Artist description A milenium friendly brand of pop rock with a decidedly harder edge. The band's music focuses on everday real-life concepts such as: Love, State of the world, Positive Angst, Sex, Parties, and good old fashioned Heartbreak. If you can relate to it they sing about it!!

Music Style New Pop Rock

Musical Influences Kiss, Bon Jovi, Dream Theater, Barenaked Ladies, Third Eye Blind

Similar Artists Bon Jovi, Matchbox 20, Tonic, Third Eye Blind

Artist History Sweet Alibi- guilty of great original music, fantastic stage presence and a consistently growing fan base. Nobody can blame them because they do have a sweet alibi... love of rock and roll.Formed in 1993, Sweet Alibi has continually expanded it's horizons and polished its already electric stage presence. The group often claims it has to be seen to be fully appreciated, audiences agree...In 1996, Sweet Alibi released a debut EP entitled 'Eyewitness.' The 6 song CD shows the beginnings of the band's tight musicianship, strong vocals and meticulous songwriting. It has been promoted relentlessly by the hard working band which has been featured several times on A- channel's "Big Breakfast" and "Wired," as well as RDTV's "Music City" and Videotron's "The Edge." In addition, Sweet Alibi has been featured on Edmonton's premiere rock radio station, CFBR ("the Bear") on its 'Red, White and New.'Recently, Sweet Alibi has been fortunate enough to open for bands such as Def Leppard, Sammy Hagar, Loverboy, .38 Special, Rick Derringer and Edgar Winters at Rockfest '99. The band has also just completed its first full length CD entitled 'Marble Soup.' This souped-up album is chock full of anthemic choruses and catchy melodies in the modern pop/rock genre. If you think you've lost your marbles, throw on a copy of 'Marble Soup' for some brain healing and ear candy. The album may not cure all your sorrows but it will keep your foot tapping and your chin up with a satisfying blend of acoustic and electric rock. The album will explode onto the market April 18, 2000. With their latest lineup, Sweet Alibi is poised for even greater success. Watch for them in and around your area.

Group Members Victor De Sousa - Lead Vocals, Rhythm GuitarsTim Boetzkes - Lead Guitars, VocalsDan Jean - Drums & Percussion, VocalsAron Murphy- Bass

Instruments Drums, Bass, Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Vocals

Albums The Game Of Life, Eyewitness, MARBLE SOUP

Press Reviews Sweet Alibi rocks with feature CD -- By Bev Rudolfsen -- St. Albert Gazette(April 12, 2000)There’s no sweeter alibi than coming of age. If their sound has taken on a more reflective edge, it’s because the four members of Sweet Alibi are growing older and wiser.With the release of Marble Soup, their first full-length CD and third recording, St. Albert’s Vic de Sousa, Tim Boetzkes, Dan Jean and Aaron Murphy have graduated from straight-ahead heavy metal riffs to music that while it still retains an edge, is about much more than party-hearty stuff. This home-town band has reached adulthood.Playing together since 1993, the group, now all in their mid-twenties, have a few life experiences to talk about. “We think of Marble Soup as being all our thoughts combined into one, much like soup,” mused de Sousa, 27. “You start with a broth and throw in a bunch of things. That’s what comes out, soup that eats like a meal,” he chuckled.This particular mix is indeed meaty. The 10-track CD, being launched April 18 at an Edmonton nightclub, dwells on the follies of love and the imperfections of humanity, a kind of combo of Sweet Alibi’s first two efforts, cut in 1993 and 1996.“Our first one was very much (about) party hard and drink, sex, all the things that when we are younger we think about,” said de Sousa. “As we got older, we thought more about the different aspects of life.” Their second disc was about world healing and about man’s inhumanity to man. “We were trying to reinstate a positive message where there wasn’t one anymore.”Marble Soup combines all that, said de Sousa, lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist. “Life is all that. Not every day you’re going to be happy or sad. We tried to write how we felt and just take aspects of life and use that, because they are things people can relate to.” The title track is about a man on the street and how he got there. “It’s (the reality of) what you see out there. So many times it’s not really fiction.”Sweet Alibi’s first album, The Game of Life, was heavy with sounds like Poison and Bon Jovi, and though that heavy 1980’s sound has been thinned out in Marble Soup, the influences still linger, de Sousa admits. “That’s what we grew up with...I love that stuff. I hope it comes back.”In the meantime Sweet Alibi took those sounds and combined them with the nuances of the Goo-Goo Dolls to make it more marketable and, as de Sousa dubs it, “millenium-friendly.”The CD release party kicks off at the Horseshu Cocktail Club at 9 p.m. Admission is free, but people are asked to bring along a food bank donation. No minors are allowed.Sweet Alibi also plays on A-Channel’s Big Breakfast show April 14. A POSITIVE ALIBI - Mike Ross-The Edmonton Sun(April 14, 2000)St. Albert rockers Sweet Alibi are probably sick of being mistaken for a Christian band - not that there’s anything wrong with it.Singer Vic de Sousa admits people might’ve got the idea from the last CD, which contains titles like A Prayer For All and Neverending Faith. It won’t happen, he says, with the band’s first full length CD, Marble Soup, released with a show in the Horseshu Pub on Tuesday. Even so, the music brims with positive messages. Here’s a sample from Secret of My Soul: “Everybody’s got to laugh, everybody’s got to cry, everybody needs a friend when they’re hurting inside.”The band’s lighthearted approach to rocking out also gives the music a somewhat up-with-people quality.Says de Sousa: “We’re definitely more of a positive band. There’s so much doom and gloom out there. I’m very motivated and positive in my ways of thinking. I think there’s always a way out of everything and something’s always going to work out. I’m very optimistic. I think that comes out a lot in the writing.”There’s actually one “angry” song on the record called Hide, de Sousa says. But it’s just one. “I guess I was angry that day.”

Additional Info The long awaited release "Marble Soup" is now availible online and thru your local HMV!!!

Location St Albert, Alberta - Canada

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