Five Knuckle Surprise (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.
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 a lot of cool people.
In this time period we had recorded a full length 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.
In this time period we had recorded a full length 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.
(2002-2005)
Johnny “Gusto” Montour joined on in March 2003.
They've been included on numerous compilations (Raw Energy Records, Freedumb
Records, Simple Things Records, and the recently released Burnout Productions
compilation featuring Allister from Drive-Thru Records).
Their sophomore release entitled “…Til it Hits You”, (Final Records, Dec. 2003) has been getting rave reviews, and excellent distro through a company called Local Distribution and is now widely available at HMV and Archambault record stores, as well as smaller outlets.
Catch these guys live and you won't be disappointed. They play an aggressive, from the gut, energetic and sweat filled show. Just don't get too close, cuz you might get kicked in the nuts….just come on out and you'll see for yourself.
Their sophomore release entitled “…Til it Hits You”, (Final Records, Dec. 2003) has been getting rave reviews, and excellent distro through a company called Local Distribution and is now widely available at HMV and Archambault record stores, as well as smaller outlets.
Catch these guys live and you won't be disappointed. They play an aggressive, from the gut, energetic and sweat filled show. Just don't get too close, cuz you might get kicked in the nuts….just come on out and you'll see for yourself.
-WE HAVE
DISBANDED- RIP 5 KNUCKLE SURPRISE 1994-2005
A HUGE ASS THANK YOU GOES OUT TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT BOUGHT OUR CD'S, MERCH, CAME TO THE SHOWS AND THE GREAT PEOPLE WE MET THROUGHOUT THE YEARS OF 5KS, THANK YOU.
A HUGE ASS THANK YOU GOES OUT TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT BOUGHT OUR CD'S, MERCH, CAME TO THE SHOWS AND THE GREAT PEOPLE WE MET THROUGHOUT THE YEARS OF 5KS, THANK YOU.
