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booker/media contact for The Rain and the Sidewalk
grrrabbit productions
Press/booker photosheet TIFF, 2M
One-sheet (pdf)
Technical Notes for sound personnel (PDF)
therainandthesidewalk@yahoo.ca
TREVOR MICHAEL THOMPSON
vocals, electronics, guitar, bass, beats
SHANNON HALLETT
vocals
WAYDE COMPTON
vocals, guitar, bass
Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada,
The Rain and the Sidewalk creates moody, semi-electronic, art-pop.
Initially a solo project of Trevor
Michael Thompson
(formerly known as Introvert, until it
turned out that there were several other Introverts out there already), the project began recording in 2001. The sessions, with Rose Reiter on vocals, later became the debut release Inanimate. The CD was widely played in college radio, and charted on many stations across Canada.
Beginning live performances in 2002, Trevor (that overrated yet awesome guy from The Rain and the
Sidewalk) Shannon
Hallett (Betty Kracker, Shrimpmeat), and poet/songwriter Wayde
Compton became involved in 2004 have performed numerous times as a trio.
Trevor also recorded a song for the experimental underground SPOOX compilations, as well as a cover of the song Propellor for a 2CD Severed Heads compilation.
Trevor later radicallly remixed some of the Inanimate songs for a limited release, Redundant, highlighting Trevor's industrial, darkwave and experimental electronic inlfuences. Following that was an appearance on the CD/magazine One Cool Word (the first recording with Hallett singing)
The newest double CD Weakness was released in Sept. 2009. the 28 songs continue The Rain and the Sidewalk's examinations of isolation, rejection and loneliness. The music combines the early 80's postpunk and electronic influences with 21st century ethereal experimental and indie pop.
New father Wayde will not be touring with the band this year.
Weakness has begun charting at college stations across Canada.
The band is playing Eastern Canada in April (as a duo) and plans to Europe in 2010.
Contact Trevor @ therainandthesidewalk@yahoo.ca
other locations:
micepace
sevcom
Radio 3
TRATS has received such disturbingly gushing praise as:
(from Terminal
City weekly):
"...the only guy I know that can actually pull off the Joy Division
thing, and he doesn't wear crappy girl clothes like all the other bands
along that vein..."
John Cow
"...the Rain and the Sidewalk is fucking brilliant and eccentric
the way no one else really is..."
"...The Rain and the Sidewalk...fell down on the floor..."
Jenn Wong
(from Discorder):
"...the guy simply could not sing. His voice was truly atrocious..."
"...His songs were really quite good, and the lyrics were intelligent
and darkly humorous..."
Steve Tannock, real live action
"...I felt like I was listening to the cure, but with worse hair.
Although it was an extremely entertaining live show...songs began to sound
a bit repetitive, or maybe that was just their lyrical focus on 'worthlessness'
and 'unworthiness'..."
Sofia Japan, Real Live Action