JPNSGRLS to finish tour of exciting music in Lethbridge

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Vancouver indie rock band JPNSGRLS ( pronounced Japanese Girls) are neither Japanese nor girls but they are excited about their first  full length CD and finishing their current tour in Lethbridge, July 30 at the Slice.

 JPNSGRLS are playing Lethbridge this week. Photo by Tomas Uribe

“Lately we’ve been going by the monicker ‘high voltage garage pop.That means  that there is a lot of pop, but it is also very high energy. We like to have a lot of fun,” said frontman Charlie Kerr from Red Deer, mid-way through a tour in support of their new CD“ Circulation.”

 

“It’s just really fun music. We’re big fans of bands like the White Stripes and the Strokes and we also have a lot of love for bands like Led Zeppelin and Queens of the Stone Age, which is why we kind of sound like those bands,” he continued.

 

 The band has been together for six or seven years  ever since guitarist Oliver Mann noticed Charlie performing in a battle of the bands competition at one of the high schools.

 

 “It wasn’t his high school, but his band had just broken up so he coached me to be the lead singer of a new band he was starting. And we got  Chris (McLelland, bass) about five years ago,” Kerr continued. Drummer Graham  Serl completes the lineup.

“ That must have been five or six years ago.”

 

 They released a well received five song EP  called the “Sharkweek EP” in 2013 and just released  ”Circulation.”

“One of the songs, ‘David and Goliath’ we wrote when we were kids, so it is about seven years old. But most of them we wrote like last year. Last April we took three days and did six songs and last September we did six more. So this feels like a first record,” he said.

 

“And audience response to it has been phenomenal. We’re getting tweets about it from cities we’ve never been in like Pittsburgh and from all over the United Kingdom,” he continued.

 

 He said the tour is going well and he’d like to  keep it going.

“ But in August, we‘re doing a tour of the west coast of the United States. That will be a first for us. So it won’t be long,” he said adding earlier they toured Spain and Singapore last November.

 

“You have no idea,” he enthused.

 

“ It was incredible.”

 

 He said people should expect to see a high energy show in Lethbridge.

“It’s really high energy and a very fun rock and roll concert. We’re jumping around and playing our instruments. We hope people will see something they haven’t quite seen before,” he said.

 

“And we hope people will hear the record because we’re really proud of it,” he continued.

“We’re telling people if you have a request tweet it to us @jpnsgrls,”  he said.

 The show begins at 9:30 p.m. at the Slice, July 20.

— by Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor

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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 July 2014 13:50 )