Genres Third wave ska Genre Ska Record label Chooch Records | Active until 2007 | |
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Years active 1990 (1990)–1996 (1996) Past members Gus Coriandoli, Kim Bingham, John Jordan, Adam Berger, Kasia Hering, Sid Zanforlin, Matt Lipscombe, Noah Green, John Britton Similar Kim Bingham, Gus van Go, General Rudie, King Apparatus, The Kingpins Profiles | ||
Me Mom and Morgentaler were a Canadian third wave ska band based in Montreal. The band members included Gus "Van Go" Coriandoli, Kim Bingham, John Jordan, Adam "Baltimore Bix" Berger, Kasia Hering, Sid Zanforlin, Matt Lipscombe, Noah Green Diane White and John "JB" Britton. They were known for their elaborate live performances, spectacles of vaudevillian-styled performance art with leftist leanings. They sang in both English and French.
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History
The band formed in 1990. They chose their name, with its reference to Henry Morgentaler, a doctor and pro-choice activist, before performing at a talent show at Marianopolis College where nuns worked.
In 1991 the band released an EP, Clown Heaven & Hell. In 1993 they released a studio album, Shiva Space Machine, and in 1994 a live album, We Are Revolting, was released.
The band broke up in 1996. Green went on to join NYC-based hip-hop/hard-core band, 2 Skinnee J's, renaming himself J Guevara. Coriandoli also moved to New York, where he became involved in rock music production. van Go moved into audio production, and opened a studio in Brooklyn.
Reunions
The band played a one-off reunion show at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 1999, and later reunited in late 2007 for a series of four Montreal shows in support of the re-release of Shiva Space Machine. The new CD offered re-ordered, remixed versions of the band's classics, along with three unreleased live tracks.
Awards
In 2007 Me Mom and Morgentaler was presented with a Tribute Award at the Quebec Independent Music Awards.
Discography
Songs
AnarchieShiva Space Machine · 1993
I Still Love You EveShiva Space Machine · 1993
No More Nervous BreakdownShiva Space Machine · 1993