Jason Tait - drums, vibraphone, glockenspeil, singing saw
Julie Penner - violin
James Anderson -wine glasses, singing saw, stylophone, banjo, thunder-sheet
The FemBots Family Singers - singing
Skip Olmstead - showtunes.
Influences
Mohamad Ali, Buster Keaton, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, The Clash, James Brown, William Kennedy, Eddie & Ernie, Bob Wiseman, Harry Smith, Maps, a good hair cut, Spike Jones (not Spike Jonze), Jane Jacobs, The Winnipeg General Strike, The Paris Commune, London, sometimes Toronto, a good book is good, a good non-fiction book is better, The Taking Of Pelum 123, 70s cop movies set in New York or San Francisco, wine, a good bottle of scotch.
Hi there...........We’re a band called FemBots. Despite your first impression we are actually two guys. We just didn’t think of the consequences when we named ourselves. We live in Toronto, Canada. We make music at home, then we drive around the continent playing it to other people. Then we drive home. We’ve been doing this since about 1998. It still doesn’t make sense but we do it anyway.
Don’t ask us what kind of music we play, we hate that question and have no idea what to say when asked. We play piano, guitar, bass, keyboards and a bunch of other things. We get bored easily. We always want to make whatever we're working on sound completely different from what we did last. No matter how hard we try we still sound like us.
On stage we are sometimes joined by an old reel to reel tape recorder. It plays tape loops. We play along. Sometimes we bring other people on stage with us. We’ve never really had a permanent lineup so the band might be different every time you see us.
When we’re not driving around the continent we run a postage stamp sized recording studio called the Junkshop.
Things we enjoy -
-old photos of places we know.
-nonfiction (you get to say “I can’t believe that happened!” but it really did happen!)
-listening to old men at the deli. There aren’t any delis in Toronto so we have to go to Montreal or New York to enjoy this.
-Montreal & New York
-good movies
-hotels
-sometimes motels
-obituaries - I don’t know why but it’s usually the most interesting part of the paper
Your songs are so amazing. I have never quite heard stuff like this, i do know i like it immensely. Hope to catch a show sometime, or share a stage someday! Peace guys!
I've been following you guys for what i think is 7 years now... at the very least 5. looking forward to the new recordings. if anybody is around next Friday, we're playing with...
Shotgun Rules! The Fully Down! Red October! and Lacerda!
when: 23/11/2007 Where: The Annexwreckroom 796 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario Cost : $12 advance tics (you can get 'em through us, just send us a message) all ages event doors at 5:00 pm
If you're going to go to Winnipeg, you may as well come back to Calgary. Loved playing with you guys at the Liberty Lounge a couple years back, and Small Town Murder Scene is an album I take every opportunity to rave about. Including using it on my page.
Take care guys, and am hoping to see you are your instruments back where the oil tycoons roam like cows.
