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The facts: Boy Charlie is an up-and-coming Alberta rock band with a killer live show and a recently released LP. They were one of the top four bands in the 2005 "Peace Starts At Home" Battle Of The Bands through the Peace Country. Both 105.9 Shine FM (Edmonton) and 97.7 Sun FM (Grande Prairie) have interviewed the band on air. With each and every gig, the buzz surrounding Boy Charlie grows. It gets out that the boys from GP are a great live band: professional, engaging and passionate. There's something about this band. There's something about Dan Sinclair, Kaehler Sterr and Al Peterson that is special in music.

They're real.

"...sky came falling" is not just a record, it's a history map. Two and a half years. Four different drummers. And years. Years of playing music without ever catching a break. It was always a lack of commitment or lack of money or lack of something always getting in the way of previous projects taking off. That's the past. The emphasis now is on driving hard rock riffs and grit in tracks like the album-opener "Control" and live staple "Reach." In the aptly titled "Happiness," the band showcases Al's reggae and ska influences, and it's followed up by the at-once dance-worthy yet emotionally desperate "Patience." The fire that drives Boy Charlie... It's captured here - as much as anybody can capture something as indefinable as passion and deep-seeded as hope in only a few chords, effects pedals and kick drums.

Let the fire, fire, fire, fire burn. [RYAN RO / AUGUST 2005]