The Sheila Divine
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Origin | Arena Rock Recordings |
Members | Aaron Perrino Charles Morton Ryan Dolan Brian Charles |
Past members | Colin Decker Shawn Sears Jim Gilbert |
Website | Bandcamp |
The Sheila Divine is an American, Boston-based rock group. Critics compare their sound to the band's own heroes, mainly the early 1980s post-punk. The band is most often noted for its loud/soft musical dynamic and Aaron Perrino's soaring vocals, screaming in key one moment and howling a falsetto the next. The band has a large die hard fan base in what is often called "the three Bs": Boston, Buffalo, and Belgium.
The band most often explains that they take the name from the Australian term "sheila," which denotes an
Overview
The Sheila Divine formed in 1997 and played their first show on July 4 at The Middle East in
In late 2000, the band was hard at work on their second album when they added Colin Decker as a second guitarist to broaden their sound. The band released their second album, Where Have My Countrymen Gone, in March 2001 on Co-Op Pop Records. Later that year, in August, Shawn Sears left the band to spend more time with his recently born child. Following a handful of shows with fill-ins Pete Caldes (The Gravel Pit/The Gentlemen) and Paul Buckley (Orbit), drummer Ryan Dolan replaced Sears a month later; Dolan had previously been in the band Lincolnville with guitarist Colin Decker. The Sheila Divine continued to tour constantly and created a large fan base that included both people who would see them across the country and others who would record live shows to share. The band was always generous to bootleggers and allowed video and/or audio taping at all shows.
The band released the six-track EP Secret Society in September 2002 (
On December 31, 2005, The Sheila Divine played a reunion show at Bill's Bar on Landsdowne Street in Boston. The band played as a three-piece with Aaron, Jim, and Ryan. A second reunion show was played on Saint Patrick's Day March 17, 2007, at T.T. the Bear's Place with the same lineup. Subsequent reunion shows with Aaron, Jim, and Shawn's original line-up took place on December 27, 2007, at TT the Bear's Place in Cambridge, MA, and the following two nights (both sold-out shows) at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, MA. They played another short reunion show in Antwerp, Belgium at Humo's Pop Poll Deluxe at the Sportpaleis on March 3, 2008.
On September 4, 2010, they played at Crammerock (Stekene, Belgium) another reunion show, with special guest Stijn Meuris who sang along on 'Automatic Buffalo.'
The Sheila Divine performed a show on January 14, 2011, at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, MA, with Orbit. They also played at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, MA on February 4, 2012, with Hurricane Bells and The Field Effect.
Reunion
In October 2010, The Sheila Divine regrouped and recorded a new album titled The Things That Once Were. The studio recordings were broadcast to the world via UStream, allowing an interactive experience between the band, studio crew, and fans.
The 2019 album Beginning of The End is Where We'll Start Again again received a rather positive press in Belgium, resulting in a tour through Belgium and the Netherlands.[3][4]
Discography
Albums
- New Parade (1999 · Roadrunner Records)
- Where Have My Countrymen Gone (2001 · Co-Op Pop Records)
- The Things That Once Were (2012 · Independent)
- The Morbs (2015 · Independent)
- Beginning of The End is Where We'll Start Again (2019 · Independent)
EPs
- The Sheila Divine EP (1998 · CherryDisc Records)
- Secret Society EP (2002 · Arena Rock Recording Co.)
- Fossils From The Fire (2015 · Independent)
Singles
- "Like A Criminal" 7" vinyl (1998 · CherryDisc Records)
- "Hum" radio promo CD (1999 · Roadrunner Records)
- "Hum" / "I'm A Believer" cassette promo (1999 · Roadrunner Records)
- "Ostrich" radio promo CD (2001 · Independent)
- "Shakespeare Underground" (2015 · Independent)
- "Watch Out For Us" (2015 · Independent)
- "Time To Set It Off" (2018 · Independent)
- "Melancholy, MA" (2018 · Independent)
- "Age Is Just a Number" (2019 · Independent)
Video
- Funeral live DVD (2007 · Independent)
Compilations
- Viva Noel – A Q Division Christmas : "O Holy Night" (1999 · Q Division Records)
- Then Covered Now : "Metal Health (Bang Your Head)" (1999 · Hearbox Records)
- In Our Lifetime: Vol. 3 : "New Landscape" (2002 · Fenway Recordings)
Timeline
References
Further reading
- Larkin, Colin. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Rich, Young and Pretty. Vol. 7. ISBN 0195313739.