The Super Friendz
| The Super Friendz | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Genres | Indie rock |
| Years active | 1994–1997, 2003–present |
| Labels | Murderecords |
| Website | thesuperfriendz |
| Members | Drew Yamada Charles Austin Matt Murphy Chris Murphy Dave Marsh Cliff Gibb Lonnie James |
The Super Friendz are a band from Halifax, Nova Scotia, active between 1994 and 1997, reforming in 2003. Contemporaries of Sloan, their early work was on Sloan's Murderecords label.
The Super Friendz were formed in 1994 by three King's College students. Matt Murphy, who had earlier played guitar with Black Pool; bassist Charles Austin, briefly a part of Al Tuck and No Action; and guitarist Drew Yamada formed the core of the band. At first the band had no permanent drummer: at various times Chris Murphy (no relation to Matt) of Sloan, Cliff Gibb of Thrush Hermit, and Dave Marsh filled the role.
In 1994, The Super Friendz released a single on Chris Murphy's label, Murderecords, and later toured Canada with Sloan.
The Super Friendz' first album, Mock Up, Scale Down (1995, Murderecords), drew great critical praise, if not necessarily commercial success. Recorded in a Halifax house rented by Austin and Murphy by Brenndan McGuire with Dave Marsh on drums, Mock Up blended retro-pop with Canadian rock influences.
The following year, the band released Play the Game, Not Games, a 10-inch single, also on Murderecords. The songs on Play the Game—especially the contributions of Austin and Yamada—were significantly more experimental than on the album, and prefigured both the band's future work and its creative tension. This highly collectible 10" piece of vinyl marks the Super Friendz recording debut of Lonnie James on drums who had joined the band six months earlier. With a solid lineup and a dynamite live show, the next year and a half for the Superfriendz were the busiest and hardest working as the band would ever be.
Mock Up, Scale Down was released in the United States in 1997 on March Records under the title Sticktoitiveness (which earlier had been the title of an independent tape made by the band). A few of the songs from Play the Game also appeared on the U.S. release.
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