Susanna Wiens and Matt McLennan.
Sometimes featuring: Sean Pauls, Matt Hildebrand, Ryan McVeigh, Gareth Williams
Influences
Elizabeth Cotten, Jim O'Rourke, SWANS / Angels of Light, John Fahey, the Birthday Party, Joanna Newsom, Vashti Bunyan, Nico, Misfits, this bike is a pipe bomb, Neko Case, Gareth Williams.
use every part of the deer is an Ottawa-based death-roots band. The deer usually play and compose as a duo comprising Matt McLennan and Susanna Wiens. Matt and Susanna met on an airplane, where they hit upon common experiences of being from Winnipeg, being doctoral students at the University of Ottawa and playing some musical instruments. This eventually led to the band’s formation in the summer of 2007. Matt is the principal songwriter, and is otherwise known for his work with Canadian college radio success stories Cone Five, The Consumer Goods, and Mr. Pine. use every part of the deer is inspired by surrealist poetry and such American musics as bluegrass, gospel, classic country, and punk. This mix of influences has yielded a debut CD, released July 25th, 2008, that may be best described as suicide-gospel.
For recording and performing purposes, use every part of the deer is sometimes rounded out by a revolving lineup of musicians that includes Sean Pauls (keyboards, rich manly backing vocals, etc.), Ryan McVeigh (bass, rich manly backing vocals, etc.), Matt Hildebrand (drums, hotness) and Gareth Williams (rich manly backing vocals).
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Here's a video made by Angus Kohm for our song 'Pedestrian Road Rage', where Susanna proudly "brings a ridiculous children’s sing-along simplicity to the words and execution" (thanks to Vanessa Annand of the Martlet for that apt description... and to Angus for the video).
Hey – just a reminder to listen in FRIDAY afternoon at 4:30-6 pm CST to hear USE EVERY PART OF THE DEER on “This Great White North” an ALL CANADIAN music show from Austin, Texas It’s on 91. 7 KOOP-FM Listen here
Matty! Yes, well I hope so. Wish I was more computer literate. And that this thing would update me more...grrr. I've decided I also either need to get a scanner or buy a digital camera for posting concert pics. Oh well, c'est la vie!
yeah, that was a fun show last summer. i think we've improved since then! we should totally play together again sometime. hope to check out your show at the manx.
