Compilation: Windsor Indie Compilation Release: Winter Rose Year: 2004 Chatham Connection: Includes Chatham musicians such as ‘The Janet Theory’, ‘Foreign Film Star’ and Jamie Reaume.
Synopsis ‘Winter Rose’ and it’s sequel ‘Winter Rose II’ were charity albums that were organized by Jamie Reaume. Jamie had been in Windsor for a year or two (after moving from Chatham) and found the yearning of community burning in his soul. All proceeds from the sale of this CD went to ‘Transition To Betterness’.
TRACK LISTING: 01 Ray Whimsey – Just A Stones Throw 02 Mitch Stokes – Story Of Your Life 03 Ryan Yoker – Something Better Than Nothing 04 Kara Kaufmann – Hammock 05 8ight Past Nine – Between The Lines 06 Inoke Errati – Pieces 07 R2DJ – If Santa Don’t Bring You No Funk 08 The Janet Theory – You Suck 09 Jesse Bellon – Align 10 Foreign Film Star – Whales Become White Noise 11 Ashes Of Soma – Loaded 12 Focal Point – On The Edge 13 St James Something & Julia O’Brien – Hark Mary Star 14 Paul Thomson – O Holy Night 15 Anneke’s Star – All Or Nothing 16 Bloemfontein – Chicago, Home Of The Monk 17 Matt Piccolo & Jamie Reaume – Before You Can Laugh Again
Recorded and Engineered by Bob Hiltz and Steve Eyres Executive Producer: Steve Eyres Mixed and Mastered by Bob Hiltz Recorded at Eyres Space Studio, Chatham ON, Canada. Photography: Jason Moor
The Scoop:
The writing teams of Shawn & Jesse go as far back as their first band in 1991 (Foster Child).
Mat & Dave Major’s friendship go as far back as 5 year old kiddies.
The band has stuck with their golden rule, to have fun & write music they like. This demo received amazing reviews from around the world & The 2nd Indie single “It’s Alright” was released across the U.S.A. through New York label Rut Records.
Another first for the band was to perform on one of the years biggest tours (Vans Warped Tour) making stops in Montreal Quebec (Park Jon Dropeau), Barrie Ontario (Molson Park) & the biggest stop of the tour was 20,500 people @ the Pontiac Silver Dome in Michigan U.S.A.. The guys were invited to more dates but had prior commitments at the time, (This was their respective hobby, so they had day jobs and family back home to go back to).
Despite all the good fortune, the band continues on as always & is not buying into the hype. The band has become infamous for their party antics on & off the stage. The two Dave’s are the newest additions to the band, joining in 2001.
The Janet Theory disbanded in 2004 but went out finishing there 2nd year of Warped Tour (2004) which included the Canadian & Mid U.S.A. legs of the tour.
The members went on to take it easy for awhile raising their families while still playing a little for fun. Mat & Dave Major went on to form ‘The Sound Of Static’. Dave Richie, Jesse & Shawn went on to form ‘Dead Girls Union’. Shawn also released home demos under his home recording moniker ‘Demo Kid’.
Artist: The Janet Theory Release Title: Elastic Friend Home: Chatham Kent Ontario Canada Music Style: Rock Date: May 2001
Note: Dave Major plays drums on Summer of ’69. This cover song was done in the studio as an audition for Dave to replace Chuck who at the time, took a break from the band life for a few years. Summer of ’69 (Click to play or right click and choose ‘save target as’ to download)
Additional Musicians: Moog Track on Mystery Parade by Po Kadot. (Square Root Of Margaret)
The Scoop: The bands 3rd demo release. Features a new version of ‘She Said’ from the ‘Shoot Me Down’ CD. The Janet Theory are one of Chathams underground scenes bands playing heavily around Ontario.
The track ‘Freaks Get High’ was one of the most downloaded independent songs from Napster, an internet program that shook the music industry up with it’s file sharing capabilities.
The line up is a continuation from their first band Foster Child.
Recording credits: Recorded 2000-2001 @ Eyres Space Studio in Chatham. (Franks Music centre). Produced by Steve Eyres & The Janet Theory. Engineered by Steve Eyres. Mastered by Bob Hiltz. Cover Art by Jason Moor.
Track Listing. 1. Mystery Parade 2. Butterfly Killer 3. Freaks Get High
4. Waiting (Part 2) 5. Center Of Gravity 6. She Said
Additional Musicians – Matt Drew – Percussion, Jay Moskaluk – Guitar on ‘Inspire Me’.
The Scoop: This is the bands 2nd demo. Just like the first one, Shawn & Jesse spit the vocal duties, but by the next release, they recall Mat Drew to the front.
The song “She Said” caught the attention of the local radio station “The Rock” who put it into regular rotation, from there it spun off to other stations.
The Mellow track ‘Deny Me’ was accepted well in the California area.
Recording credits Produced by Steve Eyres & The Janet Theory. Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by Steve Eyres. Recorded at Eyres Space Studio. Chatham Ontario (Franks Music Center) Jan-July ’98.
