The Creeping Nobodies

The Creeping Nobodies were a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 2001. They played their final gig in 2009.

The Creeping Nobodies
The Creeping Nobodies, April 2007
The Creeping Nobodies, April 2007
Background information
OriginToronto, Ontario, Canada
GenresPost-punk, Experimental
Years active2001–2009
LabelsBlocks Recording Club ([][][][][][])
Deleted Art
Kosher Rock Records
Bloodworks.
Past membersDennis Amos
Matthew McDonough
Sarah Richardson
Valerie Uher
Derek Westerholm
James Anderson
Julia Muth
Eric Abboud
Marco Landini
George Westerholm
Jaime Carrasco
Websitewww.thecreepingnobodies.com

History

The Creeping Nobodies began as a one-off performance for a tribute night to the UK band The Fall, and were put together by Derek Westerholm.[1] The tribute night was held on September 21, 2001 at the El Mocambo club in Toronto, and the band name "The Creeping Nobodies" came from the name of a fictitious band mentioned on a Fall record sleeve. Immediately afterwards, the band became its own entity, investigating a wider range of musical influences.

The band released many of their records on Blocks Recording Club (sometimes referred to simply as [][][][][][] Recording), including Sound of Joy,[2] recorded with Wharton Tiers, and a 2007 split 12" with the band Anagram.[3] Blocks was a worker co-operative which also released records by Final Fantasy, Ninja High School, Katie Stelmanis, Lenin I Shumov, The Hank Collective, Fucked Up, and The Phonemes, among others. Other Creeping Nobodies CD and vinyl releases appeared on Deleted Art, fromSCRATCH, Bloodworks Music, Kosher Rock Records, and on a number of compilation albums.

The band line-up changed a number of times over the years, the most stable occurring between 2004-2007 consisting of Westerholm, Uher, Amos, McDonough and Richardson.[4] In 2007 Westerholm himself left prior to the band's last recordings and final tour in Europe.[5][6] The band's last performance occurred in May, 2009, and at that time The Creeping Nobodies were Dennis Amos, Sarah Richardson, Valerie Uher and Matthew McDonough.

Discography

Albums
  1. Augurs & Auspices (Deleted Art, 2007)
  2. Sound of Joy (Blocks, 2006)
  3. Stop Movement Stop Loss (Blocks, 2004)

EPs and mini-albums
  • Silver & Golden Apples 3" cdep (Akashic Records, 2007)
  • Split cdep w/ Miranda (fromSCRATCH, 2007)
  • Split 12" LP w/ Anagram (Blocks/Dead Astronaut, 2006)
  • Half-Saboteur 12" LP (Bloodworks, 2005)
  • I-X-U cd (Kosher Rock, 2002)[1]

Splits

Other appearances
  • Galactic Dossier Issue No. 8 CD Compilation (2009) (Song "Beltane")
  • Suoni Il Per Popolo Festival Compilation (2006) (Song "Hollow Stems, A Hunter's Will")
  • Perverted By Mark E. - A Tribute to The Fall Zick Zack Compilation (2004) (Song "Wings")
  • Toronto is Great! Blocks Compilation (2004) (Song "Heatseek")
  • In The Film They Made Us A Little More Articulate Escape Goat Records Compilation (2003) (Song "Cold Hands")
  • Rosco Re-define Rosco Magazine Sampler (2002) (Song "State")

See also

References
  1. " The Creeping Nobodies IXU" AllMusic Review by Jack Rabid
  2. "Creeping Nobodies Sound of Joy". Exclaim!, By Alex Molotkow Jul 01, 2006
  3. "The Creeping Nobodies / Anagram". /xclim!, By Vish Khanna, Feb 16, 2007
  4. "Indie wavelength; Two-and-a-half year-old Creeping Nobodies pump up nerd-punk to become one of city's best bands Play Lee's Palace with the Constantines for Wavelength's fifth-anniversary, writes Ben Rayner". Toronto Star - Toronto, Ont. Rayner, Ben Feb 10, 2005 Page: G.01
  5. "Creeping Nobodies Prep New Material, Become One Body Less". Exclaim!. By Scott A. Gray Jun 04, 2008
  6. "'We just wanted to play music together'; Lacking a frontman, Creeping Nobodies made the only decision the local indie act could". Toronto Star - Toronto, Ont. Rayner, Ben Jul 24, 2008 Page: E.8
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