Pony Da Look
OriginToronto, Ontario, Canada
GenresIndie rock
Years active2001 (2001)–2011
LabelsMurderecords
Members
  • Temple Bates
  • Amy Bowles
  • Catherine Stockhausen
  • Rob Gordon
Past membersRebecca Mendoza

Pony Da Look was an indie rock band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The band members were Temple Bates (composer/keyboards/vocals), Amy Bowles (lyrics/vocals/keyboards), Catherine Stockhausen (keyboards/vocals), and Rob Gordon (drums). Former members include Rebecca Mendoza (drums). Their music combined heavy drum beats, raw keyboard riffs and forceful vocals with unconventional lyrics.[1][2]

History

Bates, Bowles, and Mendoza came together as Pony Da Look and released their first self-titled album in 2001. Tara Azzopardi and Megan Dunlop also played with them in 2001.[3][2] With the addition of Stockhausen on keyboard, they followed it up with The Forcefield Weakens in 2003.[4][5]

After Mendoza and Sloan's Chris Murphy celebrated the birth of their child in 2007,[5] Pony Da Look signed to Sloan's label Murderecords and released Shattered Dimensions in 2008.[6] Mendoza left the band and was replaced on drums by Rob Gordon. Pony Da Look continued to perform in the Toronto area until 2011.[1][7]

Bowles and Bates are painters who continue to exhibit regularly, Mendoza is a modern dancer and choreographer and Stockhausen is a TV producer and photographer.

Bowles served as one of the inspirations for the character Envy in Scott Pilgrim v the World.[8]

Studio albums

  • 2001: Pony Da Look
  • 2003: The Forcefield Weakens
  • 2008: Shattered Dimensions

References

  1. 1 2 "Pony Da Look Toronto, ON February 10". Exclaim!, By Scott A. Gray Feb 11, 2010
  2. 1 2 "Pony Da Look Pony Da Look". Exclaim!, By I. Khider May 01, 2002
  3. ↑ "Local Spotlight: Pony da Look - NOW Magazine". Archived from the original on 2018-10-29. Retrieved 2018-10-29.
  4. ↑ " The sound of even half-baked ingenuity". CARL WILSON. Globe and Mail, Jul. 25, 2003
  5. 1 2 "Pony Da Look Shatter Dimensions With New Album". Chart Attack - Apr 29, 2008
  6. ↑ "PONY DA LOOK Shattered Dimensions (Murderecords)". NOW Magazine, by Lucie Davies April 24, 2008
  7. ↑ "Florence and the Machine at the Mod Club, Toronto". The Snipe News, November 5, 2009
  8. ↑ "Edgar Wright's A Fistful Of Fingers: once upon a time in the West Country" by Nick De Semlyen. Empire. 18 Nov 2015. Accessed 30 Nov 2018.
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