The Nines (band)

The Nines is a Canadian power pop band formed in Oakville, Ontario in 1991. The core of the band is multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and primary songwriter Steve Eggers. A series of other band members have rotated in and out through the years, including George Aaron Nielsen (the original drummer), Andrew Webb (the original guitar player) and Sam Tallo (guitar), Paul McCulloch (strings and bass) Bill Majoros (guitar)

The Nines
Origin	Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Genres	Power pop
Years active	1992 (1992)–present (present)
Labels	TAS GOLD / Page Music / EMI / Universal / Airmail Recordings / Sony Music Japan
Website	reverbnation.com/thenines
Members	Steve Eggers Paul McCulloch Warren Cliff Aaron Nielsen Andrew Webb Sam Tallo

Several Nines/Eggers songs have been included on network television series, including Dawson's Creek, Party of Five and Joan of Arcadia.[1] Eggers also wrote the theme song for Global Television's comedy sitcom The Jane Show.

The Nines have been described in reviews as a band that has picked up where The Beatles left off.[2]

History

The first Nines album, Wonderworld of Colourful, was released in Canada in 1998[3] on the Page Music label and was distributed through EMI. Later that year, Universal Music Canada released a piano-based four-song EP. Eggers admits that the band was still a "work in progress" at this time.

Properties of Sound was released in North America in 2001. Airmail Recordings picked up the album in Japan a year later and released it there with bonus tracks and sold with six packs of kraft dinner.

While essentially a studio project, the band has performed live and has shared the stage with a diverse group of artists including, Ron Sexsmith, Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe, Supertramp's Roger Hodgson, the Jim Rose Side Show, and the Barenaked Ladies.[4] Steve Eggers has gone on to work with a number of songwriters, including Andy Partridge of the British band XTC, and Jason Falkner, former member of the band Jellyfish.[5] In 2015, the Nines released the movie soundtrack "Night Surfer and the Cassette Kids" and "Alejandro's Visions" featuring multi-talented and widely recognized musician and guitarist Bill Majoros of the band the Foreign Films . The Nines' released, "Colour Radio (American Transistor)" in the Fall 2017 to critical acclaim. In the summer of 2019 Eggers recorded a "solo" album, "Shipwrecked (Eggers Songbook Vol 1), under the Nines moniker, playing all the instruments and doing all of the singing and production on that album. Sony Music released The Nines' Gran Jukle's Field with an additional singles collection in Japan in December 2019.

Discography

Released	Album
1998	Wonderworld of Colourful
1999	Four Song EP
2001	Properties of Sound
2002	Properties of Sound (Japanese Import)
2006	Calling Distance Stations
2007	Gran Jukle's Field
2007	Winter Snow & Icicles
2011	Polarities
2013	The Nines
2014	Nine Lives
2015	Night Surfer and the cassette kids (original soundtrack)
2015	Circles in the snow (tapes and transcripts vol.1)
2015	Rare cuts and unreleased
2016	Alejandro's Visions
2017	Colour Radio (American Transistor)
2019	Shipwrecked (Eggers Songbook Vol 1)
2019	Gran Jukle's Field (Japanese version) + Bonus singles (SONY MUSIC JAPAN)

Awards

• 1998 Best Unsigned Band North by Northeast Conference

The band was third place in a battle of four bands at the CHMR (the in house, at the time, radio station of Hamilton's Mohawk College campus: now known as 101.5 the Hawk) contest in 1994.

References

1. "Dawson's Creek, Homecoming Season 3, episode 2 aired 10/6/99". TV.com. 12 February 2012.
2. Scoppa, Bud. Mojo Magazine, July 2006. "Picking up where The Beatles left off is a big challenge, but it can be done, as XTC, Jellyfish and Spoon have proved. And none of them succeeded. The Nines belong in that rarefied company."
3. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/nines2
4. "Music Notes:The Nines". View Magazine. 16 August 2006.
5. "Steve Eggers interview". Powerpopaholic (Interview). 20 February 2011.