Quiet Kids
These Quiet Kids
Luckily for all of us, the one-page band biography is falling out of favour. It is unpleasant to write and even worse to read. There are times, however, when the band bio is a necessary evil. We understand that and appreciate your situation, so we’ll keep this as factual as possible.
We’re called Quiet Kids. There are four of us: Jay Hosking (vocals, keys, a little guitar), Ronnie Ellis (guitar, vocals, a little keys), Mikey Bowd (bass, a little vocals), and Geoffrey Stratton (drums, vocals). We are a team rather than a “project” with a leader. We write together, drink together, hang out together, and play some pretty great shows together. We have a singer who usually just sings, but we are not The Doors, Led Zepplin, U2, I Mother Earth, or Our Lady Peace. Thank god we’re not those last two.
Quiet Kids live in Vancouver, though none of us are originally from here. There isn’t really a scene to speak of so it’s easy to say that we don’t sound like the scene. It’s harder to say what we do sound like. Mikey says that I should say that we sound like “your favorite band but on steroids.” It’s more like Elvis Costello and older Wintersleep and newer Thrice and a little Constantines and a lot like our friends’ musical projects. I hate to admit it, but we may even sound a little like The Killers, which is doubly brutal because none of us listen to them and they also have a singer who mostly sings.
The band came together last summer and within two months we were recording our first album, Serious Lovers. It’s a pretty great record and it sounds like one of those summers when anything seems possible. We recorded and mixed the album ourselves (Jay is a studio-type guy) and we’re awfully proud of it. Have you listened to it yet?
The immediate future for Quiet Kids looks good. We’re playing next week, almost finished writing a new record, and hopefully having some new people hear our stuff. Like yourself. Thanks for listening.
