Where It Began

Honing their songcraft at the prestigious Moscow Drug Club with B.B. Gabor in the late seventies, Leon Stevenson and Denis Keldie put together a first rate crew of session players and called themselves The Extras . They recorded their first L.P. Bit Parts with producer David Bendeth and the notorious Irving Bonspiel. The album on Ready Reords was a ska-tinged new wave fun fest which spawned the hit single and hilarious condom conumdrum Circular Impression. In support of the record the band hit the road doing concert halls, the college pub circuit and other fine drinking establishments across Canada.

1985 saw the release of the single and video Can't Stand Still from their fourth L.P. Extropolis. The critically acclaimed video features the work of British animator Peter Sander.

Discography

Vinyl product by The Extras recorded between 1981 and 1984 on Ready Records

• LR010 The EXTRAS, Bit Parts LP (1981)Jealous Girl, Stay Up All Night, Cult Kids, One Last Time, Circular Impression, No Generation, Everytime I See Your Face, Man In A Boy’s Body, Aqua Velva Man, Teddy.
  
• SRG010.5 The EXTRAS, Everytime I See Your Face/Circular Impression 7” (1981)
  
• SRG010.2 The EXTRAS, Jealous Girl/No Generation 7” (1981)
  
• LR022 The EXTRAS, Road To Zambando, LP (1982)
  
• SR211 The EXTRAS, Turning It Out/Meg Media Myth 7” (1982)
  
• SR032 The EXTRAS, Fever Fire/Fever Fire (edit) 7” (1983)
  
• ER036 The EXTRAS, The Watcher EP (1983) Fever Fire, I Never Told You I Told You So, Somebody Snatched It, Love Stew, The Watcher.
  
• SR361 The EXTRAS, The Watcher/Love Stew 7” (1983)
  
• SR362 The EXTRAS, I Never Told You I Told You So/Somebody Snatched It 7” (1983)
  
• LR051 The EXTRAS, Extropolis LP (1984) Can't Stand Still, Machines, I never told you I told you so....
  
• SR511 The EXTRAS, Can’t Stand Still/Machines 7” (1984)
  

 

VIDEOGRAPHY

• Jealous Girl - directed by Rob Quartly
• Turning It Out - directed by M. Van de Kamer
• Can't Stand Still - directed by Peter Sander

Fun fact: Jealous Girl was one of the first rock videos to appear on Chuck The Security Guard's All Night Show l!

 

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Today, Stevenson freelances as a drummer for local acts and writes and records in his home studio in Oakville Ontario. Super session keyboard player Keldie can be heard on many recordings listed here on his personal website. It's rumoured that 2010 might just bring Keldie and Stevenson together again for some "psychedelic cowboy" music. One can only hope.