Opening track from the album FOR THOSE WHO HATE HUMAN INTERACTION.
(Best Album of The Year - 2010 - The Ottawa Citizen)

The PepTides - FOR THOSE WHO HATE THE HUMAN RACE

MARY'S PRAYER (Danny Wilson cover) - Claude MarQuis

I'm In Love

Black Beast

Attack Of The Treadmill

202 Washington DC

Don't Believe In Love

The PepTides create a song for every story in CBC Radio host Stuart McLean's book Revenge of The Vinyl Cafe.

FISH HEAD:
Dave reminisces about a midnight fishing trip in mid April with his dad, when he caught a deformed fish.

"All these little moments, he thought, who knows which ones are going to count and which ones will be forgotten. It’s never the things you think. It isn’t the fishing trip, or even the fish. It’s the fish head. It’s the smoke, never the fire. And the smoke is wily and wispy and the smell of it gets in your hair and your clothes and no matter how much you try to duck around the flames, the wind always changes. It always gets in your eyes. 
“What’s the matter,” said Sam. “Are you crying?”

FISH HEAD
Produced by Claude Marquis
Music & Lyrics - Claude Marquis
Vocoder Organ, Bass, Xlophone - Claude Marquis
Vocals - Claude Marquis, DeeDee Butters

LITTLE MOMENTS RISE & FLY
NOT THE FIRE BUT THE SMOKE IN YOUR EYES
LITTLE TINY MOMENTS RISE & SIGH
WHAT'S THE MATTER ARE YOU CRYING WHY?

LITTLE MOMENTS RISE & FLOW
SMOKE FROM FIRE FOLLOWS EVERYWHERE YOU GO
TINY MOMENTS RISE & GLOW
SMOKE FROM FIRE IN YOUR HAIR ON YOUR CLOTHES

LITTLE MOMENTS RISE & FLAME
NOT THE FIRE BUT THE SMOKE THAT REMAINS
LITTLE TINY MOMENTS RISE & RAIN
WHAT'S THE MATTER ARE YOU CRYING AGAIN?
SMALL & TINY LITTLE MINI MOMENTS
SLIGHT & TINY LITTLE MICRO MOMENTS

The PepTides - FISH HEAD (Revenge of The Vinyl Cafe)

The PepTides create a song for every story in CBC Radio host Stuart McLean's book Revenge of The Vinyl Cafe.

BLACK BEAST OF MARGAREE:
When Dave notices a copy of Goldfinger in Dorothy’s bookstore, he has to buy it. He remembers how he had loved the James Bond novels when he was a boy. The books, in fact, made him a regular at the Big Narrows library, until, that is, he attempted to return a ruined book to the library and gave the librarian and a host of Big Narrows children the fright of their lives.

THE BLACK BEAST OF MARGAREE
Produced by Andrew Burns
Music & Lyrics - Andrew Burns, DeeDee Butters
Programming & Instrumentation - Andrew Burns
Vocals - DeeDee Butters

I WATCHED IT FALLING FROM MY HAND
A FLYING POEM
FORGET MY CALLING 
NO TIME NO RHYME I JUST WANT TO GO HOME
GOLDFINGER HERE WE PART
PAGES TURNING FADE INTO THE DARK
HA-OOU
GRINNING & PAWING 
BRIGHT EYES SHINE IN THE COAL
SPINNING & CLAWING
NO SOUND NO HOUND BOY YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN
GOLDFINGER GONE AWRY
DON’T LINGER SAY GOODBYE 
SAY GOODBYE
I JUST WANT TO GO HOME 

The PepTides - BLACK BEAST OF MARGAREE (Revenge of The Vinyl Cafe)

The PepTides create a song for every story in CBC Radio host Stuart McLean's book
Revenge of The Vinyl Cafe.

ATTACK OF THE TREADMILL:
The family stops for the night at the Totem Moter Inn Motel. In the morning Dave visits the motel fitness room and gets trapped on preprogrammed treadmill. 

