Wintersleep

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Wintersleep
Origin Canada
Years active 1994 - present
Genres Indie Rock
Labels Dependent Music
Members Paul Murphy
Jud Haynes
Loel Campbell
Tim D'eon
This article refers to the Canadian rock band. For the wintersleep in biology, see Hibernation.

Wintersleep is a Canadian indie rock band from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Wintersleep are a part of Dependent Music, a music label/collective that began in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1994. The band has two studio albums and has toured Canada and Europe.

In 2006, Wintersleep signed with Labwork Music, a subsidiary label of EMI Music Canada, and re-released both studio albums to the U.S and Canadian markets. The re-releases include bonus tracks and videos not featured in the originals.

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[edit] Discography

[edit] Band members

  • Loel Campbell (Drums)
  • Jud Haynes (Bass Guitar)
  • Paul Murphy (Guitar/Vocals)
  • Tim D'Eon (Guitar/keyboard)
  • Jon Samuel (Keyboard/back up vocals/guitar) - touring member
  • Mike Bigelow (Keyboard/guitar) - former touring member

[edit] Notes

- Murphy and D'eon played together in the band Kary (on hiatus).

- In addition to playing live drums for Kary, Campbell is a part of many other projects/bands including Contrived, Holy Fuck, the Holy Shroud, The Remains of Brian Borcherdt, amongst others.

- Bigelow plays bass in Contrived with Campbell and Samuel (guitar). He also plays bass in Holy Fuck and the Holy Shroud with Campbell.

- Haynes formerly played bass in the Newfoundland-based hard rock group Bucket Truck.

- D'eon played guitar for Contrived before Samuel joined the group, and appears on Contrived's first record, Pursuit of Plots. He also plays on the sophmore album, Dead Air Verbatim.

- The second album (Untitled) contains a hidden track before Track 1. Most computers do not support this kind of hidden track, so the CD must be in a conventional CD player, and the listener must rewind past the beginning of Track 1. The track is unofficially known as "Spring."

- In 2007, they played select shows with The Tragically Hip

[edit] Videos

  • 2003 - "Caliber" (Directed by Brian Borcherdt)
  • 2004 - "Sore" (Directed by Sean Wainstein, Ghostmilk Studios)
  • 2005 - "Danse Macabre" (Directed by Sean Wainstein, Ghostmilk Studios)
  • 2006 - "Jaws of Life" (Directed by Sean Wainstein)
  • 2006 - "Fog" (Directed/Animated by Mirco Chin)
  • 2006 - "Lipstick"
  • 2006 - "Faithful Guide" (Directed by Sean Wainstein, Ghostmilk Studios)
  • 2006 - "Listen, Listen (Listen)" (Directed by Sean Wainstein)
  • 2006 - "Insomnia" (Directed by Jesse Luke)

[edit] External links

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