So the Sandwich Club is now entering its sixth month of existence (time flies when you're having fun). We've grown and grown to the point where this damn blog is taking over our lives (like cancer - it's slowly eating away at our soul). Anyway, for the past few weeks we've been trying to work out what to do with the Saturday night post - it's the last thing any of us wants to do on a Saturday night. So while watching a South Park rerun the other day I had the thought... why don't Sandwich Club post a few reruns? huh? genius hey? There have been so many great bands we've posted in the early days - well before this site got to the size it is now - and we feel that our beloved new readers may have missed out on them. Anyway without further blabbering, here's one of our personal favourites by Marcy Sandwich (where are you Marc? We miss you)

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

As soon as you first glance at this photo of Sure Juror, you can tell that they're a band of many different characters. For starters, there appears to be one giant bearded man, two medium sized men and two midgets. I mean, they're just one talking goose short of a children's story.

Oh don't worry, I'm no fool. I understand the wacky world of optical illusions. In fact, I just eat those magic eye books up. I once finished a whole book in five minutes, that's how good I am. But anyway the point I was going to make is that Sure Juror seem to have so much diversity within the band, and it really comes through in their music. Not only can you see the range of their influences from song to song, but also within each song.

I seriously think that Sure Juror custom make songs for me. I don't know how many of you know me personally, but I have the attention span of a gnat. I can honestly say that when I'm watching TV, I look forward to the commercials. They are so bright and loud and clever and they only last 30 seconds. There's this Sea World ad that's on at the moment that is just too fantastic for words. In 30 seconds they show people surfing on dolphins, polar bears dancing, roller coasters... I get so excited I could just POP. Wow I really have a problem don't I?

So anyway, Sure Juror really appeal to me because they have so much going on in every song. There are a million different adjectives that I could use to describe each different verse, chorus, and melody, but I'm not even going to try. When one has a brain capacity that explodes while watching Sea World ads, then trying to come up with a million adjectives ain't exactly a walk in the park. I find when most bands try to have many different musical styles within the one song then it just doesn't flow too well. Sure, there are some good ideas in there, but as a whole it never really does it for me. But Sure Juror do it, and they do it well. They manage to go from punk to pop to indie rock, jumping in and out of genres so effortlessly that its music to my attention-deficient ears.

I would love to announce them as "my new favourite band", but I know it's not going to take long before I'm distracted but something newer, louder and more colourful. Either that or I'll want to run outside and chase butterflies around the garden. But for now, here are the excellent Sure Juror.

Sure Juror's Blog (you can download the entire album from here - such nice guys!)