Official Biography

1- "In 1993 Naveed was born. Eleven songs recorded with (Producer) Arnold Lanni in a small unassuming studio in Toronto, The four of us had hardly played a dozen shows together and suddenly we were making music... and someone else was paying for it."

The band spent the next two-and-a-half years on the road.

2- "In that time period we played 350 shows and, according to our road manager, traveled about 230,000 miles. We were playing with a bunch of different bands (Bush, Elastica and The Ramones) when we were told that Robert Plant had heard our song Starseed on the radio."

At the time Starseed was a top-10 hit at the Modern Rock and Active Rock formats in both Canada and the United States.

3- "Before we knew it, our little yellow school bus was parked between 12 tractor trailers in Chicago and we were soundchecking for the 1st of 5 shows with Page and Plant. We then followed Sponge and Letters To Cleo around before doing a bunch of shows with Van Halen. In September of 1995, Duncan Coutts came into the band as our new bass player. Coutts also plays cello and piano. We finally stopped touring Naveed after supporting Alanis Morissette in Canada last summer."

The Alanis support slot was a personal invitation.

4- Along with continuous sales traffic and live show acclamation, the band made various international television appearances (Conan O'Brien, The Jon Stewart Show) while sweeping the 1995 Casby Awards in all three categories.

Naveed went on to become a multi-platinum seller in Canada and ultimately sold half a million records in North America alone.

5- "We just try to work hard. We played hard and learned a lot on Naveed and the spirit with which Naveed was made is what we wanted to bring to Clumsy."

With additional instrumentation and new inspiration, Clumsy reveals a self-developed sound.

6-"Ultimately, you have to make a record that you're happy with, because if it stiffs, you're the only one that has it in your CD collection and you better be able to listen to it."

7- "We went back into that same studio with our producer friend and made Clumsy. Clumsy is about making decisions. There is a connection between the song Clumsy and it being the title of the album. The lyric: I'll be waving my hand/watching you drown/ watching you scream is about seeing something, but not seeing it for what it really is. You may decide to help... or to just wave back."

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