Fashion in Your Eye Tall New Buildings

H ailing from Thornhill, Ontario, Tall New Buildings was formed in 1983 by longtime friends vocalizer Jean (real proper name Jian) Ghomeshi and bassist Murray Foster, along with Tracy Jones on guitars, keyboardist Reno Manfredi (who Ghomeshi met at a Psychadelic Furs concert), and John Ruttle on percussion while they were even so in high schoolhouse. Information technology wasn't long before they discovered they had many musical interests in common - and decided to make a serious go at it.

They practiced at the church Jones went to on the corner of Artery and Wilson. After splitting upwards during their showtime year at university (U of T for Foster, York for Ghomeshi), they reassembled the ring when Ruttle, who was a twelvemonth older than the rest of the members, took a twelvemonth off university. Before long they were playing all the hot spots around Toronto and caught the attending of direction at Reg Quidinho of Man Fabricated Productions, who agreed to cutting a tape. Quidinho also happened to exist the ring'due south clothing designer and makeup artist, and was the hairdresser of The Spoons' Gordon Deppe. Deppe was talked into coming on board as producer with a painting every bit fractional payment.

They booked some fourth dimension at Sound Path Studios in Oakville, with the result beingness a two-sided 12" release in 1986 on the indie label High Rise Records. Both "Fashion In Your Eyes" and "Swimming Pool of Crisis" were written by Ghomeshi with him singing lead, and speedily became underground hits and favourites on campus radio station playlists around the GTA. "Style" bankrupt commercially when Toronto station CFNY-FM began playing information technology, and soon the hastily put together video was also getting good rotation.

They continued their studies at the U of T while performing side gigs until Ruttle graduated and left. Everyone else soon graduated as well, simply with Ruttle unable to re-commit to the ring later leaving for Carleton University to report journalism, he was replaced behind the drumkit by Steven Lance (real name Steven Cohen). About two years had gone past since their eponymous EP, when they hooked upwardly with new manager Jeff Rogers. After securing a deal with Somersault Records, they went to Phase Ane Studios in Toronto with producers Joe Primeau, Bruce Bradley, and Howard Ayee. They re-recorded "Fashion In Your Eye" and gave information technology ii mixes, as they did with "Breaking Her Walls," another Ghomeshi penned unmarried. The four tracks wound up on their second 12" EP, and "Breaking Her Walls" got a decent plug on local area radio and MuchMusic, eventually reaching #5 on the MuchMusic charts.

But past 1988, the band had fallen apart, and Ghomeshi (now reverting back to the original spelling of his first name - 'Jian') and Foster concluded upwards forming the short-lived Chia Pets while in Academy, and so Moxy Fruvous. After seven albums from '92 to 2000, that group also disbanded. Ghomeshi became a announcer on CBC Goggle box and Radio 1, while Foster eventually joined Great Big Sea and as well moonlighted for awhile in the band Great Diminutive Power, then started a jazz project in the mid '00s chosen The Lesters.

In 2010, he formed The Cocksure Lads, a project in the works for over a decade, with fellow Moxy Fruvous alumni Michael Ford and Dave Matheson, releasing ane anthology entitled THE GREATEST HITS OF THE COCKSURE LADS. Foster is currently writing and directing a movied based on that grouping called "You Gotta Stay Cocksure," scheduled for release in 2013.