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of the band's "success" and due to the usual pressures placed
upon musical groups, this six piece could not continue to tour together,
tarpigh made their split and a new touring group had to be assembled. So
in the winter of 2000 Sutherland, Mulkerin and Rogers solicited the help
of artist/musician Colleen Kinsella, bassist and vocalist Erin Davidson
and writer/conceptualizer Karl Greenwald to help create a strong new live
show to be presented in the upcoming spring. In May 2000 this Cerberus Shoal
toured the East Coast U$A successfully proving that the new bond would last.
They followed this with a month-long West Coast U.S. tour Finally, as a
climax to the year; the group did its first European tour that fall. This
two-and-a-half-month-long adventure consisted of 11,000 miles of driving
and thirty-six shows in thirteen different countries. It also proved to
further solidify this new working relationship. Immediately after returning
in December the group recorded a CD single containing two new tunes "Garden
Fly" and "Drip Eye". North East Indie continued its support
by releasing the single just in time for a month-and-a-half U$A. tour, which
took place the spring of 2001. In 2002 the band toured the U.S. twice and began a split CD series, in cooperation with North East Indie. The new series began with "The Whys and Hows of Herman Dune and Cerberus Shoal" as an attempt by the group to align itself with like-minded artists from around the globe. The first installment paired the group with the Parisian band Herman Dune whom they had initially met during their 2000 Euro' tour. Then came "The Vim and Vigour of Alvarius B and Cerberus Shoal". This time the group convinced Alvarius B (Alan Bishop from the Sun City Girls) to partake in dual of versions. So instead of being a straight split, like the first installment, this features each participant covering one the others songs. Bishop does his rendition of "Ding" a twenty-minute acoustic dirge while Cerberus Shoal covers two Alvarius B tunes from his 1996 LP. The third installment "The Ducks and Drakes of Guapo and Cerberus Shoal" was snuck out of Maine in the spring of 2003 and featured the most abstract Cerberus music yet coupled with the brooding heaviness of London's drum and bass duo Guapo. NEXT |
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