It's now time for this month's Defunct Local Band Profile, and after a two month spell of randomly selected bands who were on the higher end for heaviness and notoriety here and afar, this month takes us to an accomplished past group who didn't have an extended run, but still played some big events and had a lot of promising original material. Here's what you should know in this monthly feature post!
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Hometown: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Genre: Hard/Blues Rock
Lineup:
Kyle McKey (The Ghost Town Cryers, Stillbroke, Mocombo), vocals/guitar
Blake Jackson, guitar
Liam Seymour (Lime, The Rising Tide), guitar
Jeff Brown (Turner Up), bass
Dean McKey (The McCartney Years), drums
Audio/Video: In conjunction with their set at Rotaryfest's Second Stage in July 2013, Sailor's Tongue released their only EP named "Pierced" at that event. This was intended to be a limited-run sampler for a formal full length album that never came to fruition, to the point that certain songs were labelled as demos. While "Pierced" is long out of print, you can stream all seven songs and a few select non-EP cuts that may have been planned for the full album across both the band's Reverbnation page and drummer Dean McKey's Soundcloud page. Limited videos from their 2010s reunion gigs can be found on YouTube, including this video of the guys playing "BootScattered" at their 2013 Stage 2 set!
Info/Analysis: Evolving from prior local bands named Pix N' Stix and Edge City, Sailor's Tongue were originally active locally from roughly 2005-2009, where they played headlining dates at former venues like Foggy Notions and The Nicolet Tavern, and made the finals of 2007's Bon Soo Battle of the Bands, while honing originals that would later appear on "Pierced". Gigs slowed down after Dean moved to London for university in 2007, but the band (with Liam initially replacing Blake) would reunite in 2012 for special events, including the final two LopLops-curated Second Stages at Rotaryfest on Queen Street East. Despite their public album plans, they fell inactive again by 2014 when Kyle moved out of town himself, though the band reunited to play at Rotaryfest Stage 1 in 2019, making them the first Stage 2 band to ever graduate to the main stage.A well varied outfit who could deliver hard rock grooves while also featuring blues, southern rock, and funk influences on various songs like "Float" and "Doctor John", the McKey brothers and crew had good chemistry, distinct vocals, and a casual stage presence that would have lent them well had members stayed in town long enough to allow more momentum to gather as a live and studio act. Kyle & Dean have privately worked on songwriting for Sailor's Tongue since the band dissolved, and hopefully we haven't seen the last of them on a local stage, but follow members' current projects to see what they're up to in the 2020s!
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