Headstones (band)

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Name = Headstones


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Origin = Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Genre = Alternative rock, hard rock
Years_active = 1987–2003
Label = MCA, BMG
Associated_acts = Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir
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Past_members = Hugh Dillon
Trent Carr
Tim White
Mark Gibson
Dale Harrison

Headstones were a Canadian hard rock band that began in the late 1980s in Kingston, Ontario and were active until 2003. The band consisted of vocalist Hugh Dillon, guitarist Trent Carr, bassist Tim White, and drummer Dale Harrison. They frequently sold out at small and mid-sized venues and were known for their high energy live shows, particularly the antics of Dillon, who interacted with his audience in a variety of ways including spitting on them and hurling lit cigarettes into mosh pits. The songwriting tackled many serious and taboo topics, including suicide and even necrophilia. Headstones were one of the most commercially successful Canadian rock bands of the 1990s.

Career

The band signed to MCA Records in 1993 and released "Picture of Health", with the original drummer Mark Gibson, but he left the band after touring for "Picture of Health" was over. Dale Harrison was recruited for the follow up "Teeth and Tissue" in 1995. The Headstones broke more ground in 1996 with Juno Award nominations for Best Group and Best Rock Album, while releasing "Smile and Wave" that same year. Three years passed before "Nickels for Your Nightmares" was released, in which time Carr and Harrison became fathers and Dillon recovered from a drug addiction.

After the band broke up in 2003, Dillon started a new band, the Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir, whose debut album "The High Co$t of Low Living" was released in June 2005. Dillon has also found success in acting, appearing in several films, including "Hard Core Logo", "Dance Me Outside", "" and the TV series Durham County and more recently "Flashpoint".

Discography

*"Picture of Health" (1993)
*"Teeth and Tissue" (1995)
*"Smile and Wave" (1997)
*"Nickels For Your Nightmares" (2000)
*"The Greatest Fits" (2001)
*"The Oracle of Hi-Fi" (2002)

Trivia

*Their song, "Come On", has been used as the opening theme for the Canadian version of the comedy sketch show "Comedy Inc."
*"It's All Over" was used in an early episode of the Canadian television series "Due South", and "Cubically Contained" was used in a later one.

External links

* [http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/H/Headstones.html The Headstones] at JAM! Canadian Pop Encyclopedia