Who are you and what do you do:
I am Mark Grundy and I play in and write songs for the twin bands Quaker Parents and Heaven For Real.
Current obsessions:
Cool music like Suburban Lawns, NEU!, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Karen Dalton, Bob Martin, Bob Dylan +++. I’ve been reading some sweet novels lately, but also wikipedia.
A song or a record that will always put you in a good mood, without fail:
Os Mutantes – Os Mutantes. Particularly the song A Minha Menina.
Tell us about an album or artist you think is really under-appreciated, and why they are deserving of more praise:
Nap Eyes, from Halifax. Have you listened to them? You should: http://www.napeyes.bandcamp.com. Also Homeshake from Montreal, smoothest grooves goin’: http://homeshake.bandcamp.com.
Most played track on your iTunes:
Play Myself Some Music by R. Stevie Moore.
Most cherished musical object:
I just got this ’65 Mustang that I love a lot and I can imagine keeping it for a long while. I’m kind of fickle about gear, but I don’t think I’ll ever sell my blue U.S. P-bass that I bought from a friend when I was sixteen. It still rules.
Proudest moment:
This happens when I finish a song I like or something. Maybe when I finish making a meal for someone and I think that it looks nice. Finishing anything that I intended to makes me proud, hard to pin down one moment now I guess.
Most vulnerable moment:
Making some mistake that inconveniences anyone working in customer service.
If you could score a film for anyone, who would it be and why:
Doing something with Jim Jarmusch would be pretty awesome.
Your favourite use of a song in a film:
Roy Orbison’s Crying at the end of Gummo (Harmony Korine).
Favourite venue to play in and why:
SAD RAD in Halifax, {RIP} because it was a perfect storm. Most house shows are fun – it’s nice to be welcomed into somebody’s home to play. Playing at Wunderbar in Edmonton is always great, mainly because it is the best bar in Canada.
Dream venue to play in and why:
Some small or medium sized, all-ages place filled with people who somehow know every word to every song. It could be anywhere, maybe in the Arctic?
First band t-shirt you ever purchased from a merch table:
It was a local band’s t-shirt, The Burdocks. They only had the bigger sizes left but I bought one anyway.
Band you’d leave your bandmates for:
http://i.imgur.com/lbE3Jpq.jpg
Album you want to expose your kin to whilst in the womb:
The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers, because I would want them to be sensi-tough.
If for some reason you lost the ability to make and play music, what would fill that gap:
I like making stuff, so some kind of creative endeavour I think. Maybe I’d build the great dams of the world.
What was your last dream about:
I am an egg and I am cracking open all over my friend’s bathroom.
Watch Quaker Parents perform ‘When I’m Tired’ at The Brain in Hamilton with help from the girls in Old And Weird.
The Brothers Grundy make a return to the recorded world, this time joined by powerhouse drummer Nathan Doucet under the new moniker Heaven For Real. Much like their work as Quaker Parents, the songs onWanton rearrange the tropes of guitar pop into strange new shapes and plant incendiary moments of release where the listener least expects them.… Continue reading
Over the last two years, this frenetic pop trio have been allocating their laconic anthems to a series of short-run cassettes. The medium is well suited: each song feels perfectly cramped, overfull with wit and bursting at the seams with clever invention. Their most recent effort, No Crime When Covered In Grime, is a further refinement of… Continue reading
