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The Transit
SS014 — "it's lights out for downtown" CDEP
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BIOGRAPHY
2.5 year old band playing straight forward, melodic, punk music along the lines of Hot Water Music, old Jawbreaker and Face to Face.
First show September 2001. Demo released October 2001. Demo sold out (500 copies) within four months.
Split CD with their friends The Vanishing Red released on their own label, A-List Records in 2002. The CD was well received, setting records for longest at #1 on the local college radio station charts and reached #9 on the Exclaim magazine national Loud Charts. They are nearly through the 1000 pressing of the split CD.
March of 2003. Recorded first EP entitled Lights Out For Downtown, with Dean Hadjichristou at Addictive Sound.
Toured from Quebec City to Red Deer. Full Canadian tour booked for March 2004. Opened for bands like Good Riddance, Strike Anywhere, Ann Beretta.
No ex-members of Shotmaker.
AVAILABLE NOW
The Transit’s CDEP is available locally at CD Exchange, Organised Sound, Record Runner, Vertigo Music and CD Warehouse in the burbs.
Available online through tunevault.com and MyMusic.com
DISTRIBUTED BY
CANADA - F>A>B
USA - Ebullition, Stickfigure
OTHER - get in touch
TOUR
taking a break after two cross Canada tours
WEB: www.thetransit.net
CONTACT: contact@thetransit.net