Artist description East Vancouver's SIGNAL 30 write and perform countrified gothic-blues fermented by the altered perspective of psychedelia, minus the window dressing. Signal 30 love Pure Country music and ONLY the music, not its "aw, shucks" demeanor. Having come of age throughout the development (or DE-EVOLUTION) of punk, they've felt the crackling chill of discovery that comes when you know for sure that THIS IS IT!

Music Style Gothic Psychedelic Country

Musical Influences Divine Horsemen, Rank and File, Flesheaters, Giant Sand, Leaving Trains

Similar Artists Giant Sand, Rank and File, Dream Syndicate, Gun Club

Artist History Signal 30 has slowly honed its torn and mutated country-blues over the past few years in a variety of clubs around Vancouver. Like the music it performs, the band's members musical backgrounds illustrate a unique, intense melding of styles into an identifiable cusp of their own. Taylor Nelson Little's arrival in the Spring of '95 helped turn Signal 30 into a gigging band after being perpetually trapped in rehearsal halls for two years. Little's well documented career as one of Vancouver's best drummers began during the formative years of that city's punk community (The Shades, The Payola$), and has continued through his membership in Art Bergmann's Poisoned to the present-day with The Bughouse Five, Auburn and now, Signal 30. Little is joined in the rhythm section by Mike Biliski, an expatriate Winnipegger who cut his teeth as a bassist with The Emptys. Biliski continues to work with his bandmate from those aborted projects, in Sex in Sweden. The most recent addition to the band is Vancouverite Scott Fletcher of the Roswells on guitar. The songs included are part of a forthcoming CD which the band is struggling to finance. Though the members hail from Vancouver, the music has he music has much in sommon with Southwest America than the Great White North.

Group Members R. D. Harrison - Vocals; Mike Biliski - Bass; Taylor Little - Drums; Scott Fletcher - Guitars; Randy Forrester - Guitar, Baritone Guitar; -- Alumni (noted where they appear): Rob Zepeski - Guitar; John van Daele - Guitar; Doug Nolin - Guitar; Mark Kamali - Drums

Instruments guitar, bass, driums, vocals

Albums coming soon

Location Vancouver/Regina, BC/Saskatchewan - Canada

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