Good rockers don’t go away, they just change their band name. Daniel Sioui was in the most excellent Vancouver post-punk band All State Champion. That morphed into Carpenter with members of By A Thread, Speaking of Heroes, and Daggermouth.
Some fond Victoria memories are going to see All State and later Carpenter shows. I remember seeing Carpenter at Logan’s a few times… going with my brother CJ, meeting up with Coral (BEFORE WE WERE MARRIED! SWA?) and hanging with Razer.
The other day I blogged about By A Thread playing a show in Chicago, and that night I dug through some old bins of compact discs and pulled out some favourites. This morning, driving my 4-year-old to pre-school she was meowing about wanting to hear songs (she just doesn’t get The Current yet) so I popped in my Carpenter Town and Country ep. My kid, god bless her… knows music only from the radio, vinyl, or youtube so she thought the CDs were pretty bizarre. “Oh cool, you have mini records!” That was a trip.
The brought me to the wormhole of the internet… searching for Carpenter to see if those guys are still operating. and would you look at that, a post YESTERDAY on their Facebook.
Daniel has a new project called Precursor and it definitely scratches that Vancouver post-whatever itch.
Gosh darn… that’s good.
Go with yourself.
The Morning After 
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