Biography
Guelph's Spy Machine 16 is an 8-member indie dance rock performance crew: 6 musicians belt out politically charged lyrics over keyboard-driven pop punk hooks, hands a-clappin', bodies a-shakin', and sweat a-drippin' – and a 2 person live dance crew adds frantic punk rock choreography to the frenzy.
SM16's line-up includes a librarian, a pro photographer, an industrial parts specialist, and an installation artist, combining the musical talents of Olivia Brown, Dave Hudson, Jess Tollefsen, Kyle Squance, Dave Bazinet, and Jeff Beemer, with the educated feet of dancers Amy Armstrong and Kurt Krausewitz.
In late April 2006, SM16 released a modest 4-song EP, The Soap from this Soapbox Makes Our Dirty Feet Slide, which a November 2006 review in Broken Pencil magazine described as "no filler, all killer": "the music hit the ground running and never let up its manic, power-punk-pop-cheer-leader energy." An early review of their debut 2007 album, How Things Come Apart, offers the following: "How Things Come Apart aims to be both a call to revolution and a call to the dancefloor, and it succeeds on both counts without having to sacrifice one end to the other." Not convinced? Have a listen, come sweat it on the floor, and you can decide after …
One thing's for sure, though: SM16 likes pie.
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