Archives: March 2008

The Last Supper

"After 10 years of playing all over the world and releasing records via the DIY route,
these rock’n’roll romantics reckon the time has come to finally put the band on the map."



Most of the bands featured in Classic Rock’s Introducing pages tend to be eager young newcomers. There aren’t many like Canadian hopefuls The Last Supper, who have toured in more than 15 different countries over the past decade.

Dan Shwetz’s group have been around in one form or another since the mid-90s when they formed at the University of Western Ontario. The frontman remembers that after graduating they weren’t particularly keen on embracing the so-called ‘real world’ and all the boring compromises that come with it. “None of us wanted to get a real job,” Shwetz recalls. “So we bought a tour bus and hit the road. Our reason for being musicians was to travel. Our first tour was at the end of ’99. We shipped our bus out to Europe. Our goal was to get to the pyramids in time for the millennium.”

Egypt has long held a fascination for the band, whose line-up is completed by guitarist Peter Walker, bassist Brian Hendricks and drummer Frankie Biggz. When they arrived at their destination, the group were so taken by it that they decided to try to organise a Western-style festival by the pyramids – a long-held ambition that Dan is hopeful will come off soon.


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