The Nines (band)

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The Nines
Origin Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Genres Power pop
Years active1992 (1992)–present (present)
Labels TAS GOLD / Page Music / EMI / Universal / Airmail Recordings / Sony Music Japan
Members Steve Eggers
Paul McCulloch
Warren Cliff
Aaron Nielsen
Andrew Webb
Sam Tallo
Website reverbnation.com/thenines

The Nines is a Canadian power pop band formed in Oakville, Ontario in 1991. The core of the band is multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and primary songwriter Steve Eggers. A series of other band members have rotated in and out through the years, including George Aaron Nielsen (the original drummer), Andrew Webb (the original guitar player) and Sam Tallo (guitar), Paul McCulloch (strings and bass) Bill Majoros (guitar) and Claire Eggers (backing vocals and horn player).

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Several Nines/Eggers songs have been included on network television series, including Dawson's Creek , Party of Five and Joan of Arcadia . [1] Eggers also wrote the theme song for Global's comedy sitcom The Jane Show .

The Nines have been described in reviews as a band that has picked up where The Beatles left off. [2]

History

The first Nines album, Wonderworld of Colourful, was released in Canada in 1998 [3] on the Page Music label and was distributed through EMI. Later that year, Universal Music Canada released a piano-based four-song EP. Eggers admits that the band was still a "work in progress" at this time.

Properties of Sound was released in North America in 2001. Airmail Recordings picked up the album in Japan a year later and released it there with bonus tracks and sold with six packs of kraft dinner.

While essentially a studio project, the band has performed live and has shared the stage with a diverse group of artists including, Ron Sexsmith, Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe, Supertramp's Roger Hodgson, the Jim Rose Side Show, and the Barenaked Ladies. [4] Steve Eggers has gone on to work with a number of songwriters, including Andy Partridge of the British band XTC, and Jason Falkner, former member of the band Jellyfish. [5] In 2015, the Nines released the movie soundtrack Night Surfer and the Cassette Kids and Alejandro's Visions featuring Bill Majoros of the band the Foreign Films. The Nines' released, Colour Radio (American Transistor) in 2017 to critical acclaim. In the summer of 2019 Eggers recorded a "solo" album, Shipwrecked (Eggers Songbook Vol 1), under the Nines moniker, playing all the instruments and doing all of the singing and production on that album.

Sony Music released The Nines' Gran Jukle's Field with an additional singles collection in Japan in December 2019. In 2020 the Nines' label T.A.S Gold released their album Reflections globally.

Discography

ReleasedAlbum
1998Wonderworld of Colourful
1999Four Song EP
2001Properties of Sound
2002Properties of Sound (Japanese Import)
2006Calling Distance Stations
2007Gran Jukle's Field
2007Winter Snow & Icicles
2011Polarities
2013The Nines
2014Nine Lives
2015Night Surfer and the cassette kids (original soundtrack)
2015Circles in the snow (tapes and transcripts vol.1)
2015Rare cuts and unreleased
2016Alejandro's Visions
2017Colour Radio (American Transistor)
2019Shipwrecked (Eggers Songbook Vol 1)
2019Gran Jukle's Field (Japanese version) + Bonus singles (SONY MUSIC JAPAN)
2020Reflections

Awards

The band was third place in a battle of four bands at the CHMR (the in house, at the time, radio station of Hamilton's Mohawk College campus: now known as 101.5 the Hawk) contest in 1994.

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