The Kramdens

The Kramdens
The Kramdens performing at the 2015 Hillside Festival
Background information
Origin	Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Indie rock
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Sextant Records EMI
Website	thekramdens.com
Members	Craig Norris Robert Leader Michael T Plater Findlay Steve Knox Will Kee

The Kramdens are a Canadian Indie rock band formed in 1990 from Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Craig Norris (lead vocals, accordion, keyboards), Robert Leader (drums, percussion, vocals), Michael T Plater Findlay (guitar, lap steel, mandolin, vocals), Steve Knox (guitar, banjo, harmonica, vocals) and Mike Ostler (bass, vocals) have been together twenty five years and throughout that time have produced five records.

The band released their first record ..."semi-stylish" in 1997 which topped many campus radio charts and led to a national TV appearance on CTV’s E-Now, as well as a showcase slot at the prestigious NXNE Music Festival. Their second record, "Radio For Now", was released in 1999 and garnered stunning reviews as well as gave the band its first airplay on commercial radio, including rotation at CHTZ-FM and CHOM-FM. 2001’s "Quiet Collision", was picked up by Sextant Records, a label with EMI and gained airplay for both singles “Sometimes I Feel” and “Breakwall.” On this CD the band recorded a cover of the New Order song "Love Vigilantes", to which a video was produced by director Angus McLellan of Guerilla Force Films and Bleeding Apple.

Appearances on Canada AM, Open Mike with Mike Bullard and a CASBY Awards nomination from CFNY-FM, or Edge 102 for Favourite New Indie Release helped build the band’s national profile. Along with an extensive performing schedule, 2003 saw the European release of Quiet Collision by TB Records. The band has spent the past year working on two albums – one, a full-length follow-up to Quiet Collision, and the other a special limited-release fifteenth anniversary album released in Summer 2005.