Our Lady Peace
Frequently Asked Questions
Version 2.1
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Section 1.0 - The Band:
1.1 - Who are the members of Our Lady Peace? 1.2 - Where did the band's name come from? 1.3 - When did the band start? 1.4 - Who are the band's influences? 1.5 - What were the band members doing before OLP? 1.6 - Why did Chris Eacrett leave? Section 2.0 - The Music:
Section 3.0 - Various Questions
Section 4.0 - Correspondence
Info
Most of the information for this FAQ was taken from articles formerly available at yyz.com/olp. This web site was an excellent place for further reading about the band until it was shutdown in favour of the domain named site. We would also like to acknowledge the following sources for providing information about Our Lady Peace: Contributors to this FAQ are: Dan Steinman, Anuj Batra, and Penny Tam (who wrote v1.0 of this FAQ). Updated By Stacy McNeil on October 11, 1998 1.1 - Who are the members of Our Lady Peace? Raine Maida - Vocals
- Duncan Coutts replaced original member Chris Eacrett in 1995 1.2 - Where did the band's name come from? The name for the band comes from a 1943 poem titled "Our Lady Peace" by American poet Mark Van Doren. Mark Van Doren is the father of the Charles Van Doren, who was involved in a game show scandal in the 1960's. This incident was the basis of the 1994 movie "Quiz Show". 1.3 - When did the band start? Our Lady Peace was formed in Toronto, in 1992, by Mike Turner and Raine Maida. When their original group refused to get serious, Mike and Raine decided to audition more committed bandmates. Eventually, they found Chris Eacrett and Jeremy Taggart (who was only 17 at the time). 1.4 - Who are the band's influences? The musical influences for each member of Our Lady Peace are very diverse. Raine Maida admires many female vocalists such as Bjork, Tori Amos, Sheila Chandra, and Sinead O' Connor as well as male vocalists Jeff Buckley and Otis Redding. Mike Turner was influenced by such punk bands as The Sex Pistols, The Jam and Boomtown Rats. Jeremy Taggart was brought up listening to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Chris Eacrett brought to the mix a heavy metal bass influence by listening to such band as Rage Against The Machine, and Living Color. 1.5 - What were the band members doing before OLP? Raine was at the University of Toronto, majoring in criminology. Chris was studying marketing at Ryerson University in Toronto, while Jeremy was finishing high school. Mike, who is originally from Bradford, England, was working in a machine shop. He has a degree in English from the University of Western Ontario. Duncan was working as a set dresser for the TV series Due South and playing in the band Blue Heavies. 1.6 - Why did Chris Eacrett leave? The band and Chris felt that they were moving in different directions, both musically and personally and decided it would be best if they parted ways. 2.1 - How did Our Lady Peace get signed? With limited finances, the band went to Arnyard Studios to record a three-song demo. Raine and a friend passed the demo tape around to several labels at New York CMJ music conference in 1993. Geffen and Interscope showed an interest in the band which then caught the attention of other labels including Sony Music Canada. The band ended up signing with Sony in Canada and later with Relativity Records in the United States. 2.2 - What albums have Our Lady Peace released? "Naveed" is the bands debut album. It was released in Canada in May 1994 through Sony Music Canada and one year later in the United States through Relativity Records. The song titles are: 1. The Birdman
In Canada, singles were released for: The Birdman, Supersatellite, Starseed, Hope, Naveed, and Julia. In the U.S. the only singles released were Supersatellite, Starseed and Naveed. Our Lady Peace's sophomore release "Clumsy" was released on Jan 21st 1997 in Canada on Sony Music Entertainment (Canada) and was released in the US in early March 1997 on Columbia Records. 1. Superman's Dead
Singles to date (in Canada) are Superman's Dead, Clumsy, Automatic Flowers, Carnival and 4am. A single was released for Superman's Dead as well as "Clumsy" which contains a their first B-Side, an acoustic version of "Superman's Dead". Both albums were produced by Arnold Lanni and recorded at Arnyard Studios, in Weston ON Canada 2.3 - Have OLP recorded any cover songs? Our Lady Peace recorded a cover of Neil Young's "The Needle And The Damage Done" on the double disc tribute album, "Borrowed Tunes" . A single disc version, with only half the artists, is also available and is titled, "Into The Black". Our Lady Peace's cover is also included on this album. As well, Our Lady Peace recorded a cover of The Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows". It was released exclusively on the Soundtrack the to the movie The Craft. 