All Purpose Voltage Heroes

Here is the totally official bio for us which is written in the third person:

"All Purpose Voltage Heroes are a four part keyboard rock troupe from Edmonton/Vancouver, Canada. They have been around for about eight years and have played, like, a million shows. Everything you hear about them is true, no matter how flamboyant.

The music they play is a mixture of dance rock frameworks, catchy pop hooks, screamy hardcore sections, and bad house breakdowns. It's the sound of boys who grew up on Nintendo sessions and punk shows. Cartoon marathons and kung-fu movies. Aqua and Converge. They have three albums so far: 2002's, Decorate Your Monster Shirt, 2004's The End Of Daniel Johnathan Poole, and 2006's Already Haunted EP. The last two were pretty good, you should download them here.

Like most bands, everybody in the APVH more or less does something. Dan Poole sings while sorta flailing around and sometimes plays a Casio CT-636 by luck alone. Kevin Cherney gets sweaty fairly fast and plays a Casio CT-670 as the band's lead keyboardist. Zack Poole holds a long personal grudge with Kevin and therefore plays a Yamaha DS-55 as the band's rival lead keyboardist. Connor Mayor is really into linguistics and plays a big pile of drums really fast, occasionally stopping to scream. They are four magical people.

The live show is something to be reckoned with. They completely spaz out. They sometimes dress in soccer jerseys. They sometimes dress as 80's goths. They sometimes dress in only primary colors. They play fast, loud, and sloppy, stopping only to ask rhetorical questions. They bleed onto the stage and it flows into the cracks of the crowd. They keep spilling their drinks and will most likely never get to take a sip of anything. They'll bust a few dance moves, but will save the really good ones for the moment they ask for your hand in marriage.

So, in conclusion, if you would like to accidentally get hit in the face with a mic stand, then this might be the band for you."

Here are some carefully selected flattering quotes from some publications:

"The All Purpose Voltage Heroes should change their name to the All Purpose Fucking Voltage Fucking Heroes. Because they aren't "good." They are "fucking good." They are in your face with the attitude of Samuel L. Jackson good. They are getting your dick sucked and your balls licked at the same time good. And at the HiFi Club with a mediocre attendance on June 20 it would have been easy for them to bring their B-Game, but they didn't. They played hard, they played long, and for a band fundamentally based on second hand keyboards bought mostly at garage sales and pawn shops, they busted out a new and enterprising instrument, the goddamned COWBELL, which they also played hard and strong in signature style for these kids from Edmonton.
The All Purpose Fucking Voltage Fucking Heroes won't be everyone's cup of tea. If you'd rather see a bunch of white wine drinking, sweater wearing, art fag hipsters swaying moodily on stage belting out self pitying lyrics with non-committal vocals that may touch your inner soul then you'll be sadly disappointed to find the APFVFH jumping into the audience and having a good time, loving their music, and actually putting on a show. It's refreshing to smile at a band's antics. It's nice to be entertained. It's great to hear music that doesn't sound like everyone else. And the APFVFH bring all that to their shows, and more."

- BeatRoute Magazine