Furry Ongion

The girl band that wasn't all girls. Formed in early 1994 and disbanded sometime after March 25th 1995. The band featured Ania Dabrowski on bass, Jason Watson (who was always called Phil because at a party someone said that he looked like a Phil) on guitar, Jen Palmer on guitar and Yvan Petit-Pas on drums who replaced Mark Tadijanovich.

They only made one 12 song album called Grease which was recorded January 14 1995 at the Asian Spice Shop and mixed shortly before their Second Wave in-store on January 20 1995. Here is their description in Humpin' In The Back Room issue #2, they were described as:

Jump and dance! Furry Ongion is here. Take the eerieness of Lush splash it with some punk, and give it some good songwriting. Enjoy! Plus lots of other quirky poppy tunes to occupy your car rides.

After the band dissolved Jen and Ania still played together and formed the short lived Blue Suede Gnus. Jason went without a band since Loser Parade was pretty much finished as well. Yvan went his own way for over a year as well and joined Cartoon Khaki August 15th 1996 and now he currently makes music with the MTV Music Generator on his Sony Playstation 2. Ania now played with Jeff in a band called the Egg Monks for a few years (changed the name to Cougar Melons) She also played in a two piece with Chelse Pratt called Buck Fever in early 2003.

Misers - download MP3 - 96 kbs - Remasterd 2005

Songs

Two actually copies of the lyrics to Harms Way and Service Tag

Furry Ongion Known Show List

July 30th 1994 Martin Monne's House, Paris, Ontario

There were some shows in between here that were at Ania's old place on North Park

January 7th 1995 Dave's Garage, Brantford, Ontario

January 20th 1995 Second Wave Records, Brantford, Ontario

March 3rd 1995 Memorial Community Centre, St. George, Ontario

March 18th 1995 Classic Studios, Toronto, Ontario

March 24th 1995 Dee's Place, Hamilton, Ontario

March 25th 1995 Dee's Place, Hamilton, Ontario

Discography

Grease	Recorded to 4-track January 14 1995, released January 20 1995, Humpin' 008
Dave's Garage	Recorded live January 7 1995, stolen at show, it's not known if it still exists
Second Wave	Recorded live January 20 1995, two different versions exist Paul Evans has one and Rob Michalchuk has the other. The quality of Rob's is superior. tape code CN-03-30
St. George Memorial Community Centre	Recorded live March 3 1995 tape code CN-03-30
Classic Studios	Recorded live March 18 1995 at Classic Studios, Toronto, Ontario tape code CN-04-31
untitled	A later demo never released; recorded shortly before the band split. Much nicer, tighter and cleaner then Grease; only three songs.

Stickers And Other Odds and Ends

Humpin' In The Back Room 'Zine, Issue #1, January 1995

Humpin' In The Back Room 'Zine, Issue #2, June 1995

Humpin' In The Back Room 'Zine, Issue #3, late summer 1995

Humpin' In The Back Room 'Zine, Issue #4, Fall 1995

...Red 5. I liked them just because they called Quicksand rock stars over the PA while Quicksand was on the stage. They actually reminded me of Furry Ongion a bit, so they have to be pretty good... (by Ryan Korczak)

Humpin' In The Back Room 'Zine, Issue #6, March 1996

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Last updated September 10th 2003