Moose Jaw based indie rock band PandaCorn will be a officially a trio when they return to Lethbridge, Jan 16 to play the Slice.
Drummer Ryan Schnell, who will have played with them for a year as of March, is officially part of the band and on their new EP “ Synthesis of Opposites’ which was released in Moose Jaw and Saskatoon in November.
The album title is a good description of the band. Guitarist/ vocalist Brody Mohninger comes from a more indie rock background while keyboardist/ vocalist Megan Nash comes from a folk singer/ songwriter background.
Ryan Schnell comes from a punk rock background.
“He’s a really great guy. We all have different personalities, so that worked out pretty cool,” Nash said.
She noted he doesn’t have a costume yet, they are going to stick with the panda and unicorn outfits though.
“If anything the costumes may become more elaborate,” she said.
She is excited about the new seven track CD.
“We had a local release in Moose Jaw and Regina, but we want to record two more songs and do an official national and digital release,” she said.
“Brodie put a lot of work into this CD. All I had to do is come in and play my parts and recorded my vocals,” she said.
“He’s been doing everything else. He’s been engineering it as well as playing his own parts,” she enthused.
She noted people have really embraced the CD during the local release.
“ We’ve been playing too many gigs without a CD. It’s nice to play these songs, but it’s nice people can take them home with them and listen to them again, Heck, it’s nice that people want to take them home and listen to them again,” she said.
She hopes the finished CD with the two new tracks will be done by summer.
In the meantime they tour around Saskatchewan and Alberta as Pandacorn on weekends.
“We do weekend gigs in Alberta and Saskatchewan. We’re including Red Deer on this one, but we want to go out to Vancouver and Halifax across Canada,” she continued.
PandaCorn will be taking a brief break as Nash does a solo tour out to the East Coast in February.
They always enjoy playing Lethbridge.
“We did a lot of overdubs on the CD, so we’ve been learning to play them. We’ve got some new songs as well. So there will be songs you recognize, but it will be a different show,” she said.
“ I love Lethbridge. I’m wearing my CKXU shirt right now,” she continued.
“ We play there every three or four months.”
There is a five dollar cover for the show, which also includes Lethbridge alternative rock band Advertisement. The show begins at 9:30 p.m.
