SLOW NERVE ACTION CD Release PARTY!!!

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A CD Release Party for the new

SLOW NERVE ACTION

record 'LOVENASIUM'

with special guests STINK MITT

and CR AVERY

Thursday May 26th

Richards On Richards

1036 Richards

SLOW NERVE ACTION (www.slownerveaction.com)

Slow Nerve Action are the best-loved original band in Whistler. The past few years, the band have been spreading the love around a bit. Their last tour was a three month, sixty show marathon from Vancouver to Charlottetown and back. That was SNA's third Canadian tour in ten months, all in support of their independent debut album, "The Soap of Beautiful Women".

The album has sold over two thousand copies, mainly off the stage and their website, since its release. Countless burned copies also are circulating, as the entire album has been freely available at slownerveaction.com since its birth. "TSOBW" has been played on roughly 125 Canadian radio stations, including CBC and CBC Radio Two, mainstream Vancouver rock/alt stations CFOX and XFM, and every campus station with at least 50 watts of power. It reached high chart positions on University radio all over Canada, including about three months on the chart of University of Toronto's CIUT FM (the biggest campus station in the country), peaking at number One in the spring of 2002.

It has also seen heavy play on Outdoor Life Network, Sportsnet, Whistler Cable and the Whistler Blackcomb website, and a handful of extreme sports films. The band played the closing set at the 2002 World Ski and Snowboard Festival, which was filmed and aired in part by MuchMusic.

Slow Nerve Action consists of Chris Berry on vocals, Josh Gontier on guitar and vocals, bassist Benson, drummer Mike Lunt and DJ Buddha. Also on the team are sound doctor Shawn Cole, and Reverend Tate on visual stimulation (and occasionally manual stimulation, but only in cases of emergency).

The SNA is currently on the west coast, playing and working on their second album. They'll be in the studio in September and plan to hit the road with the new record over the winter.

Slow Nerve Action are fully independent. They write, record, book and promote their own music.

STINK MITT (www.stinkmitt.com)

The critically acclaimed and massively popular Sci-Fi Funk G-Rap Unit hailing from Surrey B.C., Canada.

StinkMitt have totally annihilated Canada and are poised to launch nuclear golden-shower bombs on discerning music listeners and idiots worldwide. One only needs to sort through the massive amount of press recieved by the group in such a short time since their formation in order to conclude that currently StinkMitt is defining and defying the term "cutting-edge." Yet the heart of StinkMitt beats in their crotches, not in their heads, so their insane rhyme skills, soaring vocals, catchy melodies, and killer funky original beats save them from being too outtahand and inyerface to interfere with your ecstatic booty-shakin'.

CR AVERY (www.cravery.com)

“If post modernism was LSD then C.R.Avery would be a field of magic mushrooms”

-Terminal City

Vancouver Press 2001

C.R. Avery, the human beat box, from East Vancouver, B.C. Canada across America and back.

They were hanging from the rafters at N.Y.C.'s Neuyorican for his New York debut, and on their feet at L.A.'s Knitting Factory for Avery's touring 7 piece ensemble "Freight Train Land" -a hip hop opera" -2001.

C.R. toured for seven weeks opening for Sage Francis on the Live Band Dead Poet Tour playing every major city in America. On this tour he sold a 1000 copies of his album "Disclosure" and 500 copies of "Goner for Honor".

Live recordings from these performances have been turned into C.R.'s 8th album "Thrashed My First Motel Room".

Backed by his band The Liberation Front (bass, guitar, drums, viola and vocal harmonies) Avery rocked Bumpershoot 2000.

Standing ovations, two sold out shows with MEDUSA. On the streets of Commercial Drive where C.R. resides, a chance meeting and these words from CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE -"Even before I heard him, as soon as I saw him, I knew he could play". When Charlie heard C.R.'s beatbox version of Big in Japan for TOM WAITS, he not only thought it was "amazing", but put in a call into his label, Epithaph Records, to track Avery down.

Setting the stage for SARA JONES and STEVE COLEMAN at Settles 11th Hour Productions Poetry Fest 2002 Avery was described as "Pure genius" by Danika Dinsmore the Executive Producer of 11th Hour Productions. C.R. has shared the stage with Ani Difranco (Vancouver Folk Fest 2003), poet Patricia Smith (Arkansas University 2004), and Tom Waits (Europe, 2004). C.R. Avery will be touring Europe April 2004.