Cailean Lewis handles guitar, bass, keyboards, with care
Caleb Langille plays guitar, bass, keyboards, the fool, with himself
Josh Salter tackles guitar, bass, quarterbacks
Lyle Peterson mans the guitar and womans the electric sitar
Influences
The Beatles Big Star The Raspberries T.Rex The Replacements The Monkees The Rolling Stones The Kinks The Black Lips Rolling Thunder Revue era Dylan Nuggets/Pebbles Trash The Rutles The Flashing Lights The Superfriendz Television The Who The Brian Jonestown Massacre Thrush Hermit David Bowie Of Montreal The Zombies The Byrds The Band Todd Rundgren Wilco The Stooges The Velvet Underground King Khan and the Shrines The Pineceones The Creation Love Os Mutantes Buffalo Springfield Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Sounds Like
The dBs The Flamin' Groovies A warped copy of "Raspberry Beret" The Golden Chords The Abdabs The Lower Third Icewater The Ravens Wicked Lester The High Numbers Cousin Oliver Grapefruit Footnotes A Robert Christgau review B-
The Gideons are finishing up a new record that is sure to be the purest rock and roll release since Meet the Scruffs.
It is high time they produced a 1 record with raw power that gets inside the teenage head, something else between love and theft to suit their sticky fingers. The gideons go on with hard promises to keep and miles to see before they sleep.
Stone tablets are old news. Listen to "Hymns for Hers", the Gideons debut record.
Their wild anything-goes stage show has involved numerous balloons, feather boas, make-up, matching turtlenecks, smoke machines, beer-soaked shirtless swagger and everything in between.
They were featured in The Coast, Halifax's Free Weekly, in the Best of New Music Issue and have garnered praise from Arts Editor Tara Thorne who called the Gideons "our new favourite live act". Entertainment Reporter Stephen Cooke of the Chronicle Herald said "the songs [on Hymns for Hers] are loose, raw and fun, the way rock is supposed to be.
Rock and roll of the highest order, the Gideons are committed to bringing you all of the following things: groovers, shakers, movers, heartbreakers, psyche-outs, dandy pomp, mic shouts, and randy romps.
If anyone wants to contact the Gideons throw your e-mails this way: halifaxjunk[at]hotmail.com
I love your sound! I hear the Television intensity mixed with beautiful 60's pop. Your recordings sound better than mine(my engineering and production knowledge and budget is limited). I used only a Korg D1600 recorder and an sm57 mic...no mixing board or preamp. I always record immediately after the song is written, I can't stop when it starts. Thank you for your kind words. Stay in touch. I wish you much success, creativity, and fun! -evan
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