We’re leaking!

Hi friends! We decided to start leaking.  Sooooooooo………..  we’ll try to announce a band every two weeks.  We’ll hold back on the big big name headliners so ya’ll can still get excited when the FULL lineup gets announced on May 1.  But- these bands are certainly worth getting excited about too.

Word from last year’s Pop Montreal was that this band stole the show….

Sled Island 2010 is THRILLED to announce leak #1: Chain and the Gang.

From Chain and the Gang’s K records bio:

Ian Svenonius … a.k.a. Name Names is now with CHAIN and The GANG. They are tired of liberty … tired of being free … they say “if this is ‘freedom’ then lock me up and throw away the key.”

“DOWN WITH LIBERTY … UP WITH CHAINS! YEH YEH … SAY IT AGAIN … PUT THOSE HANDCUFFS ON MY HANDS!”

They are concerned that the spread of liberty has been detrimental to the world.

Everywhere liberty goes, it leaves a path of destruction. Fast food, bad architecture, militarism, rampant greed, environmental destruction, imperial conquest, class struggle; these phenomena, when combined, seem to be synonymous with “Liberty.” 

So just as they call it “liberty” or “freedom” when war and greed stalk the land, Svenonius calls his band: CHAIN And The GANG … 

For Svenonius , this is another step in a life spent trying to do as little as possible. 

He’s been seen on stage as a lecturer promoting his book “The Psychic Soviet”, as a singer in the groups Make-Up, Scene Creamers, Weird War, and Nation of Ulysses, and also as interviewer of interesting people on the internet chat show Soft Focus.