Mother Mother

For the song by Tracy Bonham, see Mother Mother (song).

Mother Mother
Mother Mother performing at the 2011 Hillside Festival
Background information
Origin	Quadra Island, British Columbia, Canada
Genres	Indie rock Alternative Rock
Years active	2005 (2005)–present
Labels	Last Gang[Roch'n'Doerks Production]
Website	Official site
Members
Ryan Guldemond Molly Guldemond Ali Siadat Jeremy Page Jasmin Parkin
Past members
Kenton Loewen Debra-Jean Creelman

Mother Mother is a five-piece Canadian indie rock band originally from Quadra Island, now based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mother Mother consists of Ryan Guldemond on guitar and vocals, Molly Guldemond on vocals and keyboard, Jasmin Parkin on keyboard and vocals, Ali Siadat on drums, and Jeremy Page on bass.

In 2005, they independently released their self-titled debut album under the band name Mother. They later changed their name to Mother Mother, and re-released the album on Last Gang Records in 2007. Retitled Touch Up, the reissue also featured several new songs.

Their second album, O My Heart, was released on September 16, 2008, and their third album, Eureka, was released on March 15, 2011.^[1]

History

Ryan Guldemond

Mother Mother originated in Vancouver in January 2005 with guitarist/vocalist Ryan Guldemond. Guldemond had come up with a particular sound for the band, and later recruited his sister Molly along with a friend from college, Debra-Jean Creelman, to accompany his own vocals for the songs he had written. The trio played as an acoustic act until adding drummer Kenton Loewen and bassist Jeremy Page.

The five members started off with the band name Mother, and in the fall of 2005, they independently released a self-titled album. This debut album was recorded with Howard Redekopp, who had also worked with The New Pornographers and Tegan and Sara. When the Vancouver Province rated Mother Mother as one of the top five BC bands to watch for in 2007, they began to receive acclaim for their debut album. Shortly thereafter, Mother Mother landed a nationally broadcasted concert opening^[when?] for K'naan and The Wailin' Jennys. In the summer of 2006, they opened for the Australian band, The Cat Empire, at the sold-out Vancouver International Jazz Festival. This gained them much more national exposure, resulting in a gig at the Montreal International Jazz Festival^[when?], which was Mother Mother's first show in Eastern Canada.

Mother Mother then played a series of shows in Toronto and later^[when?] the Toronto Star featured a full-page article about the band. The headline of the article read “This Mother grows up quickly”, emphasizing how well the band had been doing after less than two years in the making. In October 2006, after playing a set at the Pop Montreal Festival, Mother Mother met with Last Gang Records (Metric, Death From Above 1979), and later signed a four-album contract with that label.

By this time, the band had added an extra “Mother” onto their name. On February 20, 2007, the band re-released its debut album under the new name of Mother Mother, re-naming the album Touch Up and including two new songs, as well as artwork and overdubs different from the original. Asked about the change^{[by whom?]}, Guldemond responded: “Well, we had to change our name because there are other mothers in the world, besides general maternal figures. Instead of changing the name altogether and losing the steam that we built, we just doubled it up -- just to stay with the continuity.”^{[citation needed]}

The band released their second album, O My Heart, in 2008. That album reached Single of the Week on iTunes for the week of October 8, 2008.

It was announced on their Myspace blog on December 3, 2008 that Debra-Jean Creelman had left Mother Mother. On January 26, 2009 the band announced the addition of a new singer/keyboardist, Jasmin Parkin.

Their latest album, Eureka, mixed by engineer Mike Fraser^[2] (AC/DC, Franz Ferdinand), was released on March 15, 2011,^[1] with a lead single, "The Stand",^[1] that entered the Canada Singles Top 100 chart in May, 2011; spending one week on the chart and peaking during that week at position 76.^[3]

On July 16, 2011 Mother Mother played on the Subway stage at Ottawa Bluesfest.

On July 23, 2011 Mother Mother played Main Stage at Hillside Festival in Guelph, Ontario.

Molly Guldemond

Jasmin Parkin

Discography

Albums

• Touch Up (self publication, 2007)
• O My Heart (Last Gang Records, 2008)
• Eureka (Last Gang Records, 2011)

Singles

Year	Song	Chart peak			Album
		CAN [4]	CAN Alt [5][6][7]	CAN Rock [8]
2011	"The Stand"	76	4	48	Eureka
	"Baby Don't Dance"	—	11	—
	"Simply Simple"	—	25	—
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Mother Mother Announce New Eureka LP". Exclaim!, December 6, 2010.
2. ^ "Mike Fraser, Mix Engineer". http://www.mikefrasermix.com. 
3. ^ "Song Performance". aCharts.us. http://acharts.us/song/60725. Retrieved 2011-06-15. 
4. ^ "Mother Mother - Music Charts". aCharts. http://acharts.us/performer/mother_mother. Retrieved June 1, 2011. 
5. ^ "Canadian Active Rock & Alt Rock Chart Archive: Alternative Rock - April 19, 2011". America's Music Charts. http://canadianrockalt.blogspot.com/2011/04/alternative-rock-april-19-2011.html. Retrieved May 1, 2011. 
6. ^ "Canadian Active Rock & Alt Rock Chart Archive: Alternative Rock - September 27, 2011". America's Music Charts. http://canadianrockalt.blogspot.com/2011/09/alternative-rock-september-27-2011.html. Retrieved September 27, 2011. 
7. ^ "Canadian Active Rock & Alt Rock Chart Archive: Alternative Rock - November 22, 2011". America's Music Charts. http://canadianrockalt.blogspot.com/2011/11/alternative-rock-november-22-2011.html. Retrieved November 22, 2011. 
8. ^ "Canadian Active Rock & Alt Rock Chart Archive: Active Rock - May 10, 2011". America's Music Charts. http://canadianrockalt.blogspot.com/2011/05/active-rock-may-10-2011.html. Retrieved May 18, 2011. 

External links

• Mother Mother

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