The Lovely Feathers

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The Lovely Feathers perfoming at the Sokol Underground

The Lovely Feathers are a Montreal-based indie rock band who toured with Metric in late 2005. Their first release was an independent release titled My Best Friend Daniel after Daniel Suss who had to quit the band for a short time. Their second release (first official LP), Hind Hind Legs, was released on April 18, 2006 by Equator Records/EMI.

The Lovely Feathers play fast indie-pop, somewhat similar in style to The Pixies. Their Members are as diverse and quirky as the music they play.

1 Band members
2 Discography
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Band members

Ted Suss - drums
Noah Bernamoff - bass
Mark Kupfert - vocals, guitar
Richard Yanofsky - vocals, guitar
David Buzaglo - keyboards, vocals

Guitarist/vocalist Richard Yanofsky, who dropped out of medical school to pursue a life of rock music, confesses: "The toughest part about leaving school was that I felt like I betrayed my grandma. She had an inconceivably horrific adolescence; I mean she narrowly escaped the gas chambers for godsakes. And nothing would make her happier than to see her grandson enter a stable profession like medicine before she dies. But I had to go and ruin that one and only hope of hers. (Long silence) Ive finally accepted that guilt is going to be an inherent part of my existence. But its alright, I guess, cause I try and channel it into my music." One way of looking at the Lovely Feathers is to regard their musical output as one long obsessive-compulsive neurotic reaction to an eternal guilt trip.

Mark Kupfert, (guitars, vocals) has lived an equally serpentine and arguably even more guilt-ridden life than young Richards. Since he was a boy, he was plagued by perpetual self-doubt, and severe paranoia---these combined to give way to his typically warped perception of reality and generally unbalanced personality. Kupfert insists he originally conceived of the Lovely Feathers out of his spiritual torment. "My consciousness is split, he says I feel like I'm half Ancient Greek Hermeneutician and half celebrity-obsessed media slave. I Love the Classics, like Petrach and Cicero, yet I'm also passionate about weekly tabloids." Unfortunately for Mark, the bands music does not reconcile the paradoxes at the center of his being so much as they serve to strengthen them.

Bass player Noah Bernamoff can attest to that he has been friends with Mark since pre-kindergarten. In high school, they made their first foray into music together when they founded a twee-pop band in Marks garage before ultimately having an awkward falling out that saw them part ways. Noah was a dazzling hockey player and fled Montreal on a scholarship to play for a prestigious US school. One evening, deep in the throes of winter , the two unexpectedly bumped into each other on a windy street corner in the old port. After a long, tense moment they embraced and wept. Mark anxiously exclaimed that he was playing a show in a week and needed a bass player. Noah smiled and thought to himself what a lucky accident.

The Brothers Suss, the irreplaceable backbone of the strange ungodly beast, part pterodactyl, part eccentric dream-puppy, which we call The Lovely Feathers. Though they share a mother, the two are more disparate than Cain and Abel. Older brother Daniel is a classically trained concert pianist while younger brother Ted grew to be a blood spitting, grunge drummer, immersed in Montreals hardcore scene. While Daniel was emerging as an expert on East Asian politics at McGill University, learning Chinese and becoming Canadas two-time foreign Mandarin speaking champion, Ted was breaking up bar fights after Expos games and learning to play drums like a meth-addicted cyborg from Night City. That is, until Mark bribed them to play drums and keyboards with him alongside Richard and Noah, in what he promised would be a one-time only performance. "I had been debating whether I should start interning for the UN war crimes tribunal," Daniel recalls "when I got that fateful call from Mark. Even then, I never expected to end up in a band playing to wild, unwieldy audiences night after night." On the other hand, Ted maintains he was engineered to play the drums, "I cant imagine doing anything else I hate everything else except raven-haired riot girls."