"There's been a lot of stories people (have) been sharing on social media and stuff like that. With albums like Vessels and The Poet's Dead, which was nominated for a Juno award in 2014, Rah Rah set the stage for the indie genre to take root in Regina and across the province. (Rah Rah)Īll good things must come to an end, and as one decade ends and another begins, Regina's staple indie rock band Rah Rah are saying farewell. Regina indie rockers Rah Rah are playing a few final shows after going on indefinite hiatus. ![]() ![]() In 2011, with three albums and no label, the band wound up with some of music's most prestigious real-estate - the cover of Rolling Stone. From their very first months the band has stuck to the rock-n-roll sound and fury that first moved them. "Ten years ago, I would have either been waking up and jumping in the band van, or sleeping in late and working at a bar in Saskatoon," said Currie.Ĭurrie described his bandmates Sam Corbett and Ryan Gullen as "a bunch of half-baked university students that weren't really too thrilled about going to class and trying to get a regular job," when they first started playing. The band formed in 2004, and 10 years ago frontman Ewan Currie was already putting in work. The hard-rocking, southern-inspired, bluesy sound of The Sheepdogs would be right at home with the southern-fried rock of decades past, but their music was heard far loud and clear this past decade.įrom being played in arenas in the Czech Republic during the 2015 International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship, to spots on late night and early morning talk shows in America, the Saskatoon band's music has reached far and wide.īut that success didn't happen overnight. The Sheepdogs perform during the 2013 Juno Awards in Regina. "That's when we were first just starting to explore bluegrass music and we took all of those older influences that we had developed earlier in high school and started applying that to these bluegrass instruments, and now that's what ended as Dead South," he said. Pringle said they ran the gambit of punk, grunge, metal and rock, and turned to bluegrass after Crawford bought a banjo in university. ![]() "Me, Danny, and Nate have known each other since we were five years old, and we picked up where they left off and just continued on from there," said Pringle. Shortly after those early sessions, the other friends left and Pringle came in. "They ended up jamming a whole bunch and writing a few of the first Dead South songs," said Pringle. ![]() Pringle - who plays the mandolin and guitar in addition to singing - says the band started with Nathaniel Hilts, Colton Crawford and a few friends who met through wrestling and school. "After that everything just kind of started steamrolling forward," said Scott Pringle. Their light-hearted, choreographed video which flashes through scenes of the band in hotel rooms, back alleys, the streets of Toronto and prairie grid roads flanked by canola fields - to the tune of bluegrass sang with raspy vocals - has over 162 million views on YouTube. The Dead South's In Hell I'll Be In Good Company might be the best known song from the Saskatchewan-based quartet. 31 the band plays the first show of the Served Cold tour, which will take them across Canada, the United States and Europe.
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