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After starting off playing for audiences from the opposite end of the sound spectrum, the self-described indy-folk band Boxer The Horse is finding its niche. The group started opening at metal shows where the audience mainly just put up with them, said bassist Richard MacLeod. “We converted a couple to the folk.” “They came to the light side,” added drummer Andrew Woods.
The group now plays more showcases, and played at the Two Hours Traffic EP release in September and the Close to the Coast festival in August. Most of the time the band plays on the all-ages circuit. All three members are underage and say most bars steer away from letting the group play because of their age, although there are legal ways for the band to play. MacLeod is 17, Woods 18, and guitarist and vocalist Jeremy Gaudet is 17.
The band's name comes from the George Orwell novel Animal Farm, said Woods. “The best character in the whole book. The hard working horse.” “Who eventually gets sent to the glue factory,” adds MacLeod. “We also practise in a cold porch in a farm house so we thought we should have some sort of tie with the animals,” Woods said. “These guys are really bad at making band names, they came up with some really bad stuff.”
Before Woods joined in June the boys were known as the Jeremy Richard Experiment. Adding the drums helped when the band was still playing metal shows, said MacLeod. “Since adding the drums people actually have to listen to us because we can turn up the volume louder,” he laughed. Before joining forces with Gaudet, MacLeod played with the group Ruth and Friends, and Woods was a member of The Square Root of Infinity. The Square Root of Infinity was just for fun, he said. “ We put a microphone in a room and we all started playing instruments that we'd never played before.”
The group is currently working on a five-song EP. “The EP will be released sometime after Christmas,” said Gaudet. “We're looking to play a few off-Island shows, around January or so, whenever we get the new EP put out.” “We'd like to play in a bar again someday too,” said Woods. “That's more fun.”
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