ATTACK OF THE TREADMILL 
Produced by Claude Marquis
Music & Lyrics - Claude Marquis
Programming - Claude Marquis
Guitar - David Campbell
Vocals - Claude Marquis, Olexandra Pruchnicky

SHOELACES ARE ALL TIED UP 
HAIR COMBED COFFEE IN A CUP
BRIGHT & EARLY OUT OF LUCK 
HURLY BURLY TOPSY TURVY
TOTEM MOTOR INN MOTEL 
PURGATORY LIMBO HELL
TREADMILL RACE MARATHON PACE
UPHILL RUN DOWNHILL CHASE
BODY DON'T YOU LOSE THE WILL
DON'T YOU LOSE THE WILL TO LIVE

GRAVITY WILL ULTIMATELY
PERMANENTLY KILL ME
VELOCITY WILL ABSOLUTELY
POSITIVELY KILL ME
GRAVITY VELOCITY
WILL DEFINITELY OBVIOUSLY
EVIDENTLY IMMINENTLY
PREMATURELY KILL ME
GRAVITY VELOCITY
WILL CERTAINLY AFFIRMATIVELY
ACTUALLY NATURALLY 
PERSONALLY KILL ME
BODY DON'T YOU LOSE THE WILL
DON'T YOU LOSE THE WILL TO LIVE

SHOELACES ARE ALL TIED UP
HAIR COMBED COFFEE IN A CUP
EASY BREEZY RUN AMOK
HEEBIE-JEEBIES TOPSY TURVY
TOTEM MOTOR INN MOTEL
PURGATORY LIMBO HELL
TEMPORARY ACROBATICS
STATUS MOMENTARY MADNESS
BODY DON'T YOU LOSE THE WILL
DON'T YOU LOSE THE WILL TO LIVE

GRAVITY WILL ULTIMATELY
PERMANENTLY KILL ME
VELOCITY WILL ABSOLUTELY
POSITIVELY KILL ME
GRAVITY VELOCITY
WILL INSTANTLY EVENTUALLY
GENERALLY GENUINELY
PRACTICALLY KILL ME
GRAVITY VELOCITY
WILL DOUBTLESSLY DECIDEDLY
SURELY CLEARLY PATENTLY
SWIFTLY PROMPTLY RAPIDLY
THOROUGHLY SIGNIFICANTLY
PHYSICALLY KILL ME
BODY DON'T YOU LOSE THE WILL
DON'T YOU LOSE THE WILL TO LIVE

The PepTides - ATTACK OF THE TREADMILL  (Revenge of The Vinyl Cafe)

The PepTides is a nine-member band with a distinctive larger-than-life pop sound. The five vocalists and four instrumentalists draw on funk, electronic and disco influences. In 2017, the band was featured on the cover of Ottawa Life Magazine as “Ottawa’s Best Band.”

A snapshot of Canadian diversity, The PepTides is an eclectic community of musicians with a rainbow of identities: girls and guys, gay and straight, English and French, black and white and in between, Ukrainian, Mexican, Guyanese, Cree, Acadian, Armenian and Scottish.

The group is noted for its extravagant live performances featuring thick vocal harmonies, theatrical choreography and colourful visuals. The PepTides’ songs juxtapose upbeat music with lyrics that comment on far-reaching themes like love, hate, revenge, sex, religion, war—and getting ready for dates.

In 2013, The PepTides garnered national attention by producing a full-length album in collaboration with Stuart McLean of CBC Radio’s Vinyl Cafe. They performed selections from the album live on the 20th anniversary recording of the show. Their 2014 release Love Question Mark was lauded by Exclaim! as “an ambitious collection of fun, daring, unadulterated, true blue art.” For Those Who Hate Human Interaction (2010) was named best album of the year by the Ottawa Citizen.

The PepTides EP, released in September 2016, features all-new studio recordings of the band’s live favourites—including the summer single “Don’t Believe in Love,” which aired on commercial radio from coast to coast in Canada and received positive reviews from DJs internationally. The EP captures the energy and colour of the band’s live show on record—a collection of sizzling pop, funk and soul that, in the words of the band, “will have neon hair coming out of your speakers!”

The band has charmed audiences at major music festivals (RBC Bluesfest, Festival d'été de Québec), bars (Black Sheep Inn, Horseshoe Tavern), showcases (NXNE, Folk Music Ontario), and theatre festivals (SummerWorks, Undercurrents).

M3TV’s take on The PepTides says it all: “Mixing their stunning vocals with funk beats underneath a soulful sound, an abundance of theatrical dance moves and kitschy quirks, they defy any genre or description. One must simply see them to believe them.”

The PepTides

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