, is a buzz-building blend of ethereal sweetness and shoegazer fury. I don't want to leave." [Mike Usinger - Georgia Straight]

Location Vancouver, BC - Canada

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