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Artist
The British Columbians
12+ albums
blues rockCanadianindieindie rockxantica
about
They arrive with their first album in summer 2008 more or less fully formed, and the music here could be sufficient introduction, but there is a story and there are people involved, so you should meet them and know them a little … Girard Knox (guitars, words, voice), David Moran (drums, voice), and Chris Ellis (bass guitar, hereafter known only as Ellis) began life as The British Columbians, summer 2006, in the basement of an old shack down by the CP switching yard in Port Moody, BC. It began, though, sometime earlier than that. It is unlikely that any of them could have known that their individual musical travels would lead them to each other, but we can now be glad they did. The name of the band could mean different things to different people, I guess. I’ve never pressed them on the subject, but it seems to me it reflects the place where people want to end up, whether they started out there or not-- the notion of a permanent destination secondary to the pleasures to be found just walking the road. The transplant Knox, born and raised on the prairie, heads for Vancouver in the late 90’s, restless and a little hungry, too. He goes in search of a spot to set down his chair, a place to play and sing the songs he’s brought with him, and when he can feel the new ground underneath him, start some new ones. Settling in, he plays wherever he can, eventually spending more than two years in local band, Cremona, as well as sessions and a stint in Subconscious Satellite, where he pla
