{"id":1097,"date":"2010-06-11T11:16:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T17:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2017-08-30T21:03:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T21:03:36","slug":"cannon-bros-just-like-mario-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/06\/11\/cannon-bros-just-like-mario-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannon Bros. \u2013 Just like Mario Bros."},"content":{"rendered":"

By Taylor Burgess<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo: Adrienne Huard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cannon Bros.<\/a> are Cole Woods and Alannah Walker, who have lived pretty much their whole lives together\u2014they\u2019ve been going to the same schools since grade two and they both played on Oak Park\u2019s water polo team. As Winnipeg scenesters might know, they\u2019re also one half of the band the Playing Cards, a band that has been around since Walker and Woods were in junior high school.<\/p>\n

So imagine my joy when I approach them at the Albert after one of their shows, Woods slams down an empty plastic tumbler on a table and says, \u201cAlright, I\u2019m good to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t know exactly when it was,\u201d said Walker in the Albert\u2019s lobby, sitting up by the hotel entrance. \u201cWe were drinking at the Lo Pub and we realized how easy it would be to be a two piece. It\u2019d be less hassle to book shows and set up for shows.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cannon Bros. started off pretty quickly after that, about half a year ago. Walker had already been learning drums for the six months previous, and Woods picked up the sticks from then on. Since then, they\u2019ve been a guitar, drum, and dual vocals duo that switch instruments between songs\u2014similar in form to Vampires, though not in style. Whereas Vampires spin more sweat-soaked tunes, Cannon Bros. go for perfect plaid pop, which is an extension of their songwriting in the Playing Cards. And although the two have since disconnected themselves from their other pop group a little, there weren\u2019t fights over it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think they care too much about it,\u201d said Woods flatly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re definitely not writing as many songs for the Playing Cards as we used to,\u201d said Walker.<\/p>\n

Walker also commented that the Cards\u2019 bass player David Schellenberg is in a bunch of bands now anyways: Mt. Nolan, Les Jupes, and the Departures. And there certainly weren\u2019t any hard feelings from him\u2014he was hanging around the lobby for most of the brief interview.<\/p>\n

The band has made a fan most notably out of Greg MacPherson, who I\u2019ve seen sincerely yell \u201cHey, nice song!\u201d to the timid duo while they were onstage. Woods is going to be touring in Macpherson\u2019s band this summer, playing bass. Woods also still plays in Right Through, and very occasionally does solo shows. Recently he played a set at Music Trader for Record Store Day, doing a tribute show to Alex Chilton\u2014a member of Big Star, a former teen idol, and an inspiration to the scrappy-yet-poetic Minneapolis band the Replacements.<\/p>\n

And where did the name Cannon Bros. come from?<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, that\u2019s from when we were drinking at the Lo,\u201d said Walker with a laugh. \u201cThere\u2019s a cannon on top of the fireplace there. And Cole was kinda drunk, he kinda looked at and said, \u2018We should be called Cannon Brothers.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Woods said in reply, \u201cWell it\u2019s like the Mario Brothers, Hammer Brothers, Righteous Brothers\u2026 You know how it is when you\u2019re drunk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Check out the Cannon Bros. in action on June 19 at the Park Theatre with Enjoy your Pumas and Sons of York, or at the Rudolf Rocker on July 4 with Braids, Gobble Gobble, and Not Animals.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Taylor Burgess Cannon Bros. are Cole Woods and Alannah Walker, who have lived pretty much their whole lives together\u2014they\u2019ve been going to the same schools since grade two and they both played on Oak Park\u2019s water polo team. As Winnipeg scenesters might know, they\u2019re also one half of the band the Playing Cards, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-cannon-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10710,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/10710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}