![]() With a follow-up disc entitled Tri-Polar (2008), the Sick Puppies found themselves involved in everything from video game and movie soundtracks to their songs used as entrance music for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and in the Stanley Cup Finals for the Washington Capitals hockey team. Thanks in no small part to the hugely successful ‘Free Hugs’ campaign started by Juan Mann when he needed a hug after a rough trip home to Sydney (see to which the Puppies lent their song ‘All The Same’ (from 2007’s Dressed Up As Life album), the band found YouTube to be a public relations dream come true. Unlike their forbearers though, Sick Puppies have used the power of internet marketing to propel themselves into the mainstream music scene with an undeniable force. As the purple and blue glow of stage lights baked the smiles of nearly everyone in eyesight, the show that this small upstate New York town was in the midst of experiencing had been a long time in the making.įrom the suburb of Mosman along the north shore of Sydney, Australia where singer/lead guitarist Shimon Moore and bassist Emma Anzai formed the band with drummer Mark Goodwin over practice sessions held in the music room of Mosman High School, Sick Puppies have become one the most popular hard rock musical acts to come out of the “land down under” since the emergence of their idols and inspiration Silverchair. The echo of a delicately plucked guitar string broke the transient vibrato of screams from several girls in the first few seats to the left of the stage. ![]() It was as if there was suddenly the presence of ghostly apparitions in the small Watertown theatre. The house lights faded and the recording of a slightly ominous string quartet ensemble could be heard lingering daintily over the din of conversation from the crowd. ![]() Joseph Spencer catches a quick backstage audience with Australian band Sick Puppies
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