CROWN LANDS

CROWN LANDS

Live on Main Stage @ BOND|ST Event Centre

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44 Bond St E, Oshawa

Crown Lands are born storytellers, with eyes on this world and others. Painters of strange,

absorbing universes. Advocates for the LGBTQ+ and indigenous communities. Counterculturalists for the 21st century, informed by a cocktail of old-world thinking, science-fiction, and musical narrators from Rush to Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin to John Prine. It’s prog rock, but not as you know it – or as you thought it could be.

Though still in their twenties, Crown Lands have profound ties to history. The enigmatic

brainchild of singer/drummer Cody Bowles and guitarist/keyboardist Kevin Comeau, the

band channels ancient spirits into fantastical stories. All of it tempered with current issues,

and all of it as a duo.

“I think the wow factor of Cody and I pulling this shit off, as two people, is something we

have to maintain in the live show,” Comeau reasons. “We can still pull a lot of this shit off

live with no tracks, no trickery and no additional members.”

Since meeting in 2015 at a band audition – where they bonded over a love of prog icons

Rush – the leonine-haired pair have thrived on a diverse mix of ideas and activity. Sprawling

conversations over walks in the woods. Urgent odes to the mistreatment of their country’s

Indigenous peoples (captured in 2020 single “End Of The Road”). Slapstick jokes over

movies and Indian food. Cultural touchstones that include the worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien,

Dune author Frank Herbert, Buddhist meditation master Chögyam Trungpa and the Flash

Gordon and Terminator soundtracks. All the while, heaps of riffs were amassed.

“We don't really do a lot in solitude for this band,” Comeau says. “When I'm alone and

making music, it's synth music, kind of like Vangelis or Tangerine Dream or John Carpenter.

And when Cody's on their own, Cody's playing all these amazing flutes these days, and

that's a whole other world. But when we come together, it's like, what would Pink Floyd do if

they jammed with Rush? It's a different kind of headspace.”

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