Bio :: The Weather

"Suede assisting Tom Waits in trying to squeeze the corpse of Joy Division through a spaghetti-wes tern-shaped tube."
- Are You Familiar?

"Stellar bands like The Weather come around once every 100 years."
- Chris-A-Riffic

"The Weather's vocalist had a bit of a David Byrne thing with a side of Tom Waits for the first couple songs. They moved on to some very fresh, even jazzy numbers and dove right back in to the rock without dropping a beat. This is some pro work here by people who LOVE what they're doing. Exceptional."
- Beyond Robson

"The only unsigned local band's whose full length album I enjoyed from first to last song this year."
- Deftone

The Weather took shape in the spring of 2004 in Vancouver, Canada. Jeremy Todd had made a rudimentary recording of some of his songs, and liked the idea of having Vanessa Kwan play a tom and snare as accompaniment for live performances. She said she'd never played drums before - Jeremy thought this was perfect! It also turned out that Vanessa was (and is) a David Bowie fanatic - this was all Jeremy needed to know to think it just might work, and together they played one show as The Kwantodd.
That same night across town, Elizabeth Milton and Rick Clark were playing their last show with The Neins. Jeremy was a fan of The Neins - particularly Elizabeth's songs and keyboard playing, and Rick's bass work. Rick and Jeremy had joked for a couple years about forming a band based around their mutual love of the Gang of Four LP, Entertainment, but nothing ever came of it.
Suddenly, Rick and Elizabeth were not in a band anymore and suggested that The Kwantodd play with them to see what might happen. After a few practices, everybody liked how it felt, and it has been evolving ever since.
Dave Look was a good friend of Rick, Elizabeth and Jeremy. They brought him into the fold to add a bass drum to the line-up. They also needed someone who could be pushed around by Vanessa on a regular basis. Eventually the band hopes to have Vanessa on a full drum kit while Dave does some percussion, sound effects, guitar, and exotic dancing.
The Weather broke up in late 2006, before releasing their first LP. A posthumous online-only (and free!) edition of the finished LP will be published in January 2008.

MP3: Hope and Maybe | Video: Denial