A third, self-titled full-length album came out on Northern Electric via Sudden Death Records in 2015. In 2022, the band released Beautiful Future .
Pointed Sticks were featured in the 2010 documentary film Bloodied but Unbowed , about the Vancouver punk rock scene, directed by Susanne Tabata.
The original members of Pointed Sticks reunited in 2006 for a tour of Japan and continued to play sporadic concerts in Canada and the United States. A compilation titled Stiff Sessions was issued in Japan in 2008. In 2009, the band recorded an album of all new material, Three Lefts…
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The first compilation of their recordings, Part of the Noise , was released in 1995 on Zulu Records . Perfect Youth was reissued by Sudden Death Records in 2005 with four bonus tracks, and a year later, another compilation, consisting of singles, outtakes, and other rarities, entitled Waiting for the…
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The band released three singles and were subsequently signed to Stiff Records , the first Canadian band on the British label’s roster. They travelled to London and recorded an album with Nigel Gray , but the label chose not to release it, and the band returned to Canada. Once there,…
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Pointed Sticks was formed in Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada, in 1978, by vocalist Nick Jones, guitarist Bill Napier-Hemy, bassist Tony Bardach, and drummer Ian Tiles; keyboard player Gord Nicholl joined soon after. They later added Johnny Ferreira on saxophone , Scott Watson took Bardach’s place, and Tiles was replaced…
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