from the good people at MONGREL ZINE
in fact, we're also featured on the cdr comp that came with ISSUE #5
thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SEDATIVES
s/t 7”
GOING GAGA RECORDS 2008
www.myspace.com/sedativesedatives
Sedatives are an Ottawa band who I caught last summer in Montreal. They play frantic new wave songs with a punk hybrid vocalist. The organ adds a layer of moody wrist slitting up against some more catchier tracks like “Slip Away” that sometimes sound more like Ian Gaga’s other band, White Wires. I’m a sucker for any band with a keyboard but these guys are actually really good. (Janelle Hollyrock)

in our own area code!!!
thanks a lot to Jonathan!!

http://www.apt613.ca/2009/05/01/garage-rock-in-the-capital/

If you were to open up a dictionary from oh, let’s say 15 years ago, and look up the word ‘cool’, you would probably find a picture of John Travolta. That was of course the year he played Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino’s now classic Pulp Fiction.

But what made him so cool in that film? Some would argue that it was his laid back attitude, his suit, the fact that he happened to be a hitman, or even his haircut. Of course, any respectable authority on cool would tell you that all those answers are wrong. What made John Travolta the coolest man on Earth in 1994 was one particular scene—inspired by Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders no less—where he hit the dance floor with Uma Thurman.

The key element in that classic scene was a song called “You Never Can Tell.” Released by Chuck Berry in 1964, it reached number 14 on the Billboard charts that year. Berry, of course, was a rock and roll pioneer when he started playing music in the early 1950s. Along with his contemporaries Bo Diddley, Bill Haley and some guy named Elvis Presley, he changed the face of popular music. The kids loved it and made up a bunch of sub-categories in the decades that followed.

By now, you’re probably asking yourself what this has to do with Ottawa. One of those sub-genres was called garage rock, and it just so happens that the national capital has a thriving garage rock scene that takes heavy inspiration from bands like The Sonics, The Kingsmen and The Wailers (not to be confused with Bob Marley’s Wailers). These groups took that classic rock and roll sound and added a little distortion, a little more youthful energy, and a little less high production polish. The genre was revived in the 1970s by bands like The Stooges, The New York Dolls and the Ramones, who eventually transformed it into the punk rock we all know and love.

In Ottawa, bands like the White Wires, The Visitors and the all-girl band The Felines are playing insanely catchy hooks in a dingy bar near you.  The poster boys for the thriving local scene are probably The Sedatives. With members from The Million Dollar Marxists and Ottawa hardcore staple Buried Inside, these guys have been making music for a while. They’ll be opening for Girl Talk and Ani DiFranco at Buesfest’s Hard Rock Café stage July 12. In the fall the Sedatives will be touring Europe. Watch out for them.

So there’s my quick rundown of some of Ottawa’s awesome garage rock/rock and roll bands. If you go to any of these bands’ shows I can guarantee you’ll be pulling off John Travolta’s best dance moves in no time.

thanks to the people at www.cuttingandwitty.com
they put our 7" up in the top 10 for 2008!!!!!

As I had mentioned a week or so ago, Ottawa has rapidly developed an
excellent garage/punk music scene. It is largely spearheaded by
Emmanuel Sayer, Ian Manhire, and Luke Nuclear and supported by events
like the Rock and Roll Pizza Party, Punk Rock Karaoke, and The Gaga
Weekend. SEDATIVES (containing Ian and Emmanuel, among others) have
been one of the key parts to the scenes success from the beginning. On
the strength of SEDATIVES to draw crowds many, many bands have gotten a
chance to reach a larger audience and and word of the RRPP has spread
beyond the reaches of Ottawa.

As for the EP, it manages to capture the intensity of the live show
into 6 super-catchy, singable, anthemic punk songs. They like the
Wipers - if you like the Wipers - You’ll like SEDATIVES.

thanks to the grandmaster genius behind the PTRASH label, we gotta nice clear wax version of our first 7"
and that incredibly intelligent and tasteful man also had these things to say about SEDATIVES............

One more time the Trashcue Team at P.Trash Records strikes and provides
the small Garage-Punk world with an already-gone gemstone that was
originally released in Canada on the band's own Going Gaga Records in
an edition of 300 copies that went flying.
These four Canadian gentlemen may be held responsibles for having
written one of the best songs in ages with ''Slip away'', a
STATUES/PEGBOY-like earwig which, just like the other four companions
on this record, has a dark and wavy WIPERS-edge and a grinding organ
backing the cool and catchy melodies in smashers like ''Cannot calm
down'' or ''Dead to the discourse''. No mistake about it: This ain't no
shitty sounding downer, this is some high-class upper that will make
you wiggle and keep you wide awake all night long! You wanna be sedated
by the SEDATIVES! Go grab it now, it's limited to 300 copies on clear
vinyl and has a reworked and fancied-up artwork done by Matt at
Doublenaut!

we went into CKDJ and did an interview

here it is
http://www.algonquincollege.com/ckdj/podcasts.html

from www.cuttingandwitty.com

Ottawa has an astonishingly good local garage/punk music scene. There
are at least a dozen really, really good bands - Sedatives, Holy
Cobras, White Wires, Savage Crimes, Sick Fits, Suppositories, etc, etc
and have been some really great records from these bands this year (The
White Wires LP release is on Saturday at The Bayou). There also seems
to be a really thriving Metal/Metalcore crowd - (though I don’t know
firsthand as this is hardly my area of interest).

Word sons,

We're down to our last few copies of the first pressing of our 7', so if you wanna get your hands on one of these cats, send us an email or come see us play. Peter at P.Trash just told me that he sold the last copy from the batch of records we sent across the pond, but I think there are some available in a couple of European distros.

However, the P.Trash repress of the record is officially underway & should be here in a month or so. It's got the same tasty jams but it'll be on hoity-toity clear vinyl and features a reworked & fancied up sleeve care of Matt at Doublenaut.

Here's a preev. The inside & back are even slicker. Beauty-full.



We've also got some dates booked in October to record our LP, which is gonna be a rager. Remember the songs on the aforementioned self-titled 7'? It'll probably sound like that, only a touch more ma-ture perhaps. Probably not, though. Same amount of maturité, I'm guessing. I imagine I'll keep folks updated.

Um, what else? Oh ya, we're playing the extremely bitchin' A VARNING FROM MONTREAL festival in November which features a pile of rad bands including our bestest pals STATUES as well as our friends in PREYINGS HANDS, CRITICAL CONVICTIONS and tons of relatively high-profile bands who'd fall on the crustier side of the fence.



Other plans include yet another weekend of bro-ing down with Statues in October or November and playing with Jay Reatard on October 17th.

I think that's it for now.

E.L.E,

Dave.