1990’s rock show vibes were thick in Greenwood Park in Petrolia on Saturday, August 17, 2024, as Treble Charger rocked the Hard Oil Music Festival.
SWOMP was in the pit for the performance and captured these photos:
Hailing from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont, Treble Charger was formed by singer Greig Nori, guitarist Bill Priddle, and former members, Rosie Martin and Morris Palter.
In 1995, they released SELF TITLE on their own.
Along with grungey guitar solos and pounding backbeats in songs like “Even Grable,” Cleric’s Hip,” and “Motor Control,” the album included a CD-ROM promoting 30 of the band’s favourite Canadian indie bands, including The Inbreds, By Divine Right, Hayden, and Change of Heart.
Music from the album, as well as the debut started getting airplay on campus radio around Toronto, and then MuchMusic picked up the indie video for the single “Morale.”
MAYBE IT’S ME was in the stores in the spring of ’97, and in the US a couple of months later.
The album was more polished and commercially accessible than their previous works, and with the help of the singles “Friend Of Mine” and “How She Died” (featured on the soundtrack to the TV series, “Buffy The Vampire Slayer”), the album broke ground on the homefront, giving them a pair of top 20 hits in Canada and gave them their first gold record for sales of over 50,000 copies.
The band’s evolution to a refined but hardcore punk rock sound was complete with the 2000 release of WIDE AWAKE BORED, produced by Matt Hyde.
With the smash hit singles, “American Psycho” and “Brand New Low” both making the top 10, the album went platinum for 100,000 sales in Canada, and gold in the US (50,000).
The album earned the band a JUNO nomination in ’01 for Rock Album of the Year, and “American Psycho” was up for Best Single, but neither brought home the band a doorstop.
The band will be in the area this fall, as they will be opening for Everclear as the Western Fair in London on September 11, 2024.
Get your tickets, here.