Our latest EP, with cover art by a budding artist who happens to be the daughter of one of the Bugs!

The magnum opus of the modern Bug Band, a full-length offering, laboriously recorded in Scarborough.

Erstwhile Bug guitarist Mike Wickware engineered this wonderful-sounding EP, which contains some of our best stuff. This was the first effort of the current lineup.

Still loose, but things that should happen at the same time generally do. Still rough, but we listened to playbacks. And sometimes we even did two or three takes! We still love the jug bands, but the pop is fizzing too. A whole bunch of rockin’ garage folk tunes actually recorded in a garage. And best yet - it’s easily available!

Of all our recordings, this one sounds the most like a house party in Memphis in the 1930s. A weird house party, true, the kind where gnostics and deranged philosophers show up, but still a good time. Everybody’s loose but pretty much together, it’s quiet but intense, it’s all lo-fi and messy and sloppy but passionate, like when you’ve fallen in love with someone and you’re waiting to be told who it is…..I really like this disc. Dave recorded it, and at the start of the recording he threw down the gauntlet: his last session, a woman called Lederhosen Lucil had recorded nine bed tracks in two hours - could we beat it? We could. We did. It meant that we didn’t listen to playbacks between takes, and that meant that this recording was as much of a surprise to us as it would be to you.

The loosest, most skeletal of the Bug recordings. Mike is playing less drums than ever, and there’s no bass, just me on my clunky Silvertone guitar. Five instrumental tunes with clarinet and trombone, one vocal track. My two favourite Bug tunes ever are on this. But be warned: very rough. Very crude. Recorded in my living room. Dave MacKinnon co-produced and engineered.

The biggest Bug Band ever. Lots of people play and sing on this one. Great songs, lyrics and overall feel. Quiet. Built around a strummed acoustic guitar and melody. An attempt at impromptu recording that worked - we jammed twice, I think, and then recorded. It feels ragged and spontaneous in most of the right ways. One or two duds on it, but also some of my best songs. A testament to the fact that everyone in “the scene” had matured to the point that we could pull off something this loose. Recorded at Greenpail Studios. Tim Branton co-produced and engineered.

Four songs, the Bug Band in its rockin’ pop incarnation. Grittier guitars and chunkier production. Around eight minutes long. Most radio friendly of them all. Recorded because some friends of mine at studying sound engineering at Harris needed a guinea pig band.

The dual-lead vocalist version of the Bug Band, with both Perstephone and Joan. Pure, simple guitar pop with lyrics that are sometimes smart, sometimes touching, sometimes cutesy, and sometimes just plain bad. Very basic, but it captures a pretty good band, recorded almost live. Some nice ensemble playing, some cool arrangements. John Laldin pulls off one of the greatest guitar solos ever on “Try Me.” Recorded at the old Signal to Noise, w. Geoff Marshall (Antimatter) co-producing and Rob Sanzo engineering.

The raison d’etre for the first Bug incarnation. I hate it. Not all of it, but most of it. Recorded at Bob Scott’s place, before he was even in the band.