Alexander Mitchell (Tomcat Combat) started Bloodhouse in the winter
of 2008, when he was living outside of the city and bored.
“I had never composed songs before so it was nice to be able to
develop a catalogue of super-short songs. I am in no way a guitar
player so the simpler the song, the better I think I can make it
sound.”
This is Mitchell’s first project in which he takes on the role of
frontman: writing, playing guitar and singing the fuzzy, catchy songs
plainly and powerfully. Gabriel Wallot-Beale plays drums and, lately,
bass as Wallot-Beale and Mitchell recruited Wil Erving and Noel
Macdonald to play drums and guitar for the past couple of shows.
Sometime in the summer, Bloodhouse plan to record a cassette in the
woods with the help of a gas-powered generator. Backwoods baptisms are
optional.
“I’m not really a spiritual person,” says Mitchell. “I think writing
music is the closest I can come to that without feeling insincere about
the whole thing.”
This article appears in Jun 11-17, 2009.
