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Tuesday September 7, 2010

Event Details

  • unionevents.com presents

  • USS

  • With: Guests
  • Date: Thursday March 25, 2010
  • Door Time: 8:00 PM
  • Show Time: 9:00 PM
  • Venue: The Starlite Room
  • City: Edmonton, AB
  • Tickets (presale): $18.50
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  • Licensed: Yes

Who are they? Ashley Boo-Schultz and Human Kebab
Where are they from? Parkdale, Toronto, Canada
How have they been described? Progressive Dance Folk/ Campfire After Party
What do they want? They want everyone to have a crush on life.

Without going into too much explanation, Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker, lovingly known by those daunted by big words as USS, are musical chameleons. The USS show harkens back to an old school, yet neo-vaudevillian atmosphere. Think Nirvana unplugged at a Science Centre Rave. Chuck D and Flavor Flav at a motivational seminar. Bob Marley in a Lab Coat: anything is possible. Their message is delivered melodically with contagious optimism by Ashley Boo-Schultz, creator of all things musical, while the hypeman / turntablist, Human Kebab, elicits dance floor pandemonium and wide scale audience singalongs. Here in lies the dualistic beauty of their partnership. Human makes it almost seem normal when the blender comes out on stage and Ash mixes himself up a smoothie mid song, so that he is fit, both mentally and physically, to guide everyone present into their mad scientist laboratory of self transcendence.

This brings us to Hollowpoint Sniper Hyperbole. While making some cash to repay his student loan on an oil pipeline in northern Alberta, Hypeman Human got a call from a friend. The friend, rather excitedly delivered the news that 102.1The Edge in Toronto, Ontario was playing a song (the aforementioned Hollowpoint Sniper Hyperbole) off of their self released EP, Welding the C:/. Human called Ash who was attending a college basketball game in Texas on an emotional pilgrimage. Now what? Neither of them had anticipated this momentous opportunity after their glorious night of bliss (a self financed EP release party at the Gladstone in the heart of Toronto’s Parkdale in July of ‘07) and had gone their separate ways. Human asks his foreman for a couple of days off, they shoot a video and drop by the station for an interview with ear to the ground dj, Barry Taylor (responsible for getting the song into rotation). Human returns to the tundra, Ash continues his pilgrimage and quickly they realize the runway has been paved and they have taken flight! Hollowpoint enters heavy rotation, out spinning the likes of Coldplay and Radiohead.

Labels clamor after them; radio across the country jumps on board the single. More and more people subscribe to their theory to “Expect the unexpected”. That’s the story of how science meets spirit. Bob Marley in a lab coat? Welcome to USS and the soundtrack of possibility.

Dont miss the band that stole the attention of the audience at the 2009 Sonic Boom Festival- USS plays The Starlite Room, March 25, 2010.