Spontaneous Kennie

Spontaneous Kennie in 2009 before a show at The Outer Rim. From left to right: Bryan Hull, Jeff Carbine, Julian Percival, Tyler Finley, Grant Miller, Clayton Shepherd and Tyler Gilvarry

## Background information

### Labels

Do A Barrel Roll Records, Posthumous Records

### Members

Julian Percival, Tyler Gilvarry, Jeff Carbine, Grant Miller, Bryan Hull, Tyler Finley, Clayton Shepherd

**Spontaneous Kennie** was a Utah ska band active betwen 2007 and 2010.

## History

### **Formation**

The band began as a fever dream of Julian and Grant in middle school in 2007. As most guitar/trombone duos go, they didn't really achieve too much. Also, they were in middle school. They recorded their technical first release, "The Christmas Project" as said duo, but they probably won't show it to you, even if you asked them nicely. Very few copies are known to still exist, and they're probably pretty happy about that.

The following year, Julian and Grant invited mutual friend Jeff Carbine to come and play rhythm guitar for the band. During the practice, Jeff began playing around on Julian's sister's drum set. While inexperienced, he wasn't completely terrible and offered to play drums for the band. In his own words, "I figured I would play the drums as a temp just to keep time until they found a real drummer, and I'd go back to playing the guitar. And then they just never found a real drummer."

Shortly after, Grant befriended another guitar player, Tyler Gilvarry. Desperate for someone to play bass, the band helped Gilvarry to purchase both a bass guitar and amplifier, even driving him from thrift store to thrift store one Saturday until they were able to acquire them both.

With the rhythm section filled out, Grant invited Tyler Finley and Bryan Hull from his school's band class to fill out the horn section on saxophone and trumpet, respectively while Jeff invited his friend Clayton Shepherd to join on trumpet after he had previously turned Grant's invitation down multiple times.

### **Playing Shows**

Spontaneous Kennie played their first show at The Circuit in Midvale, Utah in October 2007. Shortly after they played that year's Skalloween show on October 27th alongside The Skaficionados, The Upstarts, Fews & Two, Super Hero and The Return Policy.

On August 22, 2008, Spontaneous Kennie played the Locals Only Ska Showcase at the Avalon Theater with Illegal Beagle, Suburban Bordumb, Super Hero, The Up Collars, and Viewers Like You.

In September of 2008, members of Illegal Beagle were interviewed for *City Weekly*. Among others, they named Spontaneous Kennie as one of the best acts in the Utah scene.

On April 18, 2009, Spontaneous Kennie participated in The Utah Ska Fest at Pleasant Green Park in Magna along with Illegal Beagle, In Key Drop-Outs [sic], The Love Astronauts, The Skaficionados, Skarlet Fever, Suburban Bordumb, Super Hero, 2-1/2 White Guys [sic], and Viewers Like You.

### ***Spring is the Season* & Breakup (2008-2009)**

The band began to record their first (and only) album in 2008. With no real funds, they recorded the album independently in various members' bedrooms and basements using "microphones that [they] mostly just found." They listed their album as being released through "Do A Barrel Roll Records," though it was just an inside joke among the band and really didn't mean anything.

On July 3rd, 2009 the band simultaneously released the album, *Spring is the Season* and played their farewell show as the band would be breaking up following the majority of the members' graduation from high school and moving away from home to attend college.

### ***The Enemy's Mind* & Reunion Shows (2010 & 2012)**

The following year the band members found themselves hanging out and jamming on a fairly regular basis which lead to them writing a new song called *The Enemy's Mind*. They played a handful of reunion shows ending with a final show on August 28th, 2010.

The band would play together once again on September 8th, 2012.

### **The Sinisters (2013-Present)**

After their reunion show in 2012, Grant, Julian and Jeff formed *The Sinisters,* which would adopt *The Enemy's Mind* as their own song.

## Members

* Julian Percival - Guitar, Vocals
* Tyler Gilvarry - Bass
* Jeff Carbine - Drums
* Grant Miller - Trombone
* Bryan Hull - Trumpet
* Tyler Finley - Tenor Sax/Bari Sax
* Clayton Shepherd - Trumpet

## Discography

### Spring is the Season (2009)

1. Good Reason
2. He Needs a Cane
3. I Just Remembered (That I Have A Girlfriend)
4. Springtime
5. Gremlin
6. Let's Go!
7. We Didn't Start the Fire
8. Record Store

### Unreleased

* Kings of B♭

1. ↑ https://www.judysbook.com/The-Comedy-Circuit-Theater-midvale-ut-r65897.htm
2. ↑ https://www.cityweekly.net/BuzzBlog/archives/2008/09/07/illegal-beagle-the-playdead-movement-talking-bombs