THE DOERS: Ready Set...Do/I Can Enjoy Almost Anything

The Doers

Ready Set...Do/I Can Enjoy Almost Anything

© 2004 The Doers (634479016578)

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Three-piece folk-punk-soft-math-rock band with a pleasant smell and a firm handshake.

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Hailing from Vancouver, The Doers are an acoustic, three-piece-folk-punk-soft-math-rock band with a pleasant smell and a firm handshake. Formed from 3/4 of the surviving members of Vancouver legends STATIONa, a band that recorded three LPs and was notorious for providing a wall of sound; often leaving its audience stramming for more or in an ambulence. In contrast to their roots, the Doers have managed to capture the intensity of STATIONa but with a portion of the volume, minus one member and far less gear. With influences that range from the Minutemen to the Modern Lovers and everywhere else in between that is lovely, they take listeners and viewers alike on a journey that partially resembles a Carlos Castenada novel, only with larger font and better prose. They've successfully consummated a 22 show summer conquest of the Vancouver music scene and have attracted praise from fans, critics and various facets of the media.

Having recently completed a double EP/LP entitled "Ready, Set...Do/I Can Enjoy Almost Anything" recorded at Rec-age Recorders that featured Shammy Doer on guitar/vocals, Barry Do on bass, Jerf on drums and Kathy Dube (also of The Cinch) on vocals, the Doers formulated a beautiful, aggressive, soothing, tantric record. The record also includes cameos from the likes of the legendary Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE) who played bass on a number of tracks while Barry Do was recovering from a near fatal injury late 2002. (The ordeal was documented on www.cbcradio3.ca and entitled "The Art of Recovery; Bedside Drawings of a Fallen Friend" illustrated by Shammy Doer.) Other cameos include Joel Tong (Black Rice), Juli Steemson (Black Rice), Jesse Gander (DBS, Operation Makeout), and the infamous John Cow (Northland Lumber, Honeycow).

Luckily for everybody, the Doers are coming to a town near you and they're not just going to hang out and drink this time. Yessiree, they're coming and they're going to play the hell out of the place. And just like the big sweaty teddybears that they are, they're open and available to speak with anyone curious about their recent happenings. If you are interested in finding out more about the Doers, listening to some of their recordings, conducting an interview, or spamming them, go to www.thedoers.com, have fun and feel free to say hi. See you soon.

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  • brilliant, No seriously!!!!!
    author: subjective magazine

    From the first song, you feel an anticipation and adrenaline rush that you would get listening to your favourite No Means No album. Being free and reliving days of smiles. the quarkiness and the awkward potato mash dance feeling you get from the trio of instuments is one to listen to and fucking buy.....

  • author: eye magazine

    THE DOERS w/ MIKE WATT, "Waking Up Is Hard to Do": Filling in for this Vancouver trio's regular bassist, Minutemen legend Watt displays a kind of languid patience for which he isn't exactly known. It is to his and the band's credit that you can easily imagine this "life ain't fair" lament being played at three times its speed, but that you won't for a moment be longing to hear it that way. (From Ready, Set... Do/I Can Enjoy Almost Anything.- EYE MAGAZINE TORONTO

  • The Doers totally kick ass.
    author: Brand -X Media

    I can unflinchingly say that The Doers totally kick ass. Having waited some time to actually see these guys release an album, I really wasn’t sure what to expect or what they’d sound like within the confines of a studio space, but this ambitious split CD (The Doers – Ready Set…DO/The Doers Featuring the legendary Mike Watt – I Can Enjoy Almost Anything) of indie folk punk runs from sounding like Danielson famile meets puberty to striking similarities to other bands that would reference themselves as “Math Rock” minus the pretentiousness! The spastic and head-spinning composition and vocals on the album are genuinely fun, at times becoming an unabashed oddity with an original and uninhibited sound that is surprisingly chiseled for a debut release which is undoubtedly pre-curser of more great music to come.

  • The Doers did!
    author: Vue Magazine

    The Doers Ready, Set, Do (Red Cat) There's something flawed here, and it totally makes this record. Just when things seem to be unraveling, the Doers plow through with aplomb and mash out some of the greatest spastic rock sections ever committed to tape... er, harddrive. The album nicely amalgamates the urgency of the Liars with the pop sensibilities of The Shins. Did I mention this also includes a five-song collaboration with Mike Watt? It does. The Doers did!

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