Canada has a new supergroup. Say hello to Anyway Gang.

It’s always intriguing when a number of experienced, well-connected, and highly regarded musicians decided to combine forces. Can the whole be more than the sum of its formidable parts?

We have a new Canadian supergroup featuring Sam Roberts, Chris Murphy from Sloan, Dave Monks from Tokyo Police Club and Menno Versteeg of Hollerado. They call themselves Anyway Gang. This will be the band’s first song.

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Last summer I got together with a few of my tour buds who also happen to be some of my favourite songwriters. We mostly made dad jokes but we also jammed on a bunch of 3 chord songs we all had lying around. We recorded a bunch of stuff in a few days and over the year we’d add some ideas here and there and all of a sudden a year had past and we realized we had kinda an album so we said lets name ourselves the first thing we thought of and release these. Anyway, we’re called Anyway Gang @anywaygangmusic and that’s a drawing of the four of us done by the otherworldly @benjamin_marra.

A post shared by Menno Versteeg (@mennovers) on Aug 27, 2019 at 11:26am PDT

The story is that everyone had some unfinished unreleased material laying around and decided that perhaps they could complete everything together.

Versteeg is quoted at Exclaim!

“Last summer I got together with a few of my tour buds who also happen to be some of my favourite songwriters. We mostly made dad jokes but we also jammed on a bunch of 3 chord songs we all had lying around. We recorded a bunch of stuff in a few days and over the year we’d add some ideas here and there and all of a sudden a year had past and we realized we had kinda an album so we said let’s name ourselves the first thing we thought of and release these.”

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Inadvertently using the template sometimes called “2 studs, the fat guy and the nerd” popularized in the 1980’s by such movies as Stand By Me and bands such as Cheap Trick comes @anywaygangmusic. Will these 4 acquaintances become friends? Which 2 are the studs? What are they doing? What have they done? So many questions? Stay tuned. Photo by @calmellarm

A post shared by Anyway Gang (@anywaygangmusic) on Aug 27, 2019 at 1:04pm PDT

We’ll be listening.