Pointed Sticks

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Pointed Sticks
Origin	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Genre(s)	Punk rock, Power pop, New Wave, Pop punk^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]
Years active	1978-1981, 2006-present
Label(s)	Stiff Records, Sudden Death Records, Quintessence
Members
Nick Jones Bill Napier-Hemy Gord Nicholl Johnny Ferreira Dimwit (Ken Montgomery) Scott Watson
Former members
Tony Bardach Ian Tiles

Pointed Sticks were a Canadian punk rock/power pop band from Vancouver, first active from 1978 to 1981, and reunited to perform in 2006 and 2007.

They were the first Canadian band signed to Stiff Records, although the label was going through financial problems and never released an album by the band.^[5] The band consisted of vocalist Nick Jones, guitarist Bill Napier-Hemy, later keyboardist Gord Nicholl (from Active Dog), bassist Tony Bardach and drummer Ian Tiles. Johnny Ferreira later joined on saxophone, Bardach was replaced by Scott Watson on bass, and Tiles was replaced by drummer Robert Bruce (from Active Dog), and later by Ken "Dimwit" Montgomery. The band released four singles before releasing their only full-length album, Perfect Youth in 1980.

All of their recordings were re-released in 1995 on the compilation Part of the Noise. In 2005, Perfect Youth and the live bootleg Waiting for the Real Thing were reissued on Sudden Death Records. Original band members reunited in 2006 for a Japanese tour, and they have played reunion concerts in Canada and the United States in late 2006 and early 2007.^[6]^[7]

[edit] Name

The band gets its name from dialogue in a famous sketch by Monty Python,^[8] "Self Defence Against Fresh Fruit," wherein Eric Idle repeatedly suggests that learning to defend against something like a pointed stick might be more useful than defending against fresh fruit.^[9] At the beginning of their career they were briefly known as "Eddie Dick And The Pointed Sticks".