They actually run a pretty tight ship.
"Jamie Thompson" is a Canadian musician who has been the drummer for several Canadian bands, including Islands (band)/Islands and Th' Corn Gangg. Jamie joined the Unicorns in 2003 for the release of the band's first major album, Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?. The album was a huge hit and helped give the Unicorns a cult following among indie listeners.
Thompson and fellow Unicorns member Nicholas Thorburn/Nick Thorburn founded the indie-pop/hip-hop music/hip-hop band Th' Corn Gangg several months prior to the Unicorns' break-up in December 2004. Thompson and Thorburn went on to form Islands in 2005. Thompson recorded with the band for their debut album Return to the Sea, which was released in 2006. Shortly before the band's European tour, however, Thompson had left the band.
Islands continued without Thompson. In mid-2008 Islands released their second album Arm's Way with Islands (band)/Aaron Harris as Thompson's replacement, however he returned for their third album, Vapours (Islands album)/Vapours, released in September 2009.
In 2013 Thompson collaborated with Rebecca Foon on the Saltland release, I Thought It Was Us But It Was All of Us.
More Jamie Thompson on Wikipedia.It became not fun for anybody involved. We were just touring all the time, hating each other more and more. Now we can be friends again and have fun.
If there's a spirit of fun to the album, it's because we really approached it that way. Here, we have the freedom to do whatever we want. We have all these amazing talented people around us. How could it not be fun? I think we were able to create something really, really beautiful out of that.
Nothing like this has ever happened in Winona. This is the biggest thing that ever happened, ever. We're going to celebrate 'til next year.
It's a good place to get out and meet people. We like the feel of it. We have a lot of things that serve this atmosphere.
You never want to forget where you came from, and for this team, remembering November is a very important thing because we were not doing well, we were not having fun and we were not playing good hockey. To turn it around like we have is very nice, but we still have to remember that in November, we were a terrible hockey team and we have to remember the reasons why we were a terrible hockey team.
With The Unicorns, we really got thrust into a career out of nowhere. We started touring and it was really tough for the first several months. All of a sudden, one good Pitchfork review, and we were selling out shows left, right and center. It was a real whirlwind, and I think Alden just wanted to back off somewhat.
We have to start strong and finish strong. Once you get on top of somebody, you have to keep pounding them with what you've been doing.
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