Anyway Gang


Contact Agent
Submit an Offer
Request Info

A few summers ago, some friends from four of Canada`s most notable bands – Dave Monks (Tokyo Police Club), Sam Roberts (Sam Roberts Band), Menno Versteeg (Hollerado), and Chris Murphy (Sloan) – got together to write some songs. They mostly made dad jokes but also jammed on a bunch of songs they all had lying around. After bitter and lengthy negotiations, a 3 chord rule was implemented. This made sense for Sam and Dave`s songs, but required Chris to drop between four to six chords from his and forced Menno to add two.They recorded a bunch of stuff in a few days and over the year added some ideas here and there and all of a sudden they realized they kinda had an album so they said let`s name ourselves the first thing they thought of and release it. Anyway, they ended up being called Anyway Gang. Their first single, "Big Night", went to #1 at Alternative Radio. They decided to celebrate by playing exactly 1 show, at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. The show sold out in a matter of minutes, so they decided to quit while they were ahead and not do any more shows.Well it`s now 2022, and the band is back with a full length record called "Still Anyways". This time they even added a 4th chord to some of the songs, and worked in a real studio with producers Gus Van Go (Metric, Arkells, etc.) and Nixon Boyd (Hollerado, Dizzy,). To celebrate they will be doing a Canadian tour in May, and because they now have more than 8 songs to choose from, they won`t have to play Big Night twice like they did at the first show. (They might anyway, but they don`t have to)