Pony Da Look

Pony Da Look was a keyboard-based 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]

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

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. "Pony Da Look Toronto, ON February 10". Exclaim!, By Scott A. Gray Feb 11, 2010
  2. "Pony Da Look Pony Da Look". Exclaim!, By I. Khider May 01, 2002
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-10-29. Retrieved 2018-10-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. " The sound of even half-baked ingenuity". CARL WILSON. Globe and Mail, Jul. 25, 2003
  5. "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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