John Evens
I write tunes.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
2005 - winner "Cegeps en spectacles"
(1st prize, best texts and connexion-lanaudiere prize)
- Montreal finalist "star academie"
- recording of a 2 song demo
-airing of "trop proche" (on rotation for a couple of months)
- 1st radio interview
2006
- recording of a 3 songs demo with Ructions (my punk band: http://www.myspace.com/ructions)
- recording of a 7 songs Ep with Ructions (never to be released because of legal terms with the studio)
- recording of a full lenght cd with Ructions (available now)
- now in songwriting process .
Your musical influences
WILCO, The Dears, Fleet Foxes, Jimi Hendrix, The Get Up Kids, Sublime, Rx Bandits, Pink Floyd, Jeff Healey, Alexisonfire, Paper Rival, No Use For A Name, Lagwagon, Strung Out, Thrice, anything Motown,on.
What equipment do you use?
Fender guitars, Simon & patrick acoustic, Fuchs Amp, Empress, eventide, ProCo and voodoo lab effects.
