The Bowery Ballroom (Venue Partner)
6 Delancey St
212.533.2111
This event has passed.
- When
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Sunday Nov 29, 2009 (8pm)
- Where
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Directions: JMZ to Bowery
- Price
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$15
Peforming with The Happiness Project and Years
Do Make Say Think are one of Canada’s hardest-working and most prolific experimental rock bands, with their most mature album to date released in October 2003. Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn is an amazing record of unparalleled depth for the group and is sure to build on their fine reputation for challenging, inventive instrumental music.
Do Make Say Think formed in 1995-96 in Toronto, Canada. Founded by two pairs of musicians with backgrounds as varied as punk, jazz and industrial metal, the group has included a number of additional musicians over the years contributing to both live shows and recordings. Core members Charles Spearin (bass, keyboards, trumpet) and Ohad Benchetrit (guitar, saxophone) first played together in high school and birthed the Toronto punk band Dead Lemmings in the late 80s; both have gone on to work in sound production and engineering in Toronto. The other founding pair, Justin Small (guitar) and James Payment (drums), are seasoned downtown rock players who’ve done time in a long list of bands, among them the post-industrial rock group Malhavoc. During the summer of 1995, these players came together to score the music for a Canadian youth drama production, sequestering themselves in an empty schoolroom for rehearsals. The four basic verbs “Do”, “Make”, “Say”, “Think” adorned the walls of said classroom, and these elementary-level educational placards were adopted as a project name for the nascent group.
