5 Knuckle Surprise
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Biography
(1994-1996)
Originally formed in 1994 as a 4 piece high school cover band,called Under The Influence (an increadibly original name). I think after a year and a half we had 6 original songs. We played mostly high school shows and then one day we graduated form high school and there was nowhere to play anymore, but we kept practicing for the fun of it. Next Things took a dramatic change once mid 1996 came around. Nick Snow vocals/guitar at the time, quit the band to focus on school and football. The remaining 3 of us practiced for fun on occasion until one day we covered a face to face song at one of our practices, the raw sound of punk rock was exactly what we needed to break away from the (at the time) ever so popular yet unenergetic grunge style. Face to Face led to the Descendents led to Bad Religion led NOFX led to Lagwagon led to... you name it.
With our changing preferences in music, came what we think of as a nice blend of beats and sounds that we liked and had fun playing and that was enough to get the ball rolling on what has shaped up to be Five Knuckle Surprise.
(1996-2000)
1996 to mid 97 was nothing but pure practice of our own brand of fast punk until we landed a show through a freind of a freind over at the old Purple Haze showbar in Montreal. From there we had got the itch to play live anywhere we could. We ended playing alot of shows, in alot of places. For a while it seemed like we were always playing shows and we loved it, in doing so we also met alot of cool people. In this time period we had recorded a full lenght album that unfortunately we never released and that very few people have. There are however 2 songs from this recording released on 3 different compilations (check our media section for details). In November of 1997 we were lucky enough to be asked by Greenland Productions to open up the show for Diesel Boy and X-large. Since then we have played with some really cool bands like SUBB, Jughead's Revenge, Mustard Plug and All the Answers. But things were going to change again! Stay tuned for the E true hollywood story!
(2000-2002)
Mark moves to Ottawa... the nations capital... For 2 years the entire project gets put on hold to the point where we are not even a band anymore and the name Five Knuckle Surprise just fizzels out and drops off the canadian punk rock map. It was however a nice break, we were now able to start fresh.
(August 2002-present)
To start off we recorded a few new tracks that will be appearing on our upcoming album and put them on the internet available as free downloads, you can download the unreleased versions of these songs at mp3.com. After the summer recording we knew that we wanted to make the real thing and we have been practicing our asses off in hopes to reaching our full potential in the studio to deliver to you... pure punk rock pleasure. We hope to have the album released come april.
Originally formed in 1994 as a 4 piece high school cover band,called Under The Influence (an increadibly original name). I think after a year and a half we had 6 original songs. We played mostly high school shows and then one day we graduated form high school and there was nowhere to play anymore, but we kept practicing for the fun of it. Next Things took a dramatic change once mid 1996 came around. Nick Snow vocals/guitar at the time, quit the band to focus on school and football. The remaining 3 of us practiced for fun on occasion until one day we covered a face to face song at one of our practices, the raw sound of punk rock was exactly what we needed to break away from the (at the time) ever so popular yet unenergetic grunge style. Face to Face led to the Descendents led to Bad Religion led NOFX led to Lagwagon led to... you name it.
With our changing preferences in music, came what we think of as a nice blend of beats and sounds that we liked and had fun playing and that was enough to get the ball rolling on what has shaped up to be Five Knuckle Surprise.
(1996-2000)
1996 to mid 97 was nothing but pure practice of our own brand of fast punk until we landed a show through a freind of a freind over at the old Purple Haze showbar in Montreal. From there we had got the itch to play live anywhere we could. We ended playing alot of shows, in alot of places. For a while it seemed like we were always playing shows and we loved it, in doing so we also met alot of cool people. In this time period we had recorded a full lenght album that unfortunately we never released and that very few people have. There are however 2 songs from this recording released on 3 different compilations (check our media section for details). In November of 1997 we were lucky enough to be asked by Greenland Productions to open up the show for Diesel Boy and X-large. Since then we have played with some really cool bands like SUBB, Jughead's Revenge, Mustard Plug and All the Answers. But things were going to change again! Stay tuned for the E true hollywood story!
(2000-2002)
Mark moves to Ottawa... the nations capital... For 2 years the entire project gets put on hold to the point where we are not even a band anymore and the name Five Knuckle Surprise just fizzels out and drops off the canadian punk rock map. It was however a nice break, we were now able to start fresh.
(August 2002-present)
To start off we recorded a few new tracks that will be appearing on our upcoming album and put them on the internet available as free downloads, you can download the unreleased versions of these songs at mp3.com. After the summer recording we knew that we wanted to make the real thing and we have been practicing our asses off in hopes to reaching our full potential in the studio to deliver to you... pure punk rock pleasure. We hope to have the album released come april.
