UPDATE: New videos added from our last show ever! Scroll down to see em!
Fake Blood was a Montreal-based garage punk n roll band dedicated to interpreting the best of 1980s cinema as fast paced and furious action adventure themed rock songs. The band started as a two piece in November of 2001, consisting of Nathan on guitar and Hot Carl on drums. For lyrical inspiration, we drew from a collection of hundreds of BETA video cassettes from the 80s, the remaining stock of a bankrupt video store acquired by Carl at a flea market. In some instances, Nathan would compose lyrics by simply reading the description of the movie directly off the back of the box. We jammed loudly in the bedroom of Carl's ground floor apartment in Montreal's Latin Quarter, and eventually named the band Cinema Chocolat. The band played its first show in Ottawa on Canada Day, July 1st, 2002.
Eventually, we became unsatisfied with the limitations of having only one guitar player and recruited Stephen Ceresia to play the bass. After many beer and cigarette fueled practices at a pay-by-the-hour rehearsal studio called Music City on Beaubien St near Parc Ave, the three of us went on to rock out in dingy bars across the city. Cinema Chocolat recorded its first demo CD on a budget of almost nothing using a borrowed four-track tape recorder and pirated software on Nathan's computer.
When the humor behind the name Cinema Chocolat wore thin, we decided to change our name. A long deliberative process followed and we finally settled on Fake Blood. After playing several more shows under the new name, Steve left the band in late 2005, and Tyler Knight joined as the new bass player. He was on the strings when Fake Blood produced the Live at Cafe Campus recording, in addition to the band's only studio production, Who Will Survive. That album was also recorded live with no overdubs as part of Fake Blood's continuing effort only to produce honest recordings of how the band actually sounded.
Fake Blood had the pleasure to perform with many bands including Crackpot, The Dropouts, Priestess, The Adam Brown, Weapons of Mass Seduction, Nitrosonique, The Nymphets, The Glads, Femme Generation, Cosmos Quazar, A Vertical Mosaic, The Hooks, Holy Shroud, For the Mathematics, The Bloody Hollies, Barracuda Sunrise, Million Dollar Marxists, Jerk Appeal, Shifters, Mono Hum, Replikants, and others. The band's final show was at the Playhouse on December 10th, 2006 with our good buds The Adam Brown.
The following is the legacy of Fake Blood.
ALBUMS
Fake Blood - Who Will Survive?
(recorded in November 2006)
01. Razorback
02. Over The Top
03. The Stuff
04. Red Dawn
05. Theme
06. American Commandos
07. Breakfast Club
08. Bronx Warriors
09. Rad
10. 3:15 The Moment of Truth
11. First Blood II
12. Bronx Warriors Dance Mix
13. Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Fake Blood - Live at Cafe Campus
(recorded in June 2006)
01. Theme
02. Red Dawn
03. Razorback
04. Over The Top
05. Hulkster's In The House
06. American Commandos
07. First Blood II
Fake Blood (Cinema Chocolat) - Demo
(recorded in February 2004)
01. Theme
02. Warlords of the 21st Century
03. The Stuff
04. Corey Feldman
05. Elephant Man
06. Rebels Rule
07. Breakfast Club
VIDEOS
The Death of Fake Blood: Part I
The Death of Fake Blood: Part II
The Death of Fake Blood: Part III
Red Dawn at Barfly in Montreal on Saturday, May 13th, 2006
Theme at Music City rehearsal studio on Beaubien near Parc from sometime in 2004
Razorback at Cafe Campus in Montreal on June 1st, 2006
Theme at Barfly in Montreal on Saturday, May 13th, 2006
Escape From New York at Cafe Campus in Montreal on June 1st, 2006
Over The Top at Divan Orange in August, 2005
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Thanks,
Fake Blood
