Blackball's been around since ought-three, but the members (Kev, Ron & Dave) have been stomping around the punk scene since the mid-80's, honing the art of harder-faster - if you're from Ottawa, the names Resin Scraper, Black Triangle, Moral Hazard, Goddamn, Good2Go and the Inflatable Jesus Lovedolls may mean something to you. Blackball is the next step - twisting the concept of punk until it sheds the typical trappings of the style and emerges as something different; still loud, fast and...
Blackball's been around since ought-three, but the members (Kev, Ron & Dave) have been stomping around the punk scene since the mid-80's, honing the art of harder-faster - if you're from Ottawa, the names Resin Scraper, Black Triangle, Moral Hazard, Goddamn, Good2Go and the Inflatable Jesus Lovedolls may mean something to you. Blackball is the next step - twisting the concept of punk until it sheds the typical trappings of the style and emerges as something different; still loud, fast and mean, but without the same stale chord progressions and time signatures. They have a 24-song CD out (Limited Edition, Limited Appeal) that was recorded live-off-the-floor and mixed in 9 hours. It may not be as polished as the average major-label schwack, but it does have the eerie quality of being in the same room as the band. In October '08 Blackball perpetrated an (as yet) unreleased recording during a 'marathon show' (played for 3-and-a-half hours straight) as a benefit for local community radio station CKCU-FM. The songs featured here are from that recording.
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