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Crash City Saints
12+ albums
shoegazenoise popdream popnoise rockindie
about
Working-class shoegaze Do you REALLY want to know? Here's the Dickens version... To put the fact that presently Crash City Saints are still alive and kicking after all this time, and what a miracle that is in and of itself, into context, you have to know the whole story. I’ve been playing music since I was 16. For years, I mostly filled in on guitar/keyboards for already-established local musical acts. I could never find anyone who was into the same kind of music as me, which was endlessly frustrating. Finally, in the summer of 2002, I bought a Boss digital 8-track recorder and set out writing/recording songs in my bedroom. Around this same time, my brother Nathan and (friend) Mike Mann had begun jamming in a basement as a two-piece, with Mike on drums and Nathan on guitar/vocals. It was Mike who came up with the name “Crash City Saints”. I joined them, and we started incorporating some of the music I had written into our practices. A short while later, a new drummer was added to the band and Mike switched to bass. Eventually, that line-up changed to include Chris Kolodzieczyk (Melt/Rural Electrification Act) on guitar, and his friend Matt who replaced Mike on bass. We played some shows around town and were generally well received – a mention by the local press; plans for a split 7” with another local band; show offers started coming in. No great shakes maybe in the grand scheme of things, but after ten years of trying to put together a band, it seemed I was finally in one t
