BIOGRAPHY OF THE BAND
After being in a string of
moderately successful bands throughout the 1970's, Claude
Dubé, a graduate of McMaster University, moved to Los
Angeles in 1980 to pursue a music and song writing career.
Rather quickly, he found himself playing the Hollywood
circuit with the band London (which eventually would spawn
Motley Crue). After London disbanded, Claude partnered with
Hollywood producer Ron Pane (Minute Men, Dokken, Great
White) and for 3 years he honed his production & writing
skills. The two went on to release an album and EP together. Since 1990, the band created and promoted
through their own label, ‘Limozine Records’, 6 original CDs
and their singles, including 2 videos. The catalogue
includes Bonjour, Emoceans, Take Note, Earth School, Bienvenue (a French CD),
MOVINON and now Chronology When MP3.com was king of the earlier
internet's music scene, the band's back catalogue was being
downloaded internationally with more than 644,000 plays.
In 1985, Claude returned to Toronto with his family and
regrouped with band mates and song writing partner Dennis
Decker (lead guitar) brother Dan Dubé (bass), Nicholas
Holden (guitar/vocals), and discovered drummer Kevin
Camilleri by auditions, thus forming DuBay.
The band has been released in Europe by Austin, Texas based
BSW Records, and garnering Dubay their first favourable
radio play in France, Netherlands, Germany and beyond.
By 2000, DuBay had performed over 500 shows in the Golden
Horseshoe at legendary venues like the El Mocombo, The
Diamond, and The Gasworks. They've shared the stage with
some great Canadian artists like April Wine, Alannah Miles
and The Tea Party. They have performed dozens of corporate
shows for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Hamilton Bulldogs,
the WWF, Camp Trillium, and twelve municipal events for The
City of Hamilton, including a Canada Day festival for over
40,000 people! DuBay is a band that loves to play for their
fans. Known for their History of Rock cover set, the
band adapts and performs custom gigs, including Hamilton’s
most recent Mayor elect Fred Eisenberger’s campaign launch!
As
life would have it after 12 years, change was inevitable.
With the addition of Pat Campion (drums) and Peter
Bellm (bass), The DuBay Band as it is now called,
has progressed
into new and exciting rhythms with
MOVINON. The blues influence these
musicians have brings to the traditionally upbeat music that
is DuBay, a darker more "Nietzsche" view of the world. The
songs rock for the most part and the album is rich in
emotions and melodies however this one acknowledges that
life is not without pain and not all relationships will
last. MOVINON also credits Dennis Decker with
engineering, recording completely digitally, in Limozine
Records’ ‘Pro Tools Studio’.
The young, up and coming Mellissa Bel offered her vocal
talent on two songs and has performed with the band on
several occasions including the Westside Concert Theatre on Feb. 17/ 07.
Chronology; the latest album has 3 new
songs, "O Canada", "Do You Believe" and "It's Hockey Night".
"O Canada" is doing well on I-Tunes and on youtube. It is
being played at many local schools as an exciting substitute
for the old, slower version of our National Anthem. "Do You
Believe" is currently underway in a video shoot, hopefully
ready soon. "It's Hockey Night" was written for the Hockey
Night In Canada contest.
Other songs on the album were taken from previous CD.'s as
most popular hits.
Supported by
BLR Entertainment’s Rob Rapiti, The DuBay Band plans to
concentrate more on corporate venues and selected clubs and
casinos within the Southern Ontario's golden horseshoe.
While concentrating on marketing their music world wide
through publishing and the internet, The DuBay Band is
"Moving On", always adapting and surviving
technologically as well as personally. They are
professionals and are still ever hopeful for our world and
the spiritual Universe.