Christian - Guitar
Jesse - Vox/Keys
Paula - Bass
Mike - Drums
Influences
"We Became Actors is the latest band to emerge from the severely underrated Minneapolis music scene. You don't have to go all the way back to Husker Du or The Replacements for good Twin Cities rock--several great bands from the area have popped up in recent years, though many of them have somehow escaped appropriate national attention. Let's hope We Became Actors can break that trend. (Perhaps as a good omen, This Is Where We Stand was recorded at a studio that a Minneapolis hit, Tapes 'N Tapes, once used.) We Became Actors' music is upbeat guitar pop, influenced by The Cure but sounding more like Tokyo Police Club, Harlem Shakes or early Bloc Party. "George & Martha" is the place to start." - WLUR
"We Became Actors pounded out new wavey goodness for the shouting crowd... with an infectious energy, bright guitars and [a] tight rhythm section." - Perfect Porridge
"We've recently developed a crush on all the boys in this band. Their high energy, danceable brand of rock n' roll is just the thing to get your weekend started!" - L'etoile Magazine
"...Among the local bands hitting the stage is We Became Actors, a pop-punk band heavy on the Cure veneration but lacking the quality that inspires one to cut oneself while listening."
- City Pages
"Jesse Stensby (We Became Actors' frontman) has got some frontman skills. I really appreciate bands with a singer who just sings--doesn't play guitar, doesn't play keyboards--just sings. We Became Actors play loud, tight rock and roll. It doesn't get much more straightforward than this. Stensby does actually have a keyboard onstage, for your info, but it's way over on the side, precluding his playing of it simultaneously with his singing, so I'm standing by my earlier point. We Became Actors' last song is definitely their best, a hooky pop wind-up with a classically yin-yang chorus that goes, "She looks so pretty but / acts so ugly." They should sell it. Either that, or take over the world with it and cash in."
- Steve McPherson, Editor, Reveillemag.com
Sounds Like
The Cure, Bloc Party, Tokyo Police Club, Tegan and Sara, Metric
We Became Actors have a hard time standing still. They throw tambourines, clap hands, kick over cocktails. The latter on accident. Usually. Like a Sunday hangover, they're loud, bright and soaked in gin. They power through pop embellished with flourishes of delay and synthesizer. With the help of Darren Jackson (Kid Dakota, The Hopefuls), they recorded their debut, This Is Where We Stand, at Shortman Studio (Tapes n Tapes, Cloud Cult) for release this summer. We Became Actors call Minneapolis home. And they love it.
Hey guys! Glad you're digging our music, we're definitely trying to head up to Minneapolis, actually we might be playing a show in August with Mighty Fairly, do you know them?
<br />ITS TIME!<br /><br /><br />Project Project 2 (look, listen, dance, repeat) is back for another round of multimedia madness. Join us at the Kitty Cat Klub at 9pm on Friday March 27th to witness an event described as:<br /><br />"an immersive, multi-sensory aesthetic experience" TC Daily Planet<br /><br />"A patchwork of buzzing circuitry and discarded sonic limbs, this new being thrives in the spaces between this and that. It is organic. It is artificial. And in numbers, it thrives." City Pages<br /><br />For this installment we're not dicking around, we've got CD release by Ghost in the Water, a premier screening of Nobot/Beeple multimedia collaboration, and dueling DJ sets from DJ Bach and DJ Gigamesh. Also performances from Nobot and Estate, art and design by Soar Studios, film screenings from Jon Thompson and donebestdone.<br /><br />Hope to see you all there!
This is Pasi (formerly of the Lid), good to see you a few weeks back at clapperclaw. We gig as often as we can (ep release on the 6th). Hows Vitriol and everything else these days?
Lots of great bands have come through Signaturetone recently, and we've helped unleash some spectacular new records from a bunch of genres. Check these artists out and support local music!
Let us give you the record you've always wanted but thought you wouldn't be able to get without mortgaging your home (again). Indie rock to alt country to extreme grind to free jazz, we've got the tape and tubes all warmed up for you.
