Idle Sons
Canadian musical group; rock band
Idle Sons was a Canadian rock music group from Burlington, Ontario, most noted as a Juno Award nominee for New Group of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2007.
Biography
Idle Sons was a Burlington, Ontario-based rock band that has earned a devoted following in Canada and beyond. The group was formed in 1994 by childhood friends Mike Eastick, Sean Kelly, Jer Crosskill, and Bruce Nicol. Jer Crosskill left the band shortly after its inception, and was replaced by Ryan Barkwell. Mike and Sean were on the same line on their hockey team while Bruce and Ryan were pitcher/catcher combination during baseball season. The group originally took the name Slurpymundae under which they toured extensively and released two EPs and one full-length album independently.
In the year 2001, after returning home from a cross-Canada tour with fellow Burlington band, Finger Eleven, the group set to work recording a three-song demo. Friends James Black and Rick Jackett of Finger Eleven were enlisted to produce the demo. At this time, the group began to feel that the name Slurpymundae did not have a future and so they made the switch to Idle Sons. Around this time the group also signed on with Coalition Entertainment manager Julian Gruhl.
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