| The Creeping Nobodies | |
| Background: | group_or_band |
| Origin: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genre: | Post-punk, Experimental |
| Years Active: | 2001–2009 |
| Label: | Blocks Recording Club ([][][][][][]) Deleted Art Kosher Rock Records Bloodworks. |
| Associated Acts: | Parts Unknown The Sick Lipstick Memories Forever C.I.T.U.S The Sharp Tongues Skull Bong The Singing Saw Shadow Show Lenin I Shumov Synphonic Bruised Knees Blues |
| Website: | www.thecreepingnobodies.com |
| Past Members: | Dennis Amos Matthew McDonough Sarah Richardson Valerie Uher Derek Westerholm James Anderson Julia Muth Eric Abboud Marco Landini George Westerholm Jaime Carrasco |
The Creeping Nobodies were a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 2001. They played their final gig in 2009.
The Creeping Nobodies began as a one-off performance for a tribute night to the UK band The Fall, and were put together by Derek Westerholm.[1] The tribute night was held on September 21, 2001 at the El Mocambo club in Toronto, and the band name "The Creeping Nobodies" came from the name of a fictitious band mentioned on a Fall record sleeve. Immediately afterwards, the band became its own entity, investigating a wider range of musical influences.
The band released many of their records on Blocks Recording Club (sometimes referred to simply as [][][][][][] Recording), including Sound of Joy,[2] recorded with Wharton Tiers, and a 2007 split 12" with the band Anagram.[3] Blocks was a worker co-operative which also released records by Final Fantasy, Ninja High School, Katie Stelmanis, Lenin I Shumov, The Hank Collective, Fucked Up, and The Phonemes, among others. Other Creeping Nobodies CD and vinyl releases appeared on Deleted Art, fromSCRATCH, Bloodworks Music, Kosher Rock Records, and on a number of compilation albums.
The band line-up changed a number of times over the years, the most stable occurring between 2004-2007 consisting of Westerholm, Uher, Amos, McDonough and Richardson.[4] In 2007 Westerholm himself left prior to the band's last recordings and final tour in Europe.[5] [6] The band's last performance occurred in May, 2009, and at that time The Creeping Nobodies were Dennis Amos, Sarah Richardson, Valerie Uher and Matthew McDonough.