Roommates / Winnifred

Slumberland

Ben Cook (a.k.a. Young Governor of Fucked Up, Marvelous Darlings and The Bitters) and Marvelous Mark Fosco (Marvelous Darlings) lived together as roommates for four years. Fosco came home from his deli job one day with an illicit substance for which he’d traded a sandwich to a customer; the first session that yielded “Back to the Sun” and “Girlfriend Swap” cannot be remembered by either but nevertheless ended up on a run of 66 cassettes by now defunct Arctic label Scotch Tapes. The next session was of a similar nature, and also ended up as a tape on the same label. Roommates played five shows in a small café in the east end of Toronto called One Stop Sandwich & Coffee. They were all matinées. The place was next to the Don Jail, and was mainly a place for family members visiting inmates to get a cup of joe and a donut. Although originally, the band never meant for anyone else to ever hear them, the songs are now smartly compiled on 7-inch by Slumberland. Too catchy to be so secret. Too packed with mod / power pop goodness to miss. Enjoy!

Roommates - 1st Floor Blues by Slumberland Records

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