I have been away for a while and there have actually been some decent blogs.
It's time I bring the quality back down while I tell you about one of my favourite local bands.
Saint Peter’s Thursday is a band that can only be described as raw, unrefined, energy. They are a three-piece band with Anand singing and playing the guitar, Aaron plays bass and Sam, drums, so I decided to interview all three of them so I have less of a blog to write and the answers are far better than anything I could come up with. According to Arron, their style is “raucous, loud and unapologetic”, Sam describes it as “grunge if it was left in a wasteland and raised by hyenas”. Anand sums it up as “a mix between blues and grunge cloaked in a purple haze skunk”, and while I don’t know what any of those summaries mean they definitely paint a picture.
Sam Aaron and Anand
Photo credit: PROSE Photography
Sam and Anand started as a psychedelic blues duo until what Sam refers to as “a gift from Peter himself”, they met Aaron at Ara music school. They wrote their first song together, Fisherman, and recorded it in sound class the next day. There are now some demos on Bandcamp (https://stpetersthursday.bandcamp.com/) and they have been doing some recording recently.
However recordings just don’t compare to watching these three meld into a force of nature on stage, and you can't help but join in. For them, they get to lose themselves in the music they create while getting to see their brothers do the same, an experience they can only describe as cathartic. Watching Anand “scream his guts out” over Aaron’s foundation of low frequencies and various effects. All the while Sam is melding them together by rhythmically “beating the living daylights” out of his drumkit. There is nothing quite like it.
You can find them on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/saintpetersthursday/ and they have merch available if you can find Aaron. Go check them out and see you in another 43 days.
EDITOR'S NOTE: It's good to have you back, Josh. I've missed fixing typo after typo.
