Beverly Breckenridge

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Beverly Breckenridge is a noted musician from Toronto, best known as the bass player for the bands Fifth Column and Phono-Comb.

In 1987, Beverly Breckenridge joined the post-punk experimental band Fifth Column . She plays bass and provides background vocals on the band's three singles, various compilations, and the LPs All-Time Queen of the World and 36-C, released on the independent record label K Records in 1994, which includes what is perhaps the group's best known song, "All Women Are Bitches", named 'Single of the Week' by the British music paper Melody Maker. This song was later covered and sampled by two groups in the 2000s. Fifth Column's last appeared in 2002 on the Kill Rock Stars compilation Fields and Streams.

In 1996, Beverly joined Don Pyle, Reid Diamond and Dallas Good in the band Phono-Comb as bassist, recording the LP Fresh Gasoline with producer Steve Albini for the Touch and Go Records label, and touring throughout North America. A song by the band is featured in the 1997 Canadian film Pitch.

Beverly's first appearance on film was in No Skin Off My Ass, in 1991. In 1992 she starred in the G.B. Jones' film The Yo-Yo Gang. She also appears with Fifth Column who perform live in the film She's Real, Worse Than Queer.

Most recently, Beverly composed music for the play Man-o-rexic with musicians G.B. Jones, Joel Gibb of The Hidden Cameras and the playwright Caroline Azar.