Bullmoose was a

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rock band formed in Elgin, Ontario in 1996. Its members were twin brothers Jeff Cowan (drums/vocals) and Seamus Cowan (bass/vocals) from

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, and Eric Lawrance (guitar/vocals) from

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, who launched the band when they attended school in Montreal. The band performed in the rock music genre, citing experimental influences of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Bullmoose's independently released 2004 album ''Lessons Learned'' was recorded at Studio Piccolo in

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, engineered and co-produced by Bullmoose and Ryan Patterson (The Exchanges/Kill The Lights) with Mathieu Roberge, and mastered by Ryan Morey at SNB. The band toured throughout Canada in 2005 for the Night Danger Tour in support of the record. Bullmoose performed at Canadian music festivals including

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, Festival of the Islands,

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, Festival International Maximum Blues, and Vancouver's Feb Fest. They played such venues as Toronto's

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, Montreal's Club Soda and The Brickyard in Vancouver. They also received substantial airplay on Kingston's KRock 105.7 with the single ''Poor Man's Hash''. In the same year, the band also appeared on ''Made in Canada'' with Tootall on Montreal's

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97.7, and ''Underground Sounds'' on McGill University's

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90.3. In 2007, Bullmoose released the album ''Speaker to Speaker''. Created at

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under producer Jonathan Cummins (Bionic/The Doughboys), the album was engineered by

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(The Besnard Lakes/ Land of Talk/

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), mastered by Ryan Morey (

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) and designed by Todd Stewart at Breeree. The band became inactive after the album's release.

Discography

*''Lessons Learned'' (2004), Independent *''Speaker to Speaker'' (2007), Independent

References

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