THE NADS

The Nads have played events like Rock the Vote in Cornwall with guest speakers Jack Layton of the NDP, and Maggie MacDonald of the Hidden Cameras. The Nads have been aired on CHUM TV's Speakers Corner and a television commerical, and The Nads have been interviewed and played live on radio station CKCU 93.1 FM. The Nads have played benefit shows including one for Amnesty International, and another for Shawn Scallen's website punkottawa.com. The Nads are on a punk compilation CD called Kick'em While They're Down Vol.2 with The Queers (Lookout Recs, Hopeless Recs), Dwarves (Epitaph Records), Dayglo Abortions, Ripcordz, Moral Crux. The comp CD ranked number 35 on college radio stations across Canada in May 2003 according to Exclaim Magazine, and the comp CD ranked high for sales on INTERPUNK.COM. The Nads have many releases including "Osama Bin Laden For Prez" that ranked number 10 for best album of 2003 in the Ottawa Sun newspaper, and it did well on the CKCU FM charts.

The Nads have had several reviews in newspapers and online. Allan Wigney of the Ottawa Sun says, "The serious issues tackled on "Now it is 2004" are brilliantly offset by an electronic backing that often seems better suited to a video game than a call to arms". Sam Sutherland of Exclaim Magazine describes the album: "Jason Ramone, the sole member of the band, has created one of the strangest, potentially offensive, and arguably most brilliant albums you will here all year". The Nads were interviewed again in the Ottawa Citizen for their new album "The True Face of Globalization", and reviewed again in Exclaim. The Nads joined myspace.com in October of 2005 and now have over 120,000 audio plays, and that makes The Nads one of the most listened to Canadian punk bands on myspace. Sometimes The Nads have ranked in the Top 100 for profile views amongst all the independent punk bands on myspace.com!

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The Nads were also a four piece band from Providence, RI, who toured and recorded extensively from 1978-1980. The four members were:

Larry Brown - Rhythm Guitar, Lead Vocals

Bob Kropp - Lead Guitar

Shane Williams - Bass

Rick Zeigler - Drums

The band formed in 1978, and played many venues in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York. They made appearances at the notorious new waves haunts of the era, including CBGB's in NYC, The Rat in Boston, and Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel in Providence. They also opened for many national acts in these venues, including an opening slot for U2 in Providence on their second US tour. The Nads also opened for Squeeze, Mink DeVille, and gigged regularly with some other well known band from that era, like the Neighborhoods, Robin Lane and The Chartbusters, The Schemers and Human Sexual Response. They only released one single (in 1980), but a compilation from several different recording sessions has been put together. Glenn Tilbrook from Squeeze became a friend and fan, and had even agreed to produce their follow up record, but the band broke up before that came about.

The forementioned single was a 3 track EP, featuring You Don't Know Me, The Hurts Gone, and Blame It On The Priests. Amplifier magazine cited the single as one of the top 10 "key power pop singles of Boston/Providence area during the first wave" (citing The Hurts Gone as the authors personal fave of the record), and Sound Asleep Records in Sweden placed You Don't Know Me on their Home Runs Vol. 2 compilation CD of the Best of American Power Pop. The single was initially issued with a free Nads pin/badge, and copies have exchanged on eBay for $30-$40 dollars.