The Vincent Black Shadow

Mixing a visual design inspired by European cabaret from the 1930s with music that is clearly a spirited gumbo of pop, punk, steel, and ska, Vincent Black colored Shadow is among the more unusual works to emerge from Vancouver’s pop music scene in the brand new millennium. The Vincent Dark Shadow story started when vocalist Cassandra Ford captured the interest guitarist Robbie Kirkham if they purchased the same beverage at a Vancouver cocktail lounge. Created in the Philippines and elevated in Vancouver, Ford got recently came back to Canada after an archive cope with a label in Manila had opted sour (they wished to remake her right into a pre-fab pop idol while she got even more ambitious things at heart), while Robbie (whose dad spent almost four decades using the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra) was attempting to construct a new music group along with his brothers Chris on bass and Anthony on drums. Borrowing their name from a motorbike name-checked by Hunter S. Thompson in his publication Dread and Loathing in NEVADA, Vincent Black Darkness wasted virtually no time making a loyal pursuing within their hometown, as very much for Ford’s stunning visual appearance, the band’s snappy vintage duds, and their choreographed dance measures as their striking blend of different musical forms. Mary Ancheta following authorized on as Vincent Dark Shadow’s keyboard participant, helping to press the pop accents and melodramatic textures of their tracks in to the forefront. In 2006, the Canadian label Bodog Music authorized Vincent Black Darkness, as well as the group’s debut recording, Fear’s in water, premiered in June of this yr. A video for the music “Metro” (offering clips through the horror film Feast, that used the melody for the soundtrack) started getting airplay in both Canada and america, the group liked a well-received i’m all over this the 2006 Warped Tour, and was likely to attract even more new fans throughout a main American tour starting for Halifax.