Appears on: The Savage Dixie Bug EP, The Last Professionals, First of the Apres-Garde and What About The Children?. Clarinet, tenor sax, flute, accordion, backing vocals. Also the band webmaster and manager. My old boss at the famous Revue Cinema in the west end of Toronto. Also a university friend of mine. Composes very cool avant-garde classical music.

Appears on everything. Bass, guitar, keyboards, accordion, vocals. He’s the guy writing all this stuff, so it would be immodest to say anything more.

Guitarist par excellence and super Bug attitude!

Appears on The Last Professionals, First of the Apres-Garde and What About The Children?. Plays drums. A Toronto music vet, she’s been in more great bands than most people have been in crappy ones.

Triumphantly returning to the Bugs after a stint in Boston.

Vocals. Appears on: everything the Bug Band has ever recorded. She’s been singing my songs for almost as long as I’ve been seriously writing them. A great, great voice and very nice person.

The latest addition to the Bug Band. Welcome Steve!

Appears on: Big Bug Eyes, Monkeyshines, The Last Professionalsand What About The Children? Plays trumpet and sings. Has a mean ear for harmony and a very cool artistic sense.

Appears on: Snapshots and Starlite Lounge EP. Lead Vocals. Kickass singer. Actor. You may have seen her in that Doritos commercial, where three women are sitting in a beauty parlour. As they munch Doritos, they start talking about racing cars. I think it’s supposed to represent the power of Doritos to transcend gender distinctions - in fact, to transform us all into omniscient gender dancers, caught up in the ecstasy of ever-increasing cognizance of the many facets of the human condition. Anyway, she’s the second woman to eat the Doritos - she says, "Torque?" She also acted at the Shaw festival.

Appears on: This City Is Very Exciting. He engineered and co-produced the This City opus. Very enthusiastic, nice guy, prone to write a book or plan world domination at the drop of a hat. Lives in a house with décor so schizophrenic that it’s positively disturbing to enter.

Appears on: The Savage Dixie Bug EP. Trombone. An old university friend of mine, who played in a band called Blue Shift and co-produced the Starlite Lounge EP. Also played in the Crawlin’ Crawdads, a New Orleans r&b band, which is where he got that growl on the bone.

Last name forgotten. Drummer. The version of the Bug Band with him, Bob Scott, Joan and me never recorded. Too bad. Dean used to make his living as a cleaner in the winter and in the summers would head off to tour Europe in the band of the guy who first recorded "Some Kind of Wonderful." Sounds like a cool life. He’s currently promoting himself as a solo slow-jam artist, which is a shame because his drumming was tasty.

Appears on The Last Professionals, First of the Apres-Garde and What About The Children?. Plays trombone and sings. Classically trained, plays with me in Kanaka, played with Guh, not averse to the occasional free form atonality.

Appears on: This City is Very Exciting and Monkeyshines. Bass and vocals. He used to play in the Lowest of the Low. Then we played together in Ron Hawkins and the Rusty Nails. Now he’s in the Low again. A fine Bug bassist.

Appears on: Hello, World and Snapshots. He also played in Basketcase, and was (is?) a superb guitarist, tighter than a flea’s behind but without being all technical, if you know what I mean. Our first guitarist. He sometimes used to drop by my place in the early morning (2, 3 AM) and we’d hang out and listen to Marvin Gaye. Then we’d go for drives, and he would crank the gangsta rap. It was fun. I don’t know what he’s up to these days.

Appears on First of the Apres-Garde and What About The Children?. Emilie plays trumpet and sings, and also composes, in general living and breathing music in every way.

An occasional UBB member, saving ourselves from scheduling hell by subbing on trombone.

Appears on: This City is Very Exciting and Monkeyshines. Lead guitar. Actually, he also appears on some demos that I keep meaning to finish up. Whatever. Also engineered and co-produced the Savage Dixie Bug EP. Plays in the Fembots, used to play in Hummer, who should have been AC/DC for the Gen X set, but tragically were not. Fucking amazing guitarist, sloppy as hell but impeccable taste. He may not play all the right notes, but he plays them so well that you don’t care.

Appears on: This City Is Very Exciting. Vocals. Used to run Temper, then he sang with Ron Hawkins and the Rusty Nails. Now he sings with the Low. Good singer, great harmonic ideas, and a real sweetheart to boot. He really should get round to doing a solo album one of these days.

Appears on: This City is Very Exciting. Vocals. Played in Sour Landslide, who should have been huge. I know, I know, lots of bands should have been huge, but these guys really should have been. Has a raspy voice, and so do I! Another sweetheart.

Appears on: everything but Starlite Lounge EP. Drummer. One of my favourite drummers in the world. He’s the only drummer I know that is equally tight and sensitive playing hardcore (Random Killing), thrash metal (Sacrifice), pure pop (Antimatter, early Bug), and quiet shuffling (newer Bug). Still occasionally subs in when Conny can’t be there.

Guitar. Tragically, the incarnation of the Bug Band with Bob and Dean never recorded. It was in many ways the most sophisticated. Definitely the most laid back, with Bob’s chiming chords and minimalist leads, Dean complementing every melodic twist, and Joan just emoting over top. Could have really been something, but we were all busy and could never find common time to rehearse. Bob was also in Anodyne Necklace, and in the 80s was in the Martian Invasion, a pioneering Toronto electropop/new wave band.

Appears on: Starlite Lounge EP. Drums. He was the drummer in Anodyne Necklace, and when I left that band I took him with me. He had a really nice Britpop feel to his drumming, although I don’t think we used him to his full advantage. Never played live. He lives in Montreal now, the lucky bastard.

Appears on: Starlite Lounge EP, Big Bug Eyes and Monkeyshines. Vocals and Guitar. Hates the name Sparky. After the Starlite Lounge Bug Band dissolved, he and I had a band together, then I reformed the Bug Band without him. Then he came back. This testifies to his charm. But then he left again. The Buglife is not for everyone! He’s just entering his prime, and it’s really exciting to watch him stretch out. A blues man on the side. Also plays hard core, which is kind of like blues for white kids. Except that blues is also for white kids these days - oh ya, and middle aged white alcoholics.

Appears on: The Last Professionals and First of the Apres-Garde. Plays guitar and sings. Writes great catchy tunes with big choruses and plays them in Melvin. Engineered and recorded The Last Professionals.