The Waking Eyes were a Canadian rock band from Winnipeg and Steinbach , Manitoba .
6-519: The band formed after the break-up of two other Manitoba bands, The Pets from Steinbach and Novillero from Winnipeg. In 2002 The Waking Eyes released a full-length album, Combing the Clouds . In 2004 The Waking Eyes followed up with a second album, Video Sound . The album won a 2005 Western Canada Music Award. Shortly before the album was released, bassist Russ Dufault left the band, temporarily replaced by The Meligrove Band 's Michael Small (for
12-559: A computer and rented portable studio equipment. In between recording sessions, which extended over about eight months, they played a few live shows locally. They then approached Endearing Records , which released the tracks as an album, Love and War , in 2000; by this time The Pets had disbanded. The album was reviewed favourably and received considerable airplay on college radio in Canada , particularly in Winnipeg. Members of
18-693: A short tour and the "Watch Your Money" music video), before Joey Penner was introduced. The band went on several tours, traveling across Canada, as well as into the United States and to overseas locations including Germany for POPKOMM's "Kick it like Canada". In 2005 the group was nominated for a Juno Award for New Group of the Year but lost to Alexisonfire . The Waking Eyes spent the better part of 2006 holed-up in their Winnipeg jam space, writing and demoing songs for an album. Pre-production took place in Winnipeg during February 2007. The band recorded
24-606: The Winnipeg area for/with The Liptonians, Slattern, Demetra, Ruth Moody, This Hisses and Triunfo do Gato. Milk is a joke hip-hop act featuring Matyas and Peters, and Racket (pronounced "Racket in Brackets" is a Ratatat-like dance act fronted by Peters. The Pets (2000s band) The Pets were an indie rock and power pop band from Steinbach , Manitoba , Canada. The members of The Pets were Chris Peters, Matthew Peters, Myron Schulz and Stephen Senkiw. The Pets came together in 1999 and began to record power pop songs using
30-679: The follow-up to Video Sound in a Winnipeg studio in May 2007 with producer/engineer John Paul Peters (formerly of The Undecided ). The Waking Eyes' record, Holding on to Whatever It Is , was released digitally via iTunes in July, 2008. The band released the record on vinyl in September, and CD copies became available in November. The album won a Western Canada Music Award for best independent album. In July 2010, The Waking Eyes went on hiatus, allowing
36-458: The members of the band to concentrate on other musical projects. Matyas formed a soul-pop band, Imaginary Cities , with Winnipeg singer Marti Sarbit; he also performed solo as Terrier and with Ewan Currie as The Mothers Brothers Band. Peters' 2010 album by his band, Royal Canoe , titled "Co-Op Mode," included collaborations, co-writes and performances with all of the members of The Waking Eyes. Peters continues writing, recording and/or producing in
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