Artist description Combining elements of punk-rock'n'roll, blues, jazz, country, psychobilly, gregorian chant, surf, turf, old-fi, and slop, the Puritans are four gentlemen out to fight a revolutionary war on the evening stage.

Music Style unfease-a-billy-t

Musical Influences this, that, the other, jingoism, pie

Similar Artists Blues Explosion? Horton Heat? Beefheart? Birthday Party? Pensky File? English Teeth? Juan Gris? Jackass?

Artist History The band was formed during the mid-1990s in a basement of a house located in the Erlton red light district of Calgary. Since then they have made their way around North America by playing shows and allowing their music to be broadcast on radio (local, national, international), reviewed in print, and shown on TV.

Group Members Mitch Hendrickson - vocals and saxophone Bob Keelaghan - guitar and vocals Vlad Sobolewski - bass and vocals John S. - drums and maintenance

Instruments vocals, guitar, bass, drums, saxophone

Albums Marquee Themes, Puritans Sing the Hymns of Shoutin' Abner Pim

Press Reviews The Puritans, on their debut disc Marquee Themes, do handstands and cartwheels - revved up psychobilly, jazz-blues...they are fully loaded! Just like driving through a wild Barcelona night with a madcap taxi driver and a herd of crazy Spaniards. (Vox magazine, Calgary, Jan. 1998) All 15 tracks are pulse-pounders that will have you ready for some action at the drop of a hat. (Discorder, Vancouver, March, 1998) If there was ever any reason to get out and check a live set from a band whose CD made yer eyebrows off your fat head, THIS band is THAT reason. (Flipside, Pasadena, August, 1998) Score one for Canada because they finally got a rock'n'roll group worthy of the rock'n'roll monicker. (In Music We Trust, Portland, Jan. 1999) Marquee Themes delivers an enjoyable mixture of menace and suave swagger. (The Onion, Madison, April, 1999)

Additional Info Complilations:Isle of Spight (Catch and Release Records); Oh Canaduh 2 (Lance Rock Records), Black Jacket Racket (Skully Records); singles:

Location Calgary, Alberta - Canada

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