introducing ganeshan will

come to cyber city saturday december 9th to see the green line, old phoebe, the tycoons, ganeshan will, and the paper boxes. five local bands for five little dollars! who are all these bands you ask? surely you are already good friends with the green line and old phoebe, and if not, just scroll down this page. and naturally you are familiar with the famed tycoons, nanaimo's own surf-rock band, featuring nate and tanner, formerly of the bike's mine and 123 red light, chris, formerly of the bike's mine, and brent, formerly of the cum-alongs. perhaps you have also heard word of the paper boxes, featuring marcus hastings, formerly of the cum-alongs, who I hear were pretty damn good. they sound a little black keysish, a little white stripesish, certainly a nice mess. and maybe you haven't got a clue who ganeshan will is, because they have never ever played a show before, this will be their very first one, so lucky I am here to tell you about them because I am very excited about it. here are a few somewhat related facts:

my four favourite guitar players:
1. jack white (the white stripes)
2. tanner matt (the tycoons)
3. todd o'brien (ganeshan will)
4. carey mercer (frog eyes/swan lake)

my two favourite keyboard players:
1. spencer krug (wolf parade/sunset rubdown/swan lake/frog eyes)
2. adam gold (ganeshan will)

ok? get it?
also, todd is my little brother, and just like me in all the right ways, and just unlike me in all the right ways. we used to play in a little band in our garage that we sometimes called white magnetic world-bridger. it consisted of me, todd, ryan hollett (also in ganeshan will), nathan hollett, and bryan hamre (also in ganeshan will). we never played any shows, except a few times at the cambie jam night. fraser johnson said we were good. nobody else said anything.

BAND PROFILE: GANESHAN WILL
together since: Shiva cut off our head. Mother got upset. Father found us an elephant head.
members: todd, ryan, jada, adam, bryan
bands they've played shows with: a picture of the beatles
bands they've been compared to: pixies playing glam-folk with an accordian, whatever band was playing in beethoven's garage, the velvet underground & nico, white magnetic world-bridger, a bunch of running scared buddhist monks, guru nanak's followers, pavement, the muppet babies, neutral milk hotel, a gabriel cover-band, portishead, sonic death monkey, and the beatles (all by todd)