2.4 - What videos have OLP released? The band has shot videos for The Birdman, Starseed, Hope, Naveed, Superman's Dead, Clumsy, Automatic Flowers and 4am. All of the videos were released in Canada, while only Starseed and Naveed, Clumsy and Superman's Dead(American Version) were released in the United States. In the early days of Our Lady Peace's career, they recorded an independent video for the song "Out of Here". This song was never recorded for an album, and is not believed to have been played in any live shows since Naveed was recorded. 2.5 - What are the songs about? The songs on Naveed can be interpreted in many different ways. Raine prefers to leave the songs open to interpretation, and let you think about it. 2.6 - Where can I find the song "Mona Lisa"? This song is NOT an OLP song, but a song written by Sons Of Freedom, a band from Vancouver. OLP has performed this song in concert before. 2.7 - What happened to the songs "Out of Here", "Anacin", "Spider Gun", "Disgusted", "Home" and "Trapeze"? "Out of Here" was a song that OLP recorded an independent music video for before they were signed to Sony Music (see 2.6). "Anacin" was renamed "Story of a 100 Aisles". "Spider Gun" was renamed "Shaking", "Disgusted" was then renamed again to "Big Dumb Rocket" for the release of Clumsy. "Home" and "Trapeze" were played during the band's short summer 96 tour with Alanis. Trapeze was also performed at shows on the 1998 Canadian tour. Although these 2 songs were recorded during the making of Clumsy, they did not make it onto the album. It is possible that they will be released at a later time. Section 3.0
- Various Questions
3.1 - What is written on Raine's guitar in the Naveed video? The writing on Raine's guitar is Persian for Naveed. 3.2 - Who have OLP played with? Our Lady Peace have toured with countless acts. Some of these include: 54-40, I Mother Earth, Bush, Elastica, Cake, Face To Face, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Matthew Sweet, Sponge, Letters to Cleo, ... the list goes on. Notably, they have opened for Page & Plant and Van Halen. 3.3 - Have they ever played on any TV shows? Our Lady Peace have been featured on The Jon Stewart Show, The Conan O'Brien Show, MTV, and also played on the Juno Awards. 3.4 - What awards have they won? -The band picked up the award for Best Song Of the Year, "Starseed", at Toronto's Q107 awards in '95. Mike Turner also won for Best Guitarist at the awards. -three awards at the 1995 CASBY (Canadian Artists Selected By You) sponsored by Toronto radio station CFNY-FM. They won for favorite new artist, favorite new release for Naveed, and favorite new song, Naveed. -two Much Music Video awards in 1997, both fan voted. Favourite Group and Favourite Video for "Superman's Dead." -two Junos awards at the 1998 ceremonies. Blockbuster rock album of the year award (clumsy, fan voted) and Best group. -In 1998 OLP picked up the Favourite Canadian Group award for the second consecitive year. Naveed literally translated means "bearer of good news". 3.6 - What are the markings on the CD jewel box and the jacket? It is sanskrit for Our Lady Peace. 3.7 - Where was the Starseed video shot? The video was shot at the old Sears warehouse in Toronto. Interestingly, during the filming, there was an accident involving the lighting box. The lighting box was about three stories above the band and was set up to move up and down, as seen in the video. Part of the box fell downward, just missing Mike and Jeremy's heads. No one was injured. 3.8 - Who is the Birdman/Naveed? Saul Fox (an actor) is the individual on the cover to both Clumsy and Naveed. He was also in the video for "The Birdman". However, the song "The Birdman" was written about a man that Raine crossed paths with as a kid. Naveed was a schoolmate of Raine's. Nothing more is known about him except for what his name means (see 2.4). 3.9 - In the Superman's Dead video is it a boy or a girl? It's a boy... can't you tell? Section 4.0
- Correspondence Info
4.1 - Is there a snail mail fan club? There is a news letter sent out supported by the band that is run by two fans. You can become a member by sending a cheque or money order for $28.00 CDN (outside Canada send $23.00 U.S.) and your home address to:
Pied Piper's Union
4.2 - Is there an internet OLP mailing list? There is an excellent net fan
club dedicated to Our Lady Peace called Transparent
Humans. Keep in mind that this is NOT to post to the band, but to other
OLP fans. Fans post messages for others to read, expressing their opinions,
reviews etc. on the band. They also feature trivia questions with rarities
for prizes.
There is a newsgroup at alt.music.ourladypeace there is also a messageboard on http://www.ourladypeace.com/ 4.4 - Where can I get OLP merchandise? Besides at their shows, you
can order shirts through the fan club (3.1). 4.5 - What web sites are there for OLP? There are many web sites dedicated to the band most of which can be found in the links section of this website. |