1. Waving Good-Bye 2. She Said 3. Everything & Anything 4. Deny Me 5. Waiting 6. Suffer Well 7. Wishful Thinking 8. Battle Of Head & Heart 9. One White Dove 10. Shoot Me Down 11. Losing The Angle 12. Inspire Me
Additional Musicians : Jay Moskaluk – additional Guitars on tracks 1,2,3,4,5 Rob Johnston – Backing Vocals on ‘Shoot Me Down’
The Scoop: Recorded in Jan 1997 by Steve Eyres @ his house studio. This is the first Janet Theory demo.
These songs were slated to become part of the upcoming CD, but after listening to the songs over & over again they decided that they were not up to par.
So back to the drawing board they went. With close to 40 new songs to choose from, It took them a little longer than anticipated.
This is a collection of the rejected songs in their rawest form. But you can’t get more real than raw, so this demo cassette still holds strong as one of their best releases to date. Their original sound went unnoticed generally, but 5 years later, their style would dominate the music scene as the so called “emo” style, but the band had moved past that sound years before it broke out
That is a good sign for a band to be ahead of it’s time.
The demo was known for it’s return to their underground roots.
Track Listing. 1. Shoot Me Down, 2. Inspire Me, 3. Trust Me, 4. Freaks Me Out 5. The switch song, 6. Special, 7. More & More, 8. Everyone Is A Gun
Recorded and produced by Steve Eyres at his home studio 1997.
Artist : Foster Child Release Title : Foster Child Home : Chatham Music Style : Rock Date : 1996
Musicians : Shawn Beaulieu– vocals, guitars Mat Drew – Vocals, Percussion Jay Moskaluk – Guitar , bow Jesse Verleye– Vocals, Bass Chuck Young – Drums
The Demo: This is their second demo, Recorded & Produced by Steve Eyres.
The original 3 thrash kids (Shawn,Jesse,Chuck) recruited Jay & Mat from the local cover band ‘Soul Kitchen’.
Due to the lack of venues having original music, the band doubled as a cover band with originals thrown in to keep them playing every weekend. The band found themselves booked endlessly packing venues all over Ontario for the next 2 years including a few Cornstalks, KOA Bash’s, & a handfull of arena shows.
The band did a summer tour of Ontario in support of this demo & heavy playing everywhere & anywhere lead to a good following.
Although the plan was to gain more exposure by playing covers & getting into more clubs from this, they found covers were consuming all their time. by 1997, members started up original projects ‘Janet Theory’ & ‘Whatever’, while keeping Foster Child just a cover band once in a while until 1999 when their original projects took on life.
Engineered by Steve Eyres at Eyres Studios, Chatham. Produced by Foster Child and Steve Eyres. Mastered at DB Studios, London, Ontario by Brian Burnes. Photography by Theresa Chartrand.
Summer Tour Dates 1996 Windsor – Rum Runners (2 nights) Amherstburg – Bonkers (2 nights) Sarnia – The Tunnel (two nights) Blenheim – Papa Luigi’s (two nights) Chatham – Aberdeen (three nights) Wallaceburg – Sam’s Hotel (two nights) Blenheim – Arena Toronto – The 360 St. Catherines – The Club Tilbury – Arena Hamilton – X Club Kitchener – Mrs. Robinsons Chatham – Cornstalk Mitchells Bay – Outdoor show Acme Bash – Outdoor show AOK Bash – Outdoor show London – Baha Club Chatham – CAW Hall
Click video preview below to hear samples of the CD
Artist: Foster Child Home: Chatham Ontario Release: Memories Of Tomorrow (Cassette) Year Formed: 1991
Musicians Shawn Beaulieu – Vocals, Guitar Jesse Verleye – Bass, Backing Vocals Chad Kobylka – Guitars Chuck Young – Drums
Tracks 01 lifeless expressions 02 in the real world 03 dark room dream 04 once a slave 05 alien breed 06 gift of life 07 open future 08 colour my world 09 more of you 10 the final chapter 11 peter and the wolf (Bonus track)
The Scoop This is the first of 2 demos for the band. At the ages of 15-17, this band surprised the scene by being extremely tight, fast, & different from everything else going on locally.
The demo was recorded in 1 day by Rick Neufeld (Wallaceburg). The band found themselves playing all over Ontario & often having to leave the venue after their sets because they were way to young to be inside the clubs they were playing.
This was the beginning of a writing team of Shawn & Jesse who later played together in the Janet Theory, Dead Girls Union, Demo Kid, Infinite Arms & Saint Ends. Chuck also played in all these bands, except the home demo sessions for Demo Kid.
Before the release of the pink tape demo, they recorded a three song demo that was never released. This recording had Simon Coleman on drums.
Released on cassette only. Recorded September 16-18 1991.
Musicians: Mat Drew – Vox, Shawn Beaulieu – Guitar, Vox, Loops & Programming Jesse Verleye – Bass, Vox Dave Richie– Guitars, Dave Major – Drums, Vox
The guys take a break from full on music and decide to wrap it up to spend time with families for a while. After years of playing non-stop in bands, they take a rest. The Janet Theory had fun and thank everyone for their support. Band members will be back on the scene soon slowly one by one.
The band was featured on 2 different compilation Cds put out this year also.
From The Underground – features ‘It’s Alright’. (New York Label) Winter Rose – features ‘ You Suck’. (Chatham Kent/ Essex Release)
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