Reg Vermue

Gentleman Reg
Gentleman Reg, August 2008
Background information
Birth name	Reg Vermue
Origin	Trenton, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Indie rock, folk rock, lo-fi
Instruments	Guitar Vocals Piano
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Three Gut Records Arts & Crafts
Associated acts	The Hidden Cameras Broken Social Scene Owen Pallett Royal City Constantines
Website	Gentleman Reg

Reg Vermue is a Canadian indie rock singer from Guelph, Ontario. Born in Trenton, Ontario, he records as Gentleman Reg. His musical style has been compared to Elliott Smith, Aimee Mann, The Smiths and Cat Power. He had a cameo role in the 2006 film Shortbus.

Most recently he began performing with a new band called Light Fires with James Bunton from the band Ohbijou, debuting songs in October 2010 at Pop Montreal. In Light Fires, Vermue performs in drag, adopting the alternate persona Regina the Gentlelady.

His first album, The Theoretical Girl, was released in 2000 on Three Gut Records. He released two more albums, Make Me Pretty in 2002 and Darby & Joan in 2004, on Three Gut before the label dissolved in 2005.

He subsequently signed to Arts & Crafts in 2008. His first release for that label, Little Buildings in 2008, was a compilation of tracks from his Three Gut albums. The album was created for release in the United States, where his earlier albums had never secured wide distribution. At the same time, he also released "You Can't Get it Back", an advance single from his first album of new material for Arts & Crafts, Jet Black, which was released in full on February 24, 2009.Jet Black was the first proper studio album that he released in the United States.