.The band officially started in the fall of 2000. It was Mark and Steven's idea to start a band. At that time, Mike Marcotte was in grade 7, and Mark Turh, Marc Tkachuck, and Steven Blehm were all in grade 8 at St.Dominic Savio School. Mark and Steve had it all planned out, Mark on guitar and Steven on drums. Then one of their friends Marshall Finch wanted to join the band and play guitar as well. Then they finally decided that they should get Marc to play guitar. So, Mark and Marshal argued about who would play the bass guitar in the band, Mark ended up playing bass because he learned it faster then Marshall. After that, they started searching for a singer. Marshall tried out and failed horribly, and then a kid named Andrew Butzealarr tried and was all right but not the greatest, but still ways better the Marshall. The last person to try out was Mike; he was a great singer, so they went with him. At the time, Mike did not know how to play a musical instrument all he did was sing. All we needed was a name; it was both of the marks idea to call our selves the FunboYz, so the name stuck. The first couple of songs we did were easy and simple such as “All the Small Things - Blink 182, and Brain Stew - Green Day. We played at school dances and pep rallies. The first time the band ever played was at the boys football pep rally where Mike being the stud he is, dedicated the first song they ever did to a girl he liked at the time, Cody Lloyd. They did not finish the whole song, we got threw half of the song and stop because our music teacher at the time " The all mighty Mr. Brown" said it would sound better if we just played the part we knew and not screw up on the part we didn't no. As the months went by it came to Christmas holidays, so the band took a 2-week holiday form each other. When they have all returned they had discovered that Mike new how to play the electric guitar. So now, the band had two guitar players, a drummer, a bass player, and a singer. After Christmas, they played only three more times before school was out. At the schools talent show where we played, First Date- Blink 182, and Back in Black- Ac/Dc. The second time was at the grade 8-grad celebration where they played, The Middle- Jimmy eat world. The last time at St. Dominic Savio was at a year-end family b.b.q dance where we played The Middle for the last time and we played Dammit- Blink 182. That was it for the Funboyz; everyone went to high school and left Mike at St. Dominic Savio. Everyone knew we would start the band again as soon as I got to high school. In the middle of the year, there was a pep rally at Leboldus; Marshall being a retarded homosexual entered the band in to a Battle of The Bands. The guys thought they were screwed because they did not have a singer. At the time, Mark gave up Bass guitar and learned how to play electric guitar, so the band did not have a singer or bass player. One night Mike phoned up Mark to see what was going down for the weekend and how school was going. Mark told him that Marshall entered them into the schools Battle of The Bands with out any of the guys knowing. Therefore, Mike said we should get down to it and start practising for it. They practised a few new songs like Tush - ZzTop, Shook Me All Night Long - Ac/Dc, and Hotel Room – Mest. The songs we picked for the pep rally were Tush by Zz Top and Hotel Room by Mest. We competed against three other bands, a teacher band, a grade 12 band and a band called To the Point (they had a record deal). We all thought it was total bullshit and unfair, but we would of beat em’ if we rocked harder and jumped around. We will win next year. We lost and were bummed about it for a few days but that did not stop us from becoming better. We decided to change our name from the Funboyz to something different and new. One day after practise Mike, Mark and Steve were waiting for a ride home and Mark said we should think of a different name and Mike was looking around and pointed at Steven’s winter jacket and it said No Motion. We thought about that one for a bit then we thought about the name No eMotion, Steve liked it and so did Mike and Mark. They told Marc and he agreed. After that, Mike and Mark started making songs, Mike wrote the lyrics and Mark and Mike worked on the music. The bands first song is called Unknown, it is about a relationship Mike had with a girl named Asja Duffy…she broke his heart. =( That pretty much sums it up till now, No eMotion is currently working on some new songs and cover songs also. We plan to make a CD soon so keep an eye on the site and message board.

- The Band