Drowning Shakespeare was a post-hardcore band from Sydney, Canada. Bio from their Myspace from 2009: "Despite the densely overpopulated terrain of the screamo and hardcore genres, Canada’s East Coast is successfully putting a stop to mundane and redundant jams by kicking a start with Sydney’s Drowning Shakespeare. The quintet, rounded out by vocalist Bob Popwell, guitarists Evan Morrison and Jonathan Wells, bassist Ryan Tubrett and drummer Christopher Poirrier began their tenure as a consistent lineup in May of 2007 and subsequently made efforts to spread around their infectious melodies, catchy riffs and fun choruses with their junior full length, Show Some Ambition, Kid. Not only did the album’s title best represent the 11 tracks, but ambition is something the band literally adhered to throughout the record’s tedious writing and recording process with Mark Scott of Smash Box Studios. “It didn’t happen with all of us sitting in a room for days; it was a very broken up process. Everyone has crazy schedules so we usually only had two or three days to rock out in the garden shed. I learned how much of an asshole everyone can be in very small spaces,” laughs Evan. “These songs represent a growing process for DS. If you compare the album to our first and second records you’ll see what I mean,” says Bob. Kevin Gales of Torque Records obviously agreed with Bob’s sentiment and welcomed DS to the Torque family in September of 2007, which the band collectively agrees will be hugely beneficial for their future. “In order to fully succeed you need assistance. We just wanted to be with a label that would help us along our journey, and one that we could give back to as much as they’ll have given us. Torque is it,” says Bob. Armed with their tightest and savviest music yet, a significant fanbase along side solid ground to catapult their efforts off of, Drowning Shakespeare will be doing just the opposite as the years progress: swimming their way to the top." Members: Bob Popwell - Unclean Vocals Evan Morrison - Guitar Jonathan Wells - Guitar Ryan Tubrett - Bass Christopher Poirrier - Drums/Clean Vocals facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063568741690 reverbnation.com/drowningshakespeare myspace.com/drowningshakespeare 2004-2010 <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Drowning+Shakespeare